Block City

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Not to be confused with Block Plaza or Block Fort.
Block City
Block City battle track
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Appears in Mario Kart: Double Dash!! (2003)
Cup(s) Battle Mode
Based on Block Fort
Music sample
Course map
The map of Block City.
The logo for Block City, from Mario Kart Double Dash!!.
The course logo

Block City is a battle course in Mario Kart: Double Dash!! It is rather simplistic, simply being a huge square with four block pillars (one of which includes a narrow shortcut with a double item box) and some edges; it is seemingly based on and named after Block Fort of Mario Kart 64. In each of this stage's corners, there are several Item Boxes. It is the only default battle arena that is not symmetrical in any direction.

Block City was going to return in Mario Kart DS, but it was replaced by Pipe Plaza from the final version of the game.

Block City may be named after the poem of the same name from Robert Louis Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses, which similarly features a city made out of children's playthings.

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Game File Name Meaning

Mario Kart: Double Dash!! Mini3.arc Mini course 3

Names in other languages[edit]

Language Name Meaning Notes
Japanese ブロックシティ[?]
Burokku Shiti
Block City
French Bloc Ville[?] Block City
German Block-City[?] Block City
Italian Città Cubica[?] Cubic City
Spanish Ciudad Bloque[?] Block City; shared with Block Fort