Talk:Mario Kart (series)

Merging
I think we should merge all the Mario Circuits, Donut Plains, etc, especially in SMK, into one article, and describe each course in one. That way, we have about five to six longer articles than possibly twenty stubs. Old courses in MKDS will not be included, and battle courses will appear at the land but not specified by game in the template. Wayoshi 19:04, 1 August 2006 (EDT)

Make it so. H K

Courses
Though the LM rooms are still ongoing, Mario Kart (esp DS) is the next big project I've been thinking about. We need articles for each course in the series, as there are near 100. A template and/or category (Racing Courses) would be required. I myself copied the stastics for each of the 36 karts in MKDS and will be adding those now in a table. Anyone who's played any one of the MK games is invited to create an article for a racing course w/:


 * Game(s) it's in
 * Description
 * Layout
 * Shortcut(s)

Good luck! Wayoshi 16:54, 31 July 2006 (EDT)

Do you ever stop? H K
 * Lol, I don't, notice how I hatched this idea while playing it while I was gone. :) Wayoshi 16:59, 31 July 2006 (EDT)
 * Oh yes, this includes Battle Courses! For those, no shortcuts, but sometimes there's little things you can do to give yourself the upper hand (ie Block Fort, MK64 version, you can pop a balloon by landing on top of an opponent)

I hatched my toad template idea while asleep. No kidding, it came to me in dream. H K

Changing the name?
Is the "(series)" part of the title really necessary? No game is actually entitled Mario Kart, so I see no reason for it having to be there. Dodo

Mario Kart 64 doesn't have heavy themes from Super Mario 64
Except the castle of course, which other MK (And many Mario games perhaps) games after possessed (Peach Circuit - GBA, Mario Circuit GCN, Peach Garden DS) ... heck it would probably appear in the Wii version as well.
 * And what are you trying to say related to this article? I see, you're right. - 09:13, 11 September 2007 (EDT)

Non-Mario
Since when are all the not Mario character confirmed not to appear in MKWii?

Arcade GP?
Why make the arcade gp part of the series? I mean, nintendo didn't even make it, Namco did, and there are non-mario charators in it, plus it doesn't follow tradition in courses, cups, or items, so they should just put them in another articall, called 'Mario Kart Arcade GP Series' Yoshi fire

Places!?
What the? Is the Mario Kart series considered a place? By I mean a place to drive your karts and such? Comments are welcome here. It feels like the places list is imcomplete unless an answer is told...
 * A game series is not a place where one can be, I mean, it's something abstract. So I'd say the Places category is wrong here. 06:40, 4 January 2008 (EST)
 * Yes, I had recently checked the article's texting. There is no such category entry I'm afraid. That means there is a template that automatically qualifies the articles as "A Place that anyone can go to". I believe that it is the race courses template. I might have to do some hard work on this, if possibly if I have to place the Category: Places in the other articles. Time to fix the template.
 * BTW, in an unrelated statement. There are categories that are not belong here, items? games? These categories!? Great... Possibly a better type of mess... >_>
 * Oh, haha, this looks like work. Though I'm wondering whether "Games" is really wrong for this. Okay, there already is "Game Series", so it's redundant. 07:01, 5 January 2008 (EST)

Baby Birdo Confirmed
http://gonintendo.com/?p=38865 Added it to the list.


 * I'll add it actually, yet I'll add the until the picture is either proven false or correct. Don't create the Baby Birdo page until it is proven right. http://img247.imageshack.us/img247/3473/linkswordmi2.gif Paper Jorge ( Talk&middot;Contributions)&middot; http://img247.imageshack.us/img247/3473/linkswordmi2.gif

Its fake, i've had a better look. Its just Peaches Kart, Toad's wheels and MP8 Birdo put together. Removed her.


 * How about her pacifier though? We have to wait until there's some confirmation/de-confirmation or something... http://img247.imageshack.us/img247/3473/linkswordmi2.gif Paper Jorge ( Talk&middot;Contributions)&middot; http://img247.imageshack.us/img247/3473/linkswordmi2.gif

That looks like the Egg 1 with a little bit of splicing. I don't believe that's even an offical Nintendo site.

Featured!
Yes, the article has finally become featured! Thats the first time something I worked on a lot and nominated got featured. :D Well, its a great article, why shouldnt it be ;)?

Main vs. Arcade
I was just wondering: is it really fair to separate the games into these two categories? There's no backing text from Nintendo that separated MKAGP from the console series. If we're going to separate by platform type, we'd want consoles and handhelds to be separate as well. Thoughts? 16:27, 26 August 2008 (EDT)
 * Well, you see, those games, first of all, are made by completely different people. If you read the "Iwata Asks" for MKWii, you will notice that every single time they refer to MkWii as the 6th game of the franchise. They don't even mention the existence of the Arcade series. I concluded they we're excluding it(arcade), not just as on a different system, but a rather entirely different series based on the Main franchise.

Almost Pointless Question
This question, as the title says, is kinda pointless, however I need to know, would Count Bleck be a good Heavyweight driver? If not, what character would be?