Bat (Mario Kart 64): Difference between revisions

'''Bats'''<ref>[https://m1.nintendo.net/docvc/NUS/USA/NKTE/NKTE_E.pdf ''Mario Kart 64'' instruction booklet], page 33.</ref> are creatures that appear in [[Banshee Boardwalk]] in ''[[Mario Kart 64]]''. Specifically, they appear in the abandoned house area, where clouds of them fly out from a pair of coffins. Unlike other obstacles in the game, hitting them simply causes the racer to slow down rather than spin out, while the bat disappears in a star-like effect. They are not present in [[Time Trial|time trial]]s of the course, likely due to the fact that time trials in the game are invalidated by hitting walls or obstacles, with the bat cloud being so thick as to be fairly difficult to avoid the bats.

In the ''[[Mario Kart DS]]'' iteration of the course, they are replaced by [[Swoop]]s. Unlike the generic bats, the Swoops are present in the Time Trial mode, likely due to this game not having the issue of hitting obstacles negating record-keeping.