Now you can play Mario Kart against opponents all over the world with Mario Kart DS. Mario Kart DS includes new tracks, as well as retro tracks selected from all the previous Mario Kart versions.

In Mario Kart DS, you initially start with 1 balloon, and have several in reserve that you blow up, literally. You blow into the DS's microphone like you are blowing up a balloon, and voila!

Mario Kart DS is, at its core, the "best of the Mario Kart best." Nintendo's designers clearly took a good, long, hard look at what made each game in the series the classic Kart design the ...

Review Mario Kart DS (Wii U eShop / DS). Flawed perfection. The 2005 hit, Mario Kart DS, marked a new era for Nintendo and its long-running racing series. This particular iteration was released ...

One of the features of Mario Kart Wii is its inclusion of classic tracks from previous editions of the franchise. Just like Mario Kart DS before it, Mario Kart Wii will split its roster of courses ...

Mario Kart DS is closer to Mario Kart 64 in its approach to sliding - it doesn't whip you out to one side quite as much when you start, but when you throw yourself into a turn with enough drifting ...

It might make you shiver when I tell you that Mario Kart DS is the first way I experienced Mario Kart. I later visited the N64 version and (of course) would go on to frequent the Wii version, too.

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The latest Mario Kart DS breaking news, comment, ... Best List Mario Kart has been around for more than 20 years and has had so many items that it's hard to keep track of what are the best and ...

Mario Kart World's Free Roam feature is hiding "hundreds" of missions, but I'm not yet convinced that they're going to be better than the DS version's ...

Mario Kart DS includes a total of eight grand prix competitions for a total of 32 different races, many of which aren't available until you beat those that you can select from the outset.

Mario Kart on the DS, then, which still needs a proper name, is a handsome beast that I very much want to own, but its new tricks are largely subtle or technical.