#mario kart 7 | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

nintendometro · 7 months

Photo

Coconut Mall 'Mario Kart 7' Nintendo 3DS

#Mario Kart 7 #Nintendo #Nintendo 3DS

736 notes · View notes

weirdmarioenemies · 6 months

Text

Name: Neo Bowser City (aka Koopa City in PAL regions)

Debut: Mario Kart 7

Do you ever think of all the weird locations we only ever see in Mario Kart games? Despite being the biggest of all of Mario's spin-off franchises, when you really get down to it, remarkably few Mario Kart courses are actually based on established Mario locations!

It's not none, there's the occasional Donut Plains and Tick-Tock Clock and Airship Fortress, but most of the courses are these weird one-off locations we never see outside the context of that specific racetrack.

But have you ever taken a moment to step back and like, think of the Lore Implications of some of these places?

Like okay! Bowser just owns this whole dang cyberpunk city and we only ever see it in the context of Kart Racing! How messed up is that?!

One day Mario and Friends were looking for new places to race, and Bowser must have said something like "Gwah-hah-hah! I bet you puny punks could NEVER beat me in a race in my cyberpunk metropolis!" and right then and there it was established that Bowser owns a cyberpunk metropolis. Neo Bowser City is a city that exists in the Super Mario World and aside from returning in other Mario Kart games, it hasn't been acknowledged before or since.

Neo Bowser City first appeared in Mario Kart 7, as the third course in the Star Cup. Despite its flashy visuals, it actually doesn't really have a whole lot going on. It's a difficult track with some tight turns made more difficult by the rain making things more slippery, but besides that it doesn't really have any of the Wacky Obstacles that define so many Mario Kart courses.

Then it returned in Mario Kart 8 looking more gorgeous than ever! The bright colors really pop out, and the whole track is just oozing with detail that really emphasizes the scale of this city!

But like, the emphasized scale really only further raises the question of where this exists in the Mario World. Clearly, the fact that Bowser is plastered all over the billboards and the fact it's named "Neo Bowser City" helps us deduce that this city probably belongs to Bowser. Is this located in Bowser's Kingdom? Just how big is Bowser's Kingdom? And why does he own so many separate castles?

Maybe Neo Bowser City exists in the future? Is this a bad timeline? I mean, Mario Kart is allowed to have time-travel shenanigans. There's a Splatoon battle arena and that exists thousands of years in the future so sure, dust off Mario's Time Machine and head to the bad future where Bowser wins. Should've pressed that New Super Mario Bros. big yellow P-Switch!

I asked my friend Mod Chikako for their input and their theory is that Neo Bowser City isn't the future of Mario's world, but of our world. Clearly Bowser just couldn't take Wreck-It-Ralph losing the Oscar vote!

But in that case I guess it's a cooler cyberpunk future than the one we're living in right now. Corporate monopolies that run mass-surveillance with little government intervention due to their extreme wealth giving them extensive political power? No thank you! Neo Bowser City has bright neon colors, and flying cars! If I'm going to live in a dystopia, I want it to be a fun one. The only advertisements I want to see plastered everywhere are ones advertising Bowser!

Boo! That's the bad guy! Thumbs down!

The course returns again in that pitiful mobile game with another redesign, this time letting us see his Coney Island Disco Palace off in the distance. Does Bowser live in his Neo City? Is this worldbuilding we've been missing out on for decades, finally answered by a kart racer? Is this the capital city of Bowser's Kingdom? Am I once again falling victim to my perpetual hubris of overthinking the Mario franchise?

Really, I can't offer too much in terms of wacky fan theories, because I'm still thinking about this location existing in the first place. I'd love to know the Lore and worldbuilding here, but I guess the nature of Mario's canon is that it doesn't need to be over-analyzed. Bowser simply owns a cyberpunk metropolis, we'll only ever see it in the context of kart racing, and maybe that's okay.

Of course, this post wouldn't be complete if I didn't mention Dinohattan from the 1993 Super Mario Bros. Movie, which we've barely talked about on this blog somehow. You see, when the meteor hit, some of the dinosaurs escaped into a parallel timeline where they then evolved into humans, and then they built Dinohattan instead of Manhattan. Get it? Yeah, that movie is all sorts of bonkers. I wouldn't say it's very good, but I kinda love it. I'd recommend checking it out, if only to see a vastly different take on Mario than you'd be used to.

Anyway I bring this up because it's a completely separate instance of a version of Bowser building a large cyberpunk metropolis, and it actually predates Neo Bowser City! Do you think they could be connected? Are Dinohattan and Neo Bowser City one and the same...?

#neo bowser city #mario kart 7 #weird mario locations #mario kart 8 #mod hooligon #really mod chikako also helped contribute a few jokes to this post i gotta credit them #i've had this post sitting in the drafts for over a year and a half #no clue why i took so long to publish it it's basically been fully complete this whole time

500 notes · View notes

suppermariobroth · 1 year

Photo

The Music Park track from Mario Kart 7 and 8 bears a striking resemblance in its layout to the Silence 2 track from F-Zero X. The bottom image depicts the two overlaid over each other; note how the consecutive U-turns in the bottom portion match up perfectly, as well as the spiral portions being in the same place on the track.

As Mario Kart games both have members of F-Zero game staff working on them, as well as contain overt references to F-Zero such as dedicated tracks in Mario Kart 8, it is possible that this is a deliberate reference.

Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Small Findings | Source

#mario kart 7 #nintendo

579 notes · View notes

krisandsusieirl · 19 days

Text

Susie and kris can no longer play online Mario kart, and are very upset

#deltarune #kris deltarune #kris dreemurr #susie deltarune #Mario #Mario kart #3Ds #RIP #Mario kart 7 #Nintendo #Toby Fox

34 notes · View notes

mariomusicdaily · 5 months

Text

Mario Music of the Day: SNES Rainbow Road from Mario Kart 7

#mario #music #mario kart 7 #daily

77 notes · View notes

teathattast · 1 year

Text

#twitter #twitter memes #funny tweets #mario kart 7 #i dont even know what this means

393 notes · View notes

vampirerobot · 5 months

Text

Sonic in mikuworld :) peace and love on planet earth

#mario kart 7 #ctgp7 #mario kart #sonic #hatsune miku

52 notes · View notes

zootopiathingz · 6 months

Text

Rosalina: Wow, all of my friends have such cool racing tracks! I wish I had one of my own..

Luma: I got’chu Mama! *eats a shit ton of star bits and transforms into a winter-themed planet*

#and that’s how Rosalina’s ice world was created #probably #princess rosalina #luma #mario kart 7 #mk8dx

45 notes · View notes

magolorsbullshitgenerator · 3 months

Text

maro kar

#mario #super mario #mario kart #super mario kart #mario kart 7 #mario kart 8 #mario kart 9 #mario kart wii #mario kart double dash #mario kart 8 deluxe #the mario kart 8 booster course pass for the mario kart 8 deluxe game

26 notes · View notes

technoplanet · 6 months

Text

still playing mario kart 7, i'm so close to getting three stars on all cups on 150cc

#mario kart #mario kart 7 #2010s #2010s games #nintendo #nintendo 3ds

23 notes · View notes

nintendometro · 2 months

Photo

Mario Circuit 2 'Mario Kart 7' Nintendo 3DS

#Mario Kart 7 #Nintendo #Nintendo 3DS

322 notes · View notes

shinigami-striker · 1 year

Text

The Best 3DS Games | Monday, 02.27.2023

In less than a month from now, Nintendo will officially shut down the Nintendo eShop for BOTH on 3DS and Wii U, so I've found some of the best (and no so best) 3DS games money can buy at a time like this, so grab them while you can.

133 notes · View notes

suppermariobroth · 8 months

Text

In Mario Kart 7, during the countdown before online matches start, several objects in various courses float outside the track, being teleported to their correct positions only when the race starts. This is normally impossible to see, but modifying to code to move the racers freely through the air allows them to be viewed.

Top: in Wuhu Loop, several cars float in mid-air.

Bottom: in Wario Shipyard, a Fish Bone floats in mid-air.

Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Small Findings | Source: twitter.com user "B_squo"

#mario kart 7 #nintendo

329 notes · View notes

katlimeart · 5 days

Text