Today I am going to talk about a subject very near and dear to my heart. Of course, that subject is "Mario Kart". An arcade-like racing game involving all of the characters from the beloved series "Mario". The first time I ever played was when I was around eight years old. My parents bought it for me as a gift for my DS. For those who don't know, a DS was a handheld gaming device that nearly every single kid had growing up and I'm not sure how you wouldn't know what it is. Anyway, I immediately fell in love. I would play "Mario Kart" in good times and bad times, in sickness and in health and anytime I was allowed to get it out at the dinner table. My brothers and I all had a copy and we would race each other online to see who was the best. From what I can recall, I believe I got my butt handed to me every single time. However, that never deterred me from playing the game because I legitimately loved everything about it.
Fast forward to today and I still play it. Over the summer I bought the game for my Nintendo Switch and my roommates (CJ, Grant and Landen) and I all play it together. In fact, there is a white board in our dorm room that has a "Mario Kart Hierarchy" chart with all of our names and a tally for each time that we have won. If my memory serves me correctly, then I believe Landen and I are tied for first with 40 tallies each, CJ is a close second and Grant is nowhere to be found. Although, it goes beyond winning and stems back to the original reason why I played it as a kid with my brothers. We have fun doing it and it truly brings us together. That isn't to say that when we lose we don't yell a long list of profanity at the person who won, but I suppose that is just boys being boys. Overall, it is a great game that I wouldn't trade for the world and I honestly don't know what I would do without it here at college.
I remember Christmas of 2007 when I got my Nintendo DS and a copy of Mario kart. Countless hours with my siblings were spent playing that game. I had let my borrow the game for a night, and the next day he unlocked every new kart and character in the game. A new Mario kart game is actually out now in the app store. Although it's not as interactive as I originally thought, you can't bet a classic.
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