Mario Kart for the Wii is available today in all US stores, but if you want the real thing, you can pass on the lame wheel and get this Nintendo-licensed real-life Mario Kart Slot Car Racing set, with cute 1:43 Mario “B-Dasher” and Wario “Brute” cars, 20.34 feet of track with fly-over sections, power transformer, and controllers with a “Turbo Speed” button for “added racing bost.” Sadly no instant enemy shrinking, calamari ink or banana peels are included. Looking at the size, it’s probably fully compatible with Donkey Kong, Yoshi and classic Mario cars from the Nintendo Mario Kart DS Track Race Set:
newVideoPlayer("wiimariocartwheel.flv", 494, 275,""); I got up close and personal with the Wii Wheel at last week’s Nintendo Media Summit, where I (literally) played hours of Mario Kart Wii. I tried playing with the wheel attached and without, trying different configurations of play. And after spending a day with the peripheral, I can’t exactly call it great, but it’s not horrible either.
They say smoking and squalor can kill a human, but that’s turning out to be equally true for the Nintendo Wii. The hardware’s disc-reading laser seems incapable of cutting through the grit, grime and second-hand smoke that accumulates on its lens’ glassy veneer. The issue first appeared with Super Smash Bros. Brawl double-layer DVD, and now reports about the launch of Mario Kart Wii this month in Japan show that game is no different. Nintendo will clean your Wii for free, but that will mean a week or so without it. [GameFront via GoNintendo]
Why fork over more money to Nintendo for a second Mario Kart Wii Wheel when you can just make one yourself? Sound difficult? It’s not, as long as you know how to tape a controller to a sauce pot lid. For some reason we didn’t spot a similar prototype among Nintendo’s 30 original designs. Which just goes to show you, multitudes of white plastic don’t always make something better. (But it sure helps to put a price tag on the thing.) [mod via kotaku]
Your friends still aren’t worth the cost of admission to your place for a game with Nintendo’s Wii Wheel, but they’re getting closer now that a Nintendo Power contest rules page lists the peripheral at US$9.99. [GoNintendo]
Looks like the fellows at Gamestop let the pricing for Nintendo’s Wii Wheel slip, and US$14.99 is the price you’ll be paying for each friend you have over on Mario Kart Wii day, (April 27th.) The game will retail at US$49.99, which includes one Wii Wheel to boot, but for multiplayer mayhem, you’re going to have to fork out that little bit more. Friends suck…not in a good way. Jump to see a blown up shot of the flier with the figures. [Gamestop; Thanks, David W]
We’re starting to see some of the first gaming fruits of the iPhone SDK. While KrazyKart 2 doesn’t have us in a Spore-like fever, it does look um, similar, to another game we know, love and own balls at: Mario Kart.
You have been a slot racer fan since you were a kid —plus, you have always enjoyed the Mario Kart series. So why not put your passions together with this Mario Kart Slot Racing set? Additional info and photo of the track after the jump.
