Live your days as Yoshi speeding past the kingdom while Koopa is five miles ahead.
Super Mario Kart is a pretty humble beginning for the series, and I believe is still fun enough to be worth playing. Despite being the first, I found the controls to be rather intuitive and smooth once you get the hang of them. Probably the only big thing lacking in this compared to others is the variety of tracks, instead of each having their unique identity there are multiple for the same theme; this doesn't actually serve as a problem though it is just interesting to see how the series evolved from here.
Now on the other hand an actual potential problem is that the game is actually very difficult. The 50ccs should be doable by pretty much anyone, but the 100ccs might actually take a good bit of tries. Easily the hardest part is the Special Cup which you unlock by beating the available three on 100CC, and its here that I had to dip out due to how difficult it seems. If fellow players are to be believed, the 150ccs are actually pretty insane and will challenge even the best karters. I would say though that trying the three cups on 50cc is still worth doing for everyone and should be approachable.
Overall, definitely a great start to the series that has me amped to try out more. For my playing, I did it through the SNES Classics library available through the Switch Online Membership, which should be suitable if you're not able to use an emulator.
Super Mario Kart is a pretty humble beginning for the series, and I believe is still fun enough to be worth playing. Despite being the first, I found the controls to be rather intuitive and smooth once you get the hang of them. Probably the only big thing lacking in this compared to others is the variety of tracks, instead of each having their unique identity there are multiple for the same theme; this doesn't actually serve as a problem though it is just interesting to see how the series evolved from here.
Now on the other hand an actual potential problem is that the game is actually very difficult. The 50ccs should be doable by pretty much anyone, but the 100ccs might actually take a good bit of tries. Easily the hardest part is the Special Cup which you unlock by beating the available three on 100CC, and its here that I had to dip out due to how difficult it seems. If fellow players are to be believed, the 150ccs are actually pretty insane and will challenge even the best karters. I would say though that trying the three cups on 50cc is still worth doing for everyone and should be approachable.
Overall, definitely a great start to the series that has me amped to try out more. For my playing, I did it through the SNES Classics library available through the Switch Online Membership, which should be suitable if you're not able to use an emulator.