Impossible to reckon with that effortless N64 allure, and it sports a handful of tracks that are still a blast to play to this day (Koopa Troopa Beach, Choco Mountain [before Mario Kart Tour robbed it of its hazy dreamlike atmsophere], Yoshi Valley, Luigi Raceway, among others) - but in the same breath definitely has its mid tracks (Mario Raceway is as bland as can be, and come on this Rainbow Road is a total snooze). The drifting is also ass but they would somehow fuck it up worse in Mario Kart: Super Circuit to such a degree that we can forgo - but not make excuses for - that mistake in this one right now. However, above all other flaws, there's a reason its menacing rubber band A.I. lives in infamy - it's like they barely even tried to hide it at all. Still as great of a time with friends as it was back then (given you're not playing on anything higher than 2 players, where anything more seems to cut like half the assets off of every track and neuters the framerate) and has a clean, simplistic charm to spare. In its own way absolutely still worth playing.