It's a downgrade from Mario Kart DS (2005) with less features, decent maps, and lamer karts. Still it gets the job done, but it's nothing legendary. For some reason, my younger cousins were addicted to watching me play this at my Grandmother's house. They never really had access to games, so that's probably why. In my eyes though it was like "Why do you care so much about the inferior mario kart game?" Still it's enjoyable.