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Originally Posted by HiPNoTyQ  are you sure you weren't just playing in 50cc mode? 150cc or extra was def faster than MK iirc. Maybe you just had such an undying love for the original that anything else couldn't even hold up in comparison. I was like 10 years old when MK64 came out and along with goldeneye, thats all my friends and I played. If I pick up MK DS or MK DD it just isn't the same nowadays. Even now in 1st year university everyone on my floor loves MK64 just because we're all the same age and most of us have memories of it from our childhood.
For me, I can't stand SMK. It looks wayyy too zoomed in and claustrophobic. Also theres no drifting. This is because I played SMK waaay after playing the newer ones. |
No, I played through the entire game, 150cc and Reverse cups and all. You should probably bear in mind that the European localisation runs slower for both the SNES and N64 incarnations (I think Nintendo sorted this out by the Gamecube one though).
I think everyone probably has a happy place in their hearts for the first Mario Kart they play, so yeah, there's probably a little bit of the undying love for the original that makes all the sequels inferior because "they're not as pure as the original". I remember hating the idea of stick-wobbling power slide speed boosts on the N64, but it's now part of the Mario Kart standard, I've grown to like it and can't imagine a new edition of the game without it.
The original still had drifting and power-slides, they just didn't include the stick-wobbling speed boost.