Mario Kart: Super Circuit

Classic Mario Kart action is back once again, this time in a colorful, lightning-fast game that you can take anywhere. Mario, Luigi, Peach, Toad, Wario, Yoshi and Bowser are all tearing up the track, tossing…

90 21 July 2001

Arcade Racing Action Kids

Mario Kart: Super Circuit is an arcade developed by Intelligent Systems, released 21 July 2001 on Nintendo 3DS, Wii U and Game Boy Advance. The main story takes about 10 hrs to finish.

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What Mario Kart: Super Circuit is

Mario Kart: Super Circuit is an arcade game developed by Intelligent Systems and released in 2001. It was published by Gradiente. It is available on Nintendo 3DS, Wii U and Game Boy Advance.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Mario Kart: Super Circuit is a 2001 kart racing game for the Game Boy Advance (GBA). It is the third Mario Kart game and retains its predecessors' gameplay: as a Mario franchise character, the player races opponents around tracks based on locales from the Super Mario platform games. Tracks contain obstacles and power-ups that respectively hamper and aid the player's progress. Super Circuit includes various single-player and multiplayer game modes, including a Grand Prix racing mode and a last man standing battle mode.

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How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and kids. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

Where it sits in the Mario Bros. series

Mario Kart: Super Circuit is the 25th of 66 entries we hold in the Mario Bros. series. It arrived 7 months after Mario Party 3. The next entry was Wario Land 4 in 2001. Its critic score of 90 is 16 points above the series average of 74. The highest-rated entry is Super Mario World at 100.

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How it was received

Mario Kart: Super Circuit holds a critic score of 90 out of 100. That places it above 95% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2001 averaged 72, so it scored 18 points above the year average. Players rate it 83, 7 points lower than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.

How long it takes, and what that costs

The main story runs about 10 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 22 hrs, roughly 2.2 times the length of the critical path.

What it launched against

Mario Kart: Super Circuit launched on 21 July 2001, within three weeks of Final Fantasy X, Max Payne, Golden Sun and Virtua Fighter 4. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.

Released around the same time: Final Fantasy X, Max Payne, Golden Sun, Virtua Fighter 4.

Cheats and codes

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