I'm sure they've taken plenty ideas from Mario Kart. No kart game with ever beat Mario, though. 
This is a little of topic, but does anyone know what happened to super monkey ball racing on the GCN? That was amazing and was so original with the fact you are rolling around the map inside a ball. It was so fun and made it different from all other racing games. Instead, they had to copy Mario kart, which in my opinion, wasn't as good as the GCN version.
This is a little of topic, but does anyone know what happened to super monkey ball racing on the GCN? That was amazing and was so original with the fact you are rolling around the map inside a ball. It was so fun and made it different from all other racing games. Instead, they had to copy Mario kart, which in my opinion, wasn't as good as the GCN version.