30th Oct 2025
Trivia: In Bowser's Castle, there is a Thwomp locked behind bars, and if you bump the bars he will make a face and laugh at you. The laugh used is actually the same laugh from Wario but slightly slowed and pitched down. Rumours about this Thwomp circulated around playgrounds for years and players nicknamed him Marty. Developers even gave a nod to him in later Mario Kart games reusing the laugh. And Marty has also become the subject of several creepypastas.
30th Oct 2025
Trivia: Something you probably would not realise unless you stopped to look at the train coming at you, but in the Kalimari Desert there is a train going around the tracks in the desert. If you look at the front of the train, the engine number is actually 64. Like the Nintendo 64 console, the game is on and this being Mario Kart 64.
9th Oct 2025
Trivia: The infamous blue shell in Mario Kart 64 exists because of the Nintendo 64's hardware limitations. During development, the system struggled to render all racers close together onscreen, causing them to spread far apart during races. To fix this, Nintendo introduced the blue shell, a sort of "rubber band" mechanic designed to keep players grouped and maintain tension. What began as a technical workaround became one of gaming's most notorious equalizers.