Mario Kart DS was released 20 years ago today on November 14th, 2005

20 years holy crap. I remember playing this in the school cafeteria with the crew, was some good gaming

I, uh, remember playing this at work.
is old
- I bought a DS with my 2nd paycheck ever, when I still lived with parents and a McJob made me pretty much a millionaire.
  It still feels like future tech despite being obsolete AF

I never took to 7 like I did to this one. Couldn't really tell you why.

I miss how they ditched the more unique character karts for the generic mix and match parts now. Let me race in a backhoe again you cowards!

My favorite Mario Kart game. Shout outs to CTGP Nitro, a romhack that keeps the entire original game intact, but optionally adds dozens of custom tracks.

Omg what, that's sick

Remember having multiple full local sessions going while sitting outside of Best Buy waiting for the Wii launch. The overnight DS sessions ended up being more fun than the Wii launch titles

Remember how you could play this on the local network with anyone who had a Nintendo DS? Only one person needed the game cartridge. So fucking cool.

I remember it looking better than this screenshot shows

I have played it recently and you may be misremembering. There was one on 3ds too iirc. Might be the one you're thinking of
I only see perfection (on a blurry image), don't overlook the tires on motion btw.

While you are not wrong, this news displeases me greatly.

Pretty sure the DS came out like 5 years ago. OP is on Crack.

I remember spending so long designing my emblem for online, only to be blown away by what others managed to draw. Let's not forget all the penises🤣

This is my second favorite Mk game after the original one. I played a lot online. We organized matches in the IRC. At some point I sold my cart and played with a flash cart and a hacked ROM to play in tracks not available in the legit game. Some players went crazy when they saw it lol

Was going to downvote this, because i hate those "you're old, feel it! more! MORE! FEEL MORE OLD!" posts.

But then i changed my mind. You know what? Time for the next generation to start feeling the pain. Have fun genZ. or milenials or whatever.

I traded my copy of Pokemon Fire Red with a bunch of legitimate shinies to my buddy for this game back in middle school. Worthwhile trade.

I loved this level of graphics. Enough for cool 3D stuff that could be nice and smooth, but no expectations for or effort spent on absurd levels of hyper-realism

MKDS had the best soundtrack, hands down.

Also the reason I main Daisy on 8 😄

I didn't like MKDS very much.

I like how they got rid of the left-right bullshit on drifting after it. It's just annoying and achieves nothing. And it's especially bad having to do that on a d-pad.

I also think Wii is the one that really started balancing items a lot more fairly, though 7 and 8 refined it even more.

I actually enjoy the drifting and was saddened that it was dumbed down in later entries
- You're calling that "dumbed down", but I'd call the old input arbitrary. I don't see the point of hiding a major gameplay mechanic behind a complex input. You don't use a cryptic button combo to jump in a platform game.
- I remember getting in so many stupid internet arguments over this shit as a kid because I couldn't keep up with it LMAO but looking back it added a skill ceiling to this game that I can't say for sure if any future game in the series really matched.
- Double dash had the best drifting mechanics in the series imo. Really only DS and DD are the only ones who have more than hold a drift long enough for mini turbo as their drifting mechanics

i always used peach and apparently she has the worst kart

Wii was great too but yeah 7 missed all the marks.

Mario Kart 64 best straight up

Relevant Mastodon post I saw earlier.