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Mario Kart DS | 
| From: Nintendo
Category: Video Games
List Price: $39.99
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Seller: ZoverstocksUSA
Rating:  352 reviews
Sales Rank: 32
Format: Nintendo
Platform: Nintendo DS
Genre: kart_racing_and_flying_games
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries Included: No
Age: 5 - 20 years
Operating System: Nintendo DS
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.7 x 4.9 x 0.7
MPN: 100730
Model: 73590
UPC: 045496735906
EAN: 0045496735906
ASIN: B000A2R54M
Publication Date: November 2005
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Race and battle with up to 4 karts at once -- or enjoy 8-player multiplayer action through your Wi-Fi Connection | | • | Tour courses from classic Mario Kart games -- as well as brand-new tracks and arenas | | • | All the crazy items and frantic speed players have come to expect | | • | Five different game modes allows for endless ways to play. |
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Amazon.com Product Description
The ultimate Mario Kart race is on…and online via your Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection in Mario Kart DS. Drawing on more than 30 courses and battle arenas from every game in the Mario Kart series - not to mention tons of new ones, Mario Kart DS allows you to play as Mario, Luigi, Princess Peach, Wario, Yoshi, Donkey Kong, Toad, Bowser and Shy Guy as you put the pedal to the go-kart metal, grab coins to max out your speed and blast rivals with the ever-popular arsenal of red, green and spiked Koopa shells in a race to finally put to rest the question of who is the true king of the Mushroom Kingdom racing circuit. 
Race the Mushroom circuit | 
Mario is a veteran of the circuit.
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Choose your favorite character.
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Peach is a master drifter.
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Select the Kart you want.
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Bowser is the bruiser of the track.
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Watch your position in the pack.
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Place first in Grand Prix circuits or clear skill-based missions to open up increasingly difficult and thrilling circuits. Of course, players can have multiplayer races on any open courses or battle in arenas. Game Modes: At Least Five Ways to Play
Whether you prefer to race by yourself or to mix it up with friends, Mario Kart DS is a game with something for everyone. Features five different game modes, these include a 'VS' and 'Battle' mode that are available in multiplayer for up to eight players via local wireless connection while all modes are available singleplayer. See a complete list and description of the play modes below: - Grand Prix Mode: In Grand Prix Mode, the driver who earns the most points at the end of a four-course cup is the victor. Mario Kart DS features eight different cups, with each cup featuring four different tracks.
- Time Trial Mode: Your objective in Time Trial Mode is to get the fastest time that you can on a single track. . You can save your best runs as ghost data and share them with a friend.
- VS Mode: A competitive mode that can be either singleplayer. or multiplayer. In the singleplayer. version you'll race against computer-controlled karts, while in multiplayer you'll race against human opponents who play using their own Nintendo DS systems.
- Battle Modes: Mario Kart DS contains two battle modes.
- Balloon Battle Mode: Your goal is to pop your opponent's balloons by attacking/stealing them by colliding into an opponent via a mushroom boost, before your own balloons are popped.
- Shine Runners: In this mode the driver who collects the most Shine Sprites is the winner.
- Mission Mode: In this mode you are given sets of specific missions that you must clear in order to move on to the next set of missions. What could wait at the end?
Special Powers, Weapons, Moves & Features
Turbo power-drifting and item tossing is the order of the day, whether players are racing around an obstacle-filled track or battling in an arena. Use familiar items taken from every game in the series like Green Shells, homing Red Shells, Bananas, Bombs, Lightning and the destructive Spiny Shell, not to mention new ones like the Blooper. The touch screen features a map that shows items being fired at players, who can even tap it with their fingers mid-race to zoom in or out. Wireless Communication: Even More Ways to Play:
Mario Kart DS features three different forms of wireless game play: two kinds of local wireless game play and Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection online game play. Mario Kart DS offers two different options for LAN Wireless game play: DS Download Play, in which only one player has Mario Kart DS and all players have Nintendo DS systems, and Multi-Card Play, in which all players have Mario Kart DS and Nintendo DS systems. DS Download Play
As with all DS Download multiplayer games, the DS Download Play in Mario Kart DS requires that only one player has a copy of the game. Unlike past DS games, however, DS Download Play in Mario Kart DS allows multiple players who have the game card to play with multiple players who do not have the game card. DS Download Play offers the following features: - 2-8 player simultaneous wireless game play.
- A choice of multiplayer racing, Balloon Battle, or Shine Runner modes.
- Players who own Mario Kart DS can choose their own characters and use personalized icons, while players who do not own Mario Kart DS must play as Shy Guy and cannot use personalized player icons.
- Track selection is limited to eight tracks for racing and three arenas for Balloon Battle and Shine Runner modes.
- DS Download Play is limited to the 100 cc engine class
Multi-Card Play
Multi-Card Play requires all players to have their own copies of Mario Kart DS, giving players more options, modes and tracks to choose from. Multi-Card Play offers the following features: - 2-8 player simultaneous wireless game play.
- Your choice of multiplayer racing, Balloon Battle, or Shine Runner modes.
- Players can choose from different engine classes.
- No limits on character choice.
- No limits on track choice.
- Player's win/loss ratio is saved and tracked.
- Players who race locally are automatically added to each other's friend roster and then can race via Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection.
- Players can trade ghost data wirelessly, allowing them to race against each others' best times.
Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection:
Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection is a free online game-play service provided by Nintendo to Nintendo DS owners. It offers seamless access to online game play and an environment that is welcoming to gamers of all skill levels. Features include: Whether it's the updated graphics that retain the side-scrolling feel of classic games in the Sonic franchise, an expansive world to race through and explore or the multiple and new ways to play, Sonic Unleashed offers something for players of any age or level of ability. - 2-4 players racing simultaneously.
- Choice of playing with:
- Friends only (players registered as Friends)
- Rivals (players with similar skills)
- Recent opponents
- Regional racers (players in their country)
- World racers (players anywhere in the world)
- No limit on course choice, but each player votes for a course and the course with the most votes wins (in case of a tie, the course is chosen randomly)
- No limit on character choice
- Players can create and use personalized player icons
Connecting to the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection will be quick, easy and seamless. Players can go to an official Nintendo hotspot and immediately go online and start playing. To use their home Wi-Fi routers, players first must configure the DS to connect to their routers by entering the router's network ID and optional security key or install the Nintendo Wi-Fi USB Connector on their PC and configure the DS to enable it to share the PC's broadband connection. After that, players can go online anytime without further configuration. Friends are registered to the friends roster either by exchanging and entering Friend Registration Keys or by playing local Multi-Card Multiplayer mode together.
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| Customer Reviews:
Showing reviews 1-5 of 352
 Love it July 26, 2010
Leslie
My boys are having a blast playing this game. The best part is that you can link two DS' together to play at the same time with one cartridge.
 You'll regret it if you buy it. June 26, 2010
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I hate to say this, but it is terrible. Like the Wii version, it takes all your hard work and skooshes it.
Awesome for all ages June 22, 2010
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This a really awesome game! My DSi was my first game system (I got it for my 11th birthday, I wanted it for a really long time) and Mario Kart was my first game. We got a deal with Wal-Mart where you got a $30 gift card when you bought a DSi (we hate Wal-Mart but of course I used it). Mario Kart DS was my first game. I had played it on a Wii at my friends' house before and I liked it, and let me tell you, now I know why it's so popular! Naturally, my favorite modes are Grand Prix and Missions.
Grand Prix~ First, you choose 50cc, 100cc, or 150cc. I believe that they are engine classes, so I guess it means that you go faster or something. 100cc and 150cc are harder though. Next, you choose your character. The main ones are (in order) Mario, Luigi, Peach, Yoshi, Toad, Donkey Kong, Wario, and Bowser. You can unlock more though. I've already unlocked Dry Bones and Daisy. They all have different actions and sounds when you pick them and when you race, and they each have two cars- one unique one and a standard DS one. They also have different stats- speed, acceleration, weight, handling, drift, and items. Then you choose your cup- Nitro Grand Prix or Retro Grand Prix. You start out with two inside of each- for the Nitro the Mushroom Cup and the Flower Cup, and for the Retro the Shell Cup and Banana Cup. Then you can unlock the Star Cup and Special Cup in the Nitro and the Leaf Cup and Lightning Cup in the Retro. They are four courses and three laps (Except for Baby Park, which has five laps) in each course in the cups. So you race and get your place and blah blah blah and possibly earn a trophy.
Missions~ They are six mission levels, but apparently you can unlock a seventh when getting a star rating in each of them. There are nine missions in each level- eight regular missions and one boss mission. Beware, there seems to be one mission in each level which involves killing obstacles with items and doing a certain amount of power-slide turbo-boosts in a certain amount of laps. They are hard until you get them! It tells you how to do them in the instruction manual. Your rating for the level is determined by your lowest rating.
There is also a battle mode, time trials, and VS. Battle mode features two battle modes- Balloon Battle and Shine Runners. They are both fun, but I mastered them too quickly. Time Trials is where you can race against your "ghost"- (it records how you last raced and turns you transparent) and beat your time, and VS is like the Grand Prix but you choose the courses and you don't earn trophies in the same way.
I haven't ever gotten to try the Wi-Fi or Multiplayer mode on the DS.
So, overall:
Fun: 9/10
Music: 8/10 (There is different music for each course. Some of it is kind of strange though, but very fitting.)
Sound: 10/10
Gameplay: 9/10 (I think it's pretty re-playable.)
I would recommend this for all ages, from six year olds to sixty-six year olds (especially for an 11-year-old girl like me). Take my advice and BUY THIS, it is a fantastic game if you love action and Mario. I instantly became obsessed with Mario when I got this, and I can't wait to buy more games with him (Especially Peach).
old school fun June 21, 2010
Isaiah
I'm sure everything has already been said about this game but it is very fun and reminds me of the N64 days
Mario Still Popular? June 19, 2010
Terra Ann (Cheyenne, Wyoming)
Mario is getting old...but he's just as popular as he ever was. I'll probably have to replace this game because my grandsons are going to wear out the one I got them for Christmas.
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