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Kart Fighter Played on Television

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Title Screen, Options Menu, Peach Kicks Shell, Luigi About To Become Linguini, Peach Eats Kinopio, Yossy Puts Up His Dukes, Mario Vs. Princess, Donkey Kong Beatened By A Girl, Koopa Kick, Doppelganger Cat Fight, Nokonoko Punches Mario In The Meatballs, Donkey - Watch Out!, Nokonoko Fights For Peace, Nokonoko Fights For Honor, Nokonoko Fights For Pussy, Evil Nokonoko Strikes, Top 8 Scores, Famicom Cartridge

Introduction

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In probably one of the greater pirate games ever made for the 8-Bit system, Kart Fighter is a total mutant of two games, Street Fighter II and Super Mario Kart. The SFII feel is from the time that this game was made along with the background and fighting style. The user has the SMK feel from the introduction screen and characters in which you can choose to play.

Plot

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Are you the greatest Mario Kart player? Defeated all 20 tracks and numerous friends in battle mode? You cannot be the ultimate player until you beat your opponent in one on one combat! Your job is to select a familiar SMK player and beat everyone in a round robin style tournament that is the same thing you do in SFII. Once this is completed, you repeat, and repeat, and repeat ... and kill yourself.

Sound

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This is one of the games that screams, "Damn my ears! I need to get drunk to escape this reality!". Yes, it's that bad. It ranks up there with Karnov. And this is the only time I will ever mention Karnov in my life. It is THAT annoying. I would rather listen to random elevator music than having my TV audio turned on listening to this nuisance.

Graphics

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This game has one of the better graphics when compared to other pirates. The cartoonish feel makes the player want to sit there and just stare at how goofy these characters look. You don't have to be drunk to tell that the programmers actually put some effort into drawing some characters and not just sprite hacking Mario with an afro ... did I just say that?

Challenge

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There is not much challenge in this game. The difficulty does raise as you pick the harder difficulty ratings, but you can kick your opponent into the corner and just slam the opponent over and over again to his/her death. Being able to play cheap and the computer being unable to defend takes away from the challenge aspect of this game.

Gameplay

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Kart Fighter is rather easy to control. You have a punch and a kick button. Doing multiple controller actions lets you jumpkick, slidekick, and uppercut. As mentioned in the challenge section, you can jam the buttons to constantly slam your opponent over and over.

Conclusion

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A great game to pass 20 minutes of your time. I would probably play this game before you go to your college class or work. Then you can have conversations with your friends about this game and you'll probably be the laughing stock of your friends. If you're into Princess Lana from Captain N being "Peach" and Toad being named "Kinopio", this is a MUST HAVE for you!

(c) 2002 J.D. Turbeville