Darran Jones of NowGamer suggests that the success of Super Mario Kart resulted from the Super Mario characters, and being a new type of racing game. Its development was overseen by Shigeru Miyamoto, the Japanese designer of many successful Nintendo games including Super Mario Bros. The first game in the Mario Kart series is Super Mario Kart for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System in 1992. The series logo until Mario Kart Arcade GP 2 To date, more than 150 million copies in the series have been sold worldwide. The latest game in the main series, Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit, was released on the Nintendo Switch in October 2020. The Mario Kart series totals fourteen games, with six on home consoles, three on handheld consoles, four arcade games co-developed with Namco, and one for mobile phones.
The series was launched in 1992 with Super Mario Kart on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, to critical and commercial success. Its characters include those from the Mario, The Legend of Zelda, Animal Crossing, and Splatoon series, competing in races while using various items to gain advantage. Mario Kart is a series of go-kart racing video games developed and published by Nintendo, as a spin-off from its flagship Super Mario series.
