Mario Kart [GC - Tech Demo / Concept]
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The new Mario Kart for the GameCube was first showed at the E3 2001 with a seven seconds long trailer. The clip featured Mario and Luigi driving their karts on a bump mapped 3D surface with no background. At the time MK was still early in development, and the working title of the game was simply Mario Kart. This video was created by Nintendo only to let the players know that there would have been a new racing game with Mario on the GameCube, but the final concept was still not decided.
In April 2003, Nintendo released the first pictures and details of the real game, as well as revealing the title, which was Mario Kart: Double Dash!!. New features, such as having two characters drive one kart and different styles of karts, had been implemented. While the tech demo was more similar to the old Mario Karts, the final game was different from what we can see in these screens and video. Those Mario and Luigi models seems to be the same from Super Smash Bros Melee.
Thanks to DRMARIOX for the contribution!
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7 Responses to Mario Kart [GC - Tech Demo / Concept]
anonimo
July 18th, 2008 at 10:54 pm
Il gioco presentato si rivela drasticamente differente da quello che sarà poi l’effettivo episodio della serie “Mario kart” uscito su Camecube.
Quest’ ultimo, infatti, innova con kart personalizzati ed ospitanti due personaggi contemporaneamente, uno adibito alla guida, l’altro al lancio di oggetti.
Come è possibile constatare in foto, invece, la versione preliminare si presentava come una normalissima conversione della normale formula di gioco su game cube, con kart standard e monoposto. Impossibile tuttavia dire altro a riguardo, dato che gli unici personaggi mostrati furono Mario e Luigi e data l’ assenza di un vero percorso di gioco.
monokoma
July 22nd, 2008 at 10:21 pm
Grazie Anonimo! :) Ho aggiunto la tua descrizione nella pagina
FullMetalMC
July 23rd, 2008 at 11:10 pm
translation plz?
João(Brasil!)
October 29th, 2008 at 1:03 pm
This was really better from the original Double Dash!
anon
January 26th, 2009 at 3:56 am
emglish pls
monokoma
January 26th, 2009 at 2:40 pm
Translation done! Now it’s in english too :)
DRMARIOX
June 25th, 2009 at 3:18 pm
Those are SSB Melee’s 3D Models. monokoma, you should say that this beta seems to use Melee’s graphics.