4/5 ★ – bryansbane's review of Mario Kart 64.

Make no mistake, playing Mario Kart 64 back when it released was a religious experience. People weren’t used to gathering around a console and playing a party racer like this with 4 of their friends. If you had a Nintendo 64 you HAD to have this game. Almost immediately after Double Dash released it became very hard to go back to Mario Kart 64. All of the racers are 2D sprites, the controller is nowhere near the level of quality that the GameCube was and in retrospect it just feels quite rough. For this reason I never return to Mario Kart 64, but you have to admire it for what it was at the time. Absolutely incredible to play with friends. It’s really this game, not Super Mario Kart that kicked off an entire genre of copycats.