My top 3 are identical, but I still put Mario Kart 64 as 4th because I find it still aged better than the others on the list. MK Cubed and GBA were kind of shite even in their time, but have also aged terribly. DS and SNES I have found have also not aged well at all
I’d probably not question anyone asking to play MK8, Wii, or 7, but any of the other games I would likely question the reasoning.
I was a little unpleasantly shocked at how outdated the SNES version was when I played it on SNES Mini. It was easily the poorest aged game in the collection; most games actually aged very well. But MK SNES wasn’t as shockingly outdated feeling as the DS version which I played with some friends after only maybe 7-8 months after playing MK7 regularly - constant drops of connection, and the controls felt super floaty and simplistic.
But yeah, MK8 Deluxe really takes the series to new heights. It’s basically Mario Kart 8 on steroids plus a vastly superior local multiplayer, and a battle mode.
I describe myself as a little dose of toxic masculinity.
