Archive for August, 2009

On Stars

Tuesday, August 11th, 2009

Experiment: Discover how long a star lasts in each of the Mario Kart games. Take five sample star times and find their average. What conclusions can you draw? Procedure: Play Mario Kart with brother. I drive, brother times star lengths and records data. (We switch near the end as we both tired from data gathering.) [...]

50cc

Monday, August 10th, 2009

50cc is basically a quick time event: “Hold A for first place.”

On Snaking

Wednesday, August 5th, 2009

I’m not always big on the gamer lingo that goes on, so the term “snaking” is fairly new to me. I had always referred to it as “doing r-turns on the straightaway.” I have been told that this concept is rather annoying to people who play on the internet with Mario Kart Wii. I’ve been [...]