Archive for the ‘Items’ Category

Greenshell Magnet

Friday, August 14th, 2009

I can’t be the only person in history that this has happened to. You throw three Greenshells into a crowd, and they all come back and hit you. Several people fire Greenshells, and they all hit you. It’s painful, it’s humiliating, and it’s downright unfair. How could this be? Why is it me?
Simple, you’re this [...]

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.)
Here’s the [...]

On Blueshells

Friday, July 31st, 2009

I find that I am a blueshell magnet. Maybe you are too. Usually, I know when one is coming too, especially on multiplayer. My peripheral vision is really good at picking up blueshells on other peoples’ screens and more often then not, I am the recipient.
The original Mario Kart did not have blueshells. Blueshells were [...]