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.) [...]
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On Snaking
Wednesday, August 5th, 2009I’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 [...]
On Blueshells
Friday, July 31st, 2009I 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 [...]
Screen Peeking
Thursday, July 23rd, 2009I am an avid screen peeker. More than once I have run into trouble because I was watching someone else’s screen instead of mine. Some people are annoyed that other people are watching their screen, but often two experienced players will be able to counter act each other because they are both watching the other [...]
On Kartma
Monday, July 20th, 2009kartma: Kartma is like Karma, except, no matter what you do, bad stuff happens. I coined the term kartma a few months ago while playing Mario Kart with some friends. It’s actually very easy to see examples of kartma in practice. You nail the person in first with three red shells, fly past them and [...]
