Every Mario Kart Game, Ranked

From its earliest days on the SNES to its new open-world outing on Switch 2, here's every Mario Kart game, ranked worst to best.

Since 1992 Mario Kart has been a pillar of Nintendo and a quintessential example of the company’s “easy to pick up, difficult to master” philosophy. The series has now become so popular that it’s arguably eclipsed the Mario platformers as the principal arena from which people know the red-capped Italian plumber.

The series began back on the SNES with Super Mario Kart, which introduced a formula that fans fawn over to this day. But while the core of that first game has remained intact over the years, many of the components have been completely reinvented with the series’ latest title on Switch 2, Mario Kart World. With that new game now out in the wild, it's a great time to look back on each game in the series to see how they iterate on the formula, how they reflect the state of Nintendo at the time of their release, and whether or not they hold up to this day. Here’s every Mario Kart game, ranked.

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