As many people know that he original Mario Kart game for the SNES is a Nintendo classic that many people still look favorably upon to this day. The 16 bit sprites and graphics were basically the defining features of the the original Mario Kart game and to some extent it resembled F-Zero which was also released for the SNES back in 1991. Since it’s release the original Mario Kart game had reached over 8 million units worldwide in sales and has also been re-released for the SNES Classic in September 2017.

If the original Mario Kart game was released for the NES opposed to the SNES the game may not have had as much success as it did. The 8 bit graphics of the NES would have detracted from the appeal that Mario Kart had on the SNES back in the early 90’s. Besides the racing genre of gaming was much bigger during the 90’s than it was in the late 80’s.