{"id":6158,"date":"2022-09-01T18:20:04","date_gmt":"2022-09-01T18:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/01\/talking-point-what-was-your-first-mario-kart-game\/"},"modified":"2022-09-01T18:20:04","modified_gmt":"2022-09-01T18:20:04","slug":"talking-point-what-was-your-first-mario-kart-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/01\/talking-point-what-was-your-first-mario-kart-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Talking Point: What Was Your First Mario Kart Game?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Let&#8217;s-a goooo!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Today (September 1st, 2022) marks 30 years since the launch of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/snes\/super_mario_kart\">Super Mario Kart<\/a> in North America. In the years since, Mario Kart has gone on to be one of the most successful Nintendo franchises of all time, with the latest mainline release &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/mario_kart_8_deluxe\">Mario Kart 8 Deluxe<\/a> &#8211; topping the Switch&#8217;s best-selling titles with over 40 million units sold. Mad!<\/p>\n<p>So to celebrate, we thought we&#8217;d take a look at how each of us was introduced to the Mario Kart franchise, and we&#8217;d love to find out how you were introduced, too! Check out our &#8220;origin&#8221; stories below and be sure to post your own in the comments below.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/features\/talking-point-what-was-your-first-mario-kart-game\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[#item_image]Talking Point: What Was Your First Mario Kart Game?<!-- wp:html --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Let&#8217;s-a goooo!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Today (September 1st, 2022) marks 30 years since the launch of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/snes\/super_mario_kart\">Super Mario Kart<\/a> in North America. In the years since, Mario Kart has gone on to be one of the most successful Nintendo franchises of all time, with the latest mainline release &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/mario_kart_8_deluxe\">Mario Kart 8 Deluxe<\/a> &#8211; topping the Switch&#8217;s best-selling titles with over 40 million units sold. Mad!<\/p>\n<p>So to celebrate, we thought we&#8217;d take a look at how each of us was introduced to the Mario Kart franchise, and we&#8217;d love to find out how you were introduced, too! Check out our &#8220;origin&#8221; stories below and be sure to post your own in the comments below.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/features\/talking-point-what-was-your-first-mario-kart-game\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:html --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6159,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6158"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}