Mario Kart DS

Nintendo / November 14, 2005 / Rated Everyone

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Released

2005

Publisher

Nintendo

Time to beat

~5 hrs

Community

570

Race along with Mario and his friends in five single-player modes and
over 30 courses. Knock out the competition with your driving skills as
you rocket-start the race, use drifting and turbos at critical points,
and deploy crazy items to gain an advantage.

Get ready for total shell-tossing mayhem! Choose one of 12 Nintendo
characters as you race through challenging tracks that become even more
so with deployable items at your disposal. Enlist in the Grand Prix for
the trophy prize in eight different cups. Start a Time Trial, and try to
best your fastest time with your own ghost. Play against a
computer-controller kart in VS mode for a quick race. Try out some fun
kart minigames like Balloon Battle and Shine Runners in Battle mode. Or
try clearing some Missions to practice your technique in becoming the
ultimate Mario Kart racer!
This classic game is part of the Virtual Console service, which brings you great games created for consoles such as NES™, Super NES™ and Game Boy™ Advance. We hope you'll enjoy the new features (including off-TV play) that have been added to this title. See more Virtual Console games for Wii U.

Mario Kart DS is a 2005 kart racing game developed and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo DS. Like other games in the Mario Kart series, Mario Kart DS features characters from the Mario series and pits them against each other as they race in karts on tracks based on locations from the Mario series. It was released in November 2005 in North America, Europe, and Australia, and in December 2005 in Japan, and rereleased for the Wii U's Virtual Console in North America and PAL regions in April 2015 and in Japan in May 2016. The game is the fifth main entry in the Mario Kart series, the second for a handheld console, and the first playable via the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection online service.