In Mario Kart DS, you initially start with 1 balloon, and have several in reserve that you blow up, literally. You blow into the DS's microphone like you are blowing up a balloon, and voila!

Mario Kart DS is, at its core, the "best of the Mario Kart best." Nintendo's designers clearly took a good, long, hard look at what made each game in the series the classic Kart design the ...

Oh, Nintendo! Just the word itself brings back excitement and nostalgia to gamers around the world. Whether it’s the high-speed racing of the Mushroom Cup or an epic adventure through the Mushroom ...

Review Mario Kart DS (Wii U eShop / DS) Flawed perfection The 2005 hit, Mario Kart DS, marked a new era for Nintendo and its long-running racing series. This particular iteration was released ...

Mario Kart DS represents a significant step forward for Nintendo's much-loved racing series, and not only because it's the first to feature online play. By Justin Calvert on November 14, 2005 at 6 ...

We have the first movie of Mario Kart DS and it shows the kartsters whizzing around a ported version of Yoshi's Circuit from Gamecube's Mario Kart: Double ...

Mario Kart DS Online Hands-On We put our racing and shell-shooting skills to the test as we take Nintendo's latest Mario Kart game online. By Justin Calvert on November 7, 2005 at 5:32PM PST 2 ...

Mario Kart World has the unenviable task of being the successor to Mario Kart 8 Deluxe: arguably the best game in the series and inarguably Nintendo’s best selling game of all time at 68.2 ...

One of the features of Mario Kart Wii is its inclusion of classic tracks from previous editions of the franchise. Just like Mario Kart DS before it, Mario Kart Wii will split its roster of courses ...

Games Racing Games Mario Kart World Nintendo teases that "there is more" to Mario Kart World's new free roam mode than we're aware of, and I'm hoping for the return of my favorite DS feature ...

All courses are pulled from the Mario Kart series across SNES, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo 64, Nintendo DS, Wii, and Mario Kart Tour games. You can play the courses locally or online.

Nintendo teased in a recent tweet. "In the next tour, the Luigi's Mansion course from the Mario Kart DS game rises from its grave! Haunted houses aren't so scary when you race right through them!" ...