Technically, Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed is a Xbox 360 game, but it is backwards compatible, and is by far the most Mario Kart-like game on this list. The most recent series of Sonic ...

The developers of Mario Kart 64 nearly included a “no-item” mode in an attempt to appeal to serious racers. According to a 1996 interview from the official Japanese guidebook, Hideki Konno ...

Well, that's what very nearly happened with Mario Kart 64 during development of the game in the mid '90s. According to director Hideki Konno, Mario Kart 64 actually once featured a 'no-item' mode ...