Look at that Colorful Rainbow Road

[BreakABone]

Not many race courses inspire as much fear as this trademark of the Mario Kart franchise.

Nothing like a hairspin turn gone wrong due to a boost or an idea that costs you the match. In this thread we discuss, Rainbow Road.

Rainbow Road SNES (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7C5ii-ElP8&feature=related)

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Rainbow Road N64

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Rainbow Road GBA

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Rainbow Road Cube

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Rainbow Road DS

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Mario Kart Wii

So which is a favorite?
Which do you just despise?
Which brings up bad memories?

[magus113]

My favorite would be Kart 64's RR. I loved the music and making that huge jump in the beginning.

I hate the one for Wii. Power-sliding on my bike is hell.

Falling off one too many times in the special cup races in Kart Wii would have to be the one for that.

Although I destroyed Earl on that course because he kept falling.

So bad and good I suppose.

[BlueFire]

I fucking hate the Wii one.

DS and 64 one weren't bad.

[Angrist]

My favorite Rainbow Road isn't on the list:

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[Bube]

The one from MK64 is my favorite. Too many memories, and I loved the huge jump shortcut at the beginning :D

[manasecret]

MK64 was waaayyy too easy, especially after coming from the SNES version. Which isn't shown here, why BaBs, why?

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To me, this is the original that all others must be judged by. And the biggest theme of the original -- no walls.

MK64 was a cop-out. It took the most important aspect of the original Rainbow Road, and stripped it out (i.e., added walls). So all it became was one long, doldrums of a course with no real threat or strategy involved. Yeah, you had the one shortcut, but after you did that a couple times to say you did it, you'd never go back to play Rainbow Road because it was so damn long and boring.

I haven't, unfortunately, owned any MKs past MK64. From the looks of it, though, MK GBA has the closest successor to Rainbow Road of any of them. But I think the Wii version took the original version and made the best true update of the original.

[Dyne]

I love the shit out of the Wii one and the SNES one. The SNES one, mainly, because when you boost, you have to control where you land. None of this "automatic boosting up to another platform" shit.

The Wii one is just awesome but I can see why you would hate it if you play automatic style.

[manasecret]

Oops, I should really stop replying to threads when I'm at work. I now see there is a SNES link, but why no embed?

[Angrist]

I was wondering about the same thing. Maybe BaB didn't want us to vote for the SNES version.

But eh, where's the NES version?

[Dyne]

I was wondering about the same thing. Maybe BaB didn't want us to vote for the SNES version.

But eh, where's the NES version?

:lolz: The NES literally didn't have the power to display all the colours of the rainbow.

[KillerGremlin]

MK64 was a cop-out. It took the most important aspect of the original Rainbow Road, and stripped it out (i.e., added walls). So all it became was one long, doldrums of a course with no real threat or strategy involved. Yeah, you had the one shortcut, but after you did that a couple times to say you did it, you'd never go back to play Rainbow Road because it was so damn long and boring.

Yeah but Yoshi Valley and Banshee Boardwalk more than made up for Rainbow Road's shortcomings. I can't count the number of times I got my ass kicked in those two races before I memorized the course. It takes slick driving to be able to jump and powerslide your way through Banshee Boardwalk without sinking.