The Asian releases (and not the North American ones) of the first two games feature a card system for the first two games similar to Initial D Arcade Stage or Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune (the latter also developed by Namco), which saves the player's single-player GP mode progress, time attack times, and items unlocked for multiplayer matches. On top of that, tracks are far simpler than the mainline titles (fitting of the different format) in favor of kart speed, boss races are added (for the first two games), and there's in-game commentary since the second game. Also, while some items have carried over, such as the Star, Banana and shells, the Arcade GP titles add a slew of new items to the mix, including a tornado that can throw racers in the air, a pie item which you throw backwards, trash cans you throw at other racers and square tires that make it harder to control, amongst other new items. Unlike the console titles, you are given a random choice of specific items before a race, the likes of which you are stuck with until the end. The most notable of which is the inclusion of Namco characters, such as Pac-Man and Don-chan as playable characters, acting as the first crossover titles in the franchise.Īnother noteworthy difference is that items act very differently to the console titles. The games are largely identical to the console Mario Kart games in terms of gameplay, however, there are a few notable differences between these games and their console counterparts.

The series consists of the following titles Mario Kart Arcade GP is a series of arcade games developed and published by Bandai Namco Entertainment in partnership with Nintendo, acting as spin-offs to the Mario Kart series. This ain't your father's Daytona USA, it's a just-as-great new breed of arcade racing!

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