Mario Kart: Super Circuit
Race Mario, Luigi, Yoshi, Wario and other familiar drivers on the Game Boy Advance. Tackle 20 new courses, unlock 20 classic tracks and use shells and bananas to challenge your rivals.
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Provenance
www.nintendo.com
USA GBA photographic label AGB-AMKE-USA on the fixed gray display shell
Specification — NTSC
- Platform
- Game Boy Advance
- Region
- NTSC
- Release year
- 2001
- Developer
- Intelligent Systems
- Publisher
- Nintendo
- Language
- English
- Entry type
- Official release
- Archive code
- AGB-AMKE-USA
About this game
Mario Kart: Super Circuit is the first handheld entry in the Mario Kart series. Familiar Mushroom Kingdom characters compete across 20 new courses, with 20 classic tracks available to unlock. Steer through the circuits and use items such as Red Shells, Bananas and the Spiny Shell to disrupt rival racers. The original Game Boy Advance release supports Single-Pak and Multi-Pak Game Link play; a Game Boy Advance Game Link cable and additional systems are required for linked play.
Also known as: Mario Kart Advance
Archive notes
USA AGB-AMKE-USA complete original photographic label on the fixed gray GBA catalogue shell. Old media was a nonuniform cartridge photo of the same game and USA code; not claimed to be another title or a box. Source printing texture, aging, scratch, text and marks retained without repainting. Fixed gray shell is a display convention, not factory-colour or specimen authentication. Source photograph and credit: Photo: FexCollects; Game Boy hardware database by Gekkio and contributors; https://gbhwdb.gekkio.fi/cartridges/AGB-AMKE-0/fexcollects-1.html; CC BY-SA 4.0; adapted by perspective projection of the complete AGB-AMKE-USA label paper onto the fixed gray GBA catalogue shell. Original print texture, wear, text, marks and photographic lighting retained. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ Independent title/USA catalogue and small cartridge photograph: https://vgcollect.com/item/2838 Brief background and gameplay paraphrased from Nintendo original GBA publisher description: https://www.nintendo.com/en-gb/Games/Game-Boy-Advance/Mario-Kart-Super-Circuit-266980.html. Supports first handheld outing, twenty new plus twenty unlockable classic tracks, familiar drivers, shells and bananas, and original Single-Pak/Multi-Pak communication distinguished from Wii U Virtual Console restrictions. VGCollect original GBA box text independently describes Game Link cable play. Existing Intelligent Systems, Nintendo,2001 and English retained. No Wii U release date, Off-TV feature or one-player-only limitation applied; exact USA launch day removed from legacy copy.
Source & provenance
External reference: www.nintendo.com
Catalogued from USA GBA photographic label AGB-AMKE-USA on the fixed gray display shell.
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Reference title: Nintendo - Mario Kart Super Circuit original GBA publisher description and original communication-feature distinction
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