Absolutely shameless Mario Kart rip-off hits iTunes store.

[Cally Rivers]

http://gonintendo.com/?mode=viewstory&id=169773

Before reading the article, I thought it may have been an overreaction.

...It isn't. Watch the video.

 

[Smiles]

Wow, did the "developers" do any of their own work besides retexturing some mariokart races and making their own fugly characters?

Rolerty some indeed, Captcha.

 

[Jitters Caffeine]

HA! I can't stop laughing. I'm honestly amused by this.

I mean I know it's a total rip off of Mario Kart and this should be pulled from the App Store immediately, but damn it this is hilarious.

 

[Chimpzy_v1legacy]

Apparently it's Chinese, which kind of explains a lot. They haven't exactly the best track record when it comes to blatantly copying IP's. Guess we'll once again have to chalk this one up to China's half-assed copyright protection laws.

 

[Fishyash]

Original game do not steal.

Yeah, it seems perfectly legit to me. Those tracks are all original. The controls are really slick too, and you can totally see how they are having no problem in controlling their characters by the way they are driving into the wall.

 

[MajorTomServo]

Original game do not steal.

Yeah, it seems perfectly legit to me. Those tracks are all original. The controls are really slick too, and you can totally see how they are having no problem in controlling their characters by the way they are driving into the wall.

Yeah, it says a lot about your game when those are the clips that make the official trailer.

 

[Cowabungaa]

Damn, that's even worse and shameless than their TF2 rip-off:

 

[Smooth Operator]

Hilarious, what's it called Nario Kart?
Playable characters: Nario, Muigi, Princess Beach, Poshi, Monkey Kong, Powser, Bosalina,...

 

[everythingbeeps]

Okay....I was gonna make a snide comment about "oh, a Mario Kart ripoff, there've never been any of THOSE before..."

Then I saw the video.

Just....yipes.

 

[Soxafloppin]

Absolutely brilliant, to be honest the game still looks fun and you can't get MKart on IOS right? seems fair.

Also, is that Squirtle?

 

[Twilight_guy]

Hello, yeah It's Nintendo. We're feeling generous so we're going to give you a full minute before we release our rabid lawyers on you. Get moving.

That's shockingly bad, to the point were I don't know how they think they can get away with that.

 

[JemothSkarii]

I thought it'd be a 'rip off' on the level that Crash Team Racing was a 'rip off'. But my god....that's...pretty close to Mario Kart...
Is that Spyro at the end in the background?

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

Even the music is a bad version of the MK music...so horrible and blatant lol.

 

[Wolfram23]

Apparently nobody at Apple played Mario Kart, then, if they allowed this to get through QA.

 

[Elementary - Dear Watson]

Wow! That is pretty shocking! I'm gobsmacked that noone noticed before it was allowed!?

 

[Hero in a half shell]

Don't worry, Miyamoto has a blue tortoise shell. They won't last long.

 

[Lilani]

Damn, that's even worse and shameless than their TF2 rip-off:
-video snip-

And at least the TF2 rip-off still managed to be awesome in its own way. The Heavy is an opera-loving fish seller.


But the Mario Kart thing is just sad.

 

[CrashBang]

My first reaction? Shock laughter, like when you see something ridiculous and laugh with surprise. That is pathetic and hilarious at the same time, wow!

 

[OManoghue]

The Chinese rip off anything and everything.

 

[Omnific One]

Every new real Mario Kart is just a shameless ripoff of the last

Sorry, irresistible; that's what happens when you are born without creativity, children. Damn commies.