If you already own it on the Wii's VC, You could choose a £1.49 upgrade cost to the Wii U Virtual Console.

Mainly for Gamepad & pro controller support, if you have it already on Wii mode on a Wii U the only supported controller would be the classic controller as the Wii U doesn't have any Gamecube controller ports.
There's also off screen play and a save state feature...

I love this version of Mario Kart as the red shells took at least a little skill to use. Block Fort battle map was endless fun.

Ha! Yes, back in the day it was king - well, SMK was still better, but played today (MK64)...just no. The poll today is between SMK vs MK8, which is better? Impossible.

Genuine question - the Android route will emulate more games, but how is it 'better' than Nintendo's own attempts? Or do you mean stuff like upscaling?

Quick tip for anyone who's still got the Wii version (either on their Wii or Wii U) - the Hori battle pads are more or less identical to Gamecube controllers (believe they've reused the original moulds, albeit without rumble) and plug into the bottom of a Wii remote so work with all classic controller enabled games, plus other emulators and Nintendont. Only about £20 too.

​some good points, but there is much love for this game from many gamers. I loved this game as it was the first time I heard the Wario Cackle....regardless of when someone hit an item. I have it for Wii VC so the upgrade price is worth it.

charging £9 for an n64 game is hardly the reason the wii u is being stomped.

What wonderful and balanced advice. I am sure at least half those looking at this thread are sticking their Wii U's on ebay as we speak and looking for PS deals.

​Yes, £8.99 for a great 20 year old game, a game that's far better than the generic FPS's and Football games that are put out year-in, year-out.

Besides, I don't know about you but I sure had fun with friends playing Battle Mode on MK64.

Try buying the original cart on ebay for £8.99.

I still play Mario Kart 64 on the N64, but I couldn't agree more with this post. Well played sir.

CTR better than Mario Kart 64? Lol that's cute.

Couple that with the fact you can just emulate this on PC with a multitude of filtering options. Guessing the virtual console doesn't have these :/

I agree about the price dut disagree about Crash team racing being better.

​If you use emulators, you're doing it wrong.

Have to agree, £9 for a digital copy of mario kart 64 is steep, hell you can probably pick up the cartridge for less

In what way? I seem to recall N64 games were priced up to £59.99 each at release of the console, and that was back in 1996 or whenever it was. That's like £4000 in todays money.

Mario Kart 8² :smirk:

So true. The real shame is not the pricing but the fact that Nintendo don't bother to implement online multiplayer.

I'd like to see that to, would be a more welcome addition for some. But, whatever happened to Nintendo continuing to support Mario Kart 8 with updates into the next year? The Pack 2 download for MK8 came out in April 2015. Looks like there won't be anything else.

Don't forget the other cliche XB/PS fanboy comments: Wii U only has 12 games and only 2 are any good + the console should cost £50.

Agree, am sure its only 18yrs old anyway :smiley: Also agree with those saying its not a deal, but I voted HOT just to annoy the genocidal console fanboys who like to spout their nonsense.

dem 3 perfect jumps.

Get yourself a Steam account on your PC and get some cheap game bundles. It takes all the pain and faffing around out of playing and installing PC gaming. There are some terrific bargains at the moment too.

Some links

Steam Page

Bundlestars Page (cheap Steam games)

Humblebundle page (more cheap steam games)

This is also called 'being scalped'.

1) Why does it come at a price?
2) What makes nintendo more of a higher quality than other platforms?
3) The item in question has no multiplayer anyway

When I personally think of nintendo, I think of a fun easy going platform at a lower price range. Nintendo use budget materials and are plasticy. It only seems recently to me that they've kind of overshot their market. When I think of nintendo I think of the affordable gameboy range and what I assumed were affordable consoles (we actually only had a SNES and so I'm less certain about the console pricing) for the family to enjoy. However over recent years that seems to have changed, the 3ds held its price for a long time, at around £180 for an XL, it had massively inferior hardware to the vita. Even if the vita had a poor catalogue, it's hard to justify the cost, though it has gone down the past year or so and you can get decent deals on them finally.

As for the Wii U, again the hardware is massively inferior to the XBO and ps4 and I'd argue that the others also seem to feel of a higher quality too. Personally I only currently use a high end PC which is more powerful than any of them while also being able to have a free internet service and cheaper games. The thing is, while having their own unique catalogue hold some value, if they're going to continue to hold high value for their content and platforms they're going to find it hard. People most interested in a nintendo console would be interested in cost, at the low end there's increasing competition in the mobile and tablet market, while at the upper end there's the others and pc gaming. The way I see it is that when priced respectively for its spec, then it blows the competition away from either quality or cost. At less competitive prices, they risk losing their market. Their handheld in particular is something kids are more attractived to smartphones that can do more than handhelds while allowing them to keep in touch in 1 device that is easy to carry around.

Nevertheless, it's hard to argue that £9 is cheap when you can get similar or better quality content for less or even free. While I could be wrong, I'd imagine not many people feel such an old game is worth so much and wouldn't feel so bad pirating it (which is a lot easier and saves an hours work to get that £9) if they didn't have the original to do it legally. I'd reckon more people would try more classics if they were prices more appropriately. I doubt too much effort went into emulating it, even doing it from scratch wouldn't really make it worth it from a quality price point of view. On the other hand, a surprising amount of people voted this hot despite it not really being a deal.

While you may be a fan of nintendo, other platforms are hardly inferior for not having a more family friendly catalogue, there's still plenty of quality games. If nintendo can't win on price, then more people are going to be tempted by the higher specs of the other consoles that have their own solid games, even if the exclusives fall short. Personally given the choice of a £9 emulated classic or a new game for about twice the price, I'd go for a new game since I know in the end I'd play it more and I'd get more work needed for my money. Basically your opinion seems mostly biased.

Yeah really expecting clarity from a guy with a Mario avatar. Remind me how re releasing Windwaker AND Twilight princess in HD is considered being 'unique'? No actually thats fine by me, as long as Nintendo do that is 'gospel' right? But if Sony or Microsoft do it BAM! Second degree murder :0