I don't have any problem if people think that SMK was better. Maybe it was. But at the time having a group of friends that gathered almost every day to play meant choosing between playing "the older game" (which sounds silly now, but not necessarily so amongst kids) two at a time while other 2-3 people sat there watching, or enjoying MK64 all together at the same time. It was a no brainer.
Interesting anecdote. Hopefully you're intelligent enough to recognize it as such and dial back the ridiculous generalizations.
Here's mine: my group of friens were adults when MK64 released and didn't have any issues playing "older" games. Granted, by then we weren't playing any kind of Mario Kart, this was years after MK1.
I don't think anyone who ever gathered friends to play MK64 (which is what i was talking about) was annoyed throughout the whole play session.
Well, then perhaps you have a slight deficit in your imagination, generalization or extrapolation capabilities.
Speaking about hyperboles, right?
Quite right, indeed.
And saying "borderline impossible" should mean that it's "almost impossible",
Reword it as you want, it's still ridiculous hyperbole when used to describe the possibility of anyone not being engaged 100% of the time when playing MK64.
and that isn't exactly as hyperbolic as calling it a trash tier game.
1) Debatable, 2) I never said that and don't see why I should care if others did, and 3) it still wouldn't excuse you from using hyperbole yourself.
Especially when most of the people saying that likely didn't even experience the game when it came out.
You might want to drop the ageist snobbery, especially when it can be turned against you so easily.
Oh yeah? You could play in 4 players mode in the original? Lol
I think you critically failed your reading roll, I did quite clearly say "the original
or other racers".
Can't speak about other games, as i'm not arrogant to the point of thinking that i know of every single racing game that let you do that back then,
Yet you are plenty arrogant to categorically assert MK64 did something those racers never did, and also to criticise other people for not being born in the same year you did.
but i'm really curious to know what other and how many of them allowed people to play in 4 players before MK64 came out in 1996.
Curious but not curious enough to do a simple Google search, as it would seem. But of course, why would you want to actively prove yourself wrong? Anyway, here you go, first result: Top Gear 3000, SNES, 1995:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OSX31hrd5M
You don't seem like the type to take the L when proven wrong, though, so I can already picture you coming up with something else that MK64 did before anyone else, or a reason disqualifying any other 4 player split screen racers, or both ("Yeah, but these 4 player racers don't allow you to throw homing shells at your opponents, so MK64 was the first! See?").
