Famicom Grand Prix (series): Difference between revisions

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The two games would provide the backbone for later vehicular racing games produced in-house at [[Nintendo]]. Two notable examples were on the Disk System's successor, the [[Super Nintendo Entertainment System]] (or Super Famicom) through use of its "Mode 7" graphics layer. The first, ''{{wp|F-Zero (video game)|F-Zero}}'', was inspired by complaints from Nintendo of America that the cars in ''3D Hot Rally'' looked too "cute," so the game was given a space-themed aesthetic to appeal to mature audiences.<ref>Nintendo (September 19, 2017). [http://www.nintendo.com/super-nes-classic/interview-f-zero/ F-ZERO Developer Interview]. Retrieved September 20, 2017 ([https://web.archive.org/web/20170912011823/https://www.nintendo.com/super-nes-classic/interview-f-zero/ Archived] September 12, 2017, 01:18:23 UTC via Wayback Machine.)</ref> The gameplay is a mixture of the two games, having the circuits and limited resources (in this case, antigravity power) of the former game and the camera angle and physics of the latter. Another successor on the same system, this one within the ''Super Mario'' franchise, is ''[[Super Mario Kart]]''. This one has a similar mix of traits, but it instead plays up the levity by removing the limited resources and changing the vehicles to [[Pipe Frame|go-kart]]s, with a cast entirely of ''Super Mario'' characters racing each other with the help of comedic items. Both of these games would go on to spawn their own respective series. While the ''Famicom Grand Prix'' series itself has ended in favor of the ''[[Mario Kart (series)|Mario Kart]]'' series, the [[Monster (vehicle)|Monster]] vehicle from the second game makes sporadic appearances in the franchise, such as a miniaturized version called the [[Tiny Titan]] appearing in ''[[Mario Kart Wii]]''.