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'''''Mario Kart: Super Circuit''''' is a ''[[Mario Kart (series)|Mario Kart]]'' game for the [[Game Boy Advance]]. It is the third entry in the series and the first one to be released for a handheld console. ''Mario Kart: Super Circuit'' was first released on July 21, 2001 in Japan. The game combines the elements from the previous ''Mario Kart'' games, with the key feature of the ''Mario Kart'' series being the usage of items obtained from [[Item Box]]es in order for the operator to gain an advantage over the opponents being retained; additionally, it contains all the courses from ''[[Super Mario Kart]]''. ''Mario Kart: Super Circuit'' allows up to four players to enjoy the game through the Game Link Cable, including a multiplayer mode where only one game cartridge is needed; however, the single cartridge-based multiplayer has heavy restrictions on the content available.

''Mario Kart: Super Circuit'' was eventually re-released on the [[Nintendo 3DS]]'s [[Virtual Console#Nintendo 3DS|Virtual Console]] exclusively to the [[Virtual Console#Nintendo 3DS Ambassador Program|3DS Ambassadors]] first in Oceania on December 15, 2011. ''Mario Kart: Super Circuit'' was re-released again on the [[Wii U]]'s [[Virtual Console#Wii U|Virtual Console]] in North America first on November 13, 2014, and for [[Game Boy Advance - Nintendo Switch Online]] as one of its launch titles on February 8, 2023. ''Mario Kart: Super Circuit'' is the only ''Mario Kart'' title to be developed by Intelligent Systems, as well as the last ''Mario Kart'' game where the drivers are sprites rather than models. This is one of the last entries in the ''Super Mario'' franchise to use the [[Nintendo 64|N64]]-era art direction (which had been in place since ''[[Super Mario 64]]'' in 1996), as Nintendo started to update the 3D art direction after 2001, starting with ''[[Luigi's Mansion]]''.

!rowspan=2 width=20%|Action(s)

!width=25%|Game Boy Advance

!width=25%|Nintendo 3DS

!width=25%|Wii U GamePad<br>Wii U Pro Controller<br>Wii Classic Controller

!width=25%|Wii Remote

!rowspan=2 width=19%|Action(s)

!width=24%|Game Boy Advance

!width=24%|Nintendo 3DS

!width=24%|Wii U GamePad<br>Wii U Pro Controller<br>Wii Classic Controller

!width=25%|Wii Remote

[[File:Mkscgraph.png|thumb|300px|A graph showcasing the various factors that can increase (in red) or decrease (in blue) the SkillPoints value. From top to bottom: Enemy uses lightning, Rocket boost, Passing through an item box while already holding an item, Mini-turbo, Coin (per piece), Using lightning, Using triple red shells, Collision with a tree or another player, Spinning out, Driving offroad (per second), Releasing gas (per second), Collision with walls and blocks, Falling, Using a star, Braking (per second), Retrying.]]

VS mode is a Quick Run mode with two to four players and cannot be accessed by single players. Players can play with multiple game cartridges (Multi-Pak mode) or just a single cartridge (Single-Pak mode) via Game Boy Link Cable. CPU players are turned off in this mode. The game counts how many times the player won or lost against other players. Players can alter the number of laps, appearance of coins, having Triple Mushrooms as starting items<ref>[https://data.nimages.fr/shroomsb7k.png]</ref> and Item Boxes by pressing {{button|gba|Select}} before accessing this mode, but only if it is played in Multi-Pak mode. In Single-Pak mode, players have more limited choices. Players use a different colored [[Yoshi (species)|Yoshi]] where player 1 is Green, player 2 Red, player 3 Light Blue, and player 4 Yellow. Aside from that, the only courses available are four SNES courses: [[SNES Mario Circuit 1|Mario Circuit 1]], [[SNES Donut Plains 1|Donut Plains 1]], [[SNES Ghost Valley 1|Ghost Valley 1]], and [[Bowser Castle 1]]. In both multiplayer modes, after all other racers finish a race, Lakitu drops a [[Thwomp]] on the racer in last place, ending the race. The VS menu's music is an arrangement of ''Super Mario Kart''{{'}}s menu music, the VS race theme is an arrangement of the title theme from said game, and the result screen music is that of Mario's from the same game again. The character/item animation and music quality is also simplified compared to the base game, to ease the amount of data that has to be transferred.

|A Big Cheep Cheep appear in the background of Cheep-Cheep Island, where they swim around and occasionally leap.

|A large, but not gigantic Cheep-Cheep leaps over the winner stands in the game's awards ceremony.

|Obtained exclusively in Time Trial and Versus modes. Drivers will have three Mushrooms instead of one. They cannot be replenished once they are all used until the Time Trial is over.

The game features 20 new courses, and brings back the original 20 courses of ''[[Super Mario Kart]]'' (though, due to the Grand Prix format, they are organized in five cups instead of four). The cups containing ''Super Mario Kart'' courses are unlocked for usage in Grand Prix Mode by finishing the respective engine class' [[Special Cup]] consisting of ''Mario Kart: Super Circuit'' tracks in first place, and then completing each cup again, while collecting at least 100 coins.

!style="border-bottom:solid 2px black"|[[File:MKSC Mushroom Cup Emblem.png|85px|link=Mushroom Cup]]

!style="border-bottom:solid 2px black"|[[File:MKSC-FlowerCup.png|85px|link=Flower Cup]]

!style="border-bottom:solid 2px black"|[[File:MKSC Lightning Cup Artwork.png|85px|link=Lightning Cup|Thunder Cup]]

!style="border-bottom:solid 2px black"|[[File:MKSC Star Cup Artwork.png|85px|link=Star Cup]]

!style="border-bottom:solid 2px black"|[[File:MKSC Special Cup Artwork.png|80px|link=Special Cup]]

|style="background:gray"|[[File:Peach Circuit MKSC icon.png]]

|style="background:gray"|[[File:Mario Circuit MKSC icon.png]]

|style="background:gray"|[[File:Luigi Circuit MKSC icon.png]]

|style="background:gray"|[[File:Snow Land MKSC icon.png]]

|style="background:gray"|[[File:Lakeside Park MKSC icon.png]]

|style="background:gray"|[[File:Peach Circuit Map.png]]

|style="background:gray"|[[File:MKSC Mario Circuit Mini Map.png]]

|style="background:gray"|[[File:MKSC Luigi Circuit Mini Map.png]]

|style="background:gray"|[[File:MKSC Snow Land Mini Map.png]]

|style="background:gray"|[[File:MKSC Lakeside Park Mini Map.png]]

!style="border-bottom:solid 2px black"|[[GBA Peach Circuit|Peach Circuit]]

!style="border-bottom:solid 2px black"|[[GBA Mario Circuit|Mario Circuit]]

!style="border-bottom:solid 2px black"|[[GBA Luigi Circuit|Luigi Circuit]]

!style="border-bottom:solid 2px black"|[[GBA Snow Land|Snow Land]]

!style="border-bottom:solid 2px black"|[[GBA Lakeside Park|Lakeside Park]]

|style="background:gray"|[[File:Shy Guy Beach MKSC icon.png]]

|style="background:gray"|[[File:Boo Lake MKSC icon.png]]

|style="background:gray"|[[File:Sky Garden MKSC icon.png]]

|style="background:gray"|[[File:Ribbon Land MKSC icon.png]]

|style="background:gray"|[[File:Broken Pier MKSC icon.png]]

|style="background:gray"|[[File:MKSC Shy Guy Beach Mini Map.png]]

|style="background:gray"|[[File:MKSC Boo Lake Mini Map.png]]

|style="background:gray"|[[File:MKSC Sky Garden Mini Map.png]]

|style="background:gray"|[[File:MKSC Ribbon Road Mini Map.png]]

|style="background:gray"|[[File:MKSC Broken Pier Mini Map.png]]

!style="border-bottom:solid 2px black"|[[GBA Shy Guy Beach|Shy Guy Beach]]

!style="border-bottom:solid 2px black"|[[GBA Boo Lake|Boo Lake]]

!style="border-bottom:solid 2px black"|[[GBA Sky Garden|Sky Garden]]

!style="border-bottom:solid 2px black"|[[GBA Ribbon Road|Ribbon Road]]

!style="border-bottom:solid 2px black"|[[Broken Pier]]

|style="background:gray"|[[File:Riverside Park MKSC icon.png]]

|style="background:gray"|[[File:Cheese Land MKSC icon.png]]

|style="background:gray"|[[File:Cheep-Cheep Island MKSC icon.png]]

|style="background:gray"|[[File:Yoshi Desert MKSC icon.png]]

|style="background:gray"|[[File:Bowser's Castle 4 MKSC icon.png]]

|style="background:gray"|[[File:MKSC Riverside Park Mini Map.png]]

|style="background:gray"|[[File:MKSC Cheese Land Mini Map.png]]

|style="background:gray"|[[File:MKSC Cheep-Cheep Island Mini Map.png]]

|style="background:gray"|[[File:MKSC Yoshi Desert Mini Map.png]]

|style="background:gray"|[[File:MKSC Bowser Castle 4 Mini Map.png]]

!style="border-bottom:solid 2px black"|[[GBA Riverside Park|Riverside Park]]

!style="border-bottom:solid 2px black"|[[GBA Cheese Land|Cheese Land]]

!style="border-bottom:solid 2px black"|[[GBA Cheep-Cheep Island|Cheep-Cheep Island]]

!style="border-bottom:solid 2px black"|[[GBA Yoshi Desert|Yoshi Desert]]

!style="border-bottom:solid 2px black"|[[GBA Bowser's Castle 4|Bowser Castle 4]]

|style="background:gray"|[[File:Bowser's Castle 1 MKSC icon.png]]

|style="background:gray"|[[File:Bowser's Castle 2 MKSC icon.png]]

|style="background:gray"|[[File:Sunset Wilds MKSC icon.png]]

|style="background:gray"|[[File:Bowser's Castle 3 MKSC icon.png]]

|style="background:gray"|[[File:Rainbow Road MKSC icon.png]]

|style="background:gray"|[[File:MKSC Bowser Castle 1 Mini Map.png]]

|style="background:gray"|[[File:MKSC Bowser Castle 2 Mini Map.png]]

|style="background:gray"|[[File:MKSC Sunset Wilds Mini Map.png]]

|style="background:gray"|[[File:MKSC Bowser Castle 3 Mini Map.png]]

![[GBA Bowser's Castle 1|Bowser Castle 1]]

![[GBA Bowser's Castle 2|Bowser Castle 2]]

![[GBA Sunset Wilds|Sunset Wilds]]

![[GBA Bowser's Castle 3|Bowser Castle 3]]

![[Rainbow Road (Mario Kart: Super Circuit)|Rainbow Road]]

!style="border-bottom:solid 2px black"|Extra Mushroom Cup

!style="border-bottom:solid 2px black"|Extra Flower Cup

!style="border-bottom:solid 2px black"|Extra Lightning Cup

!style="border-bottom:solid 2px black"|Extra Star Cup

!style="border-bottom:solid 2px black"|Extra Special Cup

|style="background:gray"|[[File:MKSC Mario Circuit 1 Extra Cup Map.png]]

|-

!style="border-bottom:solid 2px black"|[[SNES Ghost Valley 1|Ghost Valley 1]]

!style="border-bottom:solid 2px black"|[[SNES Vanilla Lake 2|Vanilla Lake 2]]

|style="background:gray"|[[File:MKSC SNES Bowser Castle 1 Extra Cup Map.png]]

|style="background:gray"|[[File:MKSC SNES Donut Plains 2 Extra Cup Map.png]]

|style="background:gray"|[[File:MKSC Choco Island 2 Extra Cup Map.png]]

|style="background:gray"|[[File:MKSC SNES Donut Plains 3 Extra Cup Map.png]]

|style="background:gray"|[[File:MKSC SNES Rainbow Road Extra Cup Map.png]]

''Mario Kart: Super Circuit'' was developed by [[Intelligent Systems]], the same company behind the ''[[Paper Mario (series)|Paper Mario]]'' series and the ''[[WarioWare (series)|WarioWare]]'' series. Takeshi Ando and Yukio Morimoto directed the game while the executive producer was [[Hiroshi Yamauchi]]. The Donkey Kong 3D model used in the pre-rendered sprites was provided by [[Rare Ltd.]].

*''[[Mario Kart 8]]'' / ''[[Mario Kart 8 Deluxe]]'': [[GBA Mario Circuit|Mario Circuit]] returns as a retro course in this game and now features anti-gravity on the U-shaped section that has been inclined. [[GBA Cheese Land|Cheese Land]] and [[GBA Ribbon Road|Ribbon Road]] return in ''Mario Kart 8'' as retro courses in the second DLC pack, and come standard in ''Mario Kart 8 Deluxe''. Sky Garden, Snow Land, Boo Lake, Riverside Park, and Sunset Wilds are also included among the courses in the [[Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – Booster Course Pass|Booster Course Pass]] for ''Mario Kart 8 Deluxe''.