Wii Mario Kart

[rat­ings]
So my son and I were play­ing Wii Mario Kart the other day, and a cou­ple of the race tracks have an “end” to them. When you reach this end, they then have a cre­ative way to trans­port you back to the begin­ning of the race in order to fin­ish the remain­ing laps of the race.

In a cou­ple of those tracks the racer enters into a rifled bar­rel, and is rapidly shot across the map, back to the begin­ning of the race track. Of course that is when my mind starts notic­ing things aren’t work­ing correctly.

1) The rifling in the bar­rel has much to rapid of a twist. It would result in a highly unsta­ble pro­jec­tile leav­ing the barrel.

2) The bar­rel has more lands and grooves than a Marlin micro-grooved firearm. Those shal­low grooves would hardly help grab those race cars and motor­cy­cles and make them rotate as they pass down the barrel.

3) When the rac­ers fly out the end of the bar­rel they aren’t rotat­ing as they fly — that would have been a really cool touch.

But seri­ously my whole fam­ily has fun play­ing Mario Kart. My wife, son, and I would play Mario Kart DS for hours, and on week­ends my wife’s par­ents would join in the fun. Now that we have the Wii ver­sion we can con­tinue to enjoy the fam­ily fun using the Wiimotes.