The Untold Story of Mario Kart 8 *Ten years later*
The Kit & Krysta Podcast
The Kit & Krysta Podcast
4.7 • 544 Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2023
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Hi, we can't believe that after 10 long years, Mario Kart 8 is finally finished. We wanted to take a look back and share our untold stories about this incredible game. We both worked at Nintendo pretty much for those entire 10 years and we saw and worked on most of the marketing for this game when it was launched on Wii U and when it came to Nintendo Switch. It's an incredible end to an incredible game and we're so hopeful about the future of Mario Kart. Let us know in the comments below what your favorite track from Mario Kart 8 is and if it's Mount Wario, we are friends for life. Thanks for watching!
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| 0:00.0 | Mario Card! |
| 0:02.0 | Hey! |
| 0:03.0 | Hello, welcome back to a very special episode of The Kit and Krista podcast. |
| 0:29.6 | Today, we wanted to look back at the entire life, almost 10 years, of Mario Card 8. |
| 0:37.1 | Yeah, with the final booster course pass set of tracks coming out, this whole big project, which somehow made it 10 years, has |
| 0:40.3 | wrapped up, so it feels like a great point to just look back at all of the, how did we get to |
| 0:45.2 | this point and maybe look a little bit ahead to the future? Yeah, and to start out, we were at |
| 0:51.3 | Nintendo collectively for over 30 years. So we've been through the majority of this 10-year cycle life of this game, which is kind of crazy to think about. |
| 1:03.0 | Yeah, we started, what was your first year, 2007? Yes. And we left in 2022. So we saw basically, you know basically all but the very end of this project. |
| 1:12.6 | And I was actually the public relations lead |
| 1:16.1 | on the original Wii U version of Mario Kart 8. |
| 1:19.9 | And we were sort of racking our memory. |
| 1:21.8 | And I think we found out that you were the lead |
| 1:23.7 | for Mario Card 8 deluxe on Switch. |
| 1:25.2 | Yeah, we're gonna get to why we found that to be hilarious |
| 1:27.8 | because I do remember now that I worked on Mario Kart 8 Deluxe on Switch, |
| 1:34.3 | but it was actually a funny story, so we'll save that for later on in this episode. |
| 1:38.1 | Yeah, so we know our stuff, if you're wondering, |
| 1:40.7 | who are these people talking about this? |
| 1:42.4 | That's true, we've been through it. |
| 1:43.3 | Yeah, so I think we need to start with Mario Kart 7 before we can talk about Mario Kart 8 actually. |
| 1:51.0 | Yeah. |
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