History Videogame / MarioKart64

** On Mario Raceway, it is possible to use a mushroom to jump over the wall separating the elevated portion of the course after the first few turns from the lower section of the course later in the lap. Doing this on all 3 laps can result in finishing the race in under [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reB36rhG4ms 50 seconds (NTSC)]] or [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pLdqQ7wmgk just over a minute (PAL)]].

** Wario Stadium in the same game has a short hill at the beginning that, if used in the correct manner, allows you to skip about half the course from the very beginning. For added fun, this brings you to another area of the track which, with enough skill, can be skipped ''back'' to the very end of the course. This leads to a track that generally takes about four minutes to complete having world records of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soQCw2tpw7M about fifteen seconds.]]

*** The biggest skip of them all, dubbed the "Weathertenko", has the player use a mushroom to drive up the wall to the left of the start-finish line and tumble down right behind it, allowing them to finish a lap in less than ten seconds. 3-lap world records have fallen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwoanwjkRoE under 15 seconds]] due to this. It is harder than it sounds since the angle at which the player must drive up a wall is rather precise and making a mistake will have Lakitu carry you elsewhere. Only three people have done it three laps in a row.

*** The biggest skip of them all, dubbed the "Weathertenko", has the player use a mushroom to drive up the wall to the left of the start-finish line and tumble down right behind it, allowing them to finish a lap in less than ten seconds. 3-lap world records have fallen under 20 seconds due to this. It is harder than it sounds since the angle at which the player must drive up a wall is rather precise and making a mistake will have Lakitu carry you elsewhere. Only three people have done it three laps in a row.

** It is fairly easy to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUD9p2rUEMU&t=607s jump to the top of the grey stone wall midway round the lap]], onto a later section of the track which runs parallel to the early section.
** As a harder version of the above shortcut, you can [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2S4CllNpquM&t=8m22s jump over the brown chocolate wall just before the start of the grey wall, by using the small hill in the road]]. This saves a few extra seconds over the easier version.
** The biggest skip of them all, dubbed the "Weathertenko", has the player use a mushroom to drive up the wall to the left of the start-finish line and tumble down right behind it, allowing them to finish a lap in less than ten seconds. 3-lap world records have fallen under 20 seconds due to this. It is harder than it sounds since the angle at which the player must drive up a wall is rather precise and making a mistake will have Lakitu carry you elsewhere. Only three people have done it three laps in a row.

** Choco Mountain has a skip where in the time trial, players could abuse the given mushrooms to drive up a wall near the start-finish line and tumble down right behind it, allowing players to finish a lap in less than ten seconds. 3-lap world records have fallen under 20 seconds due to this. It is harder than it sounds since the angle at which the player must drive up a wall is rather precise and making a mistake will have Lakitu carry you elsewhere. Only three people have done it three laps in a row.

* NintendoHard: 150cc and especially Extra, mostly for the [[TheComputerIsACheatingBastard computer]] [[RubberBandAI drivers]].

* BonusFeatureFailure: Time Trial ghosts. First, ''any'' major crash, enemy collision, course-out, or even ''pausing'' will disqualify your ghost from being recorded.[[note]]Taking too long will also ghost-DQ you, but that's a more understandable restriction for memory reasons.[[/note]] Second, a single save for ghost data (which nets you two ghosts) takes up ''121 pages'' on the 123-page Controller Pak, meaning that the only other thing that will be able to fit on your Controller Pak afterwards is a single small-size file for another game. Third, in the UsefulNotes/VirtualConsole re-release, the ability to save your ghost is disabled entirely since the Wii's N64 emulator doesn't save Controller Pak data. This remains true for the Wii U Virtual Console version and even the Nintendo Switch Online version.