History VideoGame / MarioKartSuperCircuit

* NintendoHard: Getting a three-star ranking in Grand Prix. You must win first every race, collect many coins, win as fast as possible, and more. The [[http://www.mariowiki.com/Mario_Kart:_Super_Circuit#Ranking wiki]] explains the criteria.

''Mario Kart: Super Circuit'' is the third game in the ''VideoGame/MarioKart'' series, released for the UsefulNotes/GameBoyAdvance in 2001. In 2011, this game was given away as a part of the Nintendo 3DS Ambassador Program. It would later see a wider release in 2014 on the Wii U UsefulNotes/VirtualConsole, and in 2023 as a part of Nintendo Switch Online.

* ShiftingSandLand: Yoshi Desert is a standard desert course with pyramids, quicksand, and a Yoshi sphinx. Sunset Wilds is a more unique approach, as it takes place in a Wild West-inspired desert where the time of day transitions from sunset to early nighttime.[[note]]The Choco Island tracks from ''VideoGame/SuperMarioKart'' have also retroactively become desert courses for some reason, as they share a tileset and background with Sunset Wilds.[[/note]]

* {{Bowdlerise}}: The international versions of the game remove the feathered headdresses on the Shy Guys in Sunset Wilds in order to avoid any [[TheSavageIndian negative stereotypes of indigenous peoples]].

* TheArtifact: Donut Plains and Choco Island reuse the backgrounds from Riverside / Lakeside Park and Sunset Wilds, which means they’re not actually set in their original locations anymore.
** In Super Mario Kart, Bowser Castle 2 had a dead end intended to create shortcuts using the feather item. The feather is not present in Super Circuit, yet the dead end remains.

* ProlongedVideoGameSequel: ''Super Circuit'' sports a much bigger amount of content than its two predecessors, featuring both 20 unique courses and the original 20 from ''Super Mario Kart'', for a total of 40. It was also the longest ''Mario Kart'' game overall until ''Mario Kart DS'' and onward standardized the portrayal of new and retro courses (even then, ''Super Circuit'' still held the record of haveing the most tracks until ''8'' finally surpassed it thanks to its DLC).

** [[RiverOfInsanity Riverside Park]]

''Mario Kart: Super Circuit'' is the third game in the ''VideoGame/MarioKart'' series, released for the UsefulNotes/GameBoyAdvance in 2001.

* BigBoosHaunt: Boo Lake and Broken Pier. The Boos on Broken Pier will attack the players and attempt to steal coins.

* DeathMountain: The mountain-themed Choco Island tracks from ''Super Mario Kart'' make a return in ''Supe Circuit''. However, them reusing the tileset of Sunset Wilds make them look more like desert-themed tracks.

* LethalLavaLand: The Bowser's Castle tracks. Lakeside Park includes volcanoes in the background that shoot rocks onto the track, but the course doesn't go near any lava.
* LevelAte: Cheese Land is made of... [[CaptainObvious cheese]].

* QuicksandSucks: The quicksand in Yoshi Desert must be avoided for this reason. Funnily enough, the unlucky drivers fall onto it don't end up ''completely'' sinking, as they're instead eaten by a large Piranha Plant lurking beneath.
* RankInflation: The first game in the series to use this. Ranks go from E through A, then up to three stars.

* LevelInTheClouds: Sky Garden. It's part of the Lightning Cup, and is a racetrack made of a cobble road suspended in the sky, bridges made of vine wires, and clouds that outline it. Large beanstalks can be seen in the background. It returns later in ''VideoGame/MarioKartDS'' as a NostalgiaLevel.

** ''Super Circuit'' is something of TheUnfavourite when it comes to getting representation in future games' Retro Cups, as only 12 of its 20 tracks have reappeared (as opposed to, say, 15 of ''64''[='=]s 16 tracks or 12 of ''Double Dash!!''[='=]s 16).
* PalmtreePanic: Shy Guy Beach, Cheep Cheep Island, and the SNES Koopa Beach tracks all take place across a series of tropical islands.

* ShiftingSandLand: Yoshi Desert with pyramids, quicksand, and a Yoshi sphinx.

* SlippySlideyIceWorld: Snow Land and the SNES Vanilla Lake tracks.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Yet again, Peach is the only female racer in this game. This would also be the last game in the series in which she is the only female playable character

** The character attributes are a strange mix between ''VideoGame/SuperMarioKart'' and ''VideoGame/MarioKart64'': every character can reach the maximum top speed, meaning once again, lightweights are actually faster ''because'' they are '''better''' at accelerating, but also turn more precisely '''''and''''' endure off-road less than others. While heavyweights are more stable on slippy tracks like [[SlippySlideyIceWorld Snow Land]] or [[ShiftingSandLand Yoshi Desert]] and can use turbos more easily to compensate their low handling, these are only situational powers. The developers seemed to be conscious of it, considering they give bigger bonuses for using heavy characters on Grand Prix.

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[[caption-width-right:300:Your family road trip is advancing to a new level... and one red guy is leading the charge!]]

* OneHundredPercentCompletion: While you get a new title screen by getting all the gold trophies, you get a second new one for achieving a three-star rank on each GP.