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Description: Race and battle your friends in the definitive version of Mario Kart 8. Hit the road with the definitive version of Mario Kart 8 and play anytime, anywhere! Race your friends or battle them in a revised battle mode on new and returning battle courses. Play locally in up to 4-player multiplayer in 1080p while playing in TV Mode. Every track from the Wii U version, including DLC, makes a glorious return. Plus, the Inklings appear as all-new guest characters, along with returning favorites, such as King Boo, Dry Bones, and Bowser Jr. Race your friends in the definitive version of Mario Kart 8, only on Nintendo Switch. Race as every character on every track from the Wii U version, including DLC characters and tracks. Pop some balloons in the revamped Battle mode, complete with Balloon Battle and Bob-omb Blast. Battle on new courses, like Urchin Underpass and Battle Stadium, or returning ones, such as GCN Luigi's Mansion and SNES Battle Course 1. Inkling Girl & Inkling Boy from Splatoon, King Boo, Dry Bones, and Bowser Jr. join the roster. Players can choose a new Smart Steering feature which makes driving and staying on the track easy for novice players and kids even at 200cc. Three new vehicles have been added, two are even inspired by Splatoon. Carry two items at the same time. Returning items include Boo, the item stealing ghost, and the Feather, which gives you a high jump in battle mode. Play your friends in local wireless multiplayer with up to 8 players. Drive through in 1080p HD quality in TV mode. Play on the go with handheld mode and play anytime, anywhere.

Overview

Platforms:
  • Nintendo Switch
Initial Release Date: Apr 28, 2017
Developer:
  • Nintendo
Publisher: Nintendo

Credits

Yusuke Shiraiwa
Directed By
Tomo Adachi
Cast: Female Mii
Toru Asakawa
Cast: King Boo,Dry Bones
Nate Bihldorff
Cast: Shy Guy
David Cooke
Cast: Morton Koopa Jr.
Stacey Deddo
Cast: Sunshine Airport P.A.
Dan Falcone
Cast: Roy Koopa
Ashley Flannegan
Cast: Wendy O. Koopa
David J. Goldfarb
Cast: Ludwig von Koopa
Katsuhiro Harasawa
Cast: Male Mii
Kate Higgins
Cast: Pauline
Ryan Higgins
Cast: Iggy Koopa
Tomoyuki Higuchi
Cast: Male Mii
Michelle Hippe
Cast: Larry Koopa
Hitomi Hirose
Cast: Female Mii
Kenny James
Cast: Bowser,Dry Bowser,Bowser Monument
Yûko Kaida
Cast: Female Mii
Samantha Kelly
Cast: Princess Peach,Toad,Baby Peach,Toadette,Pink Gold Peach,Cat Peach,Toad Spectators,Peachette
Charles Martinet
Cast: Mario,Luigi,Baby Mario,Baby Luigi,Wario,Waluigi,Metal Mario,Gold Mario,Tanooki Mario
Atsushi Masaki
Cast: Kamek
Carlee McManus
Cast: Lemmy Koopa
Tôru Minegishi
Cast: Petey Piranha
Tadd Morgan
Cast: Lakitu
Deanna Mustard
Cast: Princess Daisy,Baby Daisy
Ayumi Nagao
Cast: Female Mii
Takashi Nagasako
Cast: Donkey Kong
Fumihiro Okabayashi
Cast: Male Mii
Dolores Rogers
Cast: Wiggler
Caety Sagoian
Cast: Bowser Jr.
Takuya Sato
Cast: Male Mii
Laura Faye Smith
Cast: Rosalina,Baby Rosalina
Katsumi Suzuki
Cast: Diddy Kong
Kazumi Totaka
Cast: Yoshi,Yoshi Spectators,Birdo
Toshihide Tsuchiya
Cast: Funky Kong
Yuki Tsuji
Cast: Inkling Girl,Inkling Boy
Sanae Uchida
Cast: Boos
Jim Wornell
Cast: Big Blue Announcer
Takashi Ôhara
Cast: Link
Satoru Iwata
Produced By: executive producer
Tatsumi Kimishima
Produced By: executive producer
Hideki Konno
Produced By: producer
Shigeru Miyamoto
Produced By: general producer
Yasuyuki Oyagi
Produced By: co-producer
Shinya Takahashi
Produced By: general producer
Kosuke Yabuki
Produced By: producer
Toru Asakawa
Sound: sound programmer
Taro Bando
Sound: sound effects
Arnie Geher
Sound: adr engineer
Yohei Miyagawa
Sound: sound effects
Masato Mizuta
Sound: sound programmer
Kenta Nagata
Sound: sound director
Sanae Uchida
Sound: sound programmer
Takahiro Watanabe
Sound: sound support
Takahisa Yamamoto
Sound: sound effects
Mahito Yokota
Sound: sound support
Natsuko Yokoyama
Sound: sound effects
Masaaki Ishikawa
Art Direction
Masahiro Kawanishi
Art Direction
Sayaka Nishimura
Visual Effects: visual effects
Makoto Ohta
Visual Effects: visual effects
Yuri Adachi
Art Department: illustrator
Hiroshi Asai
Art Department: artwork
Naoya Hasegawa
Art Department: illustrator
Yuki Ijiri
Art Department: artwork
Tamami Ishikawa
Art Department: artwork
Hiroaki Kawagoe
Art Department: artwork
Kazuya Kikkawa
Art Department: artwork
Sachiko Nakamichi
Art Department: artwork
Yusuke Nakano
Art Department: illustration supervisor
Shigehisa Nakaue
Art Department: illustrator
Hiroko Nishibe
Art Department: ui designer
Kazuma Norisada
Art Department: artwork
Ryuichi Suzuki
Art Department: artwork
Chiharu Takabayashi
Art Department: ui designer
Emi Tomita
Art Department: ui designer
Takumi Wada
Art Department: illustrator
Mai Yamamoto
Art Department: ui designer
Ryusuke Yoshida
Art Department: illustrator
Toshiaki Abe
Animation: character designer
Ryota Akutsu
Animation: character design lead
Satomi Asakawa
Animation: character designer
Kazunori Fujii
Animation: character designer
Hikari Harada
Animation: character designer
Tsumugi Harunari
Animation: character designer
Michiho Hayashi
Animation: character design lead
Misaki Imura
Animation: character designer
Tomomi Iwaaski
Animation: character designer
Daisuke Kageyama
Animation: character design lead
Osamu Komura
Animation: character designer
Takuya Naito
Animation: character designer
Shunsuke Otsuka
Animation: character design lead
Masanobu Sato
Animation: character design lead
Noriyoshi Sekiyama
Animation: character designer
Aya Shida
Animation: character designer
Yoko Tanaka
Animation: character designer
Keisuke Umeda
Animation: character designer
Daniele Alibrandi
quality assurance: NOE
Ellie Amos
press: Nintendo Creators Program
Rich Amtower
localization manager: NOA
Miki Aoki
course designer
Stéphane Arlot
product tester: NOA
Atsushi Asakura
programming support
Florent Aupert
quality assurance: NOE
Bert Beeckman
quality assurance: NOE
Nate Bihldorff
localization manager: NOA
Marta Bizarro
translator: NOE
Chiara Botta
translator: NOE
Christian Buter
translator: NOE
Cátia Pinto Cardoso
quality assurance: NOE
Veronica Casi
quality assurance: NOE
Fabrizio Cattaneo
localisation manager: NOE
D.J.
press: Nintendo Creators Program
Nicko Gonzalez De Santiago
product tester: NOA
Patrick De Sousa
quality assurance: NOE
Rodrigo Dias
translator: NOE
James Dillon
product tester: NOA
Takuhiro Dohta
programming support
Tatiana Dornbusch
translator: NOE
Yasushi Ebisawa
programming support
Sean Egan
product tester: NOA
Gunnar Friedrich
translator: NOE
Hanako Furuya
localisation manager: NOE
Pierre Galmiche
translator: NOE
Anastasia Golovanova
translator: NOE
Ambra Gostoli
localisation manager: NOE
Homi Hada
course designer
Takayuki Hama
network support
Atsushi Haneda
programming support
Seth Hanser
product tester: NOA
Yoshikazu Hara
course designer
Swen Harder
quality assurance: NOE
Carsten Harmans
translator: NOE
Yoshiki Haruhana
design support
Mifune Hayata
programmer
Marc Henkler
quality assurance: NOE
Tomoko Henley
product tester: NOA
Hiroki Hirano
demo movie
Daisuke Hiratsu
programming support
Kotaro Hiromatsu
technical support
Sara Hoad
product tester: NOA
Junichi Hori
technical support
Takeshi Hosono
course designer
Giacomo Iacumin
translator: NOE
Keisuke Iba
programmer
Naiara Ordorika Ibarguengoitia
quality assurance: NOE
Keijiro Inoue
design support
Jun Ito
programmer
Anton Ivanchikov
translator: NOE
Shotaro Iwanaga
technical support
Yohei Izumi
course designer
Margarita Jabner
quality assurance: NOE
Kotomi Jin
course designer
Robert Johnson
product tester: NOA
Hironobu Kakui
progress manager
Tsutomu Kaneshige
programming support
Hitoshi Kanetani
programming support
Stefan Kashani-Matin
localisation manager: NOE
Toyoki Kataoka
programming support
Hiroyuki Kato
technical support
Masanori Kato
progress manager
Shunsaku Kato
network support
Yasuhiro Kawaguchi
technical support
Masafumi Kawamura
programming support
Sarah Elizabeth Kelly
translator: NOE
Sean Keoghan
quality assurance: NOE
Mitsuhiro Kida
programming support
Jihyun Kim
course designer
Hiroyuki Kimura
progress manager
Masato Kimura
programming support
Masayuki Kimura
network support
Miyuki Kimura
programmer
Naoki Kinoshita
programming support
Masahiro Kishi
programmer
Shigetoshi Kitayama
programming support
Hitoshi Kobayashi
design support
Tetsuya Kobayashi
course designer
Tsuyoshi Kobayashi
progress manager
Andy Kolden
product tester: NOA
Taketo Konno
network support
Ryoma Kumamoto
technical support
Andreas Langer
quality assurance: NOE
Madison Levitan
product tester: NOA
Teresa Lillygren
product tester: NOA
Isabel Ruiz Lucero
press: Nintendo Creators Program
Mario J. Lucero
press: Nintendo Creators Program
Ibon Díez Maeztu
quality assurance: NOE
Santavorn Mam
product tester: NOA
Mankalor
press: Nintendo Creators Program
Matteo Marras
quality assurance: NOE
Ryota Maruko
programming support
Yoshifumi Masaki
design support
Takumi Masuda
network support
Shuhei Matsuo
programming support
Rui Mendes
translator: NOE
Masashi Mifune
programming support
Yuki Mitsui
network support
Kenkichi Miura
network support
Akira Mizukami
programmer
Yoshihisa Morimoto
design manager
Tadatsugu Motomiya
course designer
Toshitaka Mukasa
course design lead
Kevin Murray
translator: NOE
Tomoatsu Nagafuji
technical support
Hajime Nagao
network support
Kensuke Nakanishi
technical support
Masayasu Nakata
product tester: NOA
Tetsuya Nakata
programming support
HokWai Ng
planner
Sara Sainz Nieto
translator: NOE
Reiko Ninomiya
localization manager: NOA
Yu Nishikawa
network support
Katsuhito Nishimura
programming support
Takanori Nishino
programming support
Tomohiro Nishino
programming support
Daisuke Nobori
design support
Tim O'Leary
localization manager: NOA
Yuta Ogura
programming support
Yo Ohnishi
character supervisor
Hirotake Ohtsubo
course design lead
Manabu Okano
design manager
Akira Okazaki
network support
Tetsu Okubo
network support
Takahiro Okuda
programming support
Junya Osada
programming support
Akito Osanai
course designer
Dan Owsen
localization manager: NOA
Gene Pencil
product tester: NOA
Ludovic Tientcheu Ponkin
product tester: NOA
Marijke Pustjens
translator: NOE
Scot Ritchey
localization manager: NOA
Shannon Jaye Roberts
product tester: NOA
Enrique Sánchez Rosa
translator: NOE
Greg T. Sadownik
translator: NOE
Tomohisa Saito
programming support
Sonia Laranjeira Santos
quality assurance: NOE
Eisuke Sasaki
course design lead
Hiroyasu Sasano
technical support
Katsuhisa Sato
programming support
Kenta Sato
programmer
Yoshiyuki Sawada
programming support
Georg Schmalhofer
translator: NOE
Nicolas Sciotti
translator: NOE
Hisashi Sekoguchi
programming support
Pete Sheppard
translator: NOE
Yoshinobu Shimada
progress manager
Hirokazu Shimaoka
network support
Kimihiko Shimomura
network support
Tatsuo Shioda
course designer
Randy Shoemake
product tester: NOA
Cristina Solà Picas
translator: NOE
Jeffrey Storbo
product tester: NOA
Naruki Sugeno
course designer
Taichi Suzuki
technical support
Leslie Swan
localization manager: NOA
Tatsuya Takadera
programming director
Masahiro Takeguchi
technical support
Manabu Takehara
course design lead
Inna Talalay
quality assurance: NOE
Jun Tanaka
course designer
Giuseppe Tangerini
translator: NOE
Tsutomu Taniguchi
course designer
Toshikatsu Terashima
course designer
Malcolm Thorne
quality assurance: NOE
Kindra Timmerwilke
product tester: NOA
Haruki Tojo
programming support
Laura Soto Toral
quality assurance: NOE
Kazuhide Ueda
programming support
Nao Ueda
programming support
Shun Utsugi
programmer
Steven Van de Voorde
quality assurance: NOE
Anthony Vo
press: Nintendo Creators Program
Yoshihiro Wakao
course designer
Marko Wallenius
product tester: NOA
Tsuyoshi Watanabe
character supervisor
Janine Wetherell
translator: NOE
Hiroshi Yamada
course designer
Ryoichi Yamagishi
course designer
Kenji Yamamoto
programming support
Yu Yamamoto
character supervisor
Naomiki Yanagisawa
progress manager
Yoshito Yasuda
technical support
Hiroki Yasuhara
technical support
Takashi Yoshikawa
course designer
Mariko Yoshino
course designer
Kong Youngseok
course designer
Atsuko Asahi
Music Department: additional music
Shiho Fujii
Music Department: additional music
Asuka Hayazaki
Music Department: additional music
Koji Kondo
Music Department: additional music
Tôru Minegishi
Music Department: additional music
Kazumi Totaka
Music Department: additional music