"Mario Kart"

For the second project I chose to pick the video game "Mario Kart". I personally do not play hardly any video games, just because simply I am terrible at them.  "Mario Kart" is a fun game for the whole family to play together. It attracts many people’s attention because all the bright colors and the interesting/fun characters that they have. Compared to the old "Mario Kart" the new one has many new courses to race and even characters. The new "Mario Kart" has baby versions of the characters, like there is a Baby Mario and a Baby Peach, etc. Based on the new characters, courses, and bright colors of the game, I think that "Mario Kart" is a very unisexed-based game. I really think that even on the just racing games there is more to it than just racing, and how you can pick up little boxes with question marks on them to help slow down the other players, it helps someone learn multitasking and hand-eye coordination with the new Nintendo Wii. I think that is it a great game for all ages, I know that my whole family plays it and we range from the ages of 7-55. The only thing that I don’t really like is how Mario games are only for Nintendo and with the new Wii system it’s hard to get used to driving the cart with having to move the whole controller, whereas before you just had to move the joystick. "Mario Kart" even has team races and battle games. "Mario Kart" could teach a younger person to work as a team to accomplish a victory; someone could say that it could be bad for them because it could make them very competitive and perhaps even a sore loser, when they lose a game. If kids start to play video games before they join sports, it could help improve their teamwork skills. As a person that doesn’t get into video games, I personally think this is a cute video game for people of all ages to play. Personally I don’t think that someone should sit in the house all the time and play video games, I think that they should play for only a certain amount of time and actually get out and do some outdoor activities. I do think that video games have advanced a ton though and the new Xbox kinect, Wii fit, and even the Playstation move, to help advance more activeness with video games.