Back in the day, I remember my babysitters giving me two more controllers to my N64 (with a total of four) and all of their N64 games! One of them was Mario Kart 64. It was all great fun back in the day, and revisiting it today, I can say it's aged very well.
Mario Kart 64 gives you sixteen tracks to race over. While these tracks aren't spectacular, they certainly are imaginative, with tracks such as going over a dark bridge, on the highway, and even going over dirt hills! Hitting enemies with shells and drifting is fun and awesome to use, and there are some cool shortcuts such as jumping over the Rainbow Road and going through a waterfall! The music is great too.
The single player mode is good enough, but even better is the multiplayer mode. Racing against three friends is great fun, and the battle mode is also a plus. It gives you a few tracks to knock your opponents balloons off of.
However, Mario Kart 64 is not a flawless game. First, the controls for turning are slippery, and you'll spinning and crashing into walls quite a few times. Firing Shells behind you requires you to push a few buttons to do so, which sucks. Yoshi's Valley's interface is screwed up, so you don't know who won until the very end. Finally, and it's my biggest issue with the game; The cheating AI! I take a shortcut through the waterfall, only to have the AI right behind my back in no time!
With that said, Mario Kart 64 is a terrific racer that will impress the single player gamers a lot and the multiplayer gamers a lot more. I prefer Diddy Kong Racing to this, but this is still a game I like to pull out and play a lot.