As Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds shoots for Mario’s racing crown, we rundown the most bizarre kart racers in the history of video games.

Mario Kart might not necessarily be the first kart racing game ever made (many point to 1988’s Power Drift from Sega), but it is the series which delivered the genre to the masses.

It all began with 1992’s Super Mario Kart on the SNES, which led to a wave of imitators ranging from Crash Team Racing to Nintendo’s own Diddy Kong Racing. If these represent the successful offshoots, however, there have been many, many others which have crashed and burned in the annals of gaming history.

As such, and ahead of Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds’ launch next week, we’ve dug up the weird and not-so wonderful kart racers of the past and present. We could’ve included more to

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