It’s not every day you get to play a brand new Mario Kart game a month or so before it comes out. And it’s not every day that you get to race against the Big “M’ himself. But my kids and I got to do just that recently at an awesome Mario Kart 8 Media Event held at the Nintendo World Store in Manhattan.
The second floor of the store was blocked off for invited guests only. Woot! I was on the list! Although it took awhile for the guard to actually find my name on there. I was all ready to slip him a twenty when he found Mommy’s Busy, Go Ask Daddy. Whew.
Up we went to find every console had been set up with the new Mario Kart 8 game (out on the Wii U the end of May), and even better, every course and character had been unlocked so we could really take them for a ride!
![Jason took no time at mastering the controls and heading to Rainbow Road!](https://www.mommysbusy.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/IMG_5845-e1400031945736-768x1024.jpg)
![Ryan taught the Nintendo Store employee a thing or two.](https://www.mommysbusy.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/IMG_5846-e1400031986510-768x1024.jpg)
My full review of the game is coming up later this month (I’ll quickly state this: “OMG IT’S SO AWESOME!”), but I did get a few quick comments from Jason before he spent nearly two hours racing around (and up the sides of!) familiar and all-new tracks.
So, wadda ya think, Jason?
!["It's a MEEEEEEEE!"](https://www.mommysbusy.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/IMG_5849-e1400032158621-768x1024.jpg)
![Brothers and brothers!](https://www.mommysbusy.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/IMG_5855-e1400032226818-768x1024.jpg)
Ryan, who was literally running circles around me when we played together (in all fairness, he’s REALLY good just like his big brother Jason, and I’m REALLY bad…), took on Mario. I don’t know how the Big Guy held that Wii remote in his big white-gloved hands, but he managed to do it enough to move around.
![Mario costume](https://www.mommysbusy.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/IMG_5876-e1400032365474-768x1024.jpg)
![Ryan (left) ruled the course, while everyone fell asleep waiting for Mario to finish.](https://www.mommysbusy.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/IMG_5877-1024x768.jpg)
I couldn’t pass up the opportunity for a selfie with Luigi!
![Me (right) and Luigi! Selfie time!](https://www.mommysbusy.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/IMG_5860.jpg)
We eventually headed home but soon got back behind the wheel when we received a download code later that week! So we’ve been unlocking tracks and characters for days now! A big, fat, honkin’ THANK YOU to the folks at Nintendo for throwing an awesome shindig!
It was really such a great time at Nintendo World. Now if you’ll excuse me, the kids are off to bed, so I’m off to practice my driving, thank you very much.
!["I'm a sooo bad at my a own a game!"](https://www.mommysbusy.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/IMG_5862-e1400032611964-768x1024.jpg)
Mario Kart 8 Speeds Into Stores on May 30
The museum, merchandise, and loads of playable games sounds awesome!!!^_^
That is pretty awesome, I would have loved this as kid…. Heck I would have love playing those guys now as a big kid!
Hah! Thanks, Heather. Hope you did too! 🙂
My 8 and 12 year old sons loved this post!!!!