Konno: Back then, instead of a banana peel as an item, there were little oil cans. Who knows, maybe the designer who drew the overalls on the earlier guy intended that it be changed to Mario all along! (laughs) We decided to see what it would look like with Mario in one of the karts, and everyone thought that looked even better. Then we noticed that it looked neat if you stopped one car and looked at the other car flying by. It was just two karts moving around freely. Miyamoto: At first, no racing was involved. Konno: It was about three to four months after we started development, when we had created a prototype involving two karts racing simultaneously.
Iwata: How long was it before Mario himself actually appeared in the karts? Miyamoto: For F-Zero the characters were seven heads tall, but for Super Mario Kart, we decided on three heads tall characters in order to suit the design of the karts. Konno: Sounds like Mario, doesn’t it? It wasn’t like I forgot to put Mario’s beard on him or something, though… (laughs) Iwata: Wait just a minute! I can’t let that slip by. Konno: Well, in the very first prototype, there was a guy in overalls sitting in the kart. Iwata: Why did you decide on using Mario? Konno: With more than one player, it would have been impossible to illustrate the high speeds of F-Zero. We set out to make a game where we could display the game screen for two players at the same time. Miyamoto: Just so there’s no confusion, however, I should point out that we didn’t set out to create a two-player version of F-Zero. Konno: Originally, the development of Super Mario Kart began with the idea of creating a two-player racing game in contrast to the single-person gameplay of F-Zero. In an episode of Iwata Asks, we can read that: In an old magazine, MathUser has even found a couple of screens that show a different design for one of the tracks, maybe an early version of the Mushroom Cup Round 2, as Madou has wrote in the HPZ Forum Huge props to van_halen for sharing these images! At the Digital Press Forum, van_halen has posted some photos from a prototype version of Super Mario Kart, a “beta” with some interesting differences, like early version of some of the sprites, different layout and music in some levels, different title screen, select screen and “choose-your-driver” screen, missing “black X” from the Lakitu’s flag (when you drive in the opposite direction), a flying Super Koopa and missing reward cups in the ending scene.
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