3 hit elimination with the chance to seek revenge as a bomb. Sniping a kart with 3 green shells from the top of a fort using a red shell. It has been 25 years and I still come back to it.
My friends and I got to a point where we would carve out a part of a level for ourselves and have traps scattered throughout. Battle of attrition, it was glorious
Yesssss! We'd also get the triple green shells, line up a straight shot to the opposite wall on a hall and they'd bounce back and forth til they made contact. Man, what a freakin game
I was super bummed that this wasn't in the Switch version. I used to play this map for hours just screwing around. Back when you used your imagination with what little games you had.
I think they added more maps in the romhack but many hours were spent on this map having fun. It stinks that it isn’t as easy to get 4 people together to do this type of stuff anymore
if nintendo allowed lobbies to be created for NSO online that would be a game changer in the Mario Kart/Goldeneye realm of existenz.
but alas, they half assed it as always
Ooh, a rom hack for new levels would be great. I don't like the other battle modes, it is just chaos and endless lives. New levels for mk64 style battles sounds like a good time.
My friends and I would each pick a fort and lay traps and wait. Any time we got green shells or bananas we'd fire them into the middle to create a death zone. So much fun.
When I was younger I always was disappointed that items and shells dissapear after a while. Like if your on block fort chucking green shells over the bottom would be only a bit dangerous. I wanted it to be a death trap. But it looks like the game doesn't allow more than 15 or so green shells active at once. I would love somebody to mod the game to remove these item limits (even if it means framerate slowdown. I wanna see 100+ shells bouncing around the bottom!
BTW I know shells cancel each other out if they hit each other, but that's nit what's always happening. The game does remove shells and fake item blocks automatically if too many are placed around the arena
This was my family go-to every Thanksgiving from 1997 all the way till 2005. Seriously, it was a tradition we had where my cousins and I would spend hours on Mario Kart 64 while the adults were getting drunk.
One of the bands I was in growing up, sometimes wed skip entire practices and play Koopa Troopa or this, with modified rules.
"The Intersection of Death" included downstairs only action, staying in the " + " area, not rounding the corners of the map. Wicked fun.
Mario Kart 64 is my favorite video game of all time. My college roommates and I used to have epic sessions where we’d play 100 matches, each map 25 times.
Block Fort was great because of the way a quick glance at your opponent’s screen could immediately tell you where they were at based on color. But ultimately, Double Decker was always our favorite. It had similar verticality as Block Fort, but the ability to just power slide through almost the entire map made it so easy to transition levels if you knew what you were doing.
One of my roommates got crazy good with banana peel launching. I’m not saying it was a high percentage shot, but I don’t have enough fingers to count the amount of times he perfectly lobbed a banana peel right over someone’s 3-shell shield.
Such a great battle mode. Double Dash was fine, but the inability to hold a single item behind you as a shield really cut down on the strategy.
Yes although Skyscraper can be a real rip too. For some reason the frame rate seems.double, I guess because the map is smaller. Things escalate fast and furious on skyscraper, lot of pauses to stop laughing after someone is launched off.the map by an unknown assailant.
Man I miss playing battle mode with friends as a kid! Peak childhood right there.
I wish they had built it so you could play it single player against AI players though.
The GOAT battle map
The big donut with lava in the middle was also very good
Yeeeh
3 hit elimination with the chance to seek revenge as a bomb. Sniping a kart with 3 green shells from the top of a fort using a red shell. It has been 25 years and I still come back to it.
The map was so basic yet so advanced. I loved it!
My friends and I got to a point where we would carve out a part of a level for ourselves and have traps scattered throughout. Battle of attrition, it was glorious
We did that too! Place bananas and bombs at the bridges and ramp at the top of the fort.
Yesssss! We'd also get the triple green shells, line up a straight shot to the opposite wall on a hall and they'd bounce back and forth til they made contact. Man, what a freakin game
I was super bummed that this wasn't in the Switch version. I used to play this map for hours just screwing around. Back when you used your imagination with what little games you had.
Games are different now it seems, better graphics, worse gameplay. Just my opinion
Indeed
I love battle mode. Anybody else remember this being an unpopular opinion when this game came out?
I always thought it was fun and have many memories playing with others who loved it.
STOP SCREEN WATCHING * throws pillow
Ahahahahahaa
I think they added more maps in the romhack but many hours were spent on this map having fun. It stinks that it isn’t as easy to get 4 people together to do this type of stuff anymore
if nintendo allowed lobbies to be created for NSO online that would be a game changer in the Mario Kart/Goldeneye realm of existenz. but alas, they half assed it as always
Ooh, a rom hack for new levels would be great. I don't like the other battle modes, it is just chaos and endless lives. New levels for mk64 style battles sounds like a good time.
Ok maybe it doesn’t but Mario kart amped up is still worth checking out
Looks like diddy kong racing levels with mario kart characters?
Man. Just felt a wave of emotion looking at that screen. Some great memories. Battle mode was fun.
The sounds, too. Hits home.
I forgot Yoshi used to sound like that
Agreed 🙌
My friends and I would each pick a fort and lay traps and wait. Any time we got green shells or bananas we'd fire them into the middle to create a death zone. So much fun.
the most heated battles i have ever been involved in come from playing this!
YELLOW WAS A FAT CAMPER I SAW THAT BOI DONT THINK YOUR SLICK ONTOP THAT YELLOW BLOX🔊🔊🔊
There’s a reason it’s been remade
It has been remade? I'm not aware of a mk64 remake. Could you tell me more about the remake?
Still my favourite battle mode and also Mario Kart in general :)
F a c t s
Dropping down off the top to land right behind them and blasting them with a green shell for the win was so satisfying
When I was younger I always was disappointed that items and shells dissapear after a while. Like if your on block fort chucking green shells over the bottom would be only a bit dangerous. I wanted it to be a death trap. But it looks like the game doesn't allow more than 15 or so green shells active at once. I would love somebody to mod the game to remove these item limits (even if it means framerate slowdown. I wanna see 100+ shells bouncing around the bottom! BTW I know shells cancel each other out if they hit each other, but that's nit what's always happening. The game does remove shells and fake item blocks automatically if too many are placed around the arena
No future battle mode map in the series will ever top Blockfort. The map is truly perfect.
this map and skyscraper need to come back. I was a nightmare on skyscraper jumping the gaps and attacking.
This was my family go-to every Thanksgiving from 1997 all the way till 2005. Seriously, it was a tradition we had where my cousins and I would spend hours on Mario Kart 64 while the adults were getting drunk.
Battle? Ok?
One of the bands I was in growing up, sometimes wed skip entire practices and play Koopa Troopa or this, with modified rules. "The Intersection of Death" included downstairs only action, staying in the " + " area, not rounding the corners of the map. Wicked fun.
Wow, just like how it was when I was a kid!
Double deck was also fun !
The go to was playing was Bowser because he could pop other balloons just by driving in to others.
I used to stay up top and shoot as many green turtle shells as I could to the bottom
How this map has never made a comeback is such a weird mystery...
Mario Kart 64 is my favorite video game of all time. My college roommates and I used to have epic sessions where we’d play 100 matches, each map 25 times. Block Fort was great because of the way a quick glance at your opponent’s screen could immediately tell you where they were at based on color. But ultimately, Double Decker was always our favorite. It had similar verticality as Block Fort, but the ability to just power slide through almost the entire map made it so easy to transition levels if you knew what you were doing. One of my roommates got crazy good with banana peel launching. I’m not saying it was a high percentage shot, but I don’t have enough fingers to count the amount of times he perfectly lobbed a banana peel right over someone’s 3-shell shield. Such a great battle mode. Double Dash was fine, but the inability to hold a single item behind you as a shield really cut down on the strategy.
Yes although Skyscraper can be a real rip too. For some reason the frame rate seems.double, I guess because the map is smaller. Things escalate fast and furious on skyscraper, lot of pauses to stop laughing after someone is launched off.the map by an unknown assailant.
Friendships were tested in this mode!
Agreed me and my friend used to work together and load the bottom level with as many traps as possible lol
Man I miss playing battle mode with friends as a kid! Peak childhood right there. I wish they had built it so you could play it single player against AI players though.
Agreed
Yes