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The “Best Mascot Racing Game” consists of 1 poll of 8 games.

• You can vote for one game in the finals.
• The top game will become the official “BEST MASCOT RACING GAME EVER!!!”
• You can’t change your votes once they’ve been submitted, so click carefully. Voting closes on Saturday at midnight ADT.

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Best Mascot Racing Game Finals!
Crash Team Racing (1999, PS1)
Diddy Kong Racing (1997, N64)
Mario Kart 64 (1996, N64)
Mario Kart 8 [Deluxe] (2014, WU/Switch)
Mario Kart DS (2005, DS)
Mario Kart: Double Dash!! (2003, GCN)
Sonic & Sega All Stars Racing (2010, Multiplatform)
Super Mario Kart (1992, SNES)

It's Thursday. No one likes any of these racing games?

Beach Buggy Racing got predictably eliminated due, I think, to relative obscurity. Haven’t played much any of these except a tiny bit of Mario Kart 64...

Voted for MK DS earlier this week. Mainly because of the included challenges.

I'll vote Mario Kart 8 just due to the shear amount of content included. It's also really approachable with the controller options and smart steering.

Hard to argue with that.

It feels a bit safe to label the latest Mario Kart entry as the best mascot racer, but I don't think it's far from the truth. Tight gameplay while being beginner friendly, wide track selection from the series history, tons of mascots to play as including non-Mario ones, and in the Switch version the battle mode is fixed.