Mario Kart 8 is, perhaps, the finest example of the supremely popular Mario Kart series. It’s also a deeply weird one – which is good, because otherwise I wouldn’t have too much to write about. It first came out on the Wii U,

The tech genuinely works, and at the time we called Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit the perfect Christmas present for Mario-loving kids. But as clever as Nintendo’s typically innovative take on Scalextric was,