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I dont have a Twitter account so I'll share my best Mario Kart story here.
My all time favorite MK moment for me was playing MK8 on Wii U with my best friend at our college dorm. I was winning so many races that he was starting to get annoyed, so it all comes down to our last race on Royal Raceway which had tensions high and we were both super competitive.
It's the 3rd lap, I'm in 1st and I turn by the castle for the last leg of the race. My friend just destroys me with shells and I get knocked down to 3rd while he takes 1st and I fall into despair.
Then the most amazing thing happens. The COM in 2nd place, Baby Daisy, hits him with shells giving me the last second opportunity to pass him. Then Baby Daisy is in first but hits a banana peel in the middle of the dang road !RIGHT! before the finish line. In a clutch moment it gives me enough time to end up in 1st, Baby Daisy in 2nd, and my friend in 3rd. We were both laughing and hysterical that the COM came to my aid and handed the race back to me. From then on Baby Daisy has become a meme character to us whenever she's controlled by a computer in a race.
My best MK story can't fit in a tweet so I'll share it here too.
Me and my brother and some of our friends used to do what we would call a Supercup, in Mario Kart Double Dash. Basically it required two Gamecubes and two LAN adapters, which let us play with up to 8 players, though it was usually just 6 of us. Then we'd do an All-Cup, i.e. play every course in the game in order. Then figure out who won by tallying everyone's first through sixth place finishes, usually with the aid of a spreadsheet because Double Dash didn't actually keep those records in LAN play for some odd reason.
So in one of these Supercups, we were on Waluigi Stadium and had probably the most insane finish I've experienced in a Mario Kart game. I can't remember exactly how many of us were left but I think it was 3-4 of us making the final turn towards the last jump which was right before the finish line. It was fairly close and someone somehow ended up with a Spiked Shell and just decided to use it to create lovely chaos (maybe it was me, it's something I would've done). Well, since we were all kinda tightly packed it didn't take too long for the spike to hit someone and it did so right on the ramp to the finish line.
One or two of us either missed the blast or managed to spin out and still get the boost, so there were only two of us remaining, me and one other guy. I think I got the brunt of the spike so I wound up getting knocked into the air and then falling onto the booster only to be shot off in a very weird direction and fall into the pit, which would then get Lakitu to bring you back. My friend I think spun out and that made him boost in a weird direction so he also fell off into the pit.
So here's the crazy part- neither of us were looking at each other's screens. So when this happened my friend stood up and screamed, and in so doing knocked down a CD tower that was to the right of his chair. So it fell onto like 3 of us, and while it wasn't exactly heavy it still kinda hurt and CDs on it flew everywhere. So everyone laughed and then started picking up the tower and CDs to help. I kid you not, it was like 4 minutes later before any of us looked at the screen and realized the race was still on! Neither of us had finished, we were both sitting side by side right next to the booster where Lakitu put us. So as soon as I saw that I burst out laughing and started fishing around through the pile of CDs to find my controller so I could beat him. Sure enough, I did.
We all had a very good laugh about that.