I loved the SNES original and MK64 and then after that it seemed like one mediocre rehash after another. Some were better than others, but none measured up to the first two. I kept buying them and I'd play them for a day or two and then forget all about them. I remember when MK8 was first unveiled, I barely even looked at the previews, it was on track to be the first Mario Kart game I just skipped entirely. But then I watched the Nintendo Direct about a month before it came out, and oooohhhhh baby. I've put probably 10 times the amount of hours into MK8 than I put into MK1 and 64 combined. MK8 is THE KING