Top Ten Worst Mario Kart Courses

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The Top Ten
1 Figure 8 Circuit DS

I hate figure 8 circuit. It is the worst Mario kart ds track I've ever done. Mario circuit ds is way better than this crap. I kept loosing in fugure 8 circuit, it is even worst than Luigi circuit from Mario kart wii. But Luigi circuit does have some speed bost. That why it's not nearly as bad. But fugure 8 circuit is an idiot track, there is no speed bost. There is no short cut. It's only a figure 8 that's the only thing. And they showed the Mario at the very end of the track. this is not a Mario track. And there is no character named figure 8 in Mario. What were they think. I think they were like, ok, we're tired of just doing circuit's that are only based on Mario characters, let's make a figure 8 so that everyone will be happy, no, this made almost every single person in the world very upset. I don't want to think on this idiot track anymore today.

For me, a track in order to be good it should have creative obstacles with variety. For example, Mount Wario is my favorite track in the serie because not only the fact that all the laps are different makes it feels like an adventure but also there is many things that happens like travelling a forest, gliding in a cave filled with water currant and and descending a hill from the olympics. On the opposite I think figure 8 circuit is bad because the layout is boring, there's no obstacles and the music isn't even memorable. I know it's a first time track but even the other tracks like these have more things. Luigi circuit (Wii) have boost pads and a statue of Luigi, Toad circuit have big toad balloons and and you can glide over another part of the track, Luigi raceway have an air balloon that lowers to give you an item box and all those "commercials" and even peach circuit and circuit mario 1 are shaped more interestingly than figure 8 and at least have the excuse about console ...more

This should be #1 not Luigi circuit. At least Luigi circuit is based on Luigi. At least it has speed boosts. But this is worse because it is just a figure 8 and that's it. It's not even based on a character. It doesn't even have any enemies or speed boosts or anything. It is the first stage in the game so I'm not surprised.

If the "very creative" title didn't tip you off, then the fact that the only thing in this course is driving in a figure 8
should!

2 Luigi Circuit Wii

I know Luigi Circuit on the wifi is so boring. It's shaped a pretzel. The speed boosts are slower than the other racers who don't take the pads. Worst Mario kart track ever

A lot of people say its hard...what? The track is so easy but so horrible it makes baby park from the ds seem like bowser's castle.

Why so many people say it is hard. Are you crazy? This is the easiest and most boring track on the Mario Kart Wii!

Back then Luigi was in the shadow of Mario but now he is too overrated this circuit is the worst thing ever.

3 Mario Circuit 1 SNES

Being the first course doesn't make it better, just a way too short loop.

Most overrated track of all time (until Hyrule Circuit came out, man how I hate Zelda games and their Fanboys)

Too simple for me.

4 Yoshi Falls DS

I hate Yoshi Falls. This course has no challenge. There are falls, but when was the last time you fell off the course. There are speed boosts. For the thousandth time this is so boring and should've been named Yoshi Fails.

There is nothing interesting about this track. The only thing that reminds me of Yoshi is the big egg in the middle of the course, nothing more.

I would have done a better job than Nintendo on this one.
Hey I would like to make a custom track for the Wii with this name right now!

Sickening course and this is nothing but a bland and monotonous hell background!

5 Sherbet Land N64

How dare you put Super Mario Kart, Mario Kart 64 & Mario Kart: Super Circuit tracks on the list! Replace this with a crappy GCN track, a DS track, a Wii track, a 3DS track or a Wii U track! This track is beautiful & perfect! I know, there can be some flaws, but the N64 version of Sherbert Land is way better than the Wii version.

This track is arguably the worst track of all time. The ice physics are frustrating, the track design is the worst, the penguins are annoying, and the atmosphere is bland.

The original is a snore fest but the wii version is even worse!

Hey, I like this track and I think it's cute, why.

6 Choco Island 2

The DS version is painful The mud slides you do the crap...I mean dirt and the bumps are so annoying and every time I play it, it feels like someone hacked my game and put the cpu difficulty to impossible, this track is god awful but the snes one is okay.

I absolutely despise this track. The normal track is slippery so it's really hard to stay on it. If you do go off road, you just completely slow down.

This track is flat and boring. The chocolate lake at the middle is painfully slow. And those jumps are annoying

The chocolate lake shouldn't be near the start.

7 Moonview Highway Wii

I know a lot of people like this track, but I don't, in fact I find it worst than Luigi Circuit (Wii), but still better than Bowser Castle 2 (SNES). Also I would also complain the fact that it is TOO SHORT, at least Luigi Circuit and Moo Moo Meadows (The latter I actually like) are in the Mushroom Cup, Mushroom Bridge and Shroom Ridge was much better!

This course is nothing but pervert, panicking, slow, and shocking as heck! Bland and monotonous background. UGH! I hate smashing into those stupid cars, mini bomb karts, and cars!

I never really liked this stage because of all the cars and bob-omb cars driving around. It makes me rage when I run into one right by the line on the LAST LAP!

The cars are easy to dodge. What I do is I drive right in the middle of the road so that none of the cars hit me. I usually go very fast without getting hit.

8 Rosalina's Ice World 3DS

I for one bloody love this course. It's nicely challenging with the ice and sharp corners, so it feels extra rewarding to earn first place here.

An ice stage. okay it isn't the worst ice stage ever. I don't hate it as much as I dislike it. It would make my top 15 worst mario kart tracks.

I hate this track and is so hard. Please put this track on the top ten hardest Mario kart 7 tracks.

9 Rainbow Road N64

I loathe it. First of all, it takes 7 minutes in 50cc/100cc and 6 minutes in 150cc. Too. Long. Wario Stadium from this game is also kind of long (4-5 minutes), but at least it has lots of stuff going on here, and there is actually some difficulty in there. But in Rainbow Road, nothing even happens. Oh what, a long jump and some broken shortcut? That's all this course has to offer, really. And the music just drags... and drags... and... what were we talking about again?

This is by far the worst rainbow road in the history. It is so overrated and I don't know why. The track by itself is extremly boring and there is nothing special about it. People get tricked by th colour. It is so easy as there is no way you can fall. You can also skip a big part of it just from the start. Last but not least, it is very big and I am glad that they changed the length to it in mk8.

Well, they were actually trying to use their creativity will the GCN one but this was dull, boring, and long. But I'll choose the N64 remake over the GCN one because they done a great job improving on the original. The only problem I had was being too short.

If I love the remake of mario kart 64 rainbow road. This is the best rainbow road. The music in the remake in Mario kart 8 literally had me in tears the 1st time I played the remake. This track has one of the best songs in Mario kart history

10 Shy Guy Beach GBA

Original version was okay but the Wii version...BROKEN...Since a big portion of this track has water you have to drive through that counts as off-road terrain, if you don't use the Magikruiser bike. Then you will be driving to a crawl on this track.

Driving physics tack you all over the place and make it hard to avoid crabs and bombs without madly swerving. Also quite bland and uninteresting.

This track is ok. Yes the Wii remake sucks but the original on the GBA is just ok

I did not hate crabs until I played this track.

The Contenders
11 Peach Beach GCN

I agree its short but I don't say its bad cause it does have challenging enemies to avoid and it is one of the first tracks you play.

Peach Beach? What?! This is why I hate Mario Kart: Double Dash. Peach Beach, Daisy Cruiser, Peach & Daisy are the worst team ever!

I think is because Peach is a starter Mario character.

What? This is like my second favorite Mario Kart track!

12 Ghost Valley SNES

I make my family race on this track and they get ticked off about it. I always win.

Which one is this referring to?

13 Moo Moo Meadows Wii

@Idontneedausername has a Double Dash like me, he told me. I have a Wii, 8, and Double Dash. And he broke world records on 5 courses there.

What?! It may be easy, but at least it's fun, (I'm looking a you Luigi Circuit).

It does get annoying to hit the cows and stop.

This track rocks a lot!

14 Wii U Bone Dry Dunes

Bone Dry Dunes insulted me when I first saw it. You have a course with Dry Bowser on the cave, but he's not a playable character? (Until DLC). You bring in Pink Gold Peach? PINK GOLD IRRELEVANT! I can't STAND that stupid character! Besides that, the course has boring and bland colors. There are sharp turns that are annoying and the music is awful. Overall I just hate this course.

Before race: Do the next race.
After race: snores.
That is how I feel with this track

Hate the music

15 Peach Gardens DS

This course is so easy, I mean this could pass for a Flower Cup track! Also, it was a track in the LIGHTNING CUP in Wii?! There were so many more harder tracks Than this slow, squared 'Special Cup Material' track in Wii, such as DK'S Jungle Parkway, Waluigi Stadium, Delfino Square, Bowser Castle 3 etc that could've swapped out for this track being in a harder cup! However, don't get me wrong, I have nothing against Peach, is just that I hate this track, I actually play as her often. Just thus track, BLARGHH!

Wait another Peach course. Here's the difference. Why does Princess Peach even make a garden. This track is too easy. It should've been in the shell cup in Mario Kart Wii

Wait another Peach course. Why did Princess Peach even make garden around her castle? This track is too easy. It should've been in the shell cup for Mario kart Wii

You may be thinking "another Peach course? Wow you must hate Peach." Well I do BUT that has nothing to do with courses, but this course is just boring

16 Mario Circuit 3 SNES

Every single track on the Super Mario Kart is boring.

It was the SNES, so it couldn't handle courses that well.

Very boring, the Wii remake was even worse.

Not bad but worst race in lightning cup not as good as dk mountain and browser castle 2

17 Wario's Gold Mine Wii

A gold mine is a great idea and I looked forward to playing this course however 1 lap of this crap and I changed my mind

First you got long stretches of nothing and, like rainbow road, it was very easy to fall of the edge!

As for the mine carts? Screw them! They're WAY too hard to dodge and there's like a 95% chance that it blocks the really great shortcut!

I don't see a reason people LIKE THIS DAM COURSE!

This is in my Top 15 BEST tracks from all 8 games, and Wii Flower Cup is my favourite cup out of every single Mario Kart cup ever made! I just love it! Its also fun in MK8!

This track originally annoyed the crap out of me in the Wii version, but the MK8 remake was way better! And I respect it a lot more.

I hated this track in Mario Kart Wii, but I loved this one in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe because its easier.

18 Dry Dry Desert GCN

I seriously hate this stage! This track is uncreative, and the features are very annoying. First of all, this is the worst desert themed course unlike dry dry ruins where you go inside a temple. Second, the quicksand pull is powerful so you have to stay on the edge. The worst part of all is the tornado that runs through the course. You get pulled into high into the air. This is the absolute worst track for the GameCube and it is super annoying! They got this track back into Mario kart 8 but instead of the tornado, they removed it and did the falling effect of pillars, the quicksand pull was lighter, and the best feature of all is that you get to go in an oasis where paratroopas are watching you. Great job on the remake Nintendo! As long as I will love the remake, I will always hate the GameCube original.

Dry dry desert is not bad cause of how fun and challenging it is. And the guy who said that dry dry ruins is good, that course is easy and very bland.

Honestly why does everyone hate this stage? Truly underrated. So much variety and challenges, tornadoes,wiggler and giant sand hole

I didn't like any desert course except for Kalamari desert and Dry Dry Ruins.

19 Excitebike Arena

The only skill in this course in one curve that you navigate a number of times. Why even play Mario Kart if you are going to play on this course?

Boring, the worse of the 5 non-Mario tracks.

20 Peach Circuit GBA
21 Hyrule Circuit

It's not boring, or bad or anything, BUT...

It's so frustrating to always race this one track online, as everyone votes for it. Only because it's Zelda. I get it, online, people are all Zelda fans and this is why y'all vote for this track, but after 1000 times of doing this one track is gets very boring. The track is not that fun, it's not based of a game, it's just lazy build. They could have at least based it around a game, like Wind Waker, OOT, or even BOTW but no. This track is overall ok and not bad but the fact that it's so overrated just because it's Hyrule (When it's just a castle with some rupees replaced as coins) is very frustrating.

HEY! Take this off the list right now! This stage is my favorite stage in MK8! Why do people always talk trash on the Zelda series?! People who do that should go jump off a cliff and die! Plus why do people complain about Link in MK8? Well guess what, Shut up you Zelda hater! Link deserves to be in MK8! Not Animal Crossing characters! The Animal Crossing Racers should be removed!

I expected so much from this track but it's so short and boring. They had an amazing franchise to make a great course and they simply made a generic track with a Lengend of Zelda theme.

Very boring! We should of got a stage that's based on orcorenia of time instead

22 Luigi Raceway N64

This is a bit boring but it is actually a really good course if you think carefully; it was the first ever 3D Circuit Track and compared to the SNES Mario Circuits', this was a lot better. I mean this was the introduction to 3D racing. People say that SNES Mario Circuit 1 started it all, however this started it all for 6 Mario kart games that had 3D racing

What this course is great its only a bit weak because it's the first course its for begginners. Hate on courses that were SUPPOSED to be interesting but weren't, like Rainbow Road N64 or Yoshi Falls DS, not something that was meant to be simple.

I like this level! Luigi tracks are always fun.

23 Vanilla Lake SNES

Those dang snow piles!

No thanks & bad name

24 Electro Drone Wii U

The arguments placed here on why this track is bad are just pathetic. "I don't like it because it's too purple" I'm sorry but that's a pity excuse. People only hate this track because they consider it "overrated", even though Mt. Wario is 100 times more praised than this track. This is one of the best tracks in MK8 and reading the comments here on why this track is bad just infuriates me.

Very overused track online, but the music is one of the best songs. I only find one song better than this one. (Grumble Volcano)

What? Why is this on here? It's one of my favorite Mario Kart 8 tracks! Take this off the list right now!

This track is my favorite in Mario Kart 8 and it's my 2nd favorite track of all time.

25 Frappe Snowland N64

This course is so lame.

Man this course is fun

Why isn't this number 1?

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