Top 20 Worst Mario Kart Tracks (10-1) 

I think I'm the only one who likes Yoshi Falls....

"The best Mario Kart game is Mario Kart DS!" Worst track is from Mario Kart DS

I have worse memories of wario’s goldmine (the original, mk8 is fine) than any of the rainbow roads, it’s still a pretty good track tho

1:19 it is not a dead end, it is a cape feather short cut

I'm honestly REALLY surprised that the SNES Choco Island 2 remake on Mario Kart DS didn't get on this list at all. A large part of the course is covered in mud and makes your traction HORRENDOUS. Combine that with the hideous visuals, boring track layout, and painfully average music and you have one of the few tracks in the whole series that I always, ALWAYS try to avoid.

7:38 Maybe the reason its shaking is because it maybe means you’re cold. *its stupid i know*

We all knew figure 8 circuit would be on this list

Only Wii track is Luigi circuit and that wasn’t even top ten Talk about good track list

The reason Cheep Cheep island is called cheep cheep island is because the developers put so little money into creating it.

I actually like figure-8 circuit. I feel like it relies on talent more than items and luck, which makes for good racing

All the courses added from 20 to 1 SNES: 2 N64: 1 GBA: 6 GCN: 2 DS: 5 Wii: 1 3DS: 1 Wii U: 2

shy guy beach on Wii...I really hated that place. those freaking crabs man

So basically Mario Kart Super Circuit sucks.

They remade Baby Park twice. The bums. I'm still waiting for a remake of Wario Coliseum from DD.

Dude i swear most of the DS tracks you listed are funnier when you drift. I'm surprised N64 Rainbow Road wasn't on the list... without the unintended shortcut and nostalgia (mostly the soundtrack) that track is extremely boring.

Legend has it, Miyamoto can tell all the Bowser Castle Tracks apart from each other by their respective numbers.

N64 Rainbow Road. It's really long, only obstacle are the rare chomp, and GUARD RAILS. What kind of self-respecting Rainbow Road has guard rails? The Rainbow Roads are always easy to fall off of, and filled with lots of tricky parts. This one has none of that, it's just a snooze-fest.

Please let me know if you like the new layout for the gameplay! Should I stretch out the gameplay to make it full screen or not?

I'm just saying Yoshi falls is my favourite ds track

How friggin dareth. Yoshi falls is the best

What do you think are the worst Mario Kart tracks? Let me know in the comments!!

The snes rainbow road has no guard rails :)

Super Circuit being underrated for 11 minutes and 5 seconds

Imagine figure 8 remastered

Water Park was the least creative name, not Snow Land.

Yes, some of these worst tracks are on my "Coolest Super Circuit Tracks" list. There's a difference between "Cool" and "Bad", so please stop comparing them like they're the same thing.

That snow land clip gave me a migraine, holy feck

My worst 20: The 20 SNES Tracks

I have to disagree with #9 it was really fun for me

Figure 8 Circuit is my least favorite track in Mario Kart history too, but for other reasons. When playing online, snakers would religiously select that track, almost exclusively. I did snake too, but I HATED how the track would show up CONSTANTLY on the random selection roulette, several times at once, then got selected, and they voted for it AGAIN on the next round.

Why is everyone talking about the cape feather item's use for the dead end in SNES bowser castle 2? NB can't do it

5:59 I didn’t get it.....

I actually kinda like Cheep Cheep Island. Those sections on the bridges are very brief anyway. Congrats on 50K!

One of my least favorite tracks is N64 Rainbow Road. Too long, too easy & too boring. It's better in Mario Kart 8, but they made it too short by being only one lap now.

He needs to redo this list because: 1) Most of the choices come from Super Circuit and DS (6 GBA and 5 DS) while the other ones had 2 or only 1, the list should be more balance. 2) Tracks like GCN Mario Circuit shouldn't be here. 3) Lack of actual bad tracks like Mario Circuit 1 from SNES and Rainbow Road from N64. 4) The troll part DOSEN'T make Bowser's Castle 2 from SNES a full on terrible track! Or it should had put higher. 5) Exaggrerated narration. 6) Unnecesaray filler. 7) The humor looks super forced. 8) N.B changed opinions on Cheep Cheep Island and GCN Mario Circuit over the years, resulting #9 and #4 no longer accurate.

2:13 I flinched... Those things are scary. Especially on Baby Park

Dear Nathaniel bandy why dont you like the GCN Mario Circuit? i think it's one of the best circuits in Mario Kart, although it was too difficult for the flower cup, which is why i think they put it at the end of the leaf cup for Mario Kart Wii

Never stop striving for originality!

"ya silly goose" that made my laugh lol

True Baby Park remake in DS was boring It will be much better if it was a remake in Mario Kart Wii

i'm sorry but i hate Rainbow Road from Mario Kart 64 !.. i mean its ok, but is so long and emptiness. When i'm on the second lap, i already just want to the finish the race, man, a few ramps could help that.. really needs a good remake instead the fucking SNES version

And you still wanted Figure 8 Circuit on Mario Kart 8.

I know it’s late, but some of these courses are on the booster course pass in 8 deluxe, Nathaniel. Love your content!

I feel like I love Cheep Cheep Island so much only because it was the first Mario Kart track I'd ever played, and Super Circuit was the first video game I ever played, so it's technically the first thing I ever played that was video game-related.

Pretty much every Mario Kart Double Dash course was great fun for my friends and I. Some people hate that game, but I thought it was awesome!

I'll start! Here are my favorite Mario Karts from best to worst. 1. Mario Kart Wii 2. Mario Kart DS 3. Mario Kart 7 4. Mario Kart 8 5. Mario Kart : Double Dash 6. Mario Kart 64 7. Super Mario Kart 8. Mario Kart Super Circuit

6:24 Guess the track is pretty cheap cheap.

We recently moved and I was digging through box’s and crap and found a barely touched Game Boy Advanced with Mario kart super circuit in it so I played some tracks and I 100% agree on your opinions on all of the super circuit tracks you put on this list!

honestly Nathan, I love ya, but this list wasn't very good, WAY too many first courses in this list, and a lot of GBA

Mario Kart rants: Old: Too hard and too chaotic! New: Too easy and too boring! like if you agree

I was half expecting choco mountain DS to be on here, but the reason I was only half expecting it was because it’s actually a pretty cool and unique map

NB every time I see one of your top 10's before number 1 a ad pops out

The figure 8 not having any boosters or obsticals makes it one of the best. It is like final destination in smash bros. it's the fairest course and doesn't deserve such a low number

I love figure 8 circuit ;-;

Nathaniel you are my childhood I watched you since 2014 you were one nostalgic RU-vidr

A Broken Pier remake would be so awesome though.(If Nintendo makes it.)

2019 and, Did you ever notice on double dash, you use triple mushroom and your far up then 3 seconds later, somebody passed you?

what about choco island 2

To be honest, I wouldn't mind seeing Broken Pier, Vanilla Lake I or Figure-8 Circuit remade for a future Mario Kart game, I'm sure they'll be remade to have a ton of detail and to be way better and whatnot

I've only managed to hop that dead end in Bowser Castle 2 once. I was going really fast at that point, too, not to mention I used a feather.

6:22 Cheep Cheep Island? More like Cheap Cheap Island! AYOOOO!!!

Overall, I really enjoyed the list. I had to disagree with some choices (I love Cheep Cheep Beach, and I've never visibly noticed the shaking), but it is pretty difficult to choose tracks when most (not all) of them are still fun. Even that choice was understandable, though, as well as others. Thanks for the videos!

2015 Nathaniel Bandy: *adds Snow Land in* 2022 Nathaniel Bandy: bruh

I actually like 8 Circuit because I spam the boost button on open road so I’m getting insanely boost, The tank is so OP if you using the boost on every corner and open road, I managed to get 3 Stars on every track from 50,100,150 and 150 mirror mode 😉

I'm still questioning why Figure 8 circuit wasn't in Mario Kart 8.

Love from the Netherlands Nathan

Dev: let’s make a corse that isn’t crazy and full of lots of random shit. Nathaniel: *TRIGGERED*

My top five WORST: 5.Ds peach circuit,too bland. 4.64 rainbow road,too long and no real difficulty. 3.SNES Mario Circuit,too bland and easy. 2.DS Baby Park,too few laps. 1.MK8 bone dry dunes,too many shortcuts.

5:47 I almost always get the question block there.

Baby park for the DS is easily the worst one

RIGHT after you said number 1, an ad for Copperhead Strike came up!

So the worst stage would be a shaky half Ice half desert race, with boos and thwomp. It has for sure an 8 or oval shape, without any boost pannel and you can fall off the road everywhere !

wario’s goldmine on wii was my worst enemy

Uh Mario circuit was fine

There’s this one rainbow road that’s 6 minutes long and has no fences

Here is my top 5 worst mario kart tracks: 5. Snes Rainbow Road (Seriously?) 4.GBA Cheep Cheep Island (What a crap) 3. DS Baby Park (WTF?) 2. SNES Vainilla Lake (stupid blocks and pipes!) 1. DS Figure-8 Circuit (ITS JUST A RACE LKE AN 8, NO RAMPS, NO NOTHING, THE WORST!) I totally agree with you nathaniel.

Mario Circuit in Double Dash is my favorite Mario Circuit....

SNES Bowser Castle 2: A deplorable course from a design perspective; probably the worst in the series, actually. Sad thing about this is that MK8 would've been the ideal game to bring it back with the Anti - Gravity feature. Life goes on. GCN Mario Circuit: Aw, it's not that bad. I find it rather pleasant. DS Baby Park: Pathetic. DS Yoshi Falls: Intriguing concept, underwhelming execution. I can't help but ponder how cooler Yoshi Falls would've been if it was designed for the Star or Special cup instead. Yoshi Falls sounds like it should be a lot funner than it actually is. GBA Broken Pier: Funny how having a funky, cool rock still can't bolster the quality of this course from fading into relative mediocrity. GBA Bowser Castle 3: Bowser Castle 4 makes all the other Bowser Castles from Super Circuit look like chumps anyway. I'll throw this course a bone for having a blue color scheme that deviated from the norm, though. GBA Cheep Cheep Island: Agree to disagree, I suppose. I think Cheep Cheep Island was a beautiful course, if not somewhat modest to boot. I'd love to see this one return very soon. GBA Snow Land: Heh, agree to disagree once more! I happen to be a fan of Snow Land. Tipsy penguins, the fantastical strip of coins, that weird alternate path laden with so many speed boosts... but snow tracks have always been an acquired taste, admittedly. SNES Vanilla Lake 1: A slog to race through. It also looks so damn hideous. Yikes. DS Figure-8 Circuit: An understandable choice for the worst course ever, although it's absolutely not the course I'd choose. For me, Figure-8 Circuit catches a colossal break because of MK DS's snaking. Snaking makes quite a few courses in that game a passable effort when they would've been a chore otherwise. Figure-8 is lucky enough to slide into that dubious category.

If SNES Bowser Castle 2 was in Wii I guarantee you that dead end would be somehow turned into a super shortcut

really enjoy your Mario kart top tens you should do a best to worst items or top ten items I'd exclude blue shell cuz of course that's gunna be first or last depending lol

Coming soon in Mario Kart 9: Pink Gold Peach Castle

i do not like toad circuit... I HAD A FRIEND WHO KEPT PICKING IT... it drove me nuts.

I remember having the GBA version as a kid and not even finishing it just because I didn’t like a lot of the tracks and shaking screen

where do you get the karts for mkds? I have it and can't get them

I'm gonna have to say, even though I have multiple least favorite tracks in the Mario Kart series, I am gonna bring up at least one that I don't like that is more recent, and it is the exclusive Nitro Rainbow Road track from Mario Kart 8/ Deluxe. It is just so surprisingly underwhelming. Not only is the track mostly easy (outside of the very sharp turn in the beginning that people can push you off if you are not careful enough) but the shortcut you can take makes the track even shorter and more bland. The visual rainbow aesthetic seems to be lacking in it too because it just doesn't feel as breath taking and beautiful to me. Take Mario Kart 7 and Mario Kart Wii for example. Both Rainbow Road tracks had an amazing rainbow aesthetic not to mention were more challenging and fun to race on, especially the Wii's version. That game possibly has one of the best Rainbow Roads in the entire series. I am shocked that Mario Kart 8/ Deluxe didn't even come close to how amazing the Wii's version was considering the game as a whole is more visually stunning than Mario Kart Wii's.

Figure 8 curcuit must have been made by the person who thought of pink gold peach

Strange how you can have the figure 8 track as number one and say it's because it's just a boring figure 8 track, but luigis circuit in 64 is just that too and it wasn't in your top 20.

Ok but Bowser’s Castle GCN had me struggling

If Baby Park was #10, it would be #10 3 times.

Cheep Cheep island? More like Cheap Heap island!

Aren't there two hidden/invis bridges on Broken Pier? I can't remember which boo track they were on in Super Circuit but I remember using them a ton after I discovered them lol

10th favorite Super Circuit track ends up being the 3rd worst Mario Kart track. Consistency at it's finest!!!

boy number 1 is kind of disappointing to be honest...

My reactions to your list: 10. Meh, I don't really see the problem with it besides the dead end road, which was fixed in a MKWii custom track. 9. If there's a track I really disagree with here, it's this one. I honestly enjoyed this stage on both versions it was on, because it was simple enough to be easy to learn, but complex enough to be a blast to play. I actually have it on my top list in both Double Dash and Wii. 8. From strongly disagreeing to strongly agreeing, I guess? You hit everything on the head here. 7. Agree with this one, too. Generally a boring stage with annoying gameplay and only a couple cool moments. 6. Like with Bowser Castle 2, if the Boos weren't there, I would find this track to be a lot better. 5. ...and now it's with Whomps. Thanks, Mario Kart track creators! 4. Slow gameplay with lots of enemies to make it slower, and almost nothing interesting about the track design. Yup, it's bad. 3. Seriously, Nintendo, stop with the "this one minor thing ruins the track" thing. 2. Couldn't agree with you more. Annoying but also boring. 1. Now this one is just straight-up boring and uninspired. My bottom 10: 10. Wii U Rainbow Road: Huge disappointment. It could have been a sight to behold like MK7's, but it just fell flat on its face. Way too short, and not the hardest track by a long shot. It does look fantastic, though, I'll give it that. 9. 3DS Rosalina's Ice World: A slippery mess that takes a great track design and ruins it. Doesn't look too good, either, and doesn't use MK7's new mechanics much. 8. DS Yoshi Falls: Looks great, but boring, boring, boring. The Wii remake doesn't help matters, either. 7. Wii Luigi Circuit: "Ugh, I have to play this again?" -me in every clan war I played 6. GBA Shy Guy Beach: Kind of interesting, but slow and filled with hazards to make it even slower. The Wii remake didn't help its case, either. 5. DS Figure-8 Circuit: Wholly uninspired and boring. It looks good, but otherwise has nothing going for it. 4. DS Baby Park: This one is even worse because it ruined a fan favorite track, but at least it's still a bit fun, I guess? 3. N64 Toad's Turnpike: The choice that most people will disagree with, but hear me out. The only benefit is that it brought the traffic mechanic, which led to better tracks, especially in Double Dash. However, it's really slow and annoying to play on, really badly designed, and doesn't look pretty to make up for it. Luckily the Wii U remake fixed most of its problems. 2. SNES Vanilla Lake 1: Boring track design, only made interesting with how aggravating it is. Looks bland, too. 1. N64 Sherbet Land: It's slippery, crowded, boring, and very uninspired. Even worse, the Wii remake doesn't help in any of these aspects. The N64 gave us some great tracks, but how did they manage to make one on par with Vanilla Lake 1 ON BETTER HARDWARE?

I find mario circuit gcn on wii pretty fun and fast paced. When i am driving, avoiding piranha plants gives me another task.

When I play Baby Park on the DS, I just see how many racers I can lap. That’s the only form of entertainment I get out of it.

Is It Me Or Are "Toads" Mario Kart Traxks Always Great! I Mean Toads Turnpike, Toad's Factory etc.

Nathaniel: striving for originality **does a top ten list**

4:16 That Yoshi face scares me

what do you think of mkwii's remake of GCN mario circuit?