the world of mario kart 64

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Music Used:
Intro - All's Fairy in Love & War (Old School Runescape)
00:48 - Clanliness (Old School Runescape)
03:25 - Desert Heat (Old School Runescape)
07:40 - Mellow (Old School Runescape)
08:22 - The Ruins of Camdozaal (Old School Runescape)
13:10 - Miles Away (Old School Runescape)
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[@PretzelYT]

I'm probably gonna go back to making videos a bit more infrequently, but focus on covering quality topics. While I've been doing (roughly) weekly videos for a while now, I found myself covering topics that I liked, but turns out a lot of you guys didn't really care for. So I'm gonna take my time in choosing topics to cover and hopefully not blow through my load of great video ideas so soon with weekly videos. We might go longer between releases, but I'll usually keep it to a ~two week gap at the max. Thanks for reading pretizens. I appreciate my fans that can read. Reading is hard, believe me. I only just learned how to last week.

[@evanalmightyyy]

I always believe creators should make videos they want to make. What is a fan that only wants what they want at the end of the day?

[@ajmaietta]

All your videos are good, do what you like -- don't burn out man!

[@PretzelYT]

Yeah, I'm kinda torn on it. On one hand, I do like the idea of making literally whatever I want without regards to what people will watch. Because you're right. It is KZbin after all. But it does feel silly to ignore the fact that people like a certain type of thing I do here. It's not that I'm pivoting into things I don't want to cover, I'm just leaving out stuff that I know wouldn't do as well. I'm not really sure how to introduce videos like that to people who are subscribed and don't care about those topics. I'll have to spend some time thinking about that and what my best course of action is.

[@PretzelYT]

Genuinely, I do think this'll help with burnout. Not feeling like I have to scrap something together for a weekly video will give me some time to breathe and hopefully improve the quality of the videos.

[@evanalmightyyy]

@@PretzelYT maybe space those projects out so you are buffering them with projects you know will do well. This will give you breaks where you get to flex your creativity but aren’t constantly releasing them to potentially alienate anyone? Win win?

[@Oliverz730]

I'm sure I'm not the only one who's gonna mention it, but the Monaco grand prix goes through a tunnel! Although that's probably quite an outlier.

[@HunterAtheist]

Suzuka has a crossover where the track passes over another section of track in a figure 8 shape. This allows the track designers to add a similar number if left and right hand turns in a track, unlike traditional clockwise or counter-clockwise tracks.

[@jjc0064]

Yeah, this is Suzuka Kart 64!

[@Accrovideogames]

The scaling in Toad's Turnpike is more accurate than you think. Racers are in a sitting position and karts are very close to the ground. Sit next to a car or truck in real life and you'll look tiny in comparison.

[@Nothinghassomething]

I love Pretzels world tours

[@majintween]

this reminds me so much of my childhood of just booting up games and exploring with no ultimate intention or purpose. I had a kid in middle school bragging about having beat both Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask "so fast" and he was genuinely confused when I said I hadn't beaten it (when it was like a decade old at that point) because I spent most of my time just mindlessly roaming and exploring.

[@chrisdawson1776]

You probably voted for Kamabla kid

[@WheeledHamster]

And yet now that we're all grown up, world as detailed as Red Dead 2 doesn't even interest me as much.

[@MerkhVision]

I love this comment! I was just like you, hardly beat any games, but thoroughly explored their worlds instead! I loved Ocarina of Time, but never did any of the dungeons lol. I bought it used and the save file on there was already near the end so I was able to just explore around everywhere without any limits! As a kid I always hated dungeons lol, and my favorite parts of RPGs were the towns!

[@OtakuUnitedStudio]

That little "Perchance" in Koopa Troopa Beach was a much appreciated reference

[@1gnore_me.]

bro's been saying it in nearly every video thinking we wouldn't notice, lol

[@OtakuUnitedStudio]

@@1gnore_me. It always gets a smirk out of me in a Mario video

[@AndRocProductions]

dude hanging out at peach’s castle was probably my favorite thing to do in all my games as a kid

[@joshd1071]

Jesus Christ my healer loves you, I hope you have a wonderful day

[@typhoonthunder]

the skybox in Toad's Turnpike invokes a sense of calm in me unlike any other skybox I've ever seen

[@nicocchi]

Those twilight colors are just *chef kiss* Just a brownish-orange fading into deep blue with starts starting to peek through-perhaps the orange isn't even a sunset, but the city's lights clashing with nature's pitch black night sky

[@Robocopnik]

The castle in the Mario track is a perfect example of the wonder of novelty, of asking, what might be over that next hill? The fact that there's not really all that much there doesn't matter, because the answer isn't important, the question is.

[@mkdroz91]

I used to pretend I was racing around Wario Stadium whenever I rode my bike across even the slightest, barely perceptible incline. Spent so much time going off-track to explore Peach's Castle, too. I love Mario Kart 8, but was bummed when they blocked off the castle in the remade track.

[@MattRoszak]

As a kid, I spent so much time with my friends exploring the weird corners of this game. But other than Peach's Castle, there really wasn't anything to find - you had to use your imagination.

[@SirBobson]

1:50 Monaco is the first to come to mind. Love the vibes of these tours

[@lukefaulkingham5233]

Isn’t it one of THE MOST famous racetracks too?

[@VaniRoyal]

Simpsons Hit & Run is the game world I explored and over-analyzed like this as a kid. The incredible amount of attention to detail was just asking for you to explore the world of Springfield. I loved running around the town and making up my own stories in my head, and following the flow of traffic to find where all the cars just turn around because the road ends. I was often more interested in the less iconic locations, less so the notable shops and buildings, and more so the generic houses. I loved how you could find the Wiggum’s house at the end of the Simpsons’ street, it wasn’t a recognizable location from the show, it was just a random house, I don’t even think the game calls it their house outside of a single mission where Ralph is standing in front of the house, and even then it’s not called attention to. Outside that mission, you could find Ralph in the backyard of the house, just hanging around. You could talk to him and he’d spout off some unique dialogue, but there weren’t any collectibles or anything, just Ralph. The game is full of locations like that. The way the town felt real but didn’t at the same time really intrigued me, it changed the way I explored games. Didn’t mean to make this this long, whoops. Kinda off topic for the video, too.

[@joshcamacho7294]

Bro this channel is awesome

[@mackaffleck]

Love it. Make lots of these kinds of "exploring the world of" videos and I'll be a happy man

[@bradye21playsIndieHorror]

5:55 oh wow, it's not just nothing... It's REALLY nothing! 💀

[@unbindingfloyd]

Koopa Beach is probably my favorite. I think the colors are a very 90s palette so today it is even more nostalgic to me. Looks like something you would see in an og dragon ball or pokemon orange islands episode. Im also a sucker for waterfalls hiding paths in games. Also the crabs running across the beach are a nice touch.

[@CysmaWinheim]

I definitely gotta second Frappe Snowland for Best Vibes. It looks like it would be a set of grassy hills with a river cutting through it in any other season, but it's a cool winter night, and those plains and hills are now covered in a nice white blanket of snow that would no doubt crunch nicely under your feet with each step as you go to build snow sculptures. The background music really helps sell the festive atmosphere as well. All you could really add there is a rustic cabin somewhere along the side of the track, and Christmas lights on the trees.

[@kswaes]

I love those 3d intros you make

[@numberfourtytwo]

As someone who played this as a kid back in the day, I can confirm that I thought it was soo cool that I could drive up to Peach's castle from Mario 64! I would drive around there often, just taking it in, being amazed that it was there, not even part of the track itself, but off to the side on it's own. ^_^

[@lucasgraeff5391]

everything can be a tunnel if you go fast enough!

[@JWBails]

Mario Odyssey would be great for World Tours, I feel like you could get a whole video out of each world!

[@OyxNova]

Love this series man. I watched a LOT of youtube videos and I can say this is the most original series about gaming ive ever watched. Keep up the good work!

[@LandonEmma]

Marty is actually not green. It’s just the yellow lighting. Just wanted to clear that up.

[@StarHaven64]

7:35 Never noticed that, played this game a lot with my siblings when we were younger. Nice catch! Also, Mario Odessey would be a great game to cover for Video Game World Tours.

[@seanmyster6]

Mario Kart 64 always felt like a magical world that could be explored, rather than simply a collection of tracks to race on. It's a feeling that I don't really get from any other Mario Kart game, hence why 64 will always hold a special place in my heart.

[@Zictor]

I'm one of those Kids who''s imagination ran wild on Royal Raceway... I've always wanted to be able to go into the castle, get out of the car and run around etc. As kids we used to make up loads of stuff that wasn't actually in Video Games to tell each other about... Heard things like Yoshi was on the Roof if you could get up to it etc. I guess on some level we knew we couldn't get in but that didn't stop our imaginations... or stop us from actually driving around the castle grounds!

[@diesegeties8918]

Finally you're making this video, I think it's one of my favorite games for the Nintendo 64, please do Majora's Masks or Ocarina of Time after that, the Legend of Zelda series.😊😊

[@PretzelYT]

I've already done two videos on Ocarina of Time and a handful of others on other Zelda games! I'll get to Majora's Mask someday...

[@clarjon1plus]

1:02 "I wonder if a kart racer has ever started off with a super moody track? That'd be a statement." May I introduce you to Nightmare Kart?

[@pirate4460]

Doesn't Banshee Boardwalk have bats flying out of the coffin? I thought you would have mentioned that, or watched where the bats go.

[@Tlaloc1]

as a kid playing mario kart DS, i noticed that the minimap of frappe snowland showed a river. id never seen it, so i decided to turn around and was wowed by the river just being there and not being a minimap exclusive detail.

[@deetvleet]

kart racing games are so neat. they're like the mini golf to racing sims

[@Reptonious]

I realized the scaling is weird in almost every video game about the time I realized almost every shot in every movie has intentional fish eye. It's just like that!

[@imthischair]

love it. made me think of all the strange and cozy little spots in beetle adventure racing, would love to see a video on that 🥰

[@Sharkmonger]

I played Mario Kart 64 as a kid before I got to try out Mario 64 - I was confused when I couldn't find the kart track outside Peach's Castle in Mario 64!

[@MrBrewskiDrewski]

Not being able to drive up to Peach’s Castle in the remake of Royal Raceway is highway robbery.

[@EWOODJ]

_”That’s kinda gruesome for a kids party racer”_ Alright already, we get it.

[@borkbork9541]

I do this kart exploration stuff all the time in srb2k, which is all the more personal in maps made by a wider community

[@diesegeties8918]

6:22 Definitely make the video on Mario Odyssey, that would be amazing 😊😊😊

[@DinnerSonic]

Like a lot of others, I loved that area in Royal Raceway, it was kinda obvious but felt so secret! I think it's the same spot the cup ranking spot takes place in, so I guess they made it anyway, but it was a really cool bonus, and I was so sad they basically removed it from Mario Kart 8's version, where it's explicitly blocked off and in general simplified to just being the castle anyway. I think that stuck out mostly because it feels like, while like other newer Mario Kart games they really reign in the ability to go off course, 8 has a lot of visual detail in and outside of the courses that make me wish I could just take a stroll around them. It's the kinda thing that might be fun to see you cover alongside Super Mario Odyssey!

[@mattg2091]

When I discovered the Mario 64 castle in Royal Raceway as a kid, my dumb ass booted up Mario 64 to see if I could see Mario Kart from that game.

[@jhonbus]

2:45 Umm... OK so despite having played this game a lot, since the year it came out in fact, I'm gonna admit that I NEVER noticed that before. I can't be the only one. right?

[@BlackFantasy470]

My favourite is still Yoshi's Valley but that's probably because I'm a big Yoshi friend. And I definitely remember playing MK64 as a small girl and the sight of Peach's Castle. Nowadays I wonder why nobody ever make a hack combining the race track with the castle somehow.

[@RansydMango]

I absolutely adore the aspect ratio of the video

[@terrynixon2758]

Monoco has a tunnel, Yas Marina has a tunnel but it's on the pitlane not the main track, and the new Madrid track for 2026 has a couple of tunnels. That's just F1 tracks there's probably other tracks with tunnels.

[@meander8458]

Lovely to see your perspective on these tracks and remember what they were like to play on the N64. I always thought Rainbow Road was amazing….though I was no good at it! I also definitely drove towards the castle on Royal Raceway too :)

[@zonk834]

Heck yeah. One of my few childhood games.

[@gangdelbosc9459]

those kind of videos are the reason i keep going

[@kroyakra6272]

12:40 Its rainbow road its where you go, when you die its rainbow rooooooooaddddddd

[@zacharyswan6836]

Yes! Yes! And so much yes! These niche videos on the special parts of games that unlocked our imaginations are the things on KZbin I live for! Please do a video for Double Dash next! I love how Double Dash did worldbuilding to give the impression of interconnected next of the track (Daisy's Cruise is visible in multiple maps, as is Mushroom City). As requested toward the end of this video, favorite Mario Kart 64 track: hmmm, I think from an aesthetic perspective, Choco Mountain, just always seemed neat to me, not sure why; from a racing perspective, I think Toad's Turnpike or Royal Raceway.

[@Scoth42]

It's quite short, but the Monza race track has a tunnel!

[@Gamah1991]

1:50 Monaco has entered the chat...

[@revtengu178]

i have a suggestion for this series: Toy Story 2 for the ps1. one of my favorites, and TONS of neat little places that take advantage of the game's scale

[@ShizuruNakatsu]

*Luigi's Raceway segment ends* "Next is Koopa Troopa Beach" Is Moo Moo Farm being skipped? O.O

[@BigEasyH]

so as for tunnels on race tracks, the Monaco street circuit has a tunnel section for the F1 Grand Prix.... but its not a permanent circuit so idk if that counts in your mind

[@CryBlueofZ]

Nice use of the OSRS OST

[@applegreen1277]

Chocobo racing in playstation 1 also has a couple of fun tracks.

[@0xTJ]

A few of the Formula 1 tracks actually have tunnels!

[@Whacka_Enthusiast]

Why does this give such huge ASMR vibes?

[@uniwnuserr7252]

This gives "technology connections" vibes

[@fatsurprise7892]

Engagement with video! Good times please make more

[@JayTheOtt]

Babe, wake up, new Pretzel video game world tour video

[@ajgames6995]

Love these tours

[@indigo5796]

Oh yeah home from work dinner in bed and pretzel uploaded

[@GhotiCan]

11:31 You should do a video on Pac Man World 2! That's one of my favorite games from when I was a kid, and the vibes are superb

[@Red.BullShark]

Finally a new pretzel video❤

[@bugjams]

what a tasty pretzel treat

[@chairwood]

salty. just like licking a

[@Pepperroni_McRoni]

Me when Merio Kert 64:

[@-SunGod-]

Royal Raceway is the best because of Peach’s Castle

[@esotericmissionary]

Bummer, both Moo Moo Farms and Yoshi Valley were overlooked.

[@thenorseguy2495]

Of course we want a tour in Super Mario Odyssey 🥳

[@Bambusbjoern2912]

Deus ex 1 tour pleaaaaaase!!

[@galleyIRL]

Have you considered looking at Pikmin? I think Pikmin 1 has a lot of neat stuff to look at, considering it seems eerily like Earth.

[@alexschettino1277]

Japans very own F1 track has an over under like this dog....

[@r.a.miller9385]

I would love a Mario Odyssey World Tour video.

[@OfficialAnekito]

Bro, 1:40, what about legendary Monaco in Formula 1 and other motorsports? The tunnel is glorious!

[@domdude64dd]

I'm pretty sure that side area calamari desert is or was used in speedrunning

[@WheeledHamster]

I don't know why when we were young the world of these N64 games are so fascinating. Now even with something as advance like Red Dead 2 or Cyberpunk, I'm just like.....meh!!!!

[@STARSVeteran]

Guys wake up, Pretzel uploaded! ❤

[@flandersnatch2285]

woah. 1 view 😳

[@wizzy_00]

Can u do a vid on rdr2 ?

[@wa27]

The flame breath doesn't actually hurt you??

[@BoyOHBoy123]

I never noticed how empty this game is until now.

[@infernosierra]

hi Pretzel! have you played OneShot? if so, is it among the planned to be featured on a future World Tour?

[@meinebosma]

Does Nightmare Kart count as moody?

[@kevyready2194]

Can you do Conker's Bad Fur Day?

[@Nathan-mu1pz]

You sound like Sheldon

[@snarkychan7504]

bloodborne kart

[@ekogame1720]

you can't just say perchance 2:50

[@chairwood]

I like osrs :)

[@insanecamo]

You can't just say perchance

[@kawaiiseaslugs6756]

i could never get past 10th place 😢

[@PretzelYT]

you can do it now, i believe in you

[@ThommyofThenn]

Nice job using "perchance" correctly. As far as I know, that is not a commonly used word

[@thebreakfastmenu]

Perchance.

[@TimeTravelingFetus11]

You can't just say perchance.

[@Batnano]

Crash team racing > Mario kart

[@EWOODJ]

Eh

[@rayfields7749]

Hi

[@Gamma-wu2fj]

26th like, and 10th comment.

[@cassini4751]

I would genuinely absolutely love for this guy to check out the Fortnite Island some day just to have a look around like he normally does The Chapter 1 Season 3/4/6 maps (the ones everyone talks about including places like Tilted Towers or Tomato Rown) all have different archived creative maps meaning he could explore each map unbothered by other players and alone and without any sort of time limit If my some chance he's reading this, the codes to each map are: Season 3: 8995-9837-0904 Season 4: 3613-0023-4803 Season 6: 6573-8745-8705