Kart Fighter

Kart Fighter combines the character design and engine of Street Fighter II (or at least the engine of its NES bootlegs) with the characters, opening screen, and some music of Super Mario Kart, resulting in possibly the best bootleg fighting game in existence. Each character has their own "home stage" and appropriate special moves (Mario and Luigi shoot fireballs, Koopa Troopa attacks by getting into his shell, etc.).

It's a solid concept – after all, who wouldn't want to see (or have) Luigi punch Mario in the face or Peach show off her underwear knock Bowser down for the count or...

Waitasec...did Nintendo and HAL actually get a License to Print Money™ idea from an unlicensed game?

Unused Graphics


Graphics for a Game Over screen, not used due to a bug or a lazy programmer.



An unused font, with the first few characters arranged to spell "GAMEOVR".



Early text for the title screen menu, probably would have read "1 PLAYER 2 PLAYER OPTIONS".