Mario Kart Wii - Mar 25 10 A

One thing that Mario Kart Wii has over Sonic & SEGA All-Stars Racing, as far as the online services go, is Battle Mode online. Well, that and how Mario Kart Wii is streamlined to work over Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection whereas Sonic & SEGA All-Stars Racing has a host-guest infrastructure designed around Xbox Live and the PlayStation Network, where each system has a username instead of each game and voice chat typically means the host can decide based on concensus. Not that I actually USE voice chat. So stop sending me voice messages over Xbox Live, because it gets drowned out over the rest of the audio. I don't use a headset. Race #1 SNES Ghost Valley 2 When you see a POW Block appearing and you have an item, use it up before the POW Block disappears! I had a Red Shell in 3rd place, and I knew the racer in 2nd would block it with something. But as the POW Block deprives you of your items, it becomes much harder to block that Red Shell. The POW Block apparently caused Brad to fall off the track as well, putting me into 1st. How lucky of me! Battle #1 Balloon Battle GCN Cookie Land Hmm. I'm holding up much of the Blue Team...but it seems the Red Team has an "Auntii Sam" who is responsible for much of the Red Team's scores too. I don't know what the deal is with the other two Red Team players at about 2 minutes left on the timer; they look like they'e lost their last balloons, but no points were lost. Certainly confused me. The last hit apparently happened after the bell and thus didn't count. What a shame. Battle #2 Coin Runners Thwomp Desert Coin Runners on Thwomp Desert can wreak havoc if you get a lot of people with high Coin totals down near where the Thwomp is located. It becomes a veritable shark tank there. I believe I mentioned that the last time I put up a video of Thwomp Desert on Coin Runners. It gets so frantic there, this is easily my favorite stage to do Coin Runners on.