Mario Kart Arcade GP 2 (Japan)

First of all in the cabinet, players can adjust their seat within the time limit by moving a lever near their feet and sliding to any position.
Then, you choose a character to play as. Players can take a picture of themselves using the NAM-CAM camera lens within a time limit, but you can disable it and the picture of the current character is instead used.

The game goal is to finish in 1st place in every race. If you get placed lower place, you lose and you must retry to unlock the next course by inserting a coin.
If players get 1st place, they can continue if they pay the game another token. If not, the game is over.

Mario Coins are coins the collatable of Mario Kart Arcade GP 2. Those are use to unlock prizes to save on their Mario Card. When you reach 4000 Mario Coins, you will unlock a neat feature, the possibility to race first-person perspective. This is done by pressing the VS Cancel button during a race.

The player can pick between fourteen characters all with different stats and divided in 4 classes:
Balanced, Strong Acceleration, Easy Control and High Speed.They all have two karts, but the second one needs to be unlocked and it changes the stats based on the class.


At start of every race player can get a rocket start, to do so you need to press the accelerator at right moment. If successful, the kart gets a small speed boost when the race starts.

Player can also use a Jumping technique which is performed by tapping the brake pedal and then drifting occurs, you can continue the drift by accelerating.

GP2 features unique items that are grouped into these different categories. Like locking-on, passing the item, dropping backward, and shooting forward.
Locking-on item are the offensive one that auto-lock and enemy when you are close to him. Passing items require the item to be thrown, much as a locking-on item. Afflicted players need to collide with other players to evade the hindering effects. Items that drop backward and items that shoot forward are identical to any other MK game.

Also unique to this game is a temporary shield that is produced while powersliding which protects players from items thrown at them by the other racers.

There are three engine difficulty levels: 50cc, 100cc, and 150cc from easy to hard(Master), the game has 4 difficulty levels, and each one has two stages.

Each cup has 2 tracks, divided into 4 rounds. The first 2 rounds are the tracks in normal conditions, and the last 2 rounds the same tracks in different conditions(like weather).
After finishing all four races from each stage, a "challenge game" comes up, in which the player is not required to complete for winning the cup, a certain task for bonus Mario Coins but is not necessary; each of them requires the player to drive to a goal under a certain amount of time while under a certain condition, such as driving backwards through a field of banana peels.

Additional tracks and characters can be unlocked through play, with player data saved on a magnetic card.

There are 8 cups to win,each one form a different game world, when you win them all the game is tecnicaly over but you can still play and try Special Cups (Reverse mode).

Mario Kart Arcade GP 2, along with Mario Kart Arcade GP, featured a Internet Rankings system. It was run by Bandai Namco Entertainment Japan website, and a Mario Card was required to access it.

The cabinet can be link up to four players. After the players insert coins, the matchmaking starts looking for VS races. When players are found, the game starts.
This mode selection screen works like the single player one, but at end of it, every player votes for a course. After that, each player will be given 3 random items.
Players have have different colors over their characters head based off what number they are.

1 is Red.
2 is Orange.
3 is Green
4 is Blue
CPU is Dark Blue

If less than four players gather for a race then CPU drivers are added to make up four racers.

During the race, the bottom-left screen displays the player number and there is no speedometer in the bottom-right this time, it just shows the coin count. Also, the commentator says the player number before the character's name.

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