Download Mario Kart Live Home Circuit
Shanae Maerz
A: Yes. If you own a Nintendo Switch console, you can play Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit in TV mode. While playing in TV mode, your family and friends can watch you play as the kart races around your home.
A: If you have pets in your home, please make sure that pets are kept at a safe distance from the kart while playing and that the area you are playing in is free from pet fur (as this could get caught in the kart).
Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit is an installment in the Mario Kart series for the Nintendo Switch announced as part of the 35th anniversary of Super Mario Bros. The game makes use of physical kart products of Mario and Luigi with a camera attached to the back of the kart, which live streams the surrounding area to the player's Nintendo Switch. Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit released worldwide on October 16, 2020.
What's included in that price, then? Well, you get a single camera-enabled kart, four gates and two arrow signs. You then just need to download the game for free onto your Nintendo Switch from the eShop and that's everything you need to get started with augmented reality racing. Simply set up your track around your home and get to lobbing blue shells from a whole new perspective.
The tracks, meanwhile, are a blast to set up. You can add in any real-world elements you want, such as shoe boxes and pillows to create circuit walls that discourage shortcuts, little three-coil-binders for ramp jumps, and random obstructions players need to swerve around. Our dog functioned as an unexpected but particularly effective obstacle as he strolled around the track during one of our races (thank goodness the karts seem pretty durable).
Since Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit is basically all about driving a camera on wheels around your home, the game protects your privacy by not allowing you to take any screenshots or videos. Now you don't have to worry about your kid accidentally sharing images online from the kart's camera.
Because of how my home is layed out, the only place large enough to accomodate the Mario Kart Live track is the hardfloor surrounding my kitchen sink island. Unfortunately, these karts don't function as well when the signal gets interrupted by walls or when the Switch is too far away. I often experienced video lag at the point on the track furthest away from where I was sitting with the kitchen island between me and the kart.
Due to the previously-mentioned signal limitations, if your home doesn't have the best layout and you're hoping to stretch the track through multiple rooms, it likely won't work out very well unless you're willing to follow the kart around as it winds its way through your home. And since you're not supposed to use these karts outside, that narrows the usability down even further.
Not only do I live with constantly shedding pets, but I have also been cursed with curly fine hair, which means that fur and hair are everywhere in my house. Because of this, I made sure to vacuum my floors before each Mario Kart Live session, and that still didn't prevent my invasive hair from winding around the Mario and Luigi karts.
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