Watch This Mario Kart/Skateboarding Mashup Or Face A Red Shell Of Death

How much more exciting would real life be, if we lived by Mario Kart rules? The thrilling exhilaration of snagging a star, the chilling heartbreak of being smashed from behind by a dreaded red shell, the high-octane confusion that comes from ingesting a strange mushroom (wait, I guess that one actually does happen in real life, sometimes...)

In a new video uploaded by LA-based visuals group Corridor Digital, a skateboarder navigates an urban course on a Boosted electric board, dodging turtle shells and collecting coins along the way, in the vein of everyone's favorite kart-racing game. Needless to say, it gets pretty intense. 

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The goofy clip ends in Luigi triumphantly besting his brother's score (be it short-lived), and is not without a few near-death encounters.

In conclusion: thanks but no thanks on the Mario Kart/IRL combination. We'll take awkward water cooler run-ins over rampaging Bullet Bills any day.

Get back to work, people.


Michelle No is an editorial assistant at Supercompressor. Follow her on Twitter and Instagram.

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