Tokyo needs more than Mario karts to amuse tourists

Tokyo needs more than Mario karts to amuse tourists
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Bloomberg
By Gearoid Reidy They’re the scourge of Tokyo’s streets: bright-red go-karts driven by foreign tourists waving and clad in cartoon costumes.The providers of these personal transporters, colloquially known as Mario karts, once dressed riders as characters from Nintendo’s Super Mario Bros before putting them on the roads. Now, after a company lawsuit that went all the way to the Supreme Court, some websites warn that their street karts are “in no way a reflection” of the video game maker. But the damna...

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