Mario Kart DS

Mario Kart DS is a 2005 kart racing game developed and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo DS handheld game console. Like other games in the series, Mario Kart DS features characters from the Mario series and pits them against each other as they race in karts on tracks based on locations in the Mario series. It was released in November 2005 in North America, Europe, and Australia, and on December 8, 2005, in Japan, and rereleased for the Wii U's Virtual Console in North America and PAL regions in April 2015 and in Japan in May 2016. The game is the fifth main entry in the Mario Kart series, and the first playable via the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection online service.