CodingExperiments has covered an interactive 3D viewer that uses Javascript. That’s pretty neat, but it’s small potatoes to Javascript Mario Kart. Yeah, you read that right. It’s Javascript.

Now, how does it play? Well, I’ve never had a better gaming experience in my life. The controls are so wonderful, the graphics are better than a PlayStation 3 game, and the AI is very intelligent.

You probably didn’t believe me for a second. The controls are annoying as you can only press one key at a time and the graphics are ugly and slow. The AI still beats me, though that’s because I suck at Mario Kart and that I had trouble adjusting to the one-keypress thing.

Now, what does this example teach us? Let’s see.

• Whatever it is, you have a pretty good chance that it can be written in Javascript, even though it won’t probably work that well.
• Internet Explorer is shooting itself in the foot by having it’s own proprietary standards and not supporting the official ones.
• Sadly, some things have to be left to Adobe Flash and Shockwave.

Now think if you’re going to be playing this a lot. Unless you are some Javascript addict, you are probably going to play Javascript games a couple times and then forget about them. This is a good example for a lot of web applications. If you’re creating a web application that uses way too much Javascript, and making the web application annoying and slow, people are going to go to other web applications or desktop ones.

Javascript Mario Kart is still pretty cool though.