Why do Mario Kart and Microsoft's Operating Systems share naming conventions? DELUXE

[TheDanimal]

Alright so bear with me, but there is a very clear similarity between the way each Mario Kart game has been titled and Microsoft has titled each installment of Windows.
Here's the evidence:

Super Mario Kart - MS-Dos
Admittedly, the list doesn't start off strong, but you cannot deny the resemblance between DOS and Super. They're basically synonymous.

Mario Kart 64 - Windows 95
They're both named after important numbers, I guess

Mario Kart: Super Circuit - Windows NT 4.0


Mario Kart Double Dash - Windows XP
Landmark titles for each respective series, both names are fun, new and exciting.

Mario Kart DS - Windows CE 6.0
IT WAS THE MOBILE REVOLUTION BABYYYY

Mario Kart Wii - Windows Vista
Vista and Wii. They're both kind of weird names, right? Vista didn't sell nearly as well as Wii. Plus most people don't really like either iteration compared to what came next.

Mario Kart 7 - Windows 7
Both Nintendo and Microsoft decided to name the new versions with a 7? There's clearly some sort of collaboration between Nintendo and Microsoft.

Mario Kart 8 - Windows 8
The eighth (??) installment for each.

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe - Windows 8.1
A refined version of the newest installment.

Mario Kart 10 - Windows 10
The future of Mario Kart: another Mario Kart game will never release again. This game will just continually be updated.
This will happen.
I can feel it.

What do you think?
There's some sort of shady, sneaky collaboration happening between Microsoft and Nintendo. Hopefully the legions of ERA can help uncover more diabolical secrets.

 

[udivision]

I think go back to solving paper crimes.

 

[rpm]

I need to hear your theory on the correlation between Super Circuit and NT before I can weigh in

 

[Rowsdower]

Wait, what about Windows 98 and 2000?

 

[Flandy]

you're a genius op

 

[Neiteio]

This makes my head hurt :-(

But hey maybe it explains why Microsoft stuff is on Nintendo

They were one and the same all along

 

[TheDanimal]

AND WE'RE BACK
TELL ME WHY I'M WRONG
I DARE YOU

 

[MouldyK]

AND WE'RE BACK
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I DARE YOU

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98, 2000...

...let us also know:

I need to hear your theory on the correlation between Super Circuit and NT before I can weigh in

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[TheDanimal]

98, 2000...

...let us also know:

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All the information you need is in the OP

 

[butzopower]

Half your list is just version numbers, one you don't even explain, and the others barely overlap.

 

[evilmonkey]

The Windows release numbers are blatant lies though. Windows 7 is actually Windows 6.1.

 

[Deleted member 16025]

OH
MY
GOOOOOOOOODDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

 

[Springy]

AND WE'RE BACK
TELL ME WHY I'M WRONG
I DARE YOU

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I can't. It's watertight.

 

[Deleted member 249]

OP, I agree with you. Ignore the haters, only a blessed few can see the truth.

 

[Stopdoor]

This is dumb.

But now you've opened the Pandora's Box and Nintendo is going to do the weirdo tech company move of skipping Mario Kart 9, thanks OP.

 

[NinjaScooter]

Alright so bear with me, but there is a very clear similarity between the way each Mario Kart game has been titled and Microsoft has titled each installment of Windows.
Here's the evidence:

Super Mario Kart - MS-Dos
Admittedly, the list doesn't start off strong, but you cannot deny the resemblance between DOS and Super. They're basically synonymous.

Mario Kart 64 - Windows 95
They're both named after important numbers, I guess

Mario Kart: Super Circuit - Windows NT 4.0


Mario Kart Double Dash - Windows XP
Landmark titles for each respective series, both names are fun, new and exciting.

Mario Kart DS - Windows CE 6.0
IT WAS THE MOBILE REVOLUTION BABYYYY

Mario Kart Wii - Windows Vista
Vista and Wii. They're both kind of weird names, right? Vista didn't sell nearly as well as Wii. Plus most people don't really like either iteration compared to what came next.

Mario Kart 7 - Windows 7
Both Nintendo and Microsoft decided to name the new versions with a 7? There's clearly some sort of collaboration between Nintendo and Microsoft.

Mario Kart 8 - Windows 8
The eighth (??) installment for each.

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe - Windows 8.1
A refined version of the newest installment.

Mario Kart 10 - Windows 10
The future of Mario Kart: another Mario Kart game will never release again. This game will just continually be updated.
This will happen.
I can feel it.

What do you think?
There's some sort of shady, sneaky collaboration happening between Microsoft and Nintendo. Hopefully the legions of ERA can help uncover more diabolical secrets.

Click to shrink...

 

[Gaardus]

There's nothing in the OP I can argue with. So... you're right, I guess???

 

[Jaded Alyx]

Delete this person from the internet

 

[iag]

What's the Mario Kart equivalent of Longhorn?

 

[TheDanimal]

Delete this person from the internet

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;_; don't do this please

 

[evilmonkey]

This is dumb.

But now you've opened the Pandora's Box and Nintendo is going to do the weirdo tech company move of skipping Mario Kart 9, thanks OP.

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They're definitely skipping 9 because MK Tour fills that spot.

 

[Dyle]

Where do the arcade games fit into this? Do they match up with the OSes for Windows Phone?

 

[Mory Dunz]

Only 1 paper mario reference?

disappointing Era.

 

[The Spoony Hou]

Obviously Nintendo was bought by MS way back then, we just never realised.

 

[ClickyCal']

Most underrated Era poster.

 

[ibyea]

OP's avatar is like the most appropriate avatar right now.

 

[Cess007]

How the hell did you get this thread reopen, OP? Tell us your secrets!

 

[Deleted member 6730]

Some of these are stretching it.

 

[Deleted member 49535]

Yep, that's enough Resetera for me today.

 

[mael]

drunk thread? drunk thread.

 

[Dyle]

And what about Mario Kart VR? Is that Nintendo's equivalent to HoloLens?

 

[deftones r cool]

That's enough ResetEra for me today.

 

[BocoDragon]

I think it's true after 7. They both did that weird thing where they put numbers on them with the 7th instalment. Most of us weren't keeping count before then.

 

[Inugami]

No correlation on the first 6 titles, finds a correlation on the ones titled 7 and 8 being the 7th and 8th respectively released title.... Good job OP.

 

[Deleted member 4372]

Thread is already destined for The Vault

 

[Soulflarz]

I feel a compulsive need to acknowledge this thread but its foolproof and I can't really refute it so theres not much room for discussion?

 

[Giever]

This is bad even by your usual standards

 

[Lord Vatek]

I thought I was the only one who noticed this.

 

[Madao]

the relationship between main 2D Mario games and Jurassic Park movies was closer than this.

Super Mario Bros. - Jurassic Park
Super Mario Bros. 2: The Lost Levels - The Lost World: Jurassic Park
Super Mario Bros. 3 - Jurassic Park 3
Super Mario World - Jurassic World
Yoshi's Island: Super Mario World 2 - Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (the last one kinda broke the streak)

so i guess the next Jurassic Park Movie will be New Jurassic Park or Jurassic 64 if they go the 3D Mario route. can't wait for Jurassic Sunshine and Jurassic Galaxy.

 

[TheDanimal]

the relationship between main 2D Mario games and Jurassic Park movies was closer than this.

Super Mario Bros. - Jurassic Park
Super Mario Bros. 2: The Lost Levels - The Lost World: Jurassic Park
Super Mario Bros. 3 - Jurassic Park 3
Super Mario World - Jurassic World
Yoshi's Island: Super Mario World 2 - Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (the last one kinda broke the streak)

so i guess the next Jurassic Park Movie will be New Jurassic Park or Jurassic 64 if they go the 3D Mario route. can't wait for Jurassic Sunshine and Jurassic Galaxy.

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I'm actually so upset I didn't see this
This is perfect

 

[Deleted member 5127]

This obviously means Banjo-Kazooie for Mario Kart 10.

 

[Pancracio17]

the relationship between main 2D Mario games and Jurassic Park movies was closer than this.

Super Mario Bros. - Jurassic Park
Super Mario Bros. 2: The Lost Levels - The Lost World: Jurassic Park
Super Mario Bros. 3 - Jurassic Park 3
Super Mario World - Jurassic World
Yoshi's Island: Super Mario World 2 - Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (the last one kinda broke the streak)

so i guess the next Jurassic Park Movie will be New Jurassic Park or Jurassic 64 if they go the 3D Mario route. can't wait for Jurassic Sunshine and Jurassic Galaxy.

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Jurassic World and Yoshi's Island take place on islands

 

[Deleted member 9971]

Detective Era is back in full force i see 😎

 

[low-G]

I would like to know why everyone (not literally everyone) skips 9.

 

[Chacranajxy]

what.

 

[Deleted member 12790]

I would like to know why everyone (not literally everyone) skips 9.

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They skipped windows 9, because the core that formed Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows ME was called Windows 9X. It would be confusing to have both a Windows 9, and a Windows 9X. And not just from a marketing perspective -- lots of legacy applications will simply check the literal string returned for the version number, and will omit the second character after 9 to group all of 9X into a single category. Meaning you'll see code like "if(windowsversionstring.compare("Windows 9") == 0) { /*win 98 95*/}" etc.

 

[Deleted member 48897]

So Windows ME is Konami Crazy Racers. Huh. Learn something new every day.

 

[low-G]

They skipped windows 9, because the core that formed Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows ME was called Windows 9X. It would be confusing to have both a Windows 9, and a Windows 9X. And not just from a marketing perspective -- lots of legacy applications will simply check the literal string returned for the version number, and will omit the second character after 9 to group all of 9X into a single category. Meaning you'll see code like "if(windowsversionstring.compare("Windows 9") == 0) { /*win 98 95*/}" etc.

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Never knew that, but in hindsight that's how I would have checked the version too... Now Mario Kart 9.

 

[aerie]

Jurassic World and Yoshi's Island take place on islands

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Dinosaur Islands

I'm actually so upset I didn't see this

This is perfect

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We have to go deeper.

 

[Madao]

Never knew that, but in hindsight that's how I would have checked the version too... Now Mario Kart 9.

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it would be very funny if Mario Kart skips 9 because Nintendo decides to change the series to Nintendo Kart with the next entry (not that i think that'd happen but there's always a chance, especially after how SSB Ultimate grew the franchise's sales and reach just by having everyone in there)