Mario Kart World Direct Acknowledges Long-Standing Meme by Repeatedly Throwing Penguin Off Cliffs

During today's Mario Kart World Direct, we got a person look astatine a fig of caller tracks, features, and racers, including Penguin. We've known Penguin was successful the crippled since its uncover past week, but today's Direct decided to diagnostic this bluish cutie successful a precise meme-specific way...by repeatedly throwing him disconnected cliffs.

This happened not once, but twice during the Direct, arsenic fans person pointed retired connected societal media. On 1 occasion, Penguin simply misjudges a curve and sails neatly disconnected implicit an icy landscape:

Even Nintendo is deliberately dropping bluish penguins disconnected of icy ledges.#MarioKartWorld #MarioKartWorldDirect #Nintendo #Switch2 pic.twitter.com/0eMsUE24Jz

But successful a second, adjacent much connected the chemoreceptor move, a Penguin successful Free Roam drives consecutive disconnected a cliff into the oversea beneath portion euphony from Super Mario 64 toodles distant successful the background:

29 years aboriginal and we inactive chucking penguins disconnected of cliffs similar successful Mario 64#MarioKartWorld pic.twitter.com/7klPg5rZkM

If you're confused arsenic to wherefore this is noteworthy, let maine to gully your attraction to a long-standing assemblage meme of Penguin from Super Mario 64. In Super Mario 64, players discovered years agone that it was imaginable to cod a Power Star from Mother Penguin by returning Baby Penguin to her, past to instrumentality Baby Penguin aft the prima appears and instrumentality them distant again...or adjacent driblet them disconnected a cliff:

This spot has been memed into fame for implicit a decennary by the Mario community, truthful it's highly comic to spot Nintendo admit it adjacent if it's successful a somewhat subtle, plausible-deniability benignant of way. Is this a horrendous happening to do? Society inactive hasn't travel down cleanly connected 1 broadside oregon different of the Penguin-cliff debate. At slightest Mario Kart World gives Penguin a bully small h2o conveyance truthful they tin conscionable support going erstwhile they've landed.

Today's Mario Kart Nintendo Direct wasn't precisely the font of caller accusation galore were hoping it would be, but we inactive got connection connected immoderate absorbing caller stuff: much caller characters, courses, items, and features, arsenic good arsenic a adjacent look (courtesy of Penguin and others) of the caller unfastened satellite Free Roam mode, which volition fto players thrust astir anyplace successful the satellite without restraint.

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