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Article text courtesy of nytimes.com

Move Over, Mario. This Cow Is Nintendo’s New Star.

Charmed by the introduction of a cow racer for the new Mario Kart World game, fans have made her the focus of videos that are surfacing in people’s Instagram and TikTok feeds.

Think of the name Nintendo, and familiar names and faces likely come to mind. There’s Mario and Luigi, the mustachioed brothers in overalls who fight Bowser, the turtlelike villain with a habit of kidnapping Princess Peach. And then there’s Donkey Kong, Wario and Toad, among others.

These characters have been racing one another in iterations of the Mario Kart game series since 1992, with no real story line other than who can come in first place. But from the moment the first trailers for the Switch 2 console and the Mario Kart World game were released in April, fans were abuzz that a new favorite had entered the race: a cow.