Baby Park might just be the most infamous track in Mario Kart – a simple, NASCAR-style oval with very short laps that ensure the entire field is in constant chaos. It was first introduced in Mario Kart: Double Dash on the GameCube, and a recently translated interview on the game's development suggests that Nintendo knew just how controversial the track was going to be from the start.
"We knew fairly early on that we wanted to make a course like that," producer Shinya Takahashi said of Baby Park in an interview with Nintendo Dream magazine, which was published ahead of the game's launch and was recently translated by Shmuplations.
