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Catherine Lewis

We're down to the final survivor of the Nintendo Wii U and 3DS online shutdown, as the last connected player keeps on trucking on dead Mario Kart 7 servers over 100 days later

Mario Kart 7 key art shows Mario racing ahead of Bowser.

It's been 101 days since Nintendo's Wii U and 3DS servers were meant to go offline for good, ending online play on the likes of Splatoon and Pokemon X and Y. However, some fans managed to stay connected for way longer than they were supposed to, and we're now down to the final server survivor, who says it's a "bittersweet moment" to have gotten this far.

The survivor in question is Twitter user @fishguy6564, who has remained connected to Mario Kart 7's online mode for over three months. Up until May 13, fishguy6564 wasn't left alone in racing game purgatory, as a second racer, Marioiscool246, had also managed to stay online, with the two setting up bots to race against each other repeatedly. Tragedy struck after 13,151 races, though, as Marioiscool246's 3DS crashed, leaving poor fishguy6564 to watch victory laps solo. 

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