Item

Items are used as power-ups in Mario Kart games. Some are meant to benefit the user, attack other racers, or both.

Items obtained are different from place to place up until Mario Kart 8, where items are now determined by how far you are from the leader.

Standard Items

Standard items are those that are featured in most or all games. (In brackets are special notes about game absences or exclusiveness.) [In square brackets are the places you can get them in MK64 - if anyone has a MK7 sheet, replace this with the MK7 values.]:

• Banana [1st]
  • Multi Banana (absent from Super and Super Circuit) [1st-2nd]
• Coin (absent from 64, Double Dash!! DS, and Wii; Also, only Super and 8 features the item in an Item Box)
• Fake Item Box (absent from Super, Super Circuit, 7 and 8) [1st-2nd]
• Mushroom [1st-5th]
  • Triple Mushrooms (absent from Super and Super Circuit) [2nd-12th]
  • Golden Mushroom (absent from Super and Super Circuit) [2nd-12th]
• Shells:
  • Spiny Shell (absent from Super Mario Kart) [4th to 12th]
  • Green Shell [1st-2nd]
  • Red Shell [1st-5th]
  • Triple Green Shells (absent from Super and Super Circuit) [1st-3rd]
  • Triple Red Shells (absent from Super and Super Circuit) [2nd-12th]
• Starman [2nd-12th]
• Lightning [2nd-12th]
• Boo/Ghost (absent from Double Dash!!, Wii, 7, and 8) [1st-2nd]

Recent Items

Many items are only present in more recent games:

Type	Double Dash!!	DS	Wii	7	8
Bob-omb	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y
Blooper	N	Y	Y	Y	Y
Bullet Bill	N	Y	Y	Y	Y
Mega Mushroom	N	N	Y	N	N
POW Block	N	N	Y	N	N
Thunder Cloud	N	N	Y	N	N
Fire Flower	N	N	N	Y	Y
Lucky 7	N	N	N	Y	N
Super Leaf	N	N	N	Y	N
Crazy 8	N	N	N	N	Y
Boomerang Flower	N	N	N	N	Y
Piranha Plant	N	N	N	N	Y
Super Horn	N	N	N	N	Y

Double Dash!! Special Items

• Red Fireballs/Green Fireballs
• Yoshi Egg/Birdo Egg
• Heart
• Bob-omb
• Giant Banana
• Bowser Shell
• Chain Chomp
• Triple Red Shells/Triple Green Shells
• Golden Mushroom

Gallery

POW Block from Mario Kart Wii

Thunder Cloud.