While there are plenty of places where you can pay to put on a Mario cap and tool around in a go-kart making like it’s the Rainbow Road, real-life Mario Kart lacks the fun power-ups and gentle ...

Whether you’re playing this game for the very first time or reliving it from when it first released in 1996, you might be wondering how to get power-ups for Mario such as the Metal Cap.

On his head is an oversized candy-red Mario cap whose brim sports a pair of cartoon eyes—a nod to the game’s central novelty. He’s talking about something game developers refer to as ...