It gets its own TV show!

Does anybody here remember Video & Arcade Top 10? It was a show on YTV about 10 years ago about video games that featured a segment of 3 competitors playing a “recent” game for a chance to win a random prize. It really was a terrible show. Korea has a similar TV show right now, except instead of reviews and news as well, the show is just about the competition. And it doesn’t feature various games, it only features one: Mario Kart DS.

MKDS hasn’t been out in Korea for too long, but already it seems to have found a hardcore audience. Gaming and competitive gaming in Korea has become big business. “Run & Run Mario Kart DS” is a program all about gamers playing MKDS, and only MKDS. There are 6 players in all, two teams of three, and they race to get their team the collectively fastest times while the show’s hosts give a constant play-by-play of the competition.

Siliconera