GBA Lakeside Park

Not to be confused with GBA Riverside Park.

Lakeside Park
Information
Appears in	Mario Kart: Super Circuit (2001) Mario Kart Tour (2023)
Cup(s)	Special Cup
Tour(s)	Sunshine Tour
Music sample Mario Kart: Super Circuit Mario Kart Tour
Course map Mario Kart: Super Circuit Mario Kart Tour

Lakeside Park is the first course of the Special Cup in Mario Kart: Super Circuit. It is set on a muddy road by a lake surrounded by forest and volcanoes. The major obstacle in this course is the two volcanoes in the background. Starting on the second lap, the sky turns darker (similar to Sunset Wilds) and the volcanoes will erupt and send Lava Boulders around the course. Its music is very similar to Riverside Park's music, albeit with a different melody.

Lakeside Park returns in Mario Kart Tour as a classic course, debuting in the Sunshine Tour.

Mario Kart: Super Circuit

Course layout

The course starts out on a straightaway, followed by a U-turn to the right, a left turn, and a right turn after that. Past those turns is a left turn onto a bridge that has a crack on the right. There is an Item Box located over the crack. Past the bridge is a slight left turn that leads to a right U-turn. After that, there is a slight right turn, a left turn, then a U-turn to the left. Then there is another slight right turn, then a U-turn to the left. If the player doesn't take the turn correctly, they may hit some yellow ramps that can send them to an earlier part of the course. After the turn is a straightaway with a Dash Panel on the right, followed by a jump over an earlier part of the course. There is an abrupt left turn after the jump which leads to a U-turn to the right. After the turn is a left turn with some ramps on the right that can send the player to an earlier part of the course. There is a Dash Panel close to the ramps. Then there is a slight left-to-right turn that leads to a straightaway, which leads to the finish line.

Shortcuts

• Before the jump, the player needs to take the Dash Panel on the right. While jumping, the player needs to turn slightly right to hit some ramps located in the water, then right again so they don't fall in the water. This leads them to the straightaway to the Finish Line.

Mario Kart Tour

Lakeside Park in Mario Kart Tour

Lakeside Park makes its classic course debut in Mario Kart Tour starting from the Sunshine Tour. It was the final classic course added to the game (and by proxy, the final GBA course). The starting line includes a wooden starting banner, with the classic Mario Kart logo. Like GBA Yoshi Desert and GBA Luigi Circuit, the colored block walls follow the order they use in SNES courses, as opposed to the other GBA tracks with them. The original layout's broad strokes are the same, though the proportions are more squished vertically and elongated horizontally, and numerous turns were simplified. Part of the track has become more mountainous, with a ramp added, and the starting line and lake are noticeably closer to the first right turn of the course. The final turn after the jump has been heavily simplified, with it being less dramatic and straightened out leading into the finish line. The roadside ramps that sent players back to earlier portions of the course were removed, as were all of the dash panels besides the one on the ramp. After a set time, the sky darkens, the volcanoes erupt and Lava Balls appear, tumbling onto the course and forming many craters that players can perform Jump Boosts on. Upon entering the second lap, volcanic embers appear in the air throughout the course, though this is simply an aesthetic detail.

This course also appears as Lakeside Park R (reversed), Lakeside Park T (with ramps), and Lakeside Park R/T (reversed with ramps). In the T variant, racers drive across two mushroom trampolines. In the R/T variant, several water geysers appear along the track.

In a similar vein to GBA Peach Circuit and GBA Luigi Circuit in Mario Kart Tour, a restored version of the original music from Mario Kart: Super Circuit is used as its background music, although the flute was upgraded.

The course renders dates back to September 2021, suggesting that Lakeside Park was planned to debut in Tour much earlier.

Appearances

For this course's tour appearances, see List of GBA Lakeside Park tour appearances in Mario Kart Tour.

Top-tier and middle-tier items

Select "show" to reveal the drivers, karts, and gliders for which GBA Lakeside Park and its variants are always favored or favorite courses. For instances in which additional drivers, karts, and gliders temporarily had this course and its variants as favored or favorite courses, see List of GBA Lakeside Park tour appearances in Mario Kart Tour.

Course	Three-item drivers	Bonus points ×2 karts	Combo bonus ×3 gliders	Two-item drivers	Bonus points ×1.5 karts	Combo bonus ×2 gliders
Normal variant
R variant
T variant
R/T variant					***
* indicates a favored course upgraded to a favorite course after reaching level 3. ** indicates a favored course upgraded to a favorite course after reaching level 6. *** indicates a favored course upgraded to a favorite course after reaching level 8 for High-End items.

Bonus challenges

Goomba Takedown
Icon	Course variant	Chosen driver	Chosen kart	Chosen glider	Item Box type found	Number of item slots	Grand Star scores	Tour appearances	Cup
	Regular	Peach	Pipe Frame	Super Glider	Bob-omb Mega Mushroom	1	18 25 32	Sunshine Tour	Mii Cup

Take them out quick!
Icon	Course variant	Chosen driver information					Item Box type(s) found	Opponent information					Starting time	Grand Star times	Tour appearances	Cup
		Driver	Kart	Glider	Number of balloons	Number of item slots		Driver	Kart	Glider	Number of balloons	Items used
	Regular	Toadette	Pipe Frame	Super Glider	3	1	Green Shell Bob-omb Red Shell Frenzy (Bob-omb)	Bowser	Landship	TBD	5	Banana Giant Banana	1:15.00	0:00.00 0:05.00 0:10.00	Sunshine Tour	Shy Guy Cup

Gallery

Mario Kart: Super Circuit

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  The course icon, depicting Wario and Donkey Kong being hit by Lava Boulders

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  Lava Boulders erupting out of the volcanoes

Mario Kart Tour

Course icons

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  The course icon with Light-blue Shy Guy (Explorer)

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  The course icon of the R variant with Daisy (Farmer)

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  The course icon of the T variant with Yoshi (Kangaroo)

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  The course icon of the R/T variant with the Wiggler Mii Racing Suit

Screenshots

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  View of the starting line

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  View of the course during the eruption

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning	Notes
Japanese	レイクサイドパーク[?] Reikusaido Pāku	Lakeside Park
Chinese (simplified)	湖畔公园[?] Húpàn Gōngyuán	Lakeside Park
Chinese (traditional)	湖畔公園[?] Húpàn Gōngyuán	Lakeside Park
French	Lakeside Park[?]	-
German	Seeufer-Park[?]	Lakeside Park
Italian	Parco Lungolago[?]	Lakeside Park
Korean	레이크사이드 파크[?] Leikeusaideu Pakeu	Lakeside Park
Portuguese	Parque dos Lagos[?]	Park of Lakes
Spanish	Parque del Lago[?]	Lake Park