the blue shell

[SERIOUSLY THOUGH*]

I've read your post and the written article, but I still don't get why they wanted to place the players closer if they couldn't have them all on the screen at once. "having eight racers on the screen all the time, didn't work all that well"

"game developers wanted to keep good players from perpetually having the lead spot and jamming up the N64's processor"

I don't understand how that would jam up the processor?

If someone with technowizardy can chip in that would be great.