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Mario Kart: Super Circuit is the only game in the Mario Kart series in which it is possible to "tire out" a pursuing Spiny Shell (known colloquially as a Blue Shell), causing it to give up chasing the player after a while.

In this game, the Spiny Shell will follow players at roughly their top speed and wait for them to slow down to hit them. If a player can keep up the same speed for long enough, the shell will give up the chase. In addition, hitting the shell with trailing items such an bananas or other shells also contributes to reducing its remaining "stamina".

As such, the strategy when pursued by a Spiny Shell is to try to maintain top speed at all times and possibly collect enough items to hit it with to tire it out. This is starkly different from many following games, which encourage the player to slow down either to avoid being targeted at all, or to catch other players in the explosion if already targeted.