My favorites are the Snes and DS ones. I wish they'd put the feather back, though, it allowed pretty crazy stuff in the original game.
I'd forgotten all about the feather.
Now I'm going to get angry because it wasn't included from Mario Kart 64 onwards and protest to Nintendo even though I'm ten years too friggin' late.
"As the days go by, we face the increasing inevitability that we are alone in a godless,
uninhabited, hostile and meaningless universe. Still, you've got to laugh, haven't you?"