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All the games before Mario Golf were developed by Nintendo R&D2. Mario Golf and all subsequent games in the Mario Golf series have been developed by Camelot Software Planning.
With Mario Kart DS, they've done just that. It seems that the developers took everything great from Super Mario Kart (SNES), Mario Kart 64 (N64), Mario Kart Super Circuit (GBA), and Mario Kart: Double Dash (GC) and put all of those elements into a single Mario Kart game.