SuperKarts

1995 video game
1995 video game
  • PAL: Virgin Interactive Entertainment
  • NA: Williams Entertainment
Platform(s)MS-DOSRelease1995Genre(s)Racing

SuperKarts is a kart racing video game developed for MS-DOS by Manic Media in 1995.

Plot

The player plays as characters from different countries and races on circuits from those characters' home countries.

  • Kevin Moore  United States
  • Charlie Smith  UK
  • Klaus Krugel  Germany
  • Aki Sun  Japan
  • Katie Clark  Australia
  • Luis Sanchez  Brazil
  • Mustapha Gee  India
  • Ivan Zoomski  Russia

Tracks

Every driver has a home track according to the country of origin. Each of these tracks has two variants. This means that the game features 16 race tracks and one bonus track

  •  United States - Los Angeles: Sandy track, sunny weather.
  •  UK - London: Asphalt track, cloudy weather.
  •  Germany - Berlin: Covered with factory metal pipes and asphalt, driven in darkness.
  •  Japan - Tokyo: The tracks resembles a huge digital screen, driven at night.
  •  Australia - Ayers Rock: Mainly clay surface, the tracks is partly die Strecke wird gelegentlich von großen Wasserlachen gestört, driven in darkness.
  •  Brazil - São Paulo: Mainly grass surface, partly sand and wood, rainy weather.
  •  India - Delhi: The surface changes between grass, sand and water, bright weather.
  •  Russia - Moscow: The surface changes between cobblesstones, ice and snow, snowy weather.

Bonus track:

  •  Indonesia - Krakatau: The surface changes between mainly stones, partly there's a viscous substance, maybe lava, the skies are crimson as lava.

Development

The game was developed by Manic Media Productions, a company based in Oxford, England .[1]

Reception

In the United Kingdom, the game topped the monthly all-formats sales chart in April 1995. Computer and Video Games said it is a Super Mario Kart lookalike that is "not as good as that seminal piece of software, but damn good fun with up to eight players on a network."[2] Next Generation gave the game four stars out of five, and stated that "SuperKarts offers a perfect blend of strategy and arcade action."[3]

Reviews

  • Pelit (Jun, 1995)[4]
  • Electric Playground (Nov 17, 1995)[5]
  • Coming Soon Magazine (Jul 25, 1995)[6]
  • PC Team (Apr, 1995)[7]
  • Imperium Gier (Oct 10, 1998)[8]

References

  1. ^ "Soar Down The Speedway With New Superkarts Software Sensation". GT Interactive. March 31, 1995. Archived from the original on December 19, 1996. Retrieved August 15, 2024.
  2. ^ "Chart attack with HMV" (PDF). Computer and Video Games. No. 163 (June 1995). Future plc. May 1995. p. 113.
  3. ^ "Finals". Next Generation. No. 8. Imagine Media. August 1995. p. 73.
  4. ^ "Pelit (1995-05)". 10 June 1995.
  5. ^ "Electric Playground GAME REVIEWS: PC - SuperKarts". Archived from the original on 1997-08-11.
  6. ^ "Superkarts - PC Review - Coming Soon Magazine!".
  7. ^ http://download.abandonware.org/magazines/PC%20Team/pcteam_numero001/054.jpg [bare URL image file]
  8. ^ "WP Gry - Wiadomości ze świata eSportu, recenzje gier i sprzętu - WP.PL".


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