SuperKarts
Developer(s)Manic Media
Publisher(s)
Platform(s)MS-DOS
Release1995
Genre(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.

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.

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."[1] Next Generation gave the game four stars out of five, and stated that "SuperKarts offers a perfect blend of strategy and arcade action."[2]

Reviews

References

  1. ↑ "Chart attack with HMV" (PDF). Computer and Video Games. No. 163 (June 1995). Future plc. May 1995. p. 113.
  2. ↑ "Finals". Next Generation. No. 8. Imagine Media. August 1995. p. 73.
  3. ↑ "Pelit (1995-05)". 10 June 1995.
  4. ↑ "Electric Playground GAME REVIEWS: PC - SuperKarts". Archived from the original on 1997-08-11.
  5. ↑ "Superkarts - PC Review - Coming Soon Magazine!".
  6. ↑ http://download.abandonware.org/magazines/PC%20Team/pcteam_numero001/054.jpg
  7. ↑ "WP Gry - Wiadomości ze świata eSportu, recenzje gier i sprzętu - WP.PL".


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