SuperKarts


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.
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
  • - Los Angeles: Sandy track, sunny weather.
  • - London: Asphalt track, cloudy weather.
  • - Berlin: Covered with factory metal pipes and asphalt, driven in darkness.
  • - Tokyo: The tracks resembles a huge digital screen, driven at night.
  • - Ayers Rock: Mainly clay surface, the track is partly disturbed by large pools of water.
  • - São Paulo: Mainly grass surface, partly sand and wood, rainy weather.
  • - Delhi: The surface changes between grass, sand and water, bright weather.
  • - Moscow: The surface changes between cobbles stones, ice and snow, snowy weather.
Bonus track:
  • - 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.

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

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