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1995 video game From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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

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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 track is partly disturbed by large pools of water.
  • 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 cobbles stones, 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.
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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]

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