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| SuperKarts | |
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| Developer(s) | Manic Media |
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| Platform(s) | MS-DOS |
| Release | 1995 |
| Genre(s) | Racing |
SuperKarts is a kart racing video game developed for MS-DOS by Manic Media in 1995.
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
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:
The game was developed by Manic Media Productions, a company based in Oxford, England . [1]
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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