SuperKarts

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.

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

Pelit (Jun, 1995)^[3]
Electric Playground (Nov 17, 1995)^[4]
Coming Soon Magazine (Jul 25, 1995)^[5]
PC Team (Apr, 1995)^[6]
Imperium Gier (Oct 10, 1998)^[7]

References

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