I'm not kidding when I say this is probably the game that made me into a gamer. When other kids were all into Mario Kart 64, this is what made me beg my parents for an N64.

I will fully admit my feelings for this game are entirely based on nostalgia. But some of this game's features, from the campaign overworld to the different vehicles that let you tackle the tracks in different ways to the boss fights seemed at the time genuinely interesting and pushing the envelope for the genre.