Played as part of Atari 50.
First one of these games that is actually kinda great?? I'm a little taken aback both by how the first game I really like here is, fucking, "Sprint 8" of all things, paired with the extremely mediocre 4/10 average here, but compared to everything else in this lineup so far, this feels, like, really good to control. Switching from high gear to low gear to round corners, trying to cut them as close as possible, and when failing, collision with the environment bringing you to a dead stop, it's an incredible sense of momentum especially for 1977.
Of course, this is using what I imagine are revamped controls (I don't have a steering wheel after all), but given that basically anyone logging this now is probably playing it through a collection like this it's not a huge deal. And also, of course I'm playing singleplayer, from other reviews it seems like the collision system with other opponents is kinda bad, but you can still play this as just a high-score style game and have a lot of fun.
Legitimately maybe the only racing game I have played so far that actually feels like real go-kart racing. And it looks like this. High fucking octane.
First one of these games that is actually kinda great?? I'm a little taken aback both by how the first game I really like here is, fucking, "Sprint 8" of all things, paired with the extremely mediocre 4/10 average here, but compared to everything else in this lineup so far, this feels, like, really good to control. Switching from high gear to low gear to round corners, trying to cut them as close as possible, and when failing, collision with the environment bringing you to a dead stop, it's an incredible sense of momentum especially for 1977.
Of course, this is using what I imagine are revamped controls (I don't have a steering wheel after all), but given that basically anyone logging this now is probably playing it through a collection like this it's not a huge deal. And also, of course I'm playing singleplayer, from other reviews it seems like the collision system with other opponents is kinda bad, but you can still play this as just a high-score style game and have a lot of fun.
Legitimately maybe the only racing game I have played so far that actually feels like real go-kart racing. And it looks like this. High fucking octane.