Wacky Races (2000 video game)

Wacky Races is a racing videogame, developed by Appaloosa Interactive for PC and PlayStation, and by Velez & Dubail for the Game Boy Color, and published by Infogrames in 2000. A remastered version of the game, called "", was released for Dreamcast and PlayStation 2 on the same year.
The games use the story and characters from the American series Wacky Races created by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera. The eleven racing cars compete against each other across circuits inspired by the cartoon.
Gameplay.
Each vehicle has its own characteristics, strengths and weaknesses, resulting in a wide variety of driving styles. For example, the Army Surplus Special, driven by Sergeant Blast and Private Meekly, has low acceleration but high top speed. The Arkansas Chuggabug, meanwhile, has moderate top speed but very good handling.
As in "Mario Kart", each competitor has gadgets and weapons to fight their way to first place (such as bubble gum, exploding pumpkins, and land mines). The player must accumulate tokens scattered around the tracks in order to use the vehicle's specific gadgets. These gadgets are divided into three categories: defense, speed and attack.
At the end of the championship mode for the first time, the player has access to the Mean Machine owned by Dick Dastardly and Muttley, with superior gadgets.
The game has four game modes: Time Trial, Championship, Multiplayer, and Super Gadgets. The latter offers a detailed list of all the gadgets available in the game.
Reception.
The PC version received "mixed" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. In Japan, where the PlayStation version was ported for release under the name on July 26, 2001, followed by the Game Boy Color version on November 22, 2001, "Famitsu" gave the former a score of 21 out of 40.