The only Daisy in karting games who matters, Donald’s girlfriend is similar to her beau in that she isn’t wearing anything on her bottom half, which is fairly outlandish. Even though it makes no physical sense, he always needs to have his iconic look so that he can always be identified in silhouette. In that game, and this one too, no matter what way Mickey turns his head you can always see both his ears. Here’s an interesting little bit of trivia, though, that Warren Spector revealed during an ONM interview for Epic Mickey: With a bunch of stats that are flatter than Holland, he’s the very definition of an all-rounder. In this game he plays the Mario role, as you would expect. The main man himself – well, the main mouse – first made his debut in Steamboat Willie on 18 November 1928 and hasn’t looked back since. Naturally, in the name of complete research, yer man Scullion hopped onto eBay and bought said GBC version in order to give you the complete roster you see before you. You see, if you have the Game Boy Color version of the game and a Transfer Pak, you can unlock another character. Mickey’s Speedway USA initially boots with a fairly thin roster of six characters, but that can eventually be expanded to nine. His star may have waned a tiny bit in today’s world of Pixar and Frozen, but Mickey will clearly still be an enormous Disney brand for decades to come. There are few characters more widely recognised than Mickey Mouse, so it goes without saying that having him and his pals in your game is going to shift plenty more copies by default. With his constantly positive attitude in the face of any challenge, he’s just what we need in Brexit Britain. Mickey Mouse was created way back in 1928, and remains a much-loved character worldwide more than nine decades later. Obviously, the Walt Disney Company is the world’s biggest media company, partly helped by its acquisitions of Pixar in 2006, Marvel in 2009 and Lucasfilm (aka Star Wars) in 2012.įor this game specifically, though, we’re looking at bread-and-butter Disney in the form of the Mickey Mouse universe, the characters who helped make the company the global powerhouse it is today: the House of Mouse, as they say. You may not have heard of Disney, so let me fill you in. You’d think the various Disney characters would be helping you rescue Pluto, not actively trying to hinder your progress by insisting you beat them in a race before you can continue.) (That doesn’t really explain why you’re doing it in the form of a bunch of GP cups, mind you. Pluto has been kidnapped by the Weasels, so you have to race across America to find and rescue him. With its odd focus on real-world locations and relatively restrained racing controls, can Mickey’s Speedway USA overtake Hello Kitty and Garfield and claim the top of the Kartography leaderboard at this early stage?Īt the very least, it offers one thing the others don’t: a plot. No, not that Rare N64 karting game: Diddy Kong and chums can wait. Up next, then, is an N64 karting game from legendary UK studio Rare. With that in mind, it’s time to dive into the blurry-as-all-hell world of the Nintendo 64 (where possible, I always play and capture games on original hardware, not emulators). Not all karting games were released during the shiny HD era, though. The first two Kartography entries – in which I treaded the murky waters of Hello Kitty Kruisers and Garfield Kart – looked at fairly recent titles. Nintendo 64, Game Boy Color (N64 version covered)
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Kartography is my regular series in which I look at licensed kart racers throughout gaming history, and figure out where they fit on my all-time karting game leaderboard.įor more information on my scoring policy for Kartography, check out this introductory article.
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