SNES

Micro Machines

If you have a sweet tooth for adorable but insubstantial games, this box of goodies will hook you and the four-player simultaneous racing and increasingly difficult tracks add replay value. For the novice racer, Micro Machines is Macro fun.

Det ser inte mycket ut för världen, det här spelet, och man blir inte så imponerad vid en första anblick. Men ger man spelet en kvart blir man obönhörligen fast.

The crisp, colorful graphics are functional, but appear a bit sparse at times. Micro Machines doesn't make an effort to be 3D, but there are a lot of "bumps" that make your car appear to "hop" thanks to some clever shadowing effects. Except for the tanks, there are no weapons or power-ups, but that simplicity is actually refreshing in a way. There's a single-player "challenge mode", and while it certainly is a challenge, there's no score to gauge your performance, which limits its replay value. To get the most out of Micro Machines you need to hook up the multi-tap for some four-player head-to-head action. Players who know the tracks have a marked advantage however, since you can't see too far ahead and it's hard to react to turns when you don't know they're coming. Overall, Micro Machines for the SNES is a solid but unspectacular arcade-style racer.