Hey, how’s it going? Well, here it is, the first C:\DOS\RUN of 2008. A major milestone that will be celebrated the world over. What better way to celebrate than by entering a contest. Seriously, enter the damn contest, King3vbo is the only one to enter so far, and he’s an admitted baby kicker. I’m not asking for much you can send me a blank email and I’ll consider it an entry. While you mull it over why don’t you read about 1994’s Wacky Wheels?
Wacky Wheels is a typical kart racer, you select one of eight animals and race around one of many tracks. There are a few weapons, the main one being hedgehogs that you shoot at the other racers. All pretty basic stuff, which is why my main memory of this game is the fact that no matter how much it wants to be, it’s definitely no Mario Kart.
The character selection screen… I miss Mario.
That’s not to say that this game didn’t have its moments, but at the end of the day I’d rather play Mario Kart. Its console cousin had more items, and superior local multiplayer. Sure Wacky Wheels had multiplayer over a modem, but we didn’t have a modem. It did have an interesting mode called Wacky Duck Shoot, in which you are placed in an arena with several computer controlled ducks and you have to eliminate them as quickly as possible.
Yep, still not Mario Kart.
Bad childhood memories aside, I have to say that this game is actually pretty descent. If you can manage to judge it on its own, you have a solid kart racer with s few interesting features. Why not give it a shot yourself, just download the shareware version, forget Mario Kart ever existed, and go give some ducks a face full of hedgehog. DOSBox is a good way to experience this game, and hey since you’re already navigating to all these different pages why not take some time to enter a contest?
Poor Wacky Wheels, it want’s to be Mario Kart so badly:
Ahh, the days when PC game companies felt they had to make console games to survive. Commander Keen started as a Super Mario 3 clone, Jazz Jackrabbit was just Sonic with a gun, and Wacky Wheels. Hooray.
I was always a fan of this game. Like most of this games target audience I only ever played the shareware version. Why would I go through the trouble trying to convince my parents to pay for this game that I have already played when I could get them to buy me a new game? Like Mario Kart.
I totally had this, along with a ton of other shareware, on my Ultimate Doom disc. Or maybe it was Duke 3D. I don't remember. But this game was totally amusing for five minutes.
And ohmigawd I can't believe I missed so many of these. And that you covered 3 Sisters Story. And that you set me on fire. <friend add>
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Ah, the good old days of shareware.
And ohmigawd I can't believe I missed so many of these. And that you covered 3 Sisters Story. And that you set me on fire. <friend add>