Penny Racers

by Vicious Sid
January 01, 2000 00:00 AM PST

Penny Racers is a cartoony, graphical fender-bender with chucky, featureless cars and cardboard-cutout landscapes. The continuous high-pitches whince of the cars' engines and the brain-scrambling background tunes set your teeth on edge, while the mushy control fare little better. N64 race fans should stick with Mario Kart and let this Penny gather dust.

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Penny Racers sputters onto the N64 racing scene with simplistic graphics, unimaginative sound, and unresponsive controls. Software like this just drives you crazy!

Modeled after the popular toy line, Penny Racers blends the themes of the comical Super Mario Kart and the flexible Rush 2, yet keeps none of the quality of those games intact. While you can buy a handful of vehicles and special weapons, the game�s sole innovation is allowing winners to cannibalize the parts of the losers� cars. The coolest feature is the track editor which lets you design your own course.

Penny Racers is a cartoony, graphical fender-bender with chunky, featureless cars and cardboard-cutout landscapes. The continuous high-pitched whine of the cars� engines and the brain-scrambling background tunes set your teeth on edge, while the mushy controls fare little better. N64 race fans should stick with Mario Kart and let this Penny gather dust.