A random afternoon in 1995, four bargain-bin SNES games from Sears, and a whole lot of nostalgia. Retro WedNESday revisits Super Off Road: The Baja, a modest but enjoyable desert racer with truck upgrades, pixelated pedestrians, and plenty of personality.
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Top Gear on SNES was my first console racing game and one of the best multiplayer experiences of my childhood. Simple, fast, and still a blast. Here's why it holds up.
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BlazeRush is a fast paced action racer with an isometric almost slanted top-down perspective. It harkens back to classic Micro Machines with combat and Mario Kart style boosters. The game features a career mode that largely feels like one big tutorial. Here you'll do things like complete solo laps within a certain amount of time, learn about weapons and power-ups, and of course race against bots. Naturally the actual racing part of the campaign is the best part of it, and it comes in a few…
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Mario Kart 8 is a fantastic looking game. It is probably the most crisp, sharpest looking game I've ever seen on any Nintendo console. Each track and their background scenery is all very vivid and almost lifelike, in a cartoonish Mario kind of way. LEGO City and Mario 3D both looked great, but Mario Kart 8 took it up a notch in my opinion. The audio is what it is. It's a game under the Mario franchise, so all you really get are some sound effects and the game play music that varies slightly from…
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Dyad is really a unique offering that's hard to accurately describe in writing; it's truly a game that needs to be played as reading about it doesn't really do it justice. At it's core, it's a racing game of sorts, but it's unlike any other racing game out there (and really, it almost feels cheap to call it a racing game). I don't even know what you're controlling in the game, so being a huge Stargate fan I'll just consider it a multicolored ascended being (a light/energy being) traveling…
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