Parking Garage Rally Circuit

Great little arcade racer! I'm not usually a racing guy, but low-poly/retro styled ones like this that chase after the arcade racing experience have begun to catch my eye again. I've always found such racing games to be disappointingly lacking in imagination. I want a few branching alternate paths (shortcuts or challenges) and a hidden secret route (equal in length to the main route nearly with a unique theme and hazards) in each track, with unique and interesting hazards that do more than fulfill the role of a box or a traffic cone. Let me drive off a dock into the maw of a sea serpent and race around inside of its body before being coughed out into the air and landing on a lighthouse or something that leads back to the main track. Or let me race through ancient ruins, go off track and run into a statue of Zeus and be teleported to Olympus, dodging angry gods before being plunged into the underworld and juking out Cerberus to return to the main track. To make a track design philosophy like that work, would you need to potentially consider changing the scoring system to something point based on various criteria rather than strictly positional, even if position is a heavy point generator? Maybe, idk. What I'm trying to say is: Racing games just lack that sense of adventure and discovery. The closest I can think of for games that do stuff like this are Beetle Adventure Racing and Hydrothunder, and even those are pretty tame with the shortcuts compared to what I want out of an arcade racing game. This game doesn't do any of that, but hear me out, because despite not fitting MY desires for what I want in an arcade racer, this game does a great job at standing out from the average racing title. Tracks are short and tight, with a simple and satisfying control scheme and race physics. Some of the tracks have a little imagination with unique hazards that make me feel engaged like Mount Rushmore, the snow plow track, and the one with the sky path. It's a short little jaunt, but getting the gold was a fun time, and I definitely think this dev/dev team deserves a lot of credit for making me recommend an arcade racing game. If I can enjoy it, I'd say that it's safe to call it a hidden gem.

Had this game wishlisted since first seeing Russ from RetroGamesCorps play it while testing handhelds and bought it as soon as it went on sale. Cannot recommend this game enough. So fun! Doing and redoing the same races and nudging out a slightly better time against your ghost just like how I used to on Mario Kart DS back in the day is SO satisfying.

This game is really incredible! Everything is good, from the driving, to the music! Race design is very engaging. I love the retro graphics! I could say a lot of good things about this game, except one: the bouncy suspensions... They should be far more damped. Sometimes, you just to make a little jump, or drive above some obsacle, and it's the end of everything... The car bounce around everywhere.... It's pretty annoying. And it's even more annoying because the rest of the game is top notch. If I can give you an advice, try to damp your suspensions, and maybe, put your center of mass lower.

the satisfaction you get from a smooth run is on... another level. IM ON ANOTHER LEVEL ON ANOTHER LEVEL!

Cheap, Short, Nostalgic PS1 Graphics, Someway pulls you in for 1-2 sittings and game is done., fun cheat codes after completing main game with extra maps and cars. Cons: Terrible Chicago Grage Map Layout, Multiplayer doesnt work (pressing button nothing happens), Hiding Achievement behind Multiplayer, Boring car sounds

Pretty good. I have nothing else that i can say.

Pros: This game delivers some really solid driving mechanics. You can drift to get speed boosts, but you can chain those speed boosts to go really fast! The game has reasonable time trial ghosts for you to play, and then automatically downloads the next player ghost times for you to beat. It makes it super easy to play again. The visuals really suit the Sega Saturn style and the soundtrack feels varied and fun! The vehicles can be recolored and feel very expressive. There are 3 different speed classes as well, each faster than the last. Cons: There are only 3 vehicles and 8 tracks that I know of, which makes the campaign feel a little short. The game's physics treat your car as if it were made of cardboard, turning minor scrapes and bashes into giant leaps and flips. It makes it hard to play precisely, which is annoying for a time trial game. Overall: Its really fun! If you like time trialing games or the retro vibe, I'd check it out. If you would find seemingly inconsistent physics annoying or don't have the time to grind the game a bit, it might not be for you.