SuperKarts

SuperKarts is a kart racing video game developed for MS-DOS by Manic Media in 1995.

Plot
The player plays as characters from different countries and races on circuits from those characters' home countries.


 * Kevin Moore 🇺🇸 United States
 * Charlie Smith UK
 * Klaus Krugel 🇩🇪 Germany
 * Aki Sun 🇯🇵 Japan
 * Katie Clark 🇦🇺 Australia
 * Luis Sanchez 🇧🇷 Brazil
 * Mustapha Gee 🇮🇳 India
 * Ivan Zoomski 🇷🇺 Russia

Tracks
Every driver has a home track according to the country of origin. Each of these tracks has two variants. This means that the game features 16 race tracks and one bonus track


 * 🇺🇸 United States - Los Angeles: Sandy track, sunny weather.
 * UK - London: Asphalt track, cloudy weather.
 * 🇩🇪 Germany - Berlin: Covered with factory metal pipes and asphalt, driven in darkness.
 * 🇯🇵 Japan - Tokyo: The tracks resembles a huge digital screen, driven at night.
 * 🇦🇺 Australia - Ayers Rock: Mainly clay surface, the tracks is partly die Strecke wird gelegentlich von großen Wasserlachen gestört, driven in darkness.
 * 🇧🇷 Brazil - São Paulo: Mainly grass surface, partly sand and wood, rainy weather.
 * 🇮🇳 India - Delhi: The surface changes between grass, sand and water, bright weather.
 * 🇷🇺 Russia - Moscow: The surface changes between cobblesstones, ice and snow, snowy weather.

Bonus track:


 * 🇮🇩 Indonesia - Krakatau: The surface changes between mainly stones, partly there's a viscous substance, maybe lava, the skies are crimson as lava.

Reception
In the United Kingdom, the game topped the monthly all-formats sales chart in April 1995. Computer and Video Games said it is a Super Mario Kart lookalike that is "not as good as that seminal piece of software, but damn good fun with up to eight players on a network." Next Generation gave the game four stars out of five, and stated that "SuperKarts offers a perfect blend of strategy and arcade action."

Reviews

 * Pelit (Jun, 1995)
 * Electric Playground (Nov 17, 1995)
 * Coming Soon Magazine (Jul 25, 1995)
 * PC Team (Apr, 1995)
 * Imperium Gier (Oct 10, 1998)