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Hydro Thunder
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Few arcade cabinets made an entrance like Hydro Thunder: a steering wheel, a throttle lever, a rumbling seat and an announcer roaring over boats launching off ramps. Midway's 1999 powerboat racer was built for pure spectacle, and the Nintendo 64 version, released in 2000, brings that loud, splashy energy home.
The racing lives and dies by boost. Blue and red icons litter every course, the rarer red ones topping up far more fuel, and holding the boost button does more than make you faster: it lets your hull bully rival boats out of the way. The real trick is the Hydro Jump. Tap the brake, hit boost, and your boat leaps out of the water, which is how you reach the shortcuts and boost icons tucked above the waterline. Learning where those jumps pay off turns every track into a game of risk and reward.
The courses are gloriously over the top, from the icy seas of the Arctic Circle to a flooded, post-apocalyptic New York City, each packed with ramps, hazards and hidden routes that reward exploration as much as racing lines. Boats come in easy, medium and hard classes, plus bonus craft to unlock, so there is always a faster, twitchier machine waiting once you have mastered the last one.
The N64 version has one advantage worth knowing: where other home versions top out at two players, it supports four-player split-screen racing when an Expansion Pak is installed. Critics found it solid rather than spectacular next to the Dreamcast release, but for a Nintendo game night, the chance to boost-ram three friends off a ramp is hard to beat, and it makes a lively, arcade-flavored partner to Wave Race 64 on the shelf.
Fast factsgame data via IGDB
- Released
- 1999
- Publisher
- Midway Games
- Developer
- Midway Studios San Diego
- Players
- Single player, Multiplayer, Split screen
About the game
The gameplay of Hydro Thunder consists of racing high-tech speedboats through treacherous environments, from the cold seas of the Arctic Circle, to a post-apocalyptic, flooded version of New York City.
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