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Wacky Races
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Complete in box: the cartridge, the manual and the box, all original. Original inserts or paperwork shown in the photos are included; display stands and other photography props are not. The photos are of this exact cartridge — look them over closely for its condition, packaging and details. Every cartridge's shell, label and board are checked for authenticity when it comes into the store, and it's tested before it's listed. It ships in a collector's bag or a hard plastic case.
Item Description
Long before kart racers became a genre staple, Hanna-Barbera's Wacky Races packed the airwaves with colorful characters and even more colorful cars, and Atlus, as both developer and publisher, brought that cartoon chaos to the NES. It first appeared on the Famicom in Japan in 1991 and reached North America in 1992. Anyone expecting a racing game is in for a surprise: rather than putting you behind the wheel, Atlus built a side-scrolling platformer starring Muttley, Dick Dastardly's snickering dog, with Dastardly himself at his side as the game's other main character.
Muttley runs, jumps and bites his way through three areas chosen from a map screen, Hip Hop, Splish Splash and Go Go America, ten stages in all. Collecting bones lets you trade them, in a fashion reminiscent of Konami's Gradius, for a bomb attack, a flying bark shot, the ability to glide on Muttley's tail or extra health. Each stage ends in a boss battle against one of the show's other racers, so the cartoon's other racers and oddballs turn up as rivals to outwit rather than cars to overtake. It's the kind of game that rewards quick reflexes and gives you that pick-up-and-play energy that defined so much of the NES library.
The title screen plays a rendition of the theme song from the Japanese dub of the cartoon, and the whole game leans into the show's vibrant, anarchic energy. Licensed cartoon games from the NES era have become a fascinating corner of retro gaming, and Wacky Races occupies a nostalgic sweet spot for fans of both the show and the console generation: a bright, cartoon-faithful piece of Saturday-morning history from the late NES years, and an unusual licensed game that turned out to be more action game than racer.
Fast factsgame data via IGDB
- Released
- 1991
- Publisher
- Atlus
- Genre
- Platformer
- Players
- Single player
About the game
Wacky Races is a platform game for the Nintendo Entertainment System, developed and published by Atlus. The game is based on the Hanna-Barbera cartoon Wacky Races and features Muttley and Dick Dastardly as the main characters. An unrelated Amiga and Atari ST game of the same name was released in 1991 and a racing game of the same name came out in 2000.
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