Mad Tracks

can't remember if it was added to a gaming magazine or cereal those 20 something years ago, but yeah nostalgia

still goated. best game, played it every weekend with my cousins. many fun modes, controls feel fresh, runs so clean on the steamdeck. 2026 remake anyone??

I'd say Mad Tracks is a hidden gem, but it's not really hidden except maybe for North American audiences (I never heard of it). It's a fun game to get 100% achievements and you don't need to play with another person to do it, which is something that initially held me back from purchasing it. There's a splitscreen achievement but the 2nd player is mapped to the keyboard so you really can't fail at it. What I loved about this game was the sheer variety and creativity. Micro Machines on PS1 gave me a similar vibe. This game takes a lot of creative liberties and blurs the line in an almost surrealistic way that may or may not have been intentional. Sometimes it feels like you're racing tiny cars across a restaurant, but other times it feels like the cars are normal size as they race through caves and glaciers. Some levels sit kind of in the middle, like one where you are crossing rooftops and the roofs are sort of bent to resemble designed tracks and it's not even clear what the design concept was. This game is mostly easy except for a few brutal achievements. I played all the stages on hard and I breezed through most of them, though some are just outright designed to ruin you s…

fun tracks and mini games wigh a nostalgic hit, just unlocked all power ups works well with ROG ally.

peak racer. it's micro machines but more fun.

childhood game, they changed the cars :(