I picked this up for a dollar and can't even say it was really worth that. From the store page it reminded me of Rad Racer or Outrun so I got it but honestly it feels very archaic compared to both of those. Your vehicle takes a long time to get up to speed after hitting an obstacle and due to the graphics it can be hard to see down the road. You can see in some of the promo screenshots there is some persistent vertical screen tearing, I'm not sure there's any way to fix that, but it's jarring when you're racing and the screen jitters like that making it difficult to judge what's coming up. Steering seems okay and your only real goal is to pass the other racers and finish in the top 3 to continue to the next race or you game over and have to use one of your limited continues. But overall it just doesn't feel very smooth to drive the cars because of how objects appear as you approach. I only tried a couple different drivers but it seems they all use the same car and control the same. I can't really recommend this game unless it's out of nostalgia because you played this back in the late 90s and want to re-live that. Even by the time it was released there were more fluid racing games in this style, Rad Racer and Outrun as I mentioned, released in the 80s, and F-Zero had been out for five years by the time this came out and felt incredibly smooth. Compared to those this still feels dated. Not a terrible game but not something I really want to devote time to learning and getting better at, not when there are so many better racers out there. This version has a config menu you can apply a variety of different filters if you're into that.
