To match an equal

That has been on my mind for a while. You see, Nintendo has Mario Kart and no one has anything to offer against that. Now, that is nothing to be ashamed of. Mario Kart has its own following, I like Mario Kart. But it is a shame that Sony never had its equal on that. A racing game with a little fun. On the SEGA Dreamcast there was Wacky Races and as I was watching some pages, I saw that this original cartoon still has its own following. Even now, after 54 years there are plenty of people that like this cartoon and what is there not to like?

So even as I loved the gamed on the dreamcast, I am proposing that Sony (preferably) makes a few alteration. Not on the graphics or the cars, that is fine, but the setting of the tracks. Especially as the PS5/PS6 have a lot more power than the Dreamcast had 16 MB RAM, 8 MB video RAM, and 2 MB audio RAM, running on a Hitachi SH-4 @ 200 MHz, which had 480 MIPS. The PS5 has 16 GB GDDR6 SDRAM running on a 8-core AMD Zen 2, which has a multitude of the ability of the 

Hitachi SH-4. As such a lot more is possible. So as we consider that Wacky races could really take of on the PlayStation, the setting of this game could be made a lot more rewarding. 

As I see it, the game allows you (in single player mode) to select you first car. This has a consequence. The Roaring plenty gives you the track Chicago to Detroit, The army surplus gives you the track Ft Worth to Houston (Texas), the Varoom gives you the track Los Angeles to San Francisco and so on. And the second setting is that you unlock the track, but if you win that route, you also unlock the number two and three in that race. So you unlock a track with a new racer and you unlock racers by winning. As such you get to expand both elements in that game. Now for the tracks, they are ‘cartooned’ but they are the real roads that these distances have, with optional fuel points and garage locations (for repair and weapons and defense refueling) and as these races continue the game also have a level setting, the beginners level has more fuel and garages and only 50% of the distance, as you go up in levels there will be less garages, so you have to be clever with the attacks, defense is less affected, but there is a limit to what you can counter. 

This setting might take some tweaking, but the setting gives us 11 cars.

#1: The Bouldermobile (running from Santa Fe to Las Cruces) 
#2: The Creepy Coupe
#3: The Convert-a-Car
#4: The Crimson Haybaler
#5: The Compact Pussycat (Penelope Pitstop, running from New York to Providence)
#6: The Army Surplus Special (Running from Ft Worth to Houston)
#7: The Bulletproof Bomb (The Anthill Mob, running from Chicago to Detroit)
#8: The Arkansas Chugabug
#9: The Turbo Terrific (running from Los Angeles, to San Francisco)
#10: The Buzzwagon (running from Calgary to Edmonton)
Finally the #00: The Mean Machine (Route 66 from Chicago to Santa Monica)

I set out a few tracks, but not all are here. The idea that the game has growth in other ways too could give it the success boost it could. As Deeper Machine Learning sets the roads in a more cartoon way might also simplify what the developers need to do. It also allows for expansions over time. Because new cups could result in new tracks in other regions. I believe that this could be a worthy competitor to Mario Kart and optional other games that offer this entertainment. In this I feel strongly that Mario Kart has a unique place in the gaming world and without attacking this, others could have a real chance in appealing to their audience. 

Will it work? I believe so, but in the end it will be up to the designer of this renewed Wacky Races to appeal to their audience. 

Have a great day, optionally racing route 66.