I will tackle the characters, the items and the track themes. So let’s take put on our imagination caps and see how we could redesign Atari Karts. So here some ideas that could have made an appearance, or if Atari had survived to release the planned Jaguar 2, could have made for a more interesting Atari Karts 2. The rest of the content was made just for this game, none of which really have any exact connection to any previous Atari property.Īn uninformed critic might suggest that this is because Atari was recognizing that they had no characters to choose from (around the time Atari actually had spent some time trying to come up with a “mascot” character to compete with Sega and Nintendo – the efforts resulted in an alligator that never got past the paper and a 3D demo of Oswald, which was canned since it was far from appealing) but in reality they could have filled the AK roster up with characters from their past without much trouble. As Atari Karts was made, the only recognizable character in the game is Bentley Bear, from Atari’s Crystal Castles. That is one aspect that what gave Super Mario Kart its charm and appeal. It didn’t break the game or anything but for a game called Atari Karts, you would assume that the characters, items and tracks would have something to do with Atari history. This was something that always bugged me a little bit when I would play the game.
That said, there was one bizarre design choice that was made in the development of the game that had they gone in a different direction I think it would have made the game better. Unfortunately it has always been one of those “hard to come” titles that was even considered rare in the 90s. The courses are fun to play and tracks even have hills to make it a little more interesting. Without a battle mode, it is all about racing across various cups where the difficulty is balanced properly enough so you aren’t throwing the controller at the wall. However they took the concept and went in their own direction with it, offering beautiful graphics (perfect frame rate, tons of color, parallax scrolling, full-screen view at a higher resolution), excellent sound and fine controls. No it was not an original concept because it is obviously based on Nintendo’s Super Mario Kart which had been released a few years prior. Predator, that isn’t fair to the variety of titles which were good and fun to play. While the Atari Jaguar is often maligned and misrepresented as a system with “no good games” except for maybe Tempest 2000 or Alien Vs. I’ve always been an “Atarian” at heart, the Atari 2600 was my first game console (unless you count the TI 99/4A but that was technically a PC) and I own every console they produced with a decent collection of games for each system.
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