Cartridge Diaries: Micro Machines

Time for a new game to add to this list, this time an alternative to the Kart Racer.

MIcro Machines is originally a toy franchise formed in 1986, known for it's micro cars and vehicles, a unique looking toy for it's time when it was up against the likes of Hot Wheels, but one thing it had over Hot Wheels was good games which began in 1991 where racing in Gardens, Bathtubs, Sand Pits, School Desks, Breakfast Tables and Billiard Tables were normal and defintitely one of my fondest gaming memories, it also provided one of the most unique gaming cartridges ever seen until Sonic and Knuckles. In it's first outing it had a setting which allowed it to switch regions, in the sequel released for the Mega Drive it came with extra control ports in the actual cartridge and even went the extra mile by having 8 player gaming using a control share system as well as the extra ports, it was the greatest multiplayer racing experience until Mario Kart took it back in the N64 era and by then Micro Machines popularity had faded but left a legacy of games like Toy Racer, Re-Volt and the spiritual remake Toybox Turbos.
Current State: It came back as an IOS android game this year albeit based heavily on the Toybox Turbo build rather than the original but still maintains the franchises involvement, otherwise it's last outing was a last hurrah to reclaim it's old form with V4 which never really grabbed the imagination of it's older brothers and was billed as an entry level racing game for kids but to be fair when your racing rivals are Gran Turismo and Mario Kart, you need to bring some serious gaming to the table, it was also around that time the toy went off the market until the toys came back last year following a deal with Star Wars
Why Should it be Revived?: In it's classic form, certainly, I'd pay a nice sum of money to see a virtual console release of the old games, also I feel it's too good to put on just phones and needs some loving on a big console.

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