Wacky Races as a racing game on Famicom. Iconic series characters are present, racing is zany. Fun but light. Recommended to fans of the animated series and collectors.
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Racing1 player3+
Description
Humorous Hanna-Barbera racing game featuring Wacky Races characters competing. Published by Rare, released in the USA in 1992. Caricatural characters in top-down view on varied races and vehicle attacks between competitors. NES adaptation of the Wacky Races series.
A 1992 Atlus US NES release based on the Hanna-Barbera cartoon, never released in PAL. The cart is one of the latest US Atlus NES releases, and its very short print makes it a difficult collectible in CIB form. Intact boxed CIB with manual climbs hard, sustained by real physical scarcity and by growing curiosity for Western Atlus NES releases before the SMT/Persona explosion.
Is Wacky Races still worth playing in 2026?
An adaptation of Hanna-Barbera's Wacky Races from Atlus, Chiki Chiki Machine Mou Race pits the series' zany characters against each other in delirious car races full of traps, weapons and shortcuts. The cartoon humour faithful to the work, the wild cast and a snappy, accessible gameplay give a definite charm to this racing game that stayed in Japan. The handling stays Famicom typical. For a retro racing fan, a Wacky Races fan or someone curious about an offbeat adaptation, the title keeps a comic charm and a direct fun.
