The Turbo Tournament 96 version of Micro Machines, more complete, playable up to eight with adapter. A multiplayer peak on Mega Drive, an essential party game.
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Racing1 player3+
Description
Micro Machines cars race in the 1996 tournaments in this Codemasters Mega Drive racing game. Published by Codemasters, released in Europe in 1995. Top-down racing game with miniature cars, 1996 tournaments and J-Cart multiplayer for up to 8 simultaneous players.
Micro Machines - Turbo Tournament 96 review
4/5
Art direction
★★★★★
"Striking"
3/5
Music
★★★★★
"Memorable"
1/5
Story
★★★★★
"Anecdotal"
Codemasters turns the house into a racetrack: a breakfast table strewn with cereal, a billiard cloth, a workbench covered in tools, a soapy bathtub. Seen from above, the vehicles fit in a handful of pixels yet stay perfectly identifiable, each in its own bold colour. The miniature scale is the whole point of the staging.
Complete: box, manual and disc/cart very clean. Lightly handled.
Q1 damagedQ6 completeQ10 new
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Collector interest
Micro Machines Turbo Tournament 96 PAL J-Cart is the extended European edition of the Codemasters game, released in the Codemasters J-Cart format. Its collector value is exceptional: it is one of Codemasters' last J-Cart productions and the peak of the integrated 16-bit multiplayer format, never reproduced elsewhere on the console.
Is Micro Machines - Turbo Tournament 96 still worth playing in 2026?
A 1996 iteration of the series by Codemasters, Micro Machines Turbo Tournament 96 offers the proven formula enriched with an unprecedented track editor and new vehicles. The shareable versus mode for up to eight players remains a peak of local party racing. For anyone wanting the most generous content of the series on Mega Drive or collecting quality Codemasters games, an absolutely essential recommendation today still without any hesitation on the Sega machine for party racing genre fans truly here indeed.
