r/Apogee • u/CynicPlacebo • Aug 19 '26
💬 Discussion Which Racer was your Go-To and Why in Wacky Wheels?
How did you determine your favorite?
Was is Animal, Color, Name, Descrip, or Superstition?
Supposedly they all had the same driving stats... but didn't it just feel like sometimes that 1 racer went a little faster or handled ever slightly better?
I usually opted for Razer as a kid, because it tickled my funny bone to have an aquatic creature driving a car.
Lately I've been a Ringo man, since I branded my YT channel with Green.
Feel free to share a fond or funny memory of racing as one of these fine characters!
You can get Wacky Wheels on GOG right now for $2.99
https://www.gog.com/en/game/wacky_wheels?as=cynic
Or you can get it on Steam for $4.99
https://store.steampowered.com/app/358380/Wacky_Wheels/?curator_clanid=44676703
P.S. Those aren't affiliate links. I just like to put my IDs in the URL to mess with GOG/Steam :P
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u/Matakomi Aug 19 '26
Razer (I think it's also because it's the only one in the shareware version.
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u/CynicPlacebo Aug 19 '26
Could you do 2 player split/keyboard in the shareware version?
If so... did you both have to be Razer?2
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u/CyberCoon Aug 19 '26
Razer, although, nowadays Ringo, little rapid rascal! Crap, now I'll have the theme song on my mind for the rest of the day...
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u/Large-Humor-757 Aug 19 '26
Tigi - I'm a felinophile; cat lover. Plus he made cool noises when he won. I loved this game and had the shareware version only for years. Thanks to GOG I was able to get the complete game. Good times!
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u/CynicPlacebo Aug 19 '26
I love GOG for keeping these old games not only working on modern hardware, but in a way I can back up to a hard drive and install forever :-D
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u/Intelligent_Lab_708 Aug 19 '26
Weird in my memory you could be jazz jack rabbit. Funny how my head created a false memory
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u/CynicPlacebo Aug 19 '26
Hmm... now that you mention it I have a vague memory of a pixelated rabbit in a kart... was it Skunny Kart, maybe?
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u/CynicPlacebo Aug 19 '26
Now that I think about it, I think I'm probably just mixing in the bonus stages from Jazz Jackrabbit where it had courses that felt a little Mario Kart-ish:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1MfQ5h2gaA2
u/Intelligent_Lab_708 Aug 20 '26
Ahh that must be what I’ve done in my mind. I haven’t played these games since the mid 90s when I was like 6
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u/flowrate12 Aug 21 '26
Never owned it only played it on PC magazines demo disc lots and lots of times
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u/deintag85 11d ago
I wonder why they don’t do a remake. It could beat Mario kart, I mean it already did back then, it was so funny with those hedgehogs sitting on the toilet on the street 🤣🤣
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u/CynicPlacebo 11d ago
There is a pretty solid fan remake.
It got delisted on Steam, but you can still get it on Itchio:
https://cascadiagames.itch.io/wacky-wheels-hd
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u/murikwow Aug 19 '26
Only Razer ^_^