Beetle Adventure Racing

by Nintendo

Product Details

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• ASIN: B00000IPDS
• Item Weight: 5 ounces
• Media: Game Cartridge
• Release Date: March 24, 1999
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (40 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,508 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

Editorial Review

In an ironic twist, one of the coolest, most action-packed auto racing games in eons stars one of the world's most sluggish cars. But racers will never sense a lack of speed in Beetle Adventure Racing as they zip, jump, and fall around some of the most original and beautiful tracks seen on the Nintendo 64.

The uniqueness of this game lies in the beautiful graphics and rampant, humorous action (à la San Francisco Rush). On a Tiki-themed island track, for instance, racers are startled by a roaring T-Rex (clearly a nod to Jurassic Park), and risk a molten demise as the road passes alongside rivers of realistically rendered lava. With unusually long tracks, vertigo-inducing jumps and falls, tons (and tons) of hidden areas and shortcuts, breakable obstacles, and well-placed power-ups, this is a game that just keeps getting better with each play.

Solo racers are pitted against seven other cars in a single race or championship mode, duel against one other computer car, or race against the clock. Multiplayer variations include head-to-head racing for up to four racers, and a Beetle Battle that could easily be its own game cartridge. In this Mario Kart-style mode, racers are armed with mines, rockets, magnets, and shield power-ups that impede the progress of fellow racers attempting to collect a variety of ladybug icons. Those looking for a long-lived gaming experience can't go wrong with this one. --Eric Twelker

Pros:

• Gorgeous graphics rival many arcade racing games
• Enormously fun driving action, long, well-designed tracks, many shortcuts and hidden areas
• Excellent car physics

Cons:

• No single-player Beetle Battle mode

Product Description

This is the game Beetle Adventure Racing for the Nintendo 64. This is cartridge only and is used or preplayed. All of our N64 nintendo games are cleaned tested and guaranteed to work. We stand by our products and offer a 60 day guarantee. If a game does not work within 60 days from the time you receive it we will gladly exchange it for you

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Customer Reviews

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42 of 43 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Game! Gotta have it., November 11, 1999

By A Customer

= Durability:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Beetle Adventure Racing (Game Cartridge)

If you are a fan of racing games, then Beetle Adventure Racing is for you. With it's addictive gameplay and fun multiplayer, Beetle Adventure Racing is the way to go. There are plenty of shortcuts to take to speed ahead of you opponent. Make sure you have a memory card for this game so you can save your hard work.

Once you beat a difficulty level in champianship mode, you will get more cars. Ones that go way faster and have better handling and acceleration.

Beetle Adventure Racing is a must have.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars BAR Rox!, February 28, 2000

By A Customer

= Durability:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Beetle Adventure Racing (Game Cartridge)

This is definetly the best racing game on the N64.It is a mix of Goldeneye(Beetle Battle) And maybe San Francisco Rush. The grphics match up with Gran Turismo for the Playstation. You have to admit, racing 7 other computer players, all driving beautifully colored beetles, it pure fun. The tracks are beautiful, and on "Inferno Isle," when you are in the jungle part, a Tyrannosauros Rex jerks its head out of the trees and roars at you. The first time it happens, some people fall down, because it comes totally unexpected. You even get a beetle that changes color as you race. If you totall beat the game, you get a police beetle, that can make other cars pull over. There is even a cheat menu. Pros:great graphics, gameplay, and cars.Huge world to race in, will take a while to get everything. CONS:Final tracks can be very hard to beat. You have to race a lot to get all the cars. Needs memory card. If you liked Goldeneye, San Francisco Rush, and Star Wars:Episode 1 Racer, then you'll love this game. I have 8 words: STOP READING NOW AND GO GET THIS GAME!

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect blend of cartoon and realism racers, December 23, 1999

By A Customer

= Durability:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Beetle Adventure Racing (Game Cartridge)

Beetle Adventure Racing is a superb game. The gameplay is easy to get used to, and the tracks really transcend the normal idea of a racing track and move more towards being a world. While there are only 6 tracks, the depth of them with all the shortcuts and breakables really eliminate boredom factors.

In addition to that great single player mode, multiplayer mode is a lot of fun too. While blowing up friends a la MarioKart's battle mode is fun, Beetle Adventure Racing really adds a brilliant feature by adding small beetle icons that appear in the arena in pre-determined places. Only one beetle icon is in the arena at any given time, and when it's picked up, a new one appears. The cool part is that the goal is to pick up 6 different colored beetle icons and the beetle changes color every few seconds. This allows for some real strategy in terms of waiting for the beetle to turn to a color you need while balancing it with fending off your opponent from getting the icon.

There are a few drawbacks to this game, however. My primary beef is with the battle mode arenas. In the single player game there are 100 bonus points on each track and if you collect them all, you get a new multi-player track. Unfortunately, this is not a trivial task, and can get rather tedious. In addition, most of the multi-player tracks I've unlocked are pretty simplistic. One multiplayer track, Stadium, is very good, but it would have been nice to see the others live up to the elaborate landscape that this track and the single-player tracks display.

However, this is a minor drawback, as the single player game is still loads of fun, and the multiplayer game is certainly better than most.