Snap on Gearhead Garage / Sprint Car Racing (Jewel Case)

by ACTIVISION

Product Features

• Repair vehicles, earn virtual cash, develop your own personal car lot
• Work on engines, change tires, chop the top; thousands of vehicle configurations
• Virtually buy and sell cars in auctions
• Design and e-mail images of your favorite car to friends

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00005V9D8
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: March 13, 2002
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #26,715 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Everyone young and old gather around. Here's your chance to turn that old garage into a full-blown Auto Shop. Do you like to tinker, turn a wrench and paint? Then this is the game for you. The goal is to earn cash and customize your favorite vehicles, with a chance to have the ultimate car lot.

A game where car lovers can repair and customize late model cars and trucks. Working from their virtual garage, players use power tools to repair their cars to top condition. They can even paint them with a virtual paint can, or apply catalog-bought decals anywhere on the body. And for more personality, custom parts are available for every car in the game!

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Don't Worry, Gearhead Garage is Worth the Price of Admission, April 7, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Snap on Gearhead Garage / Sprint Car Racing (Jewel Case) (CD-ROM)

If you're looking at this package because you want to play Gearhead Garage, then you're in luck. Gearhead Garage is a nifty little game that's easy enough for a five year old to play and fun enough to hold the attention of those who are only five in their hearts. If you're looking at this package for Sprint Car racing, ditch this title and look for the game Dirt Track Racing: Sprint Cars by Ratbag instead. While you'll miss out on Gearhead Garage, you'll enjoy a real racing game that's actually fun, as opposed to this waste of data that poses as a sprint car game.

Gearhead Garage is a point and click kind of game where you are presented with a virtual car and must disassemble, repair, and reassemble to meet customer demands. The game starts out easy, with a stable of virtual economy cars and clunkers that roll into your garage, as well as animated customers who will offer advice if you get stumped on a job. As you progress, more vehicles become available. Digitalized representations of classic T-Birds and Mustangs as well as beefy Ford Pickups and Broncos are brought to your garage for repair, and you have the option of buying salvageable vehicles at an auction. The goal of the game is simple--to make money--and you can do that by working on customer cars or buying cars at auction, fixing them up to your specifications (almost all have custom options and upgrades), and reselling them. Perhaps the best thing about this game is the availability of custom cars for download, such as '57 Chevys, '70 Dodge Chargers, and even a Santa and sleigh. Since the custom cars are creations of technically adept fans of the game, some work better than others. Many of the custom cars have very high polygon counts that make them look very realistic, but will choke a slower system. At least they're free, and their availability makes this game infinitely more interesting.

Sprint Car Racing, on the other hand, is an almost worthless game with no redeemable qualities. The controls aren't customizable, and the gameplay is about as involved as one of those plastic games they sell at gas stations with a bb inside that you try to navigate into a hole in the back piece. Actually, given a choice, I'd rather play the bb game than the Sprint Car Racing game that comes on this disk.

5.0 out of 5 stars Gearhead Car Mechanic, January 13, 2011

By 

Advocate6 - See all my reviews

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

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This review is from: Snap on Gearhead Garage / Sprint Car Racing (Jewel Case) (CD-ROM)

What a great & challenging PC program that will energize the player who loves working on cars. My son loves this program and plays for hours repairing damaged vehicles and building new cars from junkyards. Unfortunately, Snap On Tools never made another program like this one and no one else has either.

4.0 out of 5 stars Gearhead garage fun!, December 9, 2005

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wei yan "Rusty" (Indiana) - See all my reviews

= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Snap on Gearhead Garage / Sprint Car Racing (Jewel Case) (CD-ROM)

I have really enjoyed playing this game for more than a few years ! I ran across a fellow gamer who had a disc that allowed the "junkyard" to regenerate parts faster , should've copied it ! I am now trying to find one. Even without it , its' a great old game , even though the grafics are antique.