Grooverider Slot Car Thunder

by Encore

Product Features

• ESRB Rating: Everyone
• Genre: Sports/Racing
• Mission: Race with groovy weapons and perform jumps, loops and bounds over interactive objects

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00008PX7N
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.6 inches ; 3.2 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: September 24, 2003
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #16,511 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Slot car racing is no longer child’s play! Go ballistic on 20 unreal tracks in a fantasy penthouse apartment setting. Feel the thrill of super-speed lane changes through 360-degree loops and crazy twists and turns!

The tracks are tricky and could be your friend or foe. Race smart and grab extra juice for a boost or blasting power. Blink an eye and a booby trap can send you flying.

Features:

• Unlock 20 different cars from 1920’s British race cars to American stock cars and more
• Choose from four ultra-fast tracks each in five super-charged locations
• Challenge up to three other competitors in multi-player mode
• Turn up the voltage with three difficulty modes (three, six, and nine volts)
• Prolong the excitement with four bonus races
• Alter a race’s destiny with power-ups like charged spikes, power boosts, and mines

Product Description

Wonderfully fast and scintillating slot car racing game.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars It's a budget title, but lots of fun., November 28, 2003

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James J. Gerbino (Pensacola, FL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Grooverider Slot Car Thunder (Video Game)

Ok, it's a SLOT CAR game. That means the cars race on Slot Car tracks, in the Slots. Most of you have gotten this point without my help. Someone out there has evidently missed it though.

Grooverider is a small, game with only 20 track and a few cars to choose from. Each class of cars has 5 different skins but they are all on the exact same mesh which is a bit cheap. Still, they look very good. And the tracks all are very well designed and conceived with an escalating level of difficulty.

The feel is very much like a few titles you might not remember but were well worthwhile... the excellent Airfix Dogfighter from Paradox and Acclaim Cheltenham's Re-Volt come to mind. The tracks are set up in a house which could be in anyone's childhood. If you are an adult with fond memories of slot car racing it helps a great deal. If you are a child whose not enjoying his 'hood at present you might well pass this by.

The controls are very simple, analog speed and shoulder buttons to change lanes. The standard variety of power up one might expect in any arcade racer is here. Obstacles, very feisty CPU cars and some tricky tracks make the action much deeper than one might imagine. It is NOT a slot car Simulation, it IS a fun little arcade racer with fast little slot cars.

The music is a sore point. Annoyingly bad techno accompanies each track. It isn't that I hate techno either. It's that I hate BAD techno. Turn of the tunes for a much improved nostalgia experience.

The GameCube version is exactly identical BTW. Simple to pick up and easy to put down. A quick, fun diversion from more serious passtimes. I actually would recommend this for folks with an open enough mind not to make fun of it before looking at it based solely on the subject matter. Like the entire gaming press did from the IGN, UGO and Gamespy to even rosey magazines like Nintendo Power and EGM. It's no Sega GT or Project Gotham Racing 2 but you didn't need me to tell you that!

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Come on People, July 19, 2004

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C. Fischer "lprchaun" (Budd Lake, NJ United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Grooverider Slot Car Thunder (Video Game)

Geez, guys, It is a slot car game, not an actual race car game. Of course you can't steer your vehicle. Didn't you play with slot cars when you were kid.
This is a fun game and my wife will actually play it with me because you don't have to worry about the steering. You can and have to switch lanes so it not like you just hold the button and you win.
This game has made me want to go out and buy an actual slot car set again.

2 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars YOU CAN'T DO WHAT?, August 21, 2003

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matt (Modesto, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Grooverider Slot Car Thunder (Video Game)

This is a racing game that looks simple. Only one big problem! YOU CAN'T STEER YOUR VEHICLE! This is a very bad idea! One of the worst games ever!