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XTreme Racing

Available Platform: Amiga

Xtreme Racing is a kart racing videogame created by Siltunna Software exclusively for Amiga and published in 1995.

XTreme Racing
Year1995
GenreRacing
Rating4.5

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PublisherGuildhall
DeveloperSilltunna
OS supportedWin7 64 bit, Win8 64bit, Windows 10, MacOS 10.6+
Updated18 February 2021

Game Review

Xtreme Racing is a kart racing videogame created by Siltunna Software exclusively for Amiga and published in 1995.

The game is inspired by the famous Super Mario Kart, released for the SNES in 1992. Still, the style and settings are entirely different: much less "cartoony" and with some nasty guys called Aikaro, Bowe, Weazel, Kurzon, and Davina as pilots instead of Mario, Yoshi, Bowser, and friends.

But apart from this, the game has everything you might ask for, including 20 tracks (plus 20 additional tracks released with version 2.0), eight different cars, several competitions, and more. It supports two or 4-players split-screen mode and eight simultaneous players with 2 Amigas. Not mentioning the other weapons you can use against your opponents, the track editor, and more. In terms of features, it's even superior to Super Mario Kart.

But Xtreme Racing is unique also because it's one of the few Amiga games entirely in 3D texture-map graphics. The 3D engine created by the programmer Alex Amsel was terrific, even though an accelerator was required to enjoy the hi-res 1x1 graphics. On an unexpanded A1200, you could have decent fps only with 2x2 resolution. Check the screenshots below to see the difference. Luckily, GamesNostalgia prepared a special package with an emulated A1200 + Blizzard 1260 accelerator and a 68060 CPU. This way, you can play at the maximum speed and quality. Enjoy!

Note: to use 1x1 resolution, hit "Esc" and go right until you see "Screen Option 2".

Review by: GN Team
Published: 3 January 2020 9:02 am



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