Wacky Wheels (DOS)

Wacky Wheels

Platform:	DOS
Year:	1994
Developer:	Beavis-Soft
Buy:	Amazon

Wacky Wheels was the PC industry's reaction to Super Mario Kart (SNES). It plays similarly and uses many of the game mechanics that the SNES game pioneered. You choose a cartoon animal to race your go-kart around a track while picking up bombs, oil slicks, fireballs, and hedgehogs to throw at the other racers. If you win the race you go on to the next track. There are also battle mode games where you skip the race and merely try to finish off your opponent. Above what the SNES game allows, Wacky Racers has a modem battle where you can race your friends from anywhere in the world.

Screenshots

The title screen.

Razer the shark catches up to Tigi the tiger on the first Bronze Cup track.

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Music

Mark Klem's music varies from upbeat rock music to slower bass-driven tunes. There are also a few silly carnival tracks as well. The current recording was made of the General MIDI output, which doesn't sound identical to the AdLib audio that more people are probably used to. The titles are extrapolated from the file name of the ripped tracks.

Recording

#	Title	Composer	Arranger	Length	Download
01	Apogee Fanfare	Bobby Prince	Lee Jackson	0:09	Download
02	Main Menu	Mark Klem	Mark Klem	4:02	Download
03	Ashes	Mark Klem	Mark Klem	1:54	Download
04	Turbo	Mark Klem	Mark Klem	5:47	Download
05	Dance	Mark Klem	Mark Klem	3:28	Download
06	Flight	Mark Klem	Mark Klem	4:39	Download
07	Star Brain	Mark Klem	Mark Klem	3:30	Download
08	Bass Attack	Mark Klem	Mark Klem	4:42	Download
09	Kard	Mark Klem	Mark Klem	2:12	Download
10	Overdrive	Mark Klem	Mark Klem	5:05	Download
11	Pumper	Mark Klem	Mark Klem	2:44	Download
12	Spacey	Mark Klem	Mark Klem	2:34	Download
13	Brickwall	Mark Klem	Mark Klem	3:43	Download
14	Banshee	Mark Klem	Mark Klem	3:10	Download
15	Game Over	Mark Klem	Mark Klem	0:05	Download
16	Leader Board	Mark Klem	Mark Klem	0:08	Download

Credits

Ripper: Frenkel Smeijers (MIDI), Krzykos (KLM)
Recorder: TheAlmightyGuru
Game Credits:
- Music Mark Klem
- Sound Code: Jim Dosé
- Not Credited Apogee Fanfare Composer: Bobby Prince
- Not Credited Apogee Fanfare Arranger: Lee Jackson

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Game Rip

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The type 1 MIDI music was ripped from the Wacky.dat file. Track titles are listed in the header of the file as well as in the meta data of the MIDI files. There is also a KLM file (probably named after the music's creator) for each music file. The music was played through the Microsoft MIDI driver with output and recorded using Winamp.