Hot Wheels: Micro Racers

There's, honestly, not much to say about this game. It has dated graphics, even for its time (it looks only marginally better than The Elder Scrolls: Chapter II: Daggerfall, a game from '96, while Hot Wheels: Micro Racers came out in mid-2000), literally two hand-fulls of cars (if taken using their actual, die-cast, 1:64-scale size), and three tracks (though there is some uniqueness to each of them: a beach track with a bouncing beach-ball early on that causes instant death, immediately afterwards a sand dune that basically acts as an oversized speed-bump, a jump ramp, and ending with a short romp through a sand-castle with a couple of tight corners and a jump over instant-death water that you'll need to use nitrous to get over; a home-office track with more variety, including a desk-fan early on that can blow you off the track, and numerous hairpin turns due to the sheer number of books on this track (at least Mattel seems to advocate literacy, even if they don't advocate safe-driving practices :D ), with one or two shortcuts and branching paths; and a 5-to-7-year-old's bedroom, complete with plastic Army Men (like from the original Toy Story, if I may date myself (I might as well, no woman will =D )), a model train that causes instant death (though its track may be used as a shortcut), and plenty of wooden alphabet-blocks (the kind babies and toddlers play with) that act as immovable barriers (remember, this is a cheap children's game from mid-2000, so don't expect realistic (or, really, any) physics)). What really hinders this game today is that modern systems have trouble running such games as this, being, basically, built on even-then old MS-DOS engines that could only acknowledge folders and files with no more than eight characters per. In the case of Hot Wheels: Micro Racers, it crashes frequently and seemingly randomly on Windows 10. This is a good introduction for 5-to-7-year-olds to computer racing games, but only if you still have a Windows computer from the mid-2000s or earlier (which, thanks to M$, most of us probably don't).