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Wacky Races
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For what it’s worth, Wacky Races is an amazingly tight presentation of power-up based racing on a Game Boy. You pick one of four racers (eight, once you’ve unlocked them all), and compete against the others on a variety of courses. In the grand style of this genre, as you race, you open up both new characters and new tracks. None of the beginning tracks are particularly challenging, with the really interesting ones showing up later in the game. But they’re all gorgeous. Once again, I’m amazed at what the developers did with this title.
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In Wacky Races, Dick Dastardly was one of the racers who competed in every episode for first place in a long and hazard-filled cross-country road rally. As his name implies, Dastardly aimed to win solely through cheating and trickery. His race car, named "The Mean Machine," featured all sorts of devious traps for him to use against his opponents. As Wacky Races is inspired by the film The Great Race, so was Dastardly derived from the film's chief villain, Professor Fate, played by Jack Lemmon. Dastardly in this series wore old-fashioned racer's gear — a long violet overcoat, long red gloves, and a large striped hat with driving goggles attached, and sporting a handlebar moustache.
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Instead of a theme tune, Wacky Races has a commentator guiding the viewer through all the cars at the start of the race. He then explains that Dastardly is chaining the cars to a post, and there is a false start when all the cars try to pull away but are not able to move because of the chains. Dastardly tries to accelerate away leaving all the other cars tied up, but shifts into the wrong gear and hits the post, shaking the chain loose and freeing all the other cars. The Mean Machine is left motionless while the race, and the episode, starts.
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When watching The Wacky Races, which originally aired between 1968 and 1970 and still airs in repeats and is available on DVD, expect to have a retro good time. Fans might ... enjoy Speed Racer and The Yogi Bear Show.
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Wacky Races, a cartoon series created by Hanna Barbera, was first broadcast on 14 September, 1968. Hanna Barbera is a cartoon production company formed by Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera in 1957 in the US, after they met while working at MGM studios, Joe doing drawings and Bill doing scripts. Hanna Barbera productions produced many famous cartoons, which have retained their popularity since aired in the '50s and '60s. One such cartoon is Wacky Races.
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Wacky Races premiered on CBS on September 14, 1968. Taking their cue from madcap mid-'60s films like The Great Race and Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines, Hanna-Barbera broke from tradition with Wacky Races. Instead of a few leading characters in a single setting, the show featured a multitude of zany characters competing cross-country in equally crazy souped-up racing contraptions. Shifty Dick Dastardly and his dog Muttley constantly attempt to thwart the good guys. The show was very successful and spawned two spin-offs: The Perils Of Penelope Pitstop and Dastardly And Muttley In Their Flying Machines.
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