Merlin Racing (Game)

Merlin Racing

GAME » on December 2000

The sole racing game for the NUON platform, featuring kart, boat, and hovercraft racing with cute critters in the same fashion as Diddy Kong Racing.

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Overview

Merlin Racing is a kart racing game developed by Miracle Designs and published by VM Labs for the NUON (Platform) on December 2000. The sole racing game for the short-lived NUON platform and a spiritual successor to the studio's 1995 game Atari Karts (Game), Merlin Racing looks and plays similar to Rare's 1997 N64 game Diddy Kong Racing (Game), with cute animal racers, a single-player campaign (with a drivable hub world), and access to three different types of vehicles (karts for road tracks, boats for water tracks, and hovercraft for aerial tracks). The game's story is set in the land of Camelot (Location), with one of several cute creatures racing to rescue the captured magician Merlin (Character) from the wicked witch Prava by winning the four Zystral Crystals from their guardians and beating Prava in a race. The game was later ported to the PlayStation (Platform) in 2003 with four split releases, each corresponding to one of the three different types of vehicles: both Rascal Racers (Game) and ATV Racers (Game) for kart racing, XS Airboat Racing (Game) for boat racing, and Miracle Space Race (Game) for hover racing.

Levels

Shelley Cup

Sunny Farms (kart)
Frozen Falls (kart)
Capitol City (kart)
Merlin Moat (boat)

Wordsworth Cup

Emerald Forest (kart)
Boulder Canal (boat)
Village Pass (kart)
Jupiter X2005 (kart)

Keats Cup

Fort Cactus (kart)
Downtown (kart)
Saturn Speedway (kart)
Three Mile Isle (boat)

Tennyson Cup

Forgotten Atrium (kart)
Robot C Zone (kart)
Atlantis City (kart)
Aqua Verde (boat)

Coleridge Cup

Starport 18 (kart)
Palace Gardens (kart)
Space Race (hovercraft)
Sunlit Waters (boat)

Milton Cup

Summer Swamp (boat)
Amethyst Run (kart)
Purple Maze (hovercraft)
Neptune Folley (kart)

Other

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Characters

The game includes 10 playable characters from the start, 5 unlockable boss characters, and 1 unlockable character via cheat code. Each of them have their own unique stats according to the manual, none of which are listed in-game.

Chloe the Lioness
Cadmus the Dragon
Flossie the Sheep
Chaz the Woodchuck
Hogan the Dinosaur
Argyle the Anteater
Picasso the Armadillo
Paulie the Walrus
Rocco the Raccoon
Ahab the Bear
Dr. Freo (unlockable)
Rosie (unlockable)
Piasa (unlockable)
Kepler (unlockable)
Prava (unlockable)
Merlin (unlockable with cheat code)

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