Wacky Wheels

Wacky Wheels was released in 1994 by Apogee Software for MS-DOS and was one of the few 3D racing games of the time.

The Wacky part of the game is that the eight playable characters in the game have all escaped from a zoo, race on ride-on lawnmowers and throw hedgehogs at each other during the race. Seriously.

The game originally had a base release and a bonus pack containing a number of additional tracks and multiplayer arenas available separately, but Apogee soon made the bonus pack standard with all registered copies of the game.

The game got re-release on both Steam and GOG.com.

Tropes used in Wacky Wheels include:

• Camera Abuse / Screen Tap: If you hit something hard enough in the race, your animal is catapulted towards the screen and smashes it before sliding down and out of sight.
• Easier Than Easy: Kid Mode. The throttle is controlled by the computer, leaving the player to just steer, and the cars are so slow it's almost impossible to screw up a turn.
• Easter Egg: There is a hidden appearance of the Dopefish from Commander Keen Episode 4, complete with a digitised burp.
• Everything's Even Worse with Sharks: Razer.
• Minus World: It is possible to exploit a glitch to get into the empty area outside the track, but driving there for too long crashes the game.
• Morally-Ambiguous Ducktorate: Peggles.
• Nitro Boost: A number of tracks have areas that give you a turbo boost and there is also a command-line cheat which gives the same results whenever you want it just by holding down the appropriate key combination.
• Pandaing to the Audience: Uno.
• Panthera Awesome: Tigi.
• Rascally Raccoon: Ringo. He's even described as a "rapid rascal".
• Ridiculously Cute Critter: In abundance!
• Rubber Band AI, coupled firmly to The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard.
• Serial Numbers Filed Off: Wacky wheels basically is Mario Kart for the SNES, only with an even weirder setting.