It had me exclaiming words and phrases my grandparents would be ashamed of me for, but this steep learning curve just meant that my success felt even more momentous. Similarly, Nitro-Fueled will also make you question whether you’ve become worse at games as you’ve aged - it’s tough, significantly more so than my previously mentioned muddy memories care to admit. The sharp edges have been buffed out, the tracks feel more vivid and vibrant, and it feels every inch the overhaul that N. The most obvious improvement between this full-fat remake and the PlayStation classic is on the visual front. Does this remake let you keep your rose-tinted spectacles firmly on, or do the wheels come off the Crash revolution? My very fuzzy and possibly misleading childhood memories are happy to report that Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled stacks up very well indeed. Taking the majority of the Mario Kart formula and giving it a decidedly more orange and wackier sheen, Crash Team Racing was the next obvious trip down memory lane for Activision after the success of N. The aforementioned Crash Team Racing is the typical pick of those who grew up on Team PlayStation over N64, it more than slightly inspired by its closest competition. If you’re familiar with Hello Kitty Kruisers on Switch, you’ll know that there’s a significant gulf between the best and the rest. Mario Kart is often viewed as the grandfather of the genre, with the pretenders to its throne including the likes of Diddy Kong Racing, Crash Team Racing, and roughly nine million licensed tie-ins that couldn’t get out of 8th place. Kart racers are such wonderfully simple games that so many developers still seem to struggle to get just right.