Mickey's Speedway USA | Racing Under the Radar
Mickey's Speedway USA is a strange game, particularly where its legacy is concerned. This is an N64 game developed by Rare, released during the height of their relationship with Nintendo... and yet, it’s fallen into total obscurity. Even during retrospectives on Rare as a company, it’s left as a mere footnote; as just “that other game built on the Diddy Kong Racing engine” and nothing more. With a reputation like that, I had no reason to think the game was worth playing, so I paid it no mind for years. That was until recently, when two YouTube videos spotlighting the game and its supposedly ruthless difficulty caught my eye: the first from Pyrrhickong of Designing For , and the second from Ray0ken . That was enough to convince me as a lover of challenging games, and while I didn’t struggle with it quite as much as I anticipated (probably thanks to Huey’s overpowered stats), I still discovered a real gem of a kart racer! Mechanically speaking, Mickey’s Speedway USA feels like a comb...