Skunny Kart was a kart racing game done by Copysoft in 1993. It was quite similar to the better known Wacky Wheels, because they both based on an early prototype called Wacky Kart. The whole story: Andy Edwardson, usually working on low budget stuff for Copysoft, wanted to develop something similar to Nintendo’s Super Mario Kart, so he tried to figure out how the three-dimensional texture mapping stuff worked. On the Super Nintendo, a special DSP chip was used to perform high speed graphics. Unfortunately, the PC didn’t offer anything similar to do such stuff in realtime. But he didn’t give up and he studied thousands of VGA registers to find a solution. He finally did it and he called his method “VGA7″ (named after the equivalent MODE7 on the Super Nintendo). He developed a prototype and showed it to the Copysoft crew. They were quite excited but they didn’t make a commercial agreement. So, Andy Edwardson wasn’t sure if they get the game. He came across Apogee and they fought with Copysoft over royalties ending up Apogee distributing the game. Edwardson just made a mistake: He left the source code on the demo disk. At the end, Skunny Kart was released before Wacky Wheels. Watch my channel for more about DOSBox!
Video Rating: 4 / 5
OMG this takes me back to my middle school days
Haha. The octopus’ name is “pussy”.
@poromise
Same as you :’(
mario kart > this shitty game
I always chose the ladybug.
Pick up the red bottle, and you hear a Terminator sample.
god i miss the 90s
same font of mortal kombat ’1
one of the best games i’ve ever played growing up…even had an addiciton to call of duty modern warfare…
I nostalgia’d hard. =(
The music of this game is actually pretty good! I also played this a lot when I was young
wacky wheeles got shitty music compared to this
my gosh this was one of the first games i ever played!!! the music so amazing and creepy cuz i recognize it after all these years!!!! i remember my favorite character was always the hippo = )
HOLY SHIT! this just knocked me back a few years
legendary game!!!
I had the full version of this… Played this sooooooo many hours…
Oh man, this is classic. Used to play this on DOS I think.
Copysoft, the name says it all
Wow… That’s such a sad story.
Poor Andy got screwed royal. Sure, Wacky Wheels may be a bit superior in terms’a graphics and design, but this is what WAS, what WOULD’A been. THIS is the heart an’ soul’a Wacky Wheels. This is where my money should’a went. Even if it has a character named “Pussy the Octo”. XD
Listen to that awesome music! Damn!
Good times!
greaaaaaaaaaaaattt music!i used to dance it when i was too young:P
I love the music.
Man, I had this on Floppy disc
Brings back some memories of when I was a kid
Bad controls, good music.