Atari Karts

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Atari Karts

Developer(s)	Miracle Designs Ltd.
Publisher(s)	Atari
Platform(s)	Atari Jaguar
Release date	December 1995
Genre(s)	Racing game
Mode(s)	1-2 players
Media	Cartridge

Atari Karts is a Mario Kart-style racing game for Atari Jaguar published by Atari Games and developed by Miracle Designs Ltd.^[1]

The graphics of the game, featuring colorful backgrounds and tracks and a hill effect giving depth to the track, are technically superior to those of Mario Kart.^[2]

The game was criticized for its lack of interesting power-ups. Instead of being able to fire projectiles like in Mario Kart, the only offensive power-up reversed the other player's direction buttons. Another criticism is the fact that a collision with a wall will make the kart fully stop sometimes, which can be very annoying in the harder tracks.^[3]

The game music was composed in 1994 by Fabrice Gillet in Protracker on an Amiga.^[4] Both he and the people who created the in-game artwork are not listed in the game's credits at the end of the game. The manual refers to them as the "Miracle Designs Team".^[5]

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Bentley Bear, the main player character of Crystal Castles is a playable character in this game.
The names of the cups in the game contain various Atari references:
- The Borregas Cup is a reference to the old address of Atari: 1196 Borregas Avenue, Sunnyvale.
- The Tempest Cup's name is a tribute to the classic Atari arcade game Tempest.
- The Miracle Race is named after Miracle Designs, the game's developer.