Videogame Review, Hot Wheels: Stunt Track Driver for the Nintendo Gameboy Pocket

Videogame Review, Hot Wheels: Stunt Track Driver for the Nintendo Gameboy Pocket

It’s a Peter Pan influence.  Of course, the racing game can be played blindfolded when I’m very good at it.  2D presents us with interesting visuals- in particular, we’re often looking in the wrong direction because the direction we’re looking in isn’t where the character is going.  No!  The road ahead isn’t visible.  We’re talking about kid toys which are placed on tracks in different house locations as fun is to be had; however, the Gameboy Pocket is, in my official estimation, the worst original Gameboy from Nintendo you could use for Hot Wheels- the screen is off-color, the dot matrix technology doesn’t have as great of greys, and, the buttons are too small.  It’s actually rather disappointing!  Maybe the Gameboy Pocket is better for a toddler or some really small child.  Then again, the very first Gameboy was already small to begin with!  You probably think I’m shouting out loud.  I’m not.  While it’s true the grey visuals look a tad bit sharper, it’s also true that every dynamic is downplayed by the Gameboy Pocket.  It’s partly due to the screen, it’s partly due to the battery output, it’s partly due to the button layout; etc.  As I’ve said before in other reviews for this same Gameboy game the challenge is pretty darn limited since the missions are nothing more than small drifts of a specific concept: toys on wheels, toys on little ramps.  Once you’ve memorized all the tracks we don’t have much of a game left.  Although I’m a reviewer, there’s 3 kinds of experience I can’t now have with Hot Wheels on Gameboy Pocket- 1) playing the portable with a kid’s hands; 2) playing the portable with a kid’s ears; 3) playing the portable with a kid’s eyes.  Those 3 factors are very important!  Videogame companies may or may not want to test out games with young players.  On one hand, a young player is fresh; on the other hand, a young player is kind of dull and not so smart.  Arrogance, by definition, is a prevaricator or an overextension of authority- kids sometimes love being quite lame and silly.  But I’m not sure if it’s exactly “love”.  Cars fly in the air or even fall with styles of different types- there’s front flips, back flips, and side-to-side flips either left or right or both.  Many players in their older years have larger hands than mine; so, if I have trouble, Hot Wheels: Stunt Track Driver might be totally impossible for them.  Hot Wheels is often geared by Mattel for beginners of insight.  Oh, yes!  As a philosopher, I don’t think it’s wise for a parent to let children do whatever they want.  Just in Sacramento in California there’s parents who are practically anarchists of management and kids end up growing up into mean, nasty villains.  Peter Pan himself as a work of fiction displayed great crimes and wild chaos.  Thus, should Hot Wheels please, it should please the good guys.  I love you kids!