Tonka Raceway (Game Boy Color)

GameSpot editors' review

• CNET editors' rating: 2.0 stars Mediocre
  Detailed editors' rating
  Overall score: 4.9 (2.0 stars)

• Reviewed by:
  Miguel Lopez
• Reviewed on: 03/15/2000
• Updated on: 04/28/2000
• Originally published on GameSpot: Tonka Raceway (Game Boy Color) Review

Tonka Raceway is a fast, furious third-person racer from Hasbro Interactive. Let it be known: Comparisons to R/C Pro-Am are inevitable. What allows it to strike some kind of individual ground is the wacky, twisty design of its tracks, which will, quite literally, lead you in circles.

Basically, you race around these mad tracks with three other vehicles. The tracks, for the most part, are rather cramped, as the computer-controlled racers will usually race close together in some tight cluster, and you can't go off-road. This leads to some crazy, bumper-car-style racing, replete with awful 360s, dead-wall stops, and all manner of frustration. Because the AI racers are a little on the dumb side, it's usually a cinch to finish each race first, granted you can maneuver through the tracks, which tend to get sort of wacky about three races into a circuit.

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