Merlin Racing

The sole racing game for the short-lived NUON platform and a spiritual successor to the studio's 1995 game Atari Karts, Merlin Racing looks and plays similar to Rare's 1997 N64 game Diddy Kong Racing, with cute animal racers, a single-player campaign (with a drivable hub world), and access to three different types of vehicles (karts for road tracks, boats for water tracks, and hovercraft for aerial tracks).The game's story is set in the land of Camelot, with one of several cute creatures racing to rescue the captured magician Merlin from the wicked witch Prava by winning the four Zystral Crystals from their guardians and beating Prava in a race.The game was later ported to the PlayStation in 2003 with four split releases, each corresponding to one of the three different types of vehicles: both Rascal Racers and ATV Racers for kart racing, XS Airboat Racing for boat racing, and Miracle Space Race for hover racing.LevelsShelley CupSunny Farms (kart)Frozen Falls (kart)Capitol City (kart)Merlin Moat (boat)Wordsworth CupEmerald Forest (kart)Boulder Canal (boat)Village Pass (kart)Jupiter X2005 (kart)Keats CupFort Cactus (kart)Downtown (kart)Saturn Speedway (kart)Three Mile Isle (boat)Tennyson CupForgotten Atrium (kart)Robot C Zone (kart)Atlantis City (kart)Aqua Verde (boat)Coleridge CupStarport 18 (kart)Palace Gardens (kart)Space Race (hovercraft)Sunlit Waters (boat)Milton CupSummer Swamp (boat)Amethyst Run (kart)Purple Maze (hovercraft)Neptune Folley (kart)OtherFire TempleCharactersThe game includes 10 playable characters from the start, 5 unlockable boss characters, and 1 unlockable character via cheat code. Each of them have their own unique stats according to the manual, none of which are listed in-game.Chloe the LionessCadmus the DragonFlossie the SheepChaz the WoodchuckHogan the DinosaurArgyle the AnteaterPicasso the ArmadilloPaulie the WalrusRocco the RaccoonAhab the BearDr. Freo (unlockable)Rosie (unlockable)Piasa (unlockable)Kepler (unlockable)Prava (unlockable)Merlin (unlockable with cheat code)