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Hot Wheels

Hot Wheels is a licensed title based on the toy cars from Mattel and attempts to recreate the playing of toy cars. You start in a car showroom with different types of model cars but if they aren't to your…

1 September 1984

Hot Wheels is a racing, released 1 September 1984 on Commodore C64/128/MAX.

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What Hot Wheels is

Hot Wheels was released in 1984. It was published by Epyx. It is available on Commodore C64/128/MAX only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Hot Wheels is a licensed title based on the toy cars from Mattel and attempts to recreate the playing of toy cars. You start in a car showroom with different types of model cars but if they aren't to your taste then you can design and build your own. Once you are happy with your new car it's time to go to the Paint Shop and select a colour before driving out of the showroom and driving it through town. You view your car from the side at a slight elevated angle and you can drive it to the right or left along the road. To change direction you have to pull into a opening and reverse out in the new direction. The town itself is split into two parts and they are connected by an Expressway where…
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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are kids. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Hot Wheels series

Hot Wheels is the first of 56 entries we hold in the Hot Wheels series. The next entry was Hot Wheels Stunt Track Driver in 1998.

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When did Hot Wheels come out?
Hot Wheels was released on 1 September 1984 for Commodore C64/128/MAX.

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