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Muppet RaceMania for PlayStation 1
In Muppet RaceMania for PlayStation 1, Kermit, Miss Piggy, Gonzo and their friends turn film sets into racetracks. You drive through places including Kermit's swamp, a London hotel and the world of Muppet Treasure Island. Along the way, you dodge obstacles, look for shortcuts and bombard opponents with fish, penguins and other strange weapons. The tracks feature jumps and side paths, so a good lap takes more than simply accelerating. A sharp turn may also lead you to discover an entirely different route.
Fruit fills your boost meter. You can use that supply for a short burst of speed or save it for a Mega-Boost or your character's special attack. Alongside ordinary races, there are battles, stunt courses and Adventure challenges. In these, you search the same environments for stars, film clips and hidden Muppets, or help a Doozer reach its destination. Revisiting a familiar track at a gentler pace pays off: not every collectible lies on the fastest racing line, and some tasks unlock new characters and extra challenges.
You can play alone or race with two players simultaneously on a split screen, each with a controller. An ordinary PlayStation controller is sufficient; analogue steering is an additional option. Save your progress yourself using the save option in the options menu and a PlayStation memory card. That keeps unlocked content available when you return later. The alternation between competitions and searching tasks gives this kart racer a distinctive rhythm.
Region and language
Our PlayStation 1 games are PAL editions and come with a Dutch or English box, unless stated otherwise. By default, you receive the version for the European market. We note it in the product details if the region is different or the box is in another language. In almost all cases, the game is playable at least in English, and often in the other five common European languages too.
Manual
Muppet RaceMania for PlayStation 1 includes the manual unless the product title states otherwise. If the booklet is missing, the title says “No Manual”. This lets you see before ordering whether the game comes with a manual.
The manuals included with our games usually contain at least English and often around six European languages. The exact languages vary by edition, so Dutch is not always included. The booklet explains the controls and the main rules. You can use it to check how to control the game, which actions are available and how its different features work.
The history of Muppet RaceMania
Traveller's Tales developed Muppet RaceMania together with Jim Henson Interactive. The game appeared on PlayStation in 2000, with Sony Computer Entertainment publishing the European version and Midway the North American release. In the preserved announcement from May 2000, the companies emphasised the combination of film settings, vehicle jokes and individual Muppet powers. Rather than adapting a single film's story, it was a racing project drawing on different periods of the film series and reusing familiar locations as playable spaces.
Six Muppet films provide the basis for the environments, from The Muppet Movie to Muppets from Space. Film clips connect the digital circuits to that source material. The designers did not simply turn those locations into enclosed race routes: Adventure tasks use hidden passages and objects to encourage exploration beyond the usual racing line. The preserved official Henson game overview describes these tasks, the boost meter and the distinction between races, battles and stunt courses. This combination explains why the game rewards knowledge of routes and searching as well as driving skill.
RaceMania appeared around the same time as Muppet Monster Adventure, but that is a separate PlayStation game by Magenta Software, starring Robin. Here, vehicles and competition locations remain the starting point. Traveller's Tales thus built a licensed racing game in which the cast, film history and collecting tasks jointly shape the design, rather than simply putting recognisable faces in existing racing cars.
Similar games for PlayStation 1
Both PlayStation kart racers combine colourful circuits, weapons and short bursts of speed. Crash Team Racing places greater emphasis on maintaining powerslides and precisely timing the turbo earned from them. Muppet RaceMania instead links its boost to collected fruit and makes you choose between speed and a character attack. Its Adventure challenges also send you back to the same track to find objects and hidden figures away from the ordinary racing route.
In Speed Freaks for PlayStation, weapons and the use of turbo likewise influence a race. Its circuits are built around an original group of cartoon-like drivers, without Muppet film sets or accompanying clips. Muppet RaceMania also uses familiar locations for searching tasks and stunt work. Your attention therefore regularly shifts to a side path or hidden object, while Speed Freaks organises its competitions more closely around lap times, overtaking and obstructing opponents.
Chocobo Racing likewise has familiar characters with individual abilities racing against one another on PlayStation. The Final Fantasy figures, magical attacks and story presentation give those competitions a different background. Muppet RaceMania turns its attacks into visual puppet-world jokes and supplements driving with extensive searches through film settings. Both require a well-chosen moment to attack, but the Muppets give you more reasons to explore a circuit again without an ordinary race.
Bomberman Fantasy Race also combines racing with projectiles, jumps and shortcuts on PlayStation. There, you ride animals and spend earned coins to expand your racing options. Muppet RaceMania chooses vehicles, film clips and tasks involving collecting objects or finding hidden characters. Progress in Bomberman revolves more strongly around race winnings and choosing your mount; with the Muppets, reaching the finish and searching the same environment alternate.
Toy Story Racer likewise turns familiar film environments into compact PlayStation racetracks and uses the cast's personalities in different challenges. Its toy world maintains its own scale and recognisable objects. Muppet RaceMania travels through settings from several films and also turns driving into a search for stars, clips and Doozers. Both build on a film universe, but the way you discover new objectives gives their competitions a different rhythm.
