Eso es un problema para un principiante como yo, tuve que acércame mucho a la pantalla para no chocar con las flechas, la velocidad en los cruces es vital para ganar las carreas, pues tienes que tener una agilidad mental buena para no chocar, pero eso no es todo, el juego también nos permite tener power ups durante las carreras al estilo de Mario Kart.

Algunos de ellos son para nuestro beneficio, pero otros son para arruinarle las carreras a los contrincantes, un ejemplo de esto es que podemos colocar un bloqueo en un canal, lo que obligará al otro usuario cambiar de canal de forma imprevista, algo que nos puede beneficiar es el nitro el cual nos permitirá acelerar mucho más rápido, no obstante, hay que tener en cuenta las físicas de los autos, si aceleramos en exceso en una curva cerrada nuestro auto saldrá volando.

Para finalizar, más allá de las flechas, trampas y físicas realistas que tiene el juego, para mi lo más traicionero son los canales o las ranuras, en algunas pistas, las ranuras tienen colores distintos, si un canal está de color verde lo podemos usar para acelerar, caso contrario al de color rojo que nos quitará velocidad, si está de color azul nuestro auto puede sufrir un resbalón y caerse, pero el peor de todos a mi modo de ver, es cuando está de color amarillo, ya que representa una sobre carga, si nuestro auto pasa por encima tendrá un corto circuito y explotará como en la vida real jaja.

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Bueno Gamers, espero que les haya gustado la publicación de este día, Grooverider: Slot Car Thunder me parece un juego con un concepto genial que no conocía antes, el videojuego es demasiado antiguo, pero es primera vez que lo veo, representa muy bien las carreras de Slot, la jugabilidad es excelente para las personas que está familiarizadas con el deporte, las carreras que tenemos son muy desafiantes, debo llamar a mis amigos para echarnos unas cuantas partidas jaja.

No tengo nada más que agregar, gracias por leer y por escuchar.

🚥¡Adiós!🚥

¡¡Muchas Gracias!!

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English

🚗Grooverider: Slot Car Thunder / Pure Voltage Racing🔌

💡Slot Racing🚝

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Hello Gamers, how are you? I hope you are doing great and welcome to a new publication made by me. After an intense week of soccer, I come back to you with a new interesting videogame, I discovered this videogame days ago, the truth is I didn't know about its existence at all, but I found its concept very interesting because it is something I always wanted to have in my environment, it is a racing videogame similar to Hot Wheels cars.

I say similar because they are cars that we can collect in our room and also have their tracks and a different way to enjoy them, we just have to add a little electricity to turn them into Slot Cars equipped with electric motors. The video game in question is called Grooverider: Slot Car Thunder, a racing video game based on Slot racing.

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For those who do not know what Slot cars and their races are, let me explain: Slot racing as such is a famous sport that consists of controlling a car designed to scale with a battery inside the body, starting the car is controlled by a remote control driving the car through tracks designed specifically for this style of racing, as these tracks have slots charged with electricity, which will allow the cars to be powered and can run at high speeds.

More than one of us must have had one of these tracks when we were little, I had one when I was 4 years old or something like that, honestly I didn't know how these cars worked haha, I thought they moved by magic or something like that, as I got older I realized that these cars run on electricity, even once I wanted to create a car that would run on a battery for my basic electricity class, it didn't work out so well haha.

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At the same time, I was lucky enough to meet a person who is a fan of these races and spent a lot of time collecting these cars, he also keeps his track and from that moment, the concept of playing with cars that run on electricity at high speed seemed great, fun, entertaining and of course dangerous if you do not have much notion with the basic concepts of electricity hehe, that's why Grooverider: Slot Car Thunder seemed to me a very interesting game.

I had never seen a video game about Slot Cars, so I did not hesitate twice and downloaded it, I must say that I have this game for the Xbox Classic, I do not know if it will have a PlayStation 2 or Gamecube version, I guess there will be a PC version if so I should try it to compare, this game also surprised me a little by the year of its release, this game dates from 2002, who would say haha.

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I was testing it for over an hour, the truth is the game is pretty good for what it offers, it is simply a racing game where our goal is to drive a Slot car on a slot track, I at first thought this would be a normal racing game, where you accelerate on the "A" button, use the brake on "B" and move with the directional pad, well clearly I was wrong.

The controls are different from what I expected and they have some logic now that I think about it, to accelerate in the races of Grooverider: Slot Car Thunder just move the lever or the crosshead forward, in this way the engine is activated and we can run on the track, logically to brake we have to direct our lever down, it's weird for me because a normal person is used to cross utilizing the lever.

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On the other hand, for us to cross to the right and left sides of the road, we must press the triggers "L" and "R", the L for left and R for right, in this way our Slot Car moves to the slots it has on its sides, that's what the controls of this game are about, they are somewhat simple, but once you start playing you will realize that it is somewhat more complicated.

When we start the game we have the options of Single Player and Multiplayer, this game can be played with four people, it would be interesting to invite my friends to play to know how many skills we have in Slot racing, as I had no friends to try the game I decided to play alone, in Single Player mode we have different options: Arcade, Championship, Time Trial, Custom and Special.

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First I decided to play the Time Trial mode to get used to the controls, once I started playing I got the impression that it looks a bit like the F-Zero video games in terms of speed and fluidity, in a Slot race the speed is crazy, here the programmers wanted to bring the speed of those races to the gameplay, it is very noticeable if it is the first time you play it you will not win any race haha.

Later, I wanted to try the Arcade mode, here things changed a bit, the game is much more complicated than it seems, I selected the only available track and 3 competitors were added to the race (with me 4), the races in Arcade mode have traps, for example, direction arrows appear indicating that we must cross if we do not do it and we stay in the channel where the arrow is our Slot Car explodes and we lose time.

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That's a problem for a beginner like me, I had to get very close to the screen to avoid hitting the arrows, the speed in the crossings is vital to winning the races because you have to have the good mental agility to not crash, but that's not all, the game also allows us to have power-ups during the races in the style of Mario Kart.

Some of them are for our benefit, but others are to ruin the races of the opponents, an example of this is that we can place a block on a channel, which will force the other user to change channel unexpectedly, something that can benefit us is the nitro which will allow us to accelerate much faster, however, we must take into account the physics of the cars if we accelerate too much in a sharp curve our car will fly.

Finally, beyond the arrows, traps, and realistic physics that the game has, for me the most treacherous are the channels or slots, in some tracks, the slots have different colors, if a channel is green we can use it to accelerate, contrary to the red one that will take away our speed, If it is blue our car can suffer a slip and fall, but the worst of all, in my opinion, is when it is yellow, as it represents an overload if our car passes over it will have a short circuit and explode as in real life haha.

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Well, Gamers, I hope you liked the publication of this day, Grooverider: Slot Car Thunder seems to me a game with a great concept that I did not know before, the game is too old, but it is the first time I see it, it represents very well the Slot races, the gameplay is excellent for people who are familiar with the sport, the races we have been very challenging, I have to call my friends to play a few games haha.

I have nothing more to add, thanks for reading and for listening.

🚥Bye!🚥

Thank you very much!!

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