Micro Machines World Series

Micro Machines World Series

As its name suggests, this has always been a series that had at least half an eye on selling toys. But when brothers Richard and David Darling signed a deal with Galoob in 1990 that would turn its NES prototype California Buggy Boys into Micro Machines, licensing agreements came on fewer pages, with fewer stipulations and provisos. So it is that Micro Machines World Series, the first new title carrying that licensed name for over a decade, bombards its racers with Nerf branded weaponry fired from the barrels of GI Joe branded tanks on Hungry Hippos tracks. It’s hardly game-breaking, but it does lend an oddly stern-faced corporate quality to a game ostensibly about racing toy cars around improvised household tracks.