Courses include "civilian" traffic and other hazards that must be avoided, and provide opportunity to perform stunts such as flips and wheelies.

The gameplay has been compared to that of the contemporaneous Cruis'n series co-produced by Nintendo and Midway's Chicago studios.

[3] In April 2012, a post was made to the r/creepygaming subreddit about two billboards discovered in the "Mojave Desert" level of the Nintendo 64 version of the game which bore black text on a white background displaying a strange message reading SoMETIMES... God TAkES MOMMIES ANd PuPPIES AWAY... ANd SoMETIMES... JuST SoMETIMES...

I doThe reason for the billboard message's inclusion was not known until February 2016, when the website PopOptiq published an article in which Morgan Godat, a textural artist for the game, explained that the game had been created under a serious time crunch, and the billboard used a placeholder texture that was inadvertently left in the final version.

[5] Next Generation, however, said that the arcade version "is aimed directly at the middle of the gaming audience, and it plays that way too.