By the early 1990s, the Speed Racer anime had achieved a cult following in the United States due to twice-daily airings on MTV.

Radical experienced little difficulty in capturing the anime's campy quality, and pointed out that having pre-existing settings and characters to work from made production easier.

Baril was subsequently offered a full-time position at Radical, becoming the first dedicated audio creator to be hired by the company.

Accolade nails the campy, hardware-heavy Racer mystique just once, and that's in the manual, with detailed specs for the Mach 5's space age equipment.

But the game's racing sequences are a big snooze — if it's G force you're after, there are three-year-old cartridges for the Super NES that go much, much faster.