So, returning to more obscure things than football. Back in the days of the past century, my brother had a Super Nintendo, and the greatest game created for that ancient system was Uniracers. “What?” you say. “Never heard of it,” you exclaim. Please, let me explain.

Uniracers is a side-scrolling racing game with unicycles. Not with people riding unicycles, no, the unicycles themselves would race. The strange unicycle anatomy consisted of a seat-shaped head. The wheel spun on its own to move the creature about, and the rest of the frame made up the body.

The unicycles would race across a two-dimensional track with loops and turns and jumps. Performing tricks with your unicycle gave you a boost of speed with more complex performances of daredevilry giving extra acceleration and velocity. The more complex tricks also gave you some bit of 80′s slang. “Awesome” “Tubular” “Wicked” If you couldn’t get your wheel down in time to hit the track and landed on your head (seat) instead, you lost all of your momentum. The desperate push for more speed led to riskier manuevers. The only downside of the game was the eventual overuse of the L and R buttons. To this day they barely work.

The game moves with amazing speed considering that it’s running on a Super Nintendo. This isn’t your standard car race game where the road scrolls by underneath you. This has more of the feel of Sonic the Hedgehog with the camera struggling to keep up with the sudden changes of direction and bursts of acceleration.

I really hope that somebody decides to update this game for today’s slightly more robust systems. Combining this game with the Wii’s motion sensitive controller would lead to an incredible experience. I’d be first in line to buy it.