Title: Acer Racer
Developer: Carbide
Publisher: UK Silver
Platform: Musjido Multi Media System
Release Date:
NA: November 5, 1992

Infamous as one of the worst, but also one of the rarest, games ever produced for the Musjido MMS, Acer Racer commands prices of around $2500 for a loose cartridge and close to $5000 for a complete-in-box copy. This is because developer Carbide had been contracted on spec to make the game for a local businessman interested in breaking into the video game market; once they had ordered the cartridges for the first 500 units from Musjido, the contract was canceled, leading to three years of legal wrangling. Carbide went out of business during the protracted legal fight, which lasted over a year, and its creditors seized the 500 copies that had been manufactured. Notorious bottom-feeding developer UK Silver purchased the lot, printed cheap packaging and manuals for the game, and sold it by mail order in 1992-1993. The new Musjido UMMS meant there was little interest, and the remaining unsold copies eventually surfaced in Canadian discount stores in 1996. Fewer than 250 are rumored to still exist.

Ironically for a game that commands such a high price, Acer Racer is a poorly designed racing game with little to recommend it other than a soundtrack by future industry legend Jasper Oldman and a title screen drawn by legendary surfer-van airbrush painter Cal Summerisle.

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