The introduction for the game features some very cute cartoon footage of Bomberman and his buddies racing on giant kangaroos, supposedly called Looies (isn't that what you call it when you spit phlegm?), and having a great time together. Unfortunately, instead of using those adorable cartoon graphics for the game, we see some ugly polygonal figures. I try to keep in mind that this game was originally for the PlayStation, the console that featured such beautiful three-dimensional graphics as the deformed faces of Sentient, but still the fact remains: these graphics are ugly, plain and simple.

So before you begin playing, you can select your character from White Bomberman, Black Bomberman, Pretty Bomber, Mach Bomber, Burglar, and Mechbomber 015. I have no idea about the last three, but I think it is pretty obvious numbers two and three were there as tokens. You've stolen my heart, "Graphic Research Inc." So after choosing your character you can choose one or two players, choose an animal to ride, either a Looie (the kangaroo-like thing) or a Tierra (a rhinoceros-like thing), your weapons from a collection of ambiguous symbols, and the one track that is openly available.

Kangaroo racing has been outlawed in 63 countries. But not this one.

Now comes the fun part! Hold the X button to move forward and use left and right to steer (naturally). If you press forward, it gives you are temporary speed boost, and using the circle will allow you to use your weapons. Of course, it doesn't really matter because the race is hard as a dried-up dung ball! If you are stuck going in the wrong direction, you are toast because Looies are apparently extremely hard to steer when you are going slow, and there is some giant pad with a paw on it that everyone but you can jump on to get a speed boost. Oh yeah, and enjoy the stupid repetitive music as you repeatedly fail this course.