Konami Krazy Racers (known in Japan as Konami Wai Wai Racing Advance) is a 2001 Massively Multiplayer Crossover Mascot Racer for the Game Boy Advance which reunited many Konami franchises into a Kart Racing Game.
Nearly a decade after its release, it has remained a rather valid kart racing game. It would later get a
sequel for iOS and Android called Krazy Kart Racing, which includes racers such as Frogger, Sparkster, and Pyramid Head.
Compare with DreamMix TV World Fighters, a crossover Mascot fighter between Konami (and Hudson Soft and Takara) characters.
This game shows examples of:
- Apologetic Attacker: Pastel always apologizes when she hits somebody. Nyami does as well, although she always says it in Gratuitous English as opposed to Japanese.
- Batter Up!: When Power Pro summons Yabe, Yabe hits a baseball as a homing projectile. He is one of the two cameo characters with a detailed animation for firing their projectile (the other being Dino), as most of the others just transform into it with a shared morphing animation instead.
- The Cameo: Every character has a companion who floats around them if the item roulette lands on the extremely rare Assist Character slot. They are as follows:
- Goemon and Ebisumaru: Sasuke
- Pastel: TwinBee
- Ninja/Gray Fox: a helicopter
- Nyami and The KING: Dino
- Dracula: Death
- Power Pro-kun: Yabe
- Moai: Three glowing Moai, possibly Laser Moai or Moai Я due to their coloration
- Takosuke and Vic Viper: Michael
- Beartank: A randomly selected one from above, appears as a "?" in the HUD
- Cute Little Fangs: Befitting for a cat girl, Nyami has little canines visible whenever she smiles in-game.
- Damn You, Muscle Memory!: If you want to choose a racer, you must press left or right (read: go either clockwise or counter-clockwise); then you have to choose the track, and in order to do so you have to press up in order to scroll down the index and vice versa.
- Excuse Plot: The opening is the plot. Various characters receive a mysterious e-mail from "Konami Man" which invites them to a kart race. That's about it.
- Expy: The default roster can be best described as a parallel to that of Super Mario Kart's, with four varying weight classes and two drivers in each.
- Power Pro-Kun and Takosuke = Toad and Koopa Troopa (Lightweight)
- Pastel and Nyami = Princess Peach and Yoshi (Light-Middleweight)
- Goemon and Ninja (Gray Fox) = Mario and Luigi (Middleweight)
- Dracula and Moai = Bowser and Donkey Kong Jr. (Heavyweight)
- Forced Transformation: Instead of shrinking opponents, you can turn them into pigs to slow them down.
- Game of Chicken: The Chicken Race minigame has players driving over a long straight road towards a pool. The one who manages to stop closest to the pool wins, while on the contrary getting too greedy and sinking is an automatic loss.
- Go-Karting with Bowser: Go-Karting with Dracula and Pyramid Head, for just two examples.
- Guide Dang It!:
- Unlocking the final two characters (KING and Vic Viper) requires the player to, on two specific tracks, jump off from a lane of jump panels at an angle then fire off a turbo boost from a Blue Bell to reach a secret island holding a giant gem that unlocks the characters. The courses' minimaps do not show the islands these gems are located on.
- To unlock Ebisumaru you must set a record on both Goemon courses. The game does hint that the diamonds exist but never hints at this final secret.
- Hair-Raising Hare: Robbie the Rabbit appears as a representative of the Silent Hill series in the mobile version. Aside from removing the red stain, no attempts were made to reduce his creepiness.
- He Who Must Not Be Seen: Konami Man, who previously appeared in both Wai Wai World games, only gets a brief mention as the one that starts the racing tournament all the characters participate in.
- Hot Potato: In the game mode "Bomb Chasers", one player gets a Cartoon Bomb. When it blows up, the other three players win. One can pass the bomb by bumping another kart; this will raise the timer to at least 30 seconds, so the victim has a chance to pass the bomb again.
- Lighter and Softer: The game includes in its roster a fat, Laughably Evil version of Dracula as well as "Ninja", who actually is a chibi version of Gray Fox.
- Krazy Kart Racing meanwhile features characters such as Pyramid Head (recycled from New International Track & Field) and Robbie Rabbit, with Robbie in particular lacking the blood around his mouth that he has in his other appearances (for obvious reasons), instead basically looking like a cutesy bunny.
- Mascot Racer: One for most of Konami as a whole, covering a lot of their most popular franchises.
- Mythology Gag:
- On the Power Stadium track we can see the illustration from the boxart of Power Pro-kun Pocket 1 on the floor. The mole item and the moles seen as an obstacle in that track are the mascots of the Moglers team that appears from Power Pro-kun Pocket 2 on.
- Dracula has been cutefied like he's come out of the Kid Dracula setting.
- Rare Random Drop: Every character has a very rare Assist item that increases top speed for a while and then becomes a missile that targets whoever holds the next position.
- Rule of Cool: Even with their original tones softened, being able to race as Dracula and Gray Fox is certainly saying something.
- Secret Character
- The Voiceless: While the Power Pros generally aren't silent protagonists, they never get voiced lines and this is applied both in this game and in DreamMix TV World Fighters.
- A Winner Is You: Clearing the final set of missions just plays the staff roll.
