NASCAR Rumble is a mascot racer for the PlayStation starring the then-current drivers from the Winston Cup and Craftsman Truck series. Unlike the real-life series, races mostly take place outside of typical stock car tracks and instead occur on the road across various locales. Also unlike most mascot racers, the cars are not super-deformed or being a "kart" like vehicle.
The game got a sequel on the PlayStation 2 called Rumble Racing, which lacks the NASCAR cars.
The game features the following tropes:
- Always Night: The Metropolis locale, as well as the Swamp Romp track.
- Announcer Chatter: The game has a particularly goofy one.
- Attract Mode: Happens if the player idles in the main menu for several seconds.
- Bait-and-Switch: The intro shows a few cars racing in a generic NASCAR track... only for one of them to break through the wall onto an adjacent road, with another one following after it.
- Blow You Away: The Twister power-up launches a tornado that sends any unfortunate opponents in its way airborne while spinning.
- Car Fu: It's possible to tailspin opponents by steering into their rear bumper.
- Cave Behind the Falls: Silver Falls has one as a shortcut near the end of the track.
- Collision Damage: Running into an opponent at a high enough speed will send them flying. There's also the Big Rumble power-up, which does the same thing except that its user just has to tap opponents with the front-half of their vehicle.
- Cool Car: Some of the unlockable cars, like the Hot Rod and Road Captain.
- Defeat Means Playable: Beating a Legend (getting first place) in a Legend Championship unlocks their car.
- Denser and Wackier: Compared to most NASCAR games.
- Drives Like Crazy: It's very common for drivers to bump and smash into each other during races.
- Easier Than Easy: Kid Mode.
- Establishing Character Moment: The intro has the NASCAR stock cars broke free of the speedway and start racing cross country.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: Drivers can run into their own Bad Gas or Oil Slick that they drop on the track.
- Homing Projectile: The Freeze and Storm power-ups.
- Mighty Glacier: The Tow Truck, which is great at shoving opponents out of its way.
- Nitro Boost: The Nitro power-up, which boosts its user up to ~20 mph above their normal top speed for ~7 seconds.
- No Plot? No Problem!: Just race, race, and race some more.
- Palmtree Panic: Three guesses as to what Beach Blast's theme is.
- Product Placement: A given being an EA game on top of the the Winston and Craftsman vehicles having sponsors plastered on them.
- Punched Across the Room: Happens if a vehicle gets rammed hard enough or is hit by the Big Rumble power-up.
- Racing Game: Obviously, since this is a NASCAR game.
- Ruins for Ruins' Sake: The Big Easy, Swamp Romp, and Road to Ruin tracks.
- Rule of Three: There are three speed classes: Rookie, Pro, and Elite.
- Shifting Sand Land: The Bad Lands locale.
- Wacky Racing: Thanks to the arcade-like physics and power-ups.
