As is common knowledge, after the earth will turn into a big desert (whether through a war, by global warming or whatever other event), the last humans will have nothing better to do than to race highly powered and heavily armoured cars. Armour being necessary, as crashes – even intentional ones – are frequent and use of weapons is absolutely officially sanctioned. Consequently, the drivers all belonging to the typical cliché groups, somewhere between cyberpunk and S&M. This being a "multimedia" production, their digitized faces appear before the races in short video clips expulsing the usual motivational banter, taunts and threats.
Almost everybody must have started their motorised career with toy cars, i.e. bigger or smaller models of the real ones. Names like Matchbox, Majorette or Hot Wheels will sound familiar to most. All of these cars come approximately at the same size, approximately that of a matchbox, but still, there are a couple of exceptions, like the Micro Machines: Cars specialising in extreme miniaturisation.
I remember hearing sometime in the 90s that a new video game came out in which you play an earthworm. That made me curious, if only because of the sheer absurdity of the idea. The worm is put – as it turns out – into a fancy power suit and is also equipped with a small pistol that can even be converted into a rocket blaster via power-up. The worm's origins are unmistakably the world of colourful, funny cartoons that popped up like mushrooms in those times. My surprise just increased as I heard about a version of that game for my little monochrome Gameboy.