Poppy Kart Hack
Martial Salleh
If you're looking for your Kart game to feel just a little bit retro, then Poppy Kart is going to be right up your street. With sprite based graphics, a clear horizon that has a touch of parallax scrolling in the background, and deliberately pixellated graphics representing the karts, there's more than a nod to the SNES version of Mario Kart. There's even an ongoing plot thread through the various races explaining why you are racing (it's to find a girl - Froggy the Runaway).
Poppy Kart provides four different forms of controls for your kart, to choose from. One of them uses the accelerometers on your handset as the steering input, and this is probably the easiest to use. Your kart is set to automatically accelerate, but you have the ability to brake (which helps you set up a power slide as required) and to throw out bombs and shells you can pick up as you drive round the tracks. Three on-screen layouts for the virtual joypad are also available to choose.
Your kart is very responsive, and your first few games will see you over-steering a lot. That's why I think the accelerometer control is your best option, as it offers a more granular control input method. Be prepared to practice a fair amount and to work at handling your kart before you take on the more intricately designed tracks.
I'm old school, and that means that Poppy Kart has a certain appeal for me, and I would definitely recommend the older gamers take a look at the title - but a quick check around some younger gamers and the retro look that serves it so well for the older gamer becomes a hindrance. Much as we all loved the original Mario Kart, karting games and expectations have moved on.
It controls well too, with a ridiculous amount of choice and customisation for how you can control the game. Obviously you can play with touch and motion controls, its an iOS game after all, but how many games have you played on iOS that let you use a wireless controlle or a bluetooth keyboard? For that matter, how many have you played that let you use your iPad as a screen and then download the app on your iPhone and use your iPhone as a 300 controller for a kart-racing game? This last feature actually makes it unforgivable that the game has no multiplayer whatsoever.
The pixelated graphics teeter on giving the game a childlike appearance but game play tells a different story. The race tracks were laid out in a mildly challenging fashion and your competition can get down right nasty at times. Don't be surprised if a frog race his kart up next to yours and slams you into a barricade. Luckily, you can always return the favor.
Poppy Kart is a free app for Android published in the Sports list of apps, part of Games & Entertainment.
The company that develops Poppy Kart is webrox. The latest version released by its developer is 1.5.0.5. This app was rated by 1 users of our site and has an average rating of 5.0.
To install Poppy Kart on your Android device, just click the green Continue To App button above to start the installation process. The app is listed on our website since 2018-10-03 and was downloaded 106 times. We have already checked if the download link is safe, however for your own protection we recommend that you scan the downloaded app with your antivirus. Your antivirus may detect the Poppy Kart as malware as malware if the download link to fr.webrox.poppykart is broken.
How to install Poppy Kart on your Android device:
- Click on the Continue To App button on our website. This will redirect you to Google Play.
- Once the Poppy Kart is shown in the Google Play listing of your Android device, you can start its download and installation. Tap on the Install button located below the search bar and to the right of the app icon.
- A pop-up window with the permissions required by Poppy Kart will be shown. Click on Accept to continue the process.
- Poppy Kart will be downloaded onto your device, displaying a progress. Once the download completes, the installation will start and you'll get a notification after the installation is finished.