What games have mine carts?

[Queen Of The Felines]

A lot of games seem to have levels that have mine carts. These carts are usually either just modes of transportation, background decorations, or a method in which to destroy/kill stuff. Off the top of my head I came up with:

Donkey Kong Country
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom/Infernal Machine
Zelda: Minish Cap
Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure
Resident Evil 4

I know there's a LOT more, so what else is there?

Kristine

[Bratwurst]

Duck Tales!

Maybe Mario & Luigi Superstar Saga and Pacman 2. Memory's foggy on those two.

[GarrettCRW]

Guerilla War, with its psuedo-Mode 7 scrolling.

[slip81]

I think one of the Super Mario games on the SNES has them. I also think they are in Yoshi's Island and Chocobo's Mysterious Dungeon.

[Wavelflack]

Fantastic Dizzy

[izret101]

All 3 of the Donkey Kong Countries.

Super Mario RPG had the mine car racing in it for god sakes how did that get forgotten.

Chrono Trigger i think does somewhere in its infinate backgrounds.


Why mine carts???

[Wavelflack]

...because they are better that "your" carts..

:)

[Kroogah]

Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3's Canada level has a mine cart track. If you grind it all the way to the end, you get a gap bonus. Name of the gap bonus? "Mandatory Videogame Mine Cart Ride"

[Phosphor Dot Fossils]

Gotta give a mention to the man o' the bag.

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[Crush Crawfish]

Off the top of my head:

Megaman X
Kirby Super Star
Crash Bandicoot: Wrath of Cortex
Super Mario RPG
Breath of fire 3
Zelda: Oracle of Seasons

[GobopopRevisited]

Donkey Kong 64
TimeSplitters 2

[Half Japanese]

- Sword of Mana (GBA)
- I believe Monkey Hero (PS1) had them too, can't remember too much about it thankfully.

[y-bot]

Isn't there an arcade game where you sit in a mine car and shoot at bad guys?

[spoon]

A slight bit off topic, but, what was the Sega arcade coin-op that actually had the player sit in a mine cart? I believe this game had a sequel in the arcade also.

Spiderman/X-Men Arcade's revenge had mine carts.

[Kroogah]

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Sonic Adventure has one in the Mystic Ruins as a mode of transportation.
Final Fantasy Adventure has one as well.
Sonic 2 on the Game Gear has a few in the first few levels.

[DigitalSpace]

Pac-Man 2 did have mine carts.

Beyond Good & Evil has mine carts in the Black Isle.

[zektor]

A slight bit off topic, but, what was the Sega arcade coin-op that actually had the player sit in a mine cart?

Rail Chase. Great game. Not playable in Mame (yet), but has been playable in Final Burn for quite awhile.

[Queen Of The Felines]

I suppose we could add whatever game is in Iron Draggon's avatar.

Why mine carts? Because just about every game has a freakin' mine cart level. What is the appeal with these things? I mean, if you want an "oh no, we're stuck on something that's out of control" level, use a train or a car or even a cardboard box sliding down forty flights of stairs or something besides MINE CARTS ALL THE DAMN TIME. LOL

Kristine

[Cryomancer]

Gunstar Heroes sort of, Rocket Knight Adventures.

[soniko_karuto]

contra, bomberman 94, oracle of (can't remember wich one, zelda of course), indiana jones and the temple of doom, ninja gaiden 1, sonic 2 gamegear

I know there are some escaping me.

[cracked8ball]

Super Adventure Island for SNES has a mine cart level, and some enmies in TMNT 3 for gameboy ride in them as well

[DaBargainHunta]

Surprised no one has mentioned ICO yet.

[Iron Draggon]

I suppose we could add whatever game is in Iron Draggon's avatar.

Why mine carts? Because just about every game has a freakin' mine cart level. What is the appeal with these things? I mean, if you want an "oh no, we're stuck on something that's out of control" level, use a train or a car or even a cardboard box sliding down forty flights of stairs or something besides MINE CARTS ALL THE DAMN TIME. LOL

Kristine

LOL I was just about to say my avatar! Except I don't think that it's from any game, I think it's just something that somebody else made up. I stole it from some roller coaster site somewhere. However, I think that I know where the whole mine cart phenomenon came from. I think that it began with Namco and Marvel Land! Of course in that game it was roller coaster cars, but the whole idea of hopping from cart to cart, jumping at just the right time while riding in some sort of cart on rails etc, seems to have been derived from that game, which as far as I know was the very first game to ever have any levels like that. I believe that they were bonus levels or something in Marvel Land, but apparently it was the arcade version of that game and it's success that started it all. Everyone else just used mine carts instead, trying to hide the fact that their version was just a blatant ripoff of what Marvel Land did first.

[vintagegamecrazy]

Spelunker for nes had a mine car or two.


Gotta give a mention to the man o' the bag.



What game and system is that for?

[hydr0x]

Isn't there an arcade game where you sit in a mine car and shoot at bad guys?

Rail Chase, GREAT game

[hydr0x]

oh yeah, hasn't Cutthroat Island (SNES) got something like this?

[chrisbid]

final fantasy III, though you get a really lame first person perspective

[crazyjackcsa]

Shining the Holy ark on the Saturn does, and SSX3 has a couple of carts in it. So does Panzer dragoon Saga.

[Chronodriftersx]

Taz-mania for the genesis (megadrive for all you lot) and the Donkey kong country games,

And... Indiana Jones and the temple of doom (arcade)

[izret101]

I suppose we could add whatever game is in Iron Draggon's avatar.

Why mine carts? Because just about every game has a freakin' mine cart level. What is the appeal with these things? I mean, if you want an "oh no, we're stuck on something that's out of control" level, use a train or a car or even a cardboard box sliding down forty flights of stairs or something besides MINE CARTS ALL THE DAMN TIME. LOL

Kristine

LOL LOL Cardboard box

Yes but not all games use them.
Some of them have the carts as background in a mine or cave level.

[Needle]

Guerilla War for the NES hasa couple mine cart sequences that serve as bonus rounds. You have to lasso hostages, or something like that.

Alundra for the PSX also has a mine level with mine carts towards the first 1/4 of the game.

Although I can't remember explicitly, Breath of Fire 3 for the PSX has a mine level right at the beginning, but I'm not sure if there are any carts; and even so, there may be a mine cart level later on in the story (haven't played it for years).

[crazyjackcsa]

Sonic Spinball had mone carts. And although you didn't ever seen them, Sonic 2 at least some track in the mystic zone.

[Lemmy Kilmister]

Dark Savior for the saturn.

[AB Positive]

i'm almost certain you can use mine carts as weapons in Top Hunter for the neo geo.

underrated title, that one.

-AG

[max 330 mega]

rocky and bullwinkle and ex-mutants, both for genesis.

[hydr0x]

oh and what about the Bombermans? :D

[Funk Buddy]

Voodoo Vince

- Edit

It might have been Oddworld instead, I can't remember now. @_@

[RJ]

I knew I'd be the first to say Echo Night (PS) & Dracula: Resurrection (PS).

[Cauterize]

a cardboard box sliding down forty flights of stairs

i much prefer using the Bed Matress down the stairs at drunken house parties...
That should so be brought into games!

[robotriot]

Rick Dangerous 2 (maybe also part 1?) and one or more of the Hugo series has a mine cart-ride in it I think ^^

[mizarkgram]

I just beat the Misty Mountains level on the Hobbit for Gamecube... it had mine carts all over the damn place... kept on beating me up....

[VGfan]

Duck Dodgers for the N64.

[Ryaan1234]

Don't forget Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards

[Doku_san]

Tombi 2 had a mine-cart section. It was fun too!
And the Harry Potter and the Philosophers stone has one in the bank. It sucked ass.

[ProgrammingAce]

A few I didn't see... Megaman X/Rockman X. Klonoa.

[Griking]

I believe that some of the Metal Slug levels had mine carts

[Ed Oscuro]

Super Mario RPG and Riven (my apologies if these have been mentioned), as well as the classic Atari arcade game Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.

[Ed Oscuro]

Spelunker for nes had a mine car or two.

Gotta give a mention to the man o' the bag.
What game and system is that for?
Bagman! Haha, the game just entered my mind as I was simultaneously trying to decipher this comment. GREAT game.

[Teknik_SE-R]

what a grea thread, I never realized this common occurrence

Thank you to whoever said contra. I can't believe that wasn't one of the first mentioned.

what about DK for SNES? can't remembe which ones but come on people!!!! these should have been mentioned!

doesn't one of the early kirby games have one?

what is the name of that overhead cowboy shooter for nes called? it was pretty much commando with cowboy sprites. i think that had some mine carts. I own it and I don't know what its called. GOSH!

I could swear that earthworm jim and lemmings had some mine carts in them too

disney's aladdin (nes/snes/gen) magic carpet ride level might as well be a mine cart level lol

[Ed Oscuro]

what is the name of that overhead cowboy shooter for nes called? it was pretty much commando with cowboy sprites. i think that had some mine carts. I own it and I don't know what its called. GOSH!
Gun.Smoke? I've never played much of it...

Blood Brothers (the arcade version) had mine carts, but you don't ride in any.

[Kid Fenris]

The mine cart in Gunstar Super Heroes has legs and can run on the ceiling. That's got to count for something.

And let's not forget Bio Force Ape (http://64.53.95.207/ujap/ape/bfa.html).

[Lord_Magus]

Young Merlin (SNES) also had some mine cart sections, which were easily the most irritating in the whole game :P

[Jumpman Jr.]

There are mine carts in a few of the dungeons in The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons.
I read this thread, then went and grabbed my Gameboy Color because I felt like playing it. The first room I walked into had a mine cart. 8-)

[Crush Crawfish]

There's a particularly grueling mine cart sequence in Tomba 2...It actually caused me to shelve the game for a while. I'm gonna have to try that again someday.

[Nomeaz1]

One or two of the King's Field games had a section where you had to ride around in mine carts.

[halbert]

I can't remember the name, but it was a Genesis game featuring Looney Tunes characters. In one level you are Wiley Coyote and you ride a mine cart along a rope. Anybody know what I'm talking about?