Art Style: Light Trax

Paramount gameplay, solid controls, and minimalist presentation-- these are staples of the Art Style series for Nintendo DS and Wiiware. They're easy to dive into and offer enough depth to keep earning higher scores or better times. Enter Light Trax, the console equivalent to Dotstream, where you control a line on a plane flying through space.

Your line automatically accelerates as you try to dodge obstacles and run over boosters while competing against 6 other 1-dimensional opponents. Race directly alongside them to speed up and build your turbo meter. There are also a handful of pickups like invinciblity stars, extra lives, and nitros. You can take it one track at a time or make your way through a 3-circuit course. There's also a freeway system where you can unlock new cups by traveling to them.

The younger generation might pass this off as some ancient prototype before even playing it, and old people keep spending money on dumb shit like furniture and vegetables. It doesn't matter because you can't purchase these games anymore anyway, unless Nintendo decides to repackage them for Switch, which they should (and don't forget to add online leaderboards and multiplayer.)