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“Micro Machines is one of those games that we’ve been asked for I don’t know how many years to bring back.” “People seem to be very keen to see Micro Machines come back it’s one of the games we built our heritage on Colin McRae Rally.”

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“It seems to have gone down very well,” says Codemasters’ Dan Robinson on the announcement of Micro Machines World Series back in January. Then, after the release of Micro Machines V4 in 2006, it went away. In fact, it was instrumental in catapulting Codemasters from being a budget 8-bit games publisher to becoming one of the UK’s top independent studios, and spawned a successful series. Micro Machines, which first appeared as an unlicensed NES game and was subsequently released on a host of other platforms across the first few years of the ’90s, was an immediate hit. Sales spiked and, despite their diminutive size, Micro Machines became the biggest thing in die-cast cars – Hot Wheels, Matchbox, and Majorette be damned.īut Micro Machines weren’t content with remaining in the toy box and, following the aforementioned cameo alongside Macaulay Culkin on the big screen, the world’s teensiest turbos hit centre stage on the small screen in Codemasters’ original Micro Machines game.

Micro Machines, Galoob’s most successful product to date, was chosen as the key to dragging the company back into profitability – and it worked. The recession of the early ’90s had kicked the company right in the crotch.

But despite a supreme slice of product placement in what would become 1990’s highest-grossing film worldwide, 1990 was actually a disaster for the home of Micro Machines: US toy manufacturer Galoob.

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