Sentences written about this title, gathered by type from the Japanese and English Wikipedia articles (as of 2026-8-30).
Miyamoto stated that the player could notice these more subtle details by mastering each vehicle.
Nintendo Power complemented the game's intuitive controls, high quality graphics and gameplay depth while suggesting players that the stunts are not the "daredevil stuff you might expect" and that the player may find themselves disoriented after crashing.
GamePros Captain Squideo said the game is not realistic but it "still delivers a good time, especially if you're not old enough to drive".
In 2018, Complex rated it 90th on its "The Best Super Nintendo Games of All Time".
Zoey Handley of Destructoid said the game's contemporary reviews are mostly positive but biased by the simple standards of the time, and that as a child she considered it good only as a rental because its replay value is so short and the primitive graphics induce nausea.
She said the Super FX empowers the Super NES to "[punch] above its generational weight class" but called this game one of the chip's lesser technology demonstrations.
It has the Super FX chip built in, and is the 2nd 3DCG game for the Super Famicom made by Nintendo, following Star Fox.
In the "Cross Review" feature of the magazine Famitsu,the four reviewers gave 8, 9, 8, and 7, for a total of 32 out of 40, In the "Game Report Card" reader poll run by the magazine Family Computer Magazine,it scored 22.1 out of 30, as shown below.
According to Famitsu, Stunt Race FX sold 46,372 copies in its first week on the market and 161,995 copies during its lifetime in Japan.
Stunt Race FX was added to the Nintendo Classics service on September 5, 2019, its first re-release in more than two decades.
According to Famitsu, Stunt Race FX sold 46,372 copies in its first week on the market and 161,995 copies during its lifetime in Japan.
Zoey Handley of Destructoid said the game's contemporary reviews are mostly positive but biased by the simple standards of the time, and that as a child she considered it good only as a rental because its replay value is so short and the primitive graphics induce nausea.
In 1998, PC Zone reported that the game's sales had surpassed one million copies, making it one of the best-selling SNES games.
They praised the game's graphics saying it was significantly better than Star Fox writing: "It's very different from your run-of-the-mill race game and manages to offer a wide range of challenges.
Outside Japan the title is Stunt Race FX, and it was released in the United States on 10-10 of the same year and in Europe on 10-27.
The Japanese publication Micom BASIC Magazine ranked it fifth in popularity in its September 1994 issue, and it received a 22.1/30 score in a readers' poll conducted by Super Famicom Magazine.
Nintendo Power complemented the game's intuitive controls, high quality graphics and gameplay depth while suggesting players that the stunts are not the "daredevil stuff you might expect" and that the player may find themselves disoriented after crashing.
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