| “ | It's the big blackout! Hamsters might be nocturnal, but this eerie sizzling neon platforms, unseen cliffs, glowtubes and other terrors await you! Fortunately, your hamster gives off some glow of his own... So try not to panic as you roll into the dark! | ” |
–Description in Tournament | ||
Overview[]
The Neon Race is the seventh race in HamsterBall's Tournament mode. This level is not released until V3.0. The course has no light and is illuminated by some sections of the track, railings, yeow neon, and the hamster himself. Some sections of the track are yellow neon lights flashing on and off, only solid when their light is on. If a player should attempt to roll on a dark neon track, they would simply fall through. Do not be on the edge of a neon light while it is off, because when it starts to flash on, it will break your hamster ball. Some tracks are invisible but are possible to progress on, only visible when their neon outlines are lit up. This course is difficult to traverse due to the lack of light, but several players have managed to reach the end quite quickly.
Enemies[]
- Trodes (light pegs)
Walkthrough[]
Hamsterball Gold Neon race 28,1 sec no broken ball
Skips[]
- Neon Trode Skip
- Neon Lightsoff Skip
- Neon Blackout Skip
Trivia[]
- In the picture depicted above (Tournament), the Hamster is giving off white light. It is possible that the real colors of Neon Race is black and white.
- This would make sense, as the other races have white and another color in their checkered floor.
- Since black and yellow squares were seen, it is possible that it is actually white and it was illuminated with the yellow lighting.
- All this was confirmed when Raptisoft gave the Hamsterball community access to the original level files.
- Since black and yellow squares were seen, it is possible that it is actually white and it was illuminated with the yellow lighting.
- This would make sense, as the other races have white and another color in their checkered floor.
- Pushing the 8-ball down the pipe and onto the goal causes the game to crash.
- This is the only race in the game without any flags. This is because you couldn't see them even if they were present.
- This is the only race that the ball may glow.
- There is an unused part to the Neon Race song that isn't ever played, most likely because it would have required adding multiple additional segments into the music, and since memory space was golden back in the early 2000s, it was ultimately cut. This piece of music can be heard by opening the music file using a program like OpenMPT. Neon Race's music is the third-to-last track.
- RodentRacer created a properly looping version of this soundtrack.
Other Races[]
| Races in Hamsterball |
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