My favorite game (that is not electronic) is playing with my cars. I like to play races. I like to imagine I’m playing Top Gear 3000 and I’m going around twice in a big space in my room. I put 8 – 12 cars on the starting line and they race. Some have the same numbers and some are different. I have a lot of favorite cars. One of them is the Brutalistic Hot Wheels Car and the other is the Way Too Fast car. I have over 100 cars. It is a big collection for a kid. I’m really good at making the tracks for the cars. I take my hand and push the cars because they are not remote control cars. They are just ordinary cars that kids buy at the store: Hot Wheels. I mostly have old cars.
I built a track called The Confuser. It had a lot of twists and turns. I pretended that most of the cars were crashing because they were going way too fast. I put signs and decorations to make it look like NASCAR, except my tracks are not oval shaped. The tracks fit inside my room. Sometimes they race under my office chair. They never go into the hall because otherwise Dad will yell at me. “Clean that up!”
When the old tracks fall apart and have too many cracks to fix, I take them apart and build a new one. There are always different cars in each race. I have them go on different levels. It is like basketball: junior, varsity. In my races there are varsity levels up to 100. There are even playoffs and a super bowl.
Most cars start as juniors. If they get last place then their season is over and they’re out. The rest go on. They race against different cars on the same track, but they go faster and faster. The best cars block the cars behind them, so they can’t pass and they will win. I copied the whole title out of the video game, but I’m not playing the video game. The imaginary track is my own. Only the title is copied.
When a race starts you never know who will win. All of the cars are the fastest of the fast. I have some cars and some trucks, but the races are usually just all cars or just all trucks. Only cars with numbers get to race.
There are traps at the higher levels like car crushers, big blocks that block the road. There is a big blue dog that invades the track and tries to eat the cars. There are some flips and a lot of crashes when they spin out of control. If they end up upside-down, they can’t go on.
The top five cars get the top places on the best car board. The super bowl is when only two cars are left. They race two or more laps around the track. The winner gets a paper ribbon colored blue. The other just gets put on the board.
It is really fun. I like when they crash a lot. I like to make them “rum” when they drive. It makes me smile a lot.
