Inspector Gadget Racing

Inspector Gadget Racing received mixed reviews upon release, with several critics comparing the game unfavorably to Mario Kart: Super Circuit as a better racing title for the Advance. Nintendo Official Magazine stated that the game's graphics were "bold and colourful", but the racing was "pedestrian" due to the "poor collision detection", remarking in later issues that the game was the worst kart racing game on the Advance, and that it was "one of the slowest racers you'll ever play" and a "black sheep of the karting family". Kendy Ty of Joypad enjoyed the game's "colourful" and cartoonish graphics, but critiqued the game's "very slow" pacing and "lack of sensation of speed", which made it have "too much inertia and makes it quite difficult to get to grips with". Karen Harris of Total Advance also praised the game's "jaunty, imaginative tracks" for their color and variety, but critiqued the game's "infuriating" difficulty and unoriginality. Oliver Lan of G-Force found the game to be "completely uninspiring", stating "the vehicles feel slow and clunky, and the races are devoid of excitement". Retrospective reception of Inspector Gadget Racing was similarly mixed. Listing the game as one of "the most forgettable kart racers ever released", Henry Gilbert of GamesRadar+ lamented the game "barely had enough memorable characters", featured "mundane driving" and did not use its theme song. Similarly, listing it as a "racing tie-in nobody asked for", Chris Scullion of Nintendo Life stated that the show was a poorly suited license to make a racing game. Scullion critiqued the "painfully slow" pacing and car handling, but stated the game was "not actually the worst looking game" and did feature "impressive enough tracks".