Hot Wheels: Custom Car Designer cover art

Hot Wheels: Custom Car Designer

Mattel Media's Hot Wheels Custom Car Designer CD-ROM puts you or your child behind the virtual wrench, spray brush and stamp pad, allowing you to customize the appearance of 20 different traditional Hot Wheels…

31 December 1998

Hot Wheels: Custom Car Designer is a point-and-click developed by Mattel Interactive, released 31 December 1998 on PC (Microsoft Windows).

Verified Sources: IGDB

What Hot Wheels: Custom Car Designer is

Hot Wheels: Custom Car Designer is a point-and-click game developed by Mattel Interactive and released in 1998. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Mattel Media's Hot Wheels Custom Car Designer CD-ROM puts you or your child behind the virtual wrench, spray brush and stamp pad, allowing you to customize the appearance of 20 different traditional Hot Wheels models (including the jeep, speedboat, blimp and a number of racers). But why stop at detailing your dream machine when you can also draft licenses and traffic tickets, label trophies and ribbons, and create flags and license plates? From the main access screen, you can visit the Print Shop to create a newsletter, greeting cards, business cards, letterhead, and postcards; the DMV to make licenses and license plates and issue tickets; Victory Lane for ribbons, trophies, banners, and…
Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a auditory perspective. Its themes are educational. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

Hot Wheels: Custom Car Designer launched on 31 December 1998, within three weeks of Suikoden II, Super Smash Bros., Crazy Taxi (1999) and Mario Party.

Released around the same time: Suikoden II, Super Smash Bros., Crazy Taxi (1999), Mario Party.

Official trailer

Gameplay Video thumbnail

Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.

Screenshots

All media

Quick answers

Hot Wheels: Custom Car Designer — frequently asked questions

When did Hot Wheels: Custom Car Designer come out?
Hot Wheels: Custom Car Designer was released on 31 December 1998 for PC (Microsoft Windows).

If you like this

Games like Hot Wheels: Custom Car Designer

See all