PixlBit

Yeah and one of the tracks you could pick had a loop de loop!

I wonder if my brother Jeff will want that game.  And will it be on a system he can play it on?

I didn't know there was a PC version.  In the arcade there was Hard Drivin' followed by its sequel: Race Drivin'.  Or maybe it was the other way around, i don't remember.  Did yours do an instant replay whenever you'd crash?

Here's a review I wrote of the most recent one:

http://www.gamerdad.com/blog/2015/08/14/art-academy-home-studio-wii-u/

I remember them being huge games back then.  One year at E3 I think Activision even set up a half-pipe at their booth!

2002 was stil a rough time for me (things got better in 2003 though).  But one of my top five favorite games of all time was released in 2002: Animal Crossing for the GameCube!

Did yours have really crappy, choppy polygonal graphics?

They should make a Kirby RPG!  There's enough characters and settings to support one.

I remember an arcade game called Hard Drivin'.  Was it like that?

If I had RPGMaker, I'd make a 8 or 16 bit RPG!  Maybe a Kirby or Pac-Man RPG!