The gameplay feels slow and sluggish mostly due to the strange angle of play, there is never a sense of speed like in Hang-On and Out Run on the Master System. The game is also quite bland with uninspired locales and features which repeat themselves constantly. It's not to say that Enduro Racer isn't fun for a short while, but there isn't the depth available here as you would find with Excitebike on the NES. VC Reviews recommendation is to pass up on this; it's certainly not going to hold your attention for very long like more accomplished racing games.
The game was most likely hacked to pieces in order to fit on the SEGA Card format; something the original Master System unit supported as an alternative to game cartridges. Slightly bigger than a credit card, they were an amusing novelty, but suffered from their lack of storage space. It really wouldn't surprise me if SEGA simply released the butchered Card version on cartridge in order to save money. Seven cents.
N-Europe's Sam Gittins writes (in reference to Donkey Kong 3): "There is little else to say about the third installment of what was once a groundbreaking arcade game, visually it's not very inspiring and the sound is rather basic even by Nintendo's standards. So even though it's a mere five hundred points it really isn't worth even that as there are by far better NES games already available which are well worth it but this just isn't one of them and only goes further to prove that in this instance, the original truly is the best."
Eurogamer writes: "Typical. You turn your back for a few months and the Virtual Console fills up with games, including a sprinkling of bona fide classics. There's a lot to catch up on, so let's not waste time on introductions, eh?"
