Kuru Kuru Kururin

The player controls a slowly spinning stick, and must maneuver it through a series of mazes without touching the walls. The single player offers several goals per course, with each course presenting increasing difficulty. The 4 player (single cart) multiplayer pits players in a race for fastest clear times. The game starts with simple training levels, in which players are told how to play and how to get around the first corners. After that, there are three levels in each stage, which get progressively harder and longer. The obstacles and the look of the levels (ice, cave, machine, etc.) vary between stages. Taking damage incurs a time penalty, and losing all lives results in failing the level, requiring the player to restart the level from the beginning. Beginners can play the levels on Easy mode, where the stick is only half of its usual size. There is a mode called Challenge mode, which is a collection of smaller levels, usually involving only one or two corners or objects to dodge.