Cart ride

Cart riding games are a common type of game on Roblox, prevalent in Roblox's earlier years, but still present to-date. Oftentimes, new players are present in these games, due to the gametype's widespread presence. These games require little interaction as gameplay simply involves the player sitting in a cart and regulating the cart's speed (as to not derail).
An uncopylocked cart ride game example can be found here.
== Variations ==
There are many versions of cart ride games. The objective generally remains the same, riding a cart until the finish, but the location and theme vary. For example, cart ride games include "Cart Ride into a Shark", "Cart Ride into a Toilet", "Cart Ride into Heaven", etc.
== Objective ==
The objective of the game is simple, the user has to ride their cart until they reach the finish. This task, although seemingly trivial and mundane, does require occasional attention as the cart's speed must be regulated to prevent derailing. This can be done by pressing the on/off button of the cart.
Most cart ride games have rewards for winners.
== Criticism ==
Winners may prevent cart riders from reaching the end by using paths on the track, derailing the carts. Not only do some winners troll, but even starting players can by simply standing on the track, not allowing the carts to proceed and disrupting carts. Some Robloxians can also alter with the speed of others' carts, making them accelerate too fast or reverse, causing them to derail or hit other carts aggressively. Although not recommended, users can use an autoclick software to mess with a cart's speed at a physically impossible speed. While some newer versions of cart rides have a speed cooldown to counteract this, older versions often don't have this.
In some variations where admin commands are available for purchase, Admins can abuse their power to other players and affect their gaming experience.
Since this game is uncopylocked to developers, many cart ride games are criticized due to lack of differentiation among different cart riding games, and general reputation of primarily comprising of free models. It's also criticized for having no effort and being boring, as most cart riding games are the same task, same rules, and same gameplay.
Cart Rides are also the culprit of deceptive advertising, with misleading thumbnails and other assets.
== Decline ==
During the genre's lifetime on the front page, carts used to function properly. However, many don't anymore and many users criticize this issue as seen on the comments of some broken cart ride games. This led to the decline of cart ride games around 2013-2015 when they were eventually removed completely from the front page.
That being said, they still make appearances throughout the Roblox community, specifically, YouTube videos.
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