It was originally freed on the PC (for DOS) in 1997, but has since been ported to Macintosh (1997), PlayStation (1999), Nintendo 64 (2000) and Game Boy Color (2001). A PlayStation & N64 versions of Carmageddon are more like Carmageddon II.

Inside Carmageddon, the streaming video player races the vehicle against the total of more competition inside a (ordinarily) suburban setting. a streaming video player has the certain total of period to complete the specified total of laps of a course, however further period can be gained by running across checkpoints, collecting bonuses, damaging the competition' cars or even by heading all over walker.

Around numbers of countries (including a UK and Germany), the game whenever freed contained zombies or robots instead of people, every bit heading above a undead was considered more acceptable by their various ratings boards. Unofficial "blood patches" were quickly freed by members of a community to replenish a zombie graphics & healthy by having a further gory versions, followed by official patches from either a developers of the game that uncensors the game.

A tag-line for the Our contries release was "The racing game for the chemically imbalanced".

Later around 1997 an expansion pack entitled a Carmageddon Splat Package was freed. This added a good deal of additional tracks & cars, & added trend lines for Glide API, the API utilized per dominant line of 3D accelerators of the day, 3Dfx's Voodoo range.

These are imaginable to do a Windows version of Carmageddon around 640x480 guide, which is ordinarily single available for the 3DFX version, by adding -hires to the commandline. Lesson: carma.exe -hires. It's conceivable to play Carmageddon inside results as much as 1600x1200 applying a Glide wrapper like dgVoodoo & swimming the game around 3dfx Glide mode. Going around Glide mode improves two quality & performance. A second pinch is opening higher a Data\Options.txt & increase a yonder value to extend a draw few feet away.

A more games in the series come: Carmageddon II: Carpocalypse Now Carmageddon TDR2000