Tomba! Special Edition: How to Get the Gold Medal

If you’ve stumbled upon this guide before you’ve figured out how/where to ride the GoGoCar, it’s something that happens somewhat deep into the game. You need a Fuel Bar to gas up the vehicle, which you obtain by giving Wine to the man in the Lumberjack Factory. I won’t go into every detail of the process to unlock this, but once you get the Fuel Bar, you have to travel all the way back to the Village of All Beginnings.

The GoGoCar is waiting inside the building near which your way forward was initially blocked by fog. The door leading there is initially covered in bubbles that you have to break though.

The easiest way to complete three quarters of the race is by doing nothing but holding Right to drive forward. No jumping required.

There is a fork in the road up this mountain. Make sure you’re not holding Up so you don’t accidentally switch lanes.

As long as you don’t slow down, you will safely bounce over this Koma Pig.

Though the sign may tempt you, jumping is still not needed. Just drive off the ramp into the water; the rebound should help you land right onto the first part of the log bridge.

Once you’ve reached this point, this is where the jumping begins. You’ll want to keep going full throttle through all of this, so memorize the jumps.

After driving off the ramp, jump when you’re on the first bridge segment.

As you land from the jump, you’ll end up bouncing into the Koma Pig. Pignore it, he’s swine.

Jump over this Koma Pig.

One final jump over a Koma Pig. If your timing is sharper than mine, you’ll be able to nab that Blue Crystal too.

Congratulations, you’ve (just barely) cleared the time for the Gold Medal!

By the way, the Silver Medal and Bronze Medal both have their own Events and require you to clear the race two more times with 2nd and 3rd place times, but that can be easily done by idling near the finish line. The quickest way to redo the race is to fast travel to the Village of All Beginnings using Charity Wings or Baron.