Publisher - Mastertronic
Music - Rob Hubbard
Price at release - £1.99

Mastertronic teamed up with KP Crisps to bring this isometric driving game to the Commodore 64. You play the KP Skips mascot Clumsy Colin whose aim is to collect all of the equipment needed to compete in a motorcycle drag race. The game takes part on a wraparound map filled with obstacles to impede Colin on his quest. Starting at a petrol station, Colin has to find flashing red helmets spread around the map.

Collecting these helmets gives a different object every time although only some are useful.Some objects such as a motorcycle helmet or bag of crisps just offer a point score while some objects improve your bike. These include a larger fuel tank, addition of another gear, improved brakes and water skis. As the game progresses, the objects are placed in increasingly difficult to reach locations.

Obstacles include a roller coaster, a building site filled with scaffolding, fields with fences and creeks, a large lake with an island and completely fenced off areas accessible only by a ramp. Your bike is refuelled by stopping in the petrol station and points are scored by collecting the objects which awards the number of points left on a countdown timer which starts at 7000 points.

You start the game with 5 lives and you lose a life every time you collide with an object or run out of fuel. If you collect the last object, the drag race begins. You must head to the start line and after the countdown, must head up the drag strip as fast as possible, although there is no time limit or advantage in travelling quickly as the game ends as soon as you reach the finish line.

Rather oddly, the Spectrum version of the game was a completely different game than the Atari and Commodore, it was viewed from the top down, and was not the same game plot wise, the C64 was not usually very good at isometric games, while the Spectrum excelled at them.

Reviews

Zzap!64 Issue 4 - August 1985 : Overall 83% - "Good game, low price, can't be bad."

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