Marble Madness is an isometric platform game where the player manipulates an onscreen marble from a third-person perspective. The player controls the marble’s movements with a trackball, though most home versions use game controllers with directional pads. The aim of the game is for the player to traverse six maze-like, isometric courses before a set … Read more
Super Monaco GP is a Formula One racing game released by Sega in 1989. The game’s single track is based on the famous Monaco Grand Prix circuit. Players can choose to race with one of three different skill/gear settings : Beginner : Automatic Gears Intermediate : 4-Speed Manual Gears Professional : 7-Speed Manual Gears Before … Read more
Viewed from above, the player drives a race car through the twisting curves and straightaways of a moving track. The player can select between eight different tracks. Higher numbered tracks have more turns and narrow sections.
There are 25 stages in the game, including bonus stages. Each series of five generally contains one of each type of mission. The fifth are generally the boss stages. The bosses are a sea serpent (as seen on the cover), a giant crab, a giant squid, a red and black version of the sea serpent … Read more
Final Lap is a Racing game, developed by Arc System Works and published by Namco, which was released in Japan in 1988.
APB is a 1987 arcade video game by Atari Games. In the game, the player takes on the role of policeman Bob as he navigates the streets in his patrol car in pursuit of lawbreakers. The object of the game is to meet (or preferably exceed) the daily quota of ‘busts’. Along the way, players … Read more
The player drives a stock car that is being chased by the police. Avoid on-coming traffic, stay on the road to score more points and drive through gas stations to extend play time. The game ends when you run out of gas, finish the race, or receive three speeding tickets if that dip switch setting … Read more
Badlands is effectively the spiritual successor to Atari’s previous racing games Super Sprint and Championship Sprint. Similarly to the Sprint titles, Badlands pits three cars against each other in a three lap race around a small, single-screen circuit. Bonuses are present in the form of wrenches which can be traded for goods such as extra … Read more
500cc Grand Prix was one of the first French-made games for the Atari ST. It was developed by Microïds in 1987. The graphics and animation were not well developed in this motorcycle Racing game but on the other hand the fact that the game has a versus mode is well-appreciated. The game provides a two-player … Read more
5th Gear is a computer game for the Amiga, Atari ST and Commodore 64, released on the Rack-It budget label. The original Commodore 64 version was programmed by Jeroen Leijten, with music by Theo and Renier Hongens. It was largely inspired by previous arcade games Steer and Go and Spy Hunter.