Take to the desert on your off-road bike as you negotiate all the stages of the African trail.
Before you start each stage, you must select three items of equipment to take with you. But make that decision carefully as it may well be crucial. You meet other riders who will try knock you off your bike. Further, you have to gauge your speed correctly and try to perform wheelies while riding over hills.
Don't fall off your bike!
3D Grand Prix is a 1st person perspective driving game where you must race against various other drivers over five laps to win the race on a randomly generated track. You start on the grid and when the lights turn green you accelerate away changing up the six gears your car has. As you accelerate you need to keep an eye on your rev counter, have it too high and your engine will blow and it is race over. As you approach a bend you are told the recommended speed to take the bend and you are updated regularly the weather with updates. As you finish a lap the road surface becomes checkered indicating you can stop your car to use the pits.
Roadkill is an top down combat racing game for the Amiga and CD32 where you either have to get to the finish line first, or be the last man standing on the road, preferably the latter. To your aid you have rockets, guided missiles and several environment based death traps.
Twin Turbo V8 was a racing game developed by Codemasters for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum which consisted of five stages in which the player needed to make it between checkpoints driving against the clock.
London Racer II is another iteration in the prolific Racer series by Davilex. The races take place primarily in the streets of London and Edinburgh, with additional tracks in Las Vegas, New York and Chicago.
There are three single player modes available: Single Race, Tournament and Time Trial. In Single Race, the player is free to choose any of the 6 characters available, any of the tracks and any of the unlocked cars. In Tournament mode, the player races in a series of tracks while collecting money prizes and unlocking new cars. In both modes, players race against other racers while avoiding being caught by the police. In the Time Trial mode, players race against the clock trying to beat the best time for each track.
Each car (driven by a different character) has different stats in acceleration, top speed, handling, breaking and strength. The cars can also be upgraded using money collected from winning races and collecting money tokens during races. The cars also take damage when hit and can break into total los
Turbo Trax is a top-down racing game. The main game mode involves competing against five other competitors across a variety of different surfaced tracks such as dirt, racing circuit, ice and city. Each track has hazards such as oil slicks that will slow cars down, and turbo booster icons that will speed the car up when it's driven over. The player can collect money that is scattered around the tracks in order to buy tuned parts for their car. Before each race the car's setup can be adjusted for the conditions.
The smoothest, most realistic arcade motorcycle game ever hits the Amiga with the arrival of Prime Mover. Featuring 5 awesome bikes, a huge selection of the most challenging tracks from around the world and realistic and testing riding conditions, Prime Mover screams onto the grid and into pole position ahead of all the competition. So if you want to sample the power and sheer excitement of the international bike racing circuit, then Prime Mover is the clear winner.
Power Drive is an arcade racing game based around rally driving. Handbrake turns and lurid powerslides are both possible, and the steering is suitably loose.
There are 3 types of stages - individual time-trials, head-to-head races against the computer, and some skill tests. There are 8 rounds of gameplay, set across countries ranging from Sweden to Kenya. You get prize money for winning races, and it costs money to repair damage.
The game was probably inspired by the hugely successful Namco/Atari arcade game Pole Position which was one of the most popular arcade games when Overdrive was being developed. Like Pole Position, Overdrive uses the "rear-view racer format" but there are no bends in the track. The aim of the game is to finish in the top 12 in order to qualify for the next track. There are five different tracks but as there are no bends, the only difference is the change in scenery (fields, night, snow, desert and riverside scenes) as well as a change in the grip.