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Buggy Boy (Elite 1986?)
One of the first true classics for the ST, and a often overlooked game on those best of ST lists. It's a racing game of sorts, with you piloting a offroad buggy around a series of courses, trying to reach the end before you run out of time. The coarses are littered with an array of obstacles that include fences, bushes, rivers and for some reason (probably government cut backs) there are in certain locations rows of trees growing across the track. For gods sake! What on earth have the local council been doing for the last twenty years while these trees have been growing. It's a disgrace I tell ye! Back in my day there would have been teams of eight hundred cloth capped navvies who'd be out cutting down these trees from dawn till dusk, and all for tuppence ha'penny a year. Rant rant, drone drone. Anyway back to the game. It's pretty manouverable your buggy. Not only is capable of frankly astonishing jumps, it can also drive on two wheels at enormous speeds, or even up immensly steep hills. And all this without slowing down. There are five different scenarios to chose from, with genius names like err... north course and err... south course. These result in various geographical locations and difficulty. The graphics have a nice cartoon like feel to them, the only downside being your buggy which rocks backwards and forwards in a less than pleasing manner, like it's under the combined assault of two teenage love birds at a drive in movie. Control is spot on, which is a good thing as a times the road can get a little busy. One of Elite's finest moments (along with Space Harrier and Overlander).
Zogging Hell Rating: 9/10
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