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Welcome to the future of hot-rod racing with Badlands. Here, boy racers of the future take to eight shell-shocked wastelands and burn as much rubber as is humanly possible. But racing isn't the limit of participants' activities, as each Badlands racer has an in-built machine gun and optional rocket launchers! There are also wrenches scattered about the track which are swappable in the shop for extra weaponry, speed, tyres and shields.

Unfortunately, the C64 version is noticeably slower than its coin-op and 16-bit cousings so it isn't quite as playable, and it seems that a lot of the thrills and spills of the original just aren't present in this conversion. With the likes of Ivan "Ironman" Stewart's Off-Road Racing looking good on all formats, Badlands looks decidedly average.

Not a total travesty, but Badlands is a bit too slow and, in a racing game, speed is all-important.