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As the name suggests, this game involves those immensely popular BMX cross country bicycles.

The object is to get from the start of a BMX race track, avoid certain obstacles and finish in a respectable time. If all this is achieved and your time is better than the qualifying time you move on to the next section.

Control is by joystick and speed is achieved by pressing the fire button. The faster you fire the faster the bike goes. This proves difficult to coordinate on certain joysticks.

The graphics of the game are generally good with a very lifelike pedalling sprite but the rocks which get in the way are rather strange-looking, more like coloured sponges.

At first I thought that sound during the game was non-existent but if you listen carefully you can hear the bike creak as you pedal.

An annoying feature is the fact that there is only one attempt at any given distance so if you fail you have to start at the be-ginning of the game again. It's lucky this isn't an arcade machine!

J.D.