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Many Game Boy owners overlooked this gem when it was first released, but if you look closely at the opening title screen you can see the magic words "Rare" indicating an early game from one of the greatest developers in the world.

Yes, that's right, the same people who created Goldeneye on the Nintendo 64 were once lowly Game Boy developers, and RC Pro-Am is one of Rare's first titles.

Playing the game for the first time it is easy to see how Rare has become such a pivotal developer for Nintendo and why even today it is a classic. You basically leap about a mean dirt buggy and race around a succession of tortuous tracks full of tyre-busting dangers and the occasional vehicle power-up. Come in the top three (out of four) and you progress to the next round and your buggy is beefed up, depending on the add-ons collected during the last race.

Why is RC Pro-Am so fun? Easy, it's fast, the cars handle well, with plenty of way-out skids, and you even get weapons which can be used to instantly destroy your unwitting opponents - something real cars could do with! Drive over the right icon on the track and you can either fire off missiles directly ahead or drop a slippery patch behind and watch your opponents fly off the track and explode!