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Or, extremely hard drivin'. All the Hard Drivin' games, on whatever format, have been a load of rubbish. What it is exactly that makes the game so incredibly unplayable is a bit of a mystery, but it must have something to do with the chronically sluggish controls.

This is a kind of racing game. You can drive around either a stunt track or a race course. The general idea of the game is to (a) finish first, (b) survive with your car intact within the time limits and (c) stop yourself from repeatedly bashing your head against the table because the whole thing is so annoying.

That awful sluggish control completely ruins this cartridge. You spend so much time spinning around on the grass watching the competition speed away over the horizon that you realise how Mark Thatcher must have felt. The graphics are pretty, the idea's good, but it's all completely screwed up by the control system.

Hard Drivin' is not a good game. Avoid like the plague.