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It's a completely bonkers idea for a game, but that's no reason to criticise it. Stunt Car Racer's an ancient game (relatively speaking) and it's been in countless compilations, but seeing as this release is so cheap, that's not a problem either. All you need to know is that if you don't already have this game, you should rush straight out and get hold of a copy as soon as possible.

It's the game that the brilliant Sir Geoff Crammond cut his teeth on before giving the world F1GP, and although the graphics are a tad sparse to say the least, the superb gameplay and brilliant handling that characterise F1GP are fully represented here.

You and your opponent have to race round three laps of a track to win, which sounds simple enough. The tracks look more like roller coasters however, with sweeping bends, huge jumps and soaring pinnacles, which means that if you spin off the track, it takes a crame to get you back on again. Now critics of the game like to point out that if you come off the track, then you've lost the game, but after playing the game for years and years, I can say that they're wrong. It's hard to win when you've come off, but not impossible.

The one player game's a top treat in itself, but if you can get two computers and a null-modem cable and play against a friend, then it defies description!

For me, there's still nothing quite like the joy of landing hard from a jump, bouncing, knocking your mate straight off the track and then scraping across the finish line on a broken axle to gain maximum points.

Competitive games rarely get any better than this.

There are too few tracks, but thankfully they're all great. Kixx have saved you the trouble of hunting through games exchanges to find this classic racer by Sir Geoff Crammond. Every Amiga owner should be forced to own a copy of this classic by law.