Genre: | Arcade Game: Race 'n' Chase |
Publisher: | Kixx |
Cover Art Language: | English |
Machine Compatibility: | Spectrum 48K, Spectrum 128K, Spectrum +2 |
Release: | Professionally released on Cassette |
Available For: | Amstrad CPC464, Atari ST, Commodore 64 & Spectrum 48K/128K/+2 |
Compatible Emulators: | ZXSpin (PC (Windows)) Nutria (PC (MS-DOS)) |
Original Release Date: | 7th April 1989 |
Original Release Price: | £2.99 |
Market Valuation: | £2.50 (How Is This Calculated?) |
Item Weight: | 64g |
Box Type: | Cassette Single Plastic Clear |
Author(s): | Dawn Drake, Simon Butler, Scott Johnson & Canvas Ian Weatherburn |
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An excellent conversion. If you like race games, you won't find better than this on the Spectrum. Read Review
Coin-op fans who are looking for a computer version of Hang-On should look no further. Read Review
A fairly nice looking game, spoilt by being too easy with lousy collision detection. Read Review
Overall, Super Cycle comes a long way behind the best Spectrum racer, and is not a game I would recommend. Read Review
A major disappointment. Everything is just very, very adequate. Epyx should try to get its name taken off it. Read Review
A peculiar little offering, and not one of US Gold's best. It's a bit lacking in the excitement department, with no real goal, like a high score table, or league ladder. Read Review
Some games survive, some don't, and at three quid this now looks overpriced. Read Review
Open road racing - wheel to wheel - pistols screaming and rubber burning. That's the challenge of Super Cycle. Before you begin, choose your machine and your leathers. Choose carefully, there's an ordeal ahead.
You and your machine will be pushed to the max by the course, the other competitors and the relentless clock.
You must complete each of the race courses within a time limit in order to continue. Crash, and you lose valuable seconds. Each of the more than seven courses poses unique challenges - water on the road, ice, road barricades and other dangerous obstacles. When you see a road sign that means slippery when wet, you'd better listen.
There are day and night courses, city and country, hills and mountains, desert courses and streaking through the sunlight next to Cape Canaveral.
Accelerate up through the gears, jockey for position and bump the other riders. Go for top speed, but try not to go out of control.
Good luck. Your reflexes better be as sharp as the turns up ahead.
You must complete each race course within the specified time, in order to go on to the next course. Watch out for the other riders - you can bump them and they can bump you. Steer through the pack, and avoid road obstacles - crashing eats up valuable time. Complete all the courses at one of the difficulty levels and you get a checkered flag next to your name on the racing scoreboard.
Each course has a set time limit. The bottom of your dash shows your elapsed time, and your total points. The more distance you cover, the more points you accumulate.
Watch out for road conditions and unusual obstacles. You never know what you're going to find out there. Lamp posts, oil slicks, even road pylons that narrow the coursr to a single lane. Watch for special bonus flags - hit those for extra points and time.
Time it just right, cut and accelerate with split second precision, and you end up on top. On top of the racing scoreboard!
Z - Left, X - Right, R - Accelerate, D - Decelerate, S - Fire
Push forward on the joystick to accelerate, and pull back to slow down. Push left or right with the joystick to steer.
There are three gears. To gear up, push the joystick forward and press the Fire button. With the joystick pulled back, simply press the Fire button to gear down. The three lights in the centre of the dash indicate what gear you're in. The top light is the highest gear. The bottom light is the lowest gear. The light is coloured green for first gear, yellow second gear and red third gear.
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A digital version of Super Cycle suitable for ZXSpin (PC (Windows)), Nutria (PC (MS-DOS)) |
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