SPEED KING C64 KASSETT

SPEED KING C64 KASSETT - IC0114

Speed King is a single-player back-view motorcycle race against 19 opponents. Mervyn J. Estcourt originally wrote it on the ZX Spectrum 48K as Full Throttle in mid-1984. The courses exist for real and were supplied by weekly newspaper Motorcycle News.

You can choose between 10 courses and between 2, 4 and 6 laps. For each combination, your shortest race time is recorded, and for each course, your shortest lap time, and best rank after last lap. Off record, you can choose between novice, pro (where opponents are 15 mph faster) or champion (30 mph).

Even for 1985, the graphics and sound are rough, yet realistic enough, almost hyped.

In 1986, Mastertronic remade two screens, added keys to save and load your records on disk (hidden but still working in the tape port), and whenever you are on front, your opponents stay close behind. However, it was quickly overtaken by Epyx's Super Cycle (C64). Anyway, if the main menu is blue, don't get too far from the road!

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