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Some obstacles only allowed travel across them in certain ways. For instance, fences and wooden beams can only be navigated at low speed, without "hopping" or falling onto them. Tyres would only allow travel at high speeds, driving slowly will "throw" the rider. When a rider lands badly (i.e. with
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the front wheel first) or "falls off" an obstacle, they are catapulted a certain distance forward, imposing a certain time penalty because the player is not put back into the game until the screen has scrolled to a "safe" (i.e. flat) area of the course on which to restart the bike.
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Players can either play against their opponent in a straight-out race to the finish post, or they can "win" by aggregated finishing times. Courses are played in sets of five, denoted by a letter of the alphabet and can be edited by the player using the built-in
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The basic premise is to control a bike using acceleration, braking, "hopping" and "wheelies" to navigate across a course of various obstacles, from ramps and gates to telephone boxes and tyres.
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The game was well received with critics. Many lists of Commodore 128 games included the title, as it was one of the only games released for 128 mode.
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game titles for that computer. This was initially titled
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Developer(s)
Mr. Chip Software
Publisher(s)
Mastertronic
Programmer(s)
Artist(s)
Composer(s)
Drafi Deutscher
David Whittaker
Platform(s)
Amiga
Amstrad CPC
Commodore 64
128
ZX Spectrum
Genre(s)
Racing
Single-player
two-player
motorcycle trials
Amiga
Amstrad CPC
Commodore 64
ZX Spectrum

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