Name the game - part 2

[Buck Birdseed]

(not that Fade to Black was)

[FrostyBoy]

well I'm lost now

[Buck Birdseed]

Oh I'll give away the Genre then.

Clue #6: 3D (arguably 2.5 D) Platform/Driving.

[DrSpike]

Micro machines?

[Buck Birdseed]

Alas, no. Though that was an excellent game. I suppose I shoud have said (Clue #7!) 3rd person perspective, camera behind the vehicle jumping/accelerating/deccelerating/sliding sideways game.

[Asmodean]

I am pretty sure that I haven't played this one.

These clues mean nothing to me.

Asmodean

[Buck Birdseed]

It was massivley popular at the time in Swedein at least. Probably my favourite of the "limited levels" shareware games that we used to pass around on floppies.

[Main_Brain]

Using only Clue #6:
Whacky Wheels?
;=)

[DrSpike]

Hang on, when was Skidmarks released? Is it that?

[Jamski]

Stunt Car Racer? (wild stab in the dark, not really concentrating)

-Jam

[DrSpike]

I thought that at first, but it was well before 1993.

[Buck Birdseed]

Right, I'm gonna start making it real easy now. First a full game description, then a screenshot of the action. If you're not getting it at that point I shall authorise creative googling.

The game is set on a long, straight horizontal surface mystically suspended in space. This is coloured in lush 256-colour VGA and perforated full of holes, meaning most of the time the surface exists only as a number of panels or platforms. There are also tunnels, raised blocks and a number of special squares to make gameplay varied and interesting.

Your craft is viewed from above and behind, and you have to steer this craft using acceleration, decceleration, sideways movement and carefully judged jumps to a tunnel at the end of every level. Thre levels can be played in any order, and there are no lives as such, meaning you end up trying again, and again and again until you finish it.

[DrSpike]

I remember this now.............but not the name.

Tbh (at least for the UK) if it's the game I'm thinking of it's quite obscure. That's not a bad thing, but this one is certainly not as easy as is claimed IMO.

[Buck Birdseed]

Did I claim it was easy? I jsut said it was popular with me and my fellow pre-teens when it came out, and still is one of my favourite games of all time to this day.

[Buck Birdseed]

Actually, come to think of it, that's not literally (or indeed metaphorically) what I said at all. But it's what I meant!

Right, final clue people! After that I shall have to drop some pretty major hints.

I took this screenshot when I wrote a review of the game on counterglow about a year ago.