Super Hang-On

Super Hang-On remains an addictive little racing game, even if there's nothing even remotely realistic about the experience. The game offers an impressive amount of content, not something you often hear me saying about arcade games. Don't let the nine dollar asking price throw you off; Super Hang-On is one of the best Virtual Console games of the year!

The sound effects stand out as special, as do the superb graphics. Action is as rip-roaring as the ST and the graphics have been improved a good deal. High-class racing.

Super Hang On est la première course sur Megadrive, et quelle réussite! La taille des motos, les musiques -quatre au choix- n'ont absolument rien à envier à la version originale (celle des arcades). Seuls, les graphismes des décors et l'animation laissent quelque peu à désirer, cette dernière étant bien trop lente pour restituer les vitesses que l'on atteint avec Super Hang On. Malgré cela, Super Hang On est la meilleure course de motos toutes machines confondues. Qu'on se le dise!

A few years ago a strange machine began to appear in arcades across the country. It consisted of a monitor in the front of a red replica of a racing bike. You were supposed to sit on the bike and lean sideways to steer around the corners. That was Hang-On. Later a whole new breed of 'moving' race games began to spring up, so Sega came up with another machine – Super Hang-On, this took the original, improved the graphics and sound, added new stages and tunes and gave players a different bike to sit on. Some proclaimed that the new version was the best racing game ever, 'even better than Out Run' (I wonder where that one came from…), so naturally there had to be a conversion…

I'm in something of a dilemma with this game. It certainly is a great racing game, with plenty of fast action and high quality scrolling: it conveys a superb sense of speed, and all the selectable in-game tunes are catchy little ditties. The choice of game type adds a lot to the playability as the original mode gives you a feeling of planning for a season rather than a single race. Yet I feel that the game is lacking that certain something to make it an all out winner. Still, it's a great game to play and is full of excitement and thrills - if racing's your thing, don't miss it!

It leaves the newly released Amiga version of Out Run (and almost every other race game) way back on the starting grid in terms of speed and enjoyment value and warrants every Amiga owner's attention.

It's quite something that this 1987 game still provides such great and fast fun over 20 years later. Super Hang-On is an instantly fun racer that's hard to pry away from. With exciting gameplay, the constant motivation to keep racing, as well as the special addition of tilt controls, it's very easy to recommend this game. You should especially pick this up if you've never played it before, but really anyone who has been itching for a new Virtual Console game or wants to relive a part of gaming history shouldn't pass this one up.

Super Hang-On, tout le monde connaît, on n'en rajoutera pas. La version Megadrive présente un mode de jeu que n'avait pas celle d'arcade, plus intéressant que la simple course.

Super Hang On è una vera evoluzione dell'ormai storico titolo visto in sala-giochi o al bar. La vera chicca di questa cartuccia è la modalità "original" che implementa una porfondità davvero inaspettata. Se non siete dei retrogamer o se proprio i racing game non vi piacciono lasciate perdere, diversamente fatevi un favore: procuratevelo

Un difetto del gameplay invece lo si può trovare nel controllo delle moto con telaio scarso, nella modalità original. Mi spiego meglio: le moto con telaio scarso impiegano molto più tempo a cambiare piega e quindi a curvare dei telai evoluti. Questo potrebbe limitare l’immediatezza della giocabilità perché non è molto gratificante premere a destra sul joypad e vedere che la moto sta ancora curvando a sinistra. Inoltre, questa lentezza, è realizzata male poiché i frame di animazione dello sprite della moto sono pochi e quindi quando si muove piano, non fanno altro che far rimanere a video per più tempo il frame, producendo un lento movimento a scatti. Nulla di grave, niente che vada a minare in modo serio la struttura del gioco, ma che comunque, potrebbe scoraggiare i giocatori più impazienti.

SHO even makes for an amazing Nomad purchase. The screen blurring is very minimal and never really detracts from the gameplay at all, well unless you like looking at the credits. The sound and controal are as exceptional as ever on the Nomad.

Jump onto your racing bike and zoom around a selection of testing tracks, which vary in difficulty. No matter what other racing games you have played you won't be prepared for the speed and acceleration of Super Hang-on.

Great impression of speed, well-animated riders and good colour with remarkably little clash. Sound effects are on the weak side, but overall it's solid stuff on the presentation front.

Die Umsetzung entspricht ziemlich genau dem Automaten. In der Spielversion "Arcade Game" kann man den zweirädrigen Straßenflitzer fantastisch gut steuern. Etwas umgewöhnen muß man sich jedoch beim "Original Game". Die Musik-Kompositionen entsprechen genau dem Automaten. Die Grafik ist nicht so spektakulär wie beim Automaten, das tut dem Spielgefühl aber keinen Abbruch. Alle Rennspieler werden dieses Modul lieben.

Super Hang-On is a neat nostalgia trip and carries some very welcome additions on VC, its motion controls in particular helping to rekindle 1980s arcade memories. It's not worthy of the same classic status as Out Run, feeling a little workmanlike in comparison, but as a slice of SEGA history it's worth a pop.

Hör du till dem som gillar motorcykelspel är Super HangOn helt oumbärlig i din samling. Ett spel som ger dig hand- och joystickkramp efter bara 10 minuter, men samtidigt får du massor med action. Ett härligt spel!

Astonishingly the game actually lost colour on its way over from the Spectrum, leaving the screen drab an largely monochrome. The sound too has traveled badly. A poor conversion indeed that does nobody any credit.

Spielerisch ist Super Hang On aber wenig aufregend. Man braust halt in der Landschaft herum und weicht den Mitfahrern aus. Wer noch kein Rennspiel für seinen ST hat, kann hier zugreifen. Doch wer von Out Run & Co. schon die Nase voll hat, möge eine große Rechtskurve um dieses Spiel machen.

Super Hang-On kann man eigentlich nur denen empfehlen, die noch kein Motorradrennen auf dem Schneider CPC haben. Es spielt sich ähnlich wie „Enduro Racer“. Wem Beschleunigen und Abbremsen auf die Dauer zu langweilig werden, sollte von Super Hang-On besser Abstand halten.

Die bunte Spitzengrafik und das hohe Tempo des Automaten-Vorbilds gingen bei dieser Umsetzung verloren, aber von einem 8-Bit-Computer darf man auch keine Wunderdinge erwarten. Was bleibt, ist ein wenig aufregendes Spielprinzip. Es erinnert ebenso wie die recht gute Grafik sehr an die CPC- und Spectrum-Versionen von „Enduro Racer“. Bei so viel Ähnlichkeit lohnt es sich kaum, beide Programme zu kaufen. Erfreulich, daß es vier komplexe Levels gibt, die man auch einzeln anwählen kann. Ansonsten bietet die CPC-Version von Super Hang-On wenig Neues. Wer Lust auf ein neues Motorradspiel hat, wird damit ganz gut bedient. Ein überragendes Software-Ereignis sollte man aber lieber nicht erwarten.

Uma incrementada corrida de motocicletas, em quatro países diferentes. À medida que for vencendo, o "piloto" pode comprar equipamentos para "envenenar" sua máquina.