BMX Simulator

Released

1986 on Atari 8-bit

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Codemasters

Developers

Codemasters

Moby Score

7.1

#11,170 of 155K

Critics

71% (16)

Players

(58)

Ranking

#322 on Commodore 64
#831 on Amiga

Collected By

17 players

Genre: Racing / Driving
Perspective: Top-down
Gameplay: Arcade
Vehicular: Bike / Bicycling
Track racing

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Amiga
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Description official description

This is an overhead-viewed racing game similar in style to Super Sprint. There are 7 courses of increasing difficulty, incorporating ramps and bumps which significantly affect the bike's handling. Each course has a time limit you must complete 3 laps of the course within, or it's game over. The further inside the time limit you are, the more points you score.

There's a computer opponent, but the scoring isn't affected by whether you beat him just so long as you qualify. There is a two-player mode. A unique feature at the time is the action replay, which can be viewed in slow motion.

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Credits (Atari 8-bit version)

By	Richard Darling
Atari Conversion by	Adrian Sheppard
Music by	David Whittaker

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Trivia

Freeware release

To celebrate the 18th birthday of Codemasters, they released this game for free on September 18th 2004 as this was Codemasters' first ever published game.

Re-release

The magazine quote mentioned on the Ad Blurb proved correct, a fact pointed out when the game appeared on one of Codemasters' Quattro compilations. The quote was repeated, along with a note - "It did!"

Sales

The game sold over 100,000 copies in its first year in the UK, a huge amount at the time. The budget price (£1.99) helped, as did great reviews and the popularity of BMX bikes among computer owners.