Action Biker
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Action Biker
(1985 on
ZX Spectrum)
Description
Action Biker is a game that uses the character Clumsy Colin from the British comic Buster, and he was also used as the mascot for the crisp range KP Skips. You take control of Colin on his motorbike and you must ride around an isometric 360 degree landscape to collect various clothing items and bike parts to enter a drag race. There are various obstacles to avoid and these include walls, fences, trees, telegraph poles, a petrol station and water and if you crash into any then you lose one of five lives. There are also raised platforms that can be negotiated but you are able to jump from them safely. Once you have collected all the items required, you can make your way to the drag strip to race.
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Critics
Average score: 78% (based on 4 ratings)
Players
Average score: 3.4 out of 5 (based on 13 ratings with 1 reviews)
Easy to play, maddeningly frustrating, has that 'one more time' factor
The Good
The controls are simple, steer Colin around his world collecting objects. The more you accelerate the faster you go, any braking and you come to a dead stop.
It's that simple.
There's pleasant plinky plonky in the background and, mercifully, there's the option to turn it off when it gets too much. There's a bonus counter that decreases the longer you take to complete a level.
Level design is fiendish, so many things to avoid, cunning placement of objects near obstacles so you must choose the right path and the right speed to collect them.
The Bad
I just could not get the hang of the controls and I kept crashing - and there's a lot to crash into.
I must have missed something because I did not know what I had to do to complete a level so I ended up driving around until I crashed & died.
The Bottom Line
Great way to fill a wet Sunday afternoon.
This is one of those games that you will try 'just one more time' to see if you can get further or beat your last score.
Nowadays though there's not much long term appeal and you'd be unlikely to feel compelled to complete all levels.
Commodore 64 · by piltdown_man (240324) · 2014
Discussion
| Subject | By | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Box mislabelled as UK, when it's actually for the US/Canada | Scott Breon (23) | Dec 19, 2022 |
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Game added by FatherJack.
Additional contributors: Karsa Orlong.
Game added October 10, 2014. Last modified November 4, 2023.