Super Off Road
Super Off Road, Master System conversion by Graftgold and published by Virgin in 1993.
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Player's Review
"Super Off-Road is the ultimate off-road racing event. Four tough trucks speed around rough and ready tracks packed with pitfalls, power-boosters and prizes. No-one knows the meaning of sportsmanship here. Have you got the skill and determination to come out on top?"
Super Off Road (or Ivan 'Ironman' Stewart's Super Off Road) is an Arcade game that received a conversion to pretty much every single mainstream console and home computer of the time. There is not much to the game and converted well to each system.
That is until it was time for the Master System conversion which is a bit different to others. The gameplay is 100% the same so it is still Super off Road but it's not the greatest game to look at and kind of expect better from Graftgold who seemed to have put more effort into there logo gfx than the game. In game looks mostly ok and even uses the full screen width but the podium and trophy colours, what's going on there??
I find the audio a bit weak and would say the Spectrum version sounds better but it don't have any music but maybe the Atari St version is more in line with how I expect the music to sound. Gameplay wise, it is mostly as expected. every version has wonky ai drivers that dart about the screen and always seem faster than you but here that grey car ... give it an inch and it will own the game.
Overall it's a good conversion but could have been better I think. There are 12 tracks in this version which you play in forward and reverse for a total of 24 unique races. It then resets back to 1 and lose credits from this point to eventually show the games developer credit screen. The back of the box states Difficulty levels 3. Im not sure what that could be and can only think that it means you vs the three opponents.
Track names in order:
Redoubt
Sidewinder
Dustbowl
Skid Row
Rio Trio
Big Dukes
Rattler
Cliffhanger
Blaster
Windy Gulch
Fandango
Wipeout
Super Off Road (or Ivan 'Ironman' Stewart's Super Off Road) is an Arcade game that received a conversion to pretty much every single mainstream console and home computer of the time. There is not much to the game and converted well to each system.
That is until it was time for the Master System conversion which is a bit different to others. The gameplay is 100% the same so it is still Super off Road but it's not the greatest game to look at and kind of expect better from Graftgold who seemed to have put more effort into there logo gfx than the game. In game looks mostly ok and even uses the full screen width but the podium and trophy colours, what's going on there??
I find the audio a bit weak and would say the Spectrum version sounds better but it don't have any music but maybe the Atari St version is more in line with how I expect the music to sound. Gameplay wise, it is mostly as expected. every version has wonky ai drivers that dart about the screen and always seem faster than you but here that grey car ... give it an inch and it will own the game.
Overall it's a good conversion but could have been better I think. There are 12 tracks in this version which you play in forward and reverse for a total of 24 unique races. It then resets back to 1 and lose credits from this point to eventually show the games developer credit screen. The back of the box states Difficulty levels 3. Im not sure what that could be and can only think that it means you vs the three opponents.
Track names in order:
Redoubt
Sidewinder
Dustbowl
Skid Row
Rio Trio
Big Dukes
Rattler
Cliffhanger
Blaster
Windy Gulch
Fandango
Wipeout
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