Road Rash (2000)

Road Rash for the Gameboy Color. A much faster engine then the original Gameboy version but not without its flaws. I think the GameGear got the most accurate version on handheld which plays just like the 16bit original. Maybe one day I will longplay that version.

This version can be quite difficult to play due to all the hill crests that can send you flying into obstacles on nearly every corner. You lose far to much speed trying to slide back onto the road. This is especially problematic on the later levels where the road moves far to fast and you have to slow down to take the corners and the AI just belt on past.

Which leads me to the abrupt ending of this longplay. The 3rd level in stage 5 is just too damned hard to complete. There is a massive gap in the centre of the pack featuring many police bikes which hang around just waiting for you to fail. I very much doubt this game is completable. The longplay ends after failing the last track (which i tried many times). If the N bikes support a Nitrous function, damned if I could find it.

Off camera, messing with gameshark codes, I could own the fastest bike. Even this was not enough to win. Even more cheating (forcing a 1st place win), their is a 6th level. This is crazy difficult and I couldn't get higher then 12th place on some tracks. Even finishing level 6, it just loops. There is no ending which only strengthens my opinion of this being a bad conversion.