"Action Supercross", whilst being laughably
simplistic, is also hopelessly
addictive, it's true.
At one point about 3 years ago the entire Guildford
videogame development community (ostensibly working on much more 'complex' stuff like '
Black and White') were hopelessly addicted to it.
Anyhow, the 'coolier-than-thou' Rockstar Games (of '
Grand Theft Auto' fame) actually licensed the 'Action Supercross' engine for their
Gameboy '
Evil Knievel' game.
This seems to be a relatively unknown fact, mainly cos '
Evil Knievel' was
RUBBISH. Apparently someone failed to realise, presumably after licensing it, that the fun in Action Supercross is the fact that you're juggling
physics and
rotation, and the bike is moving pathetically slowly for a '
daredevil' game. I can imagine the scene now, showing it to Mr.Knievel himself and him saying - 'i don't remember moving at 3/4 miles an hour during all my famous stunts'.
Hence, they speeded it up. hence, they completely messed it up. ign.com gave it 2/10. oh
dear.
..and then they re-used it, still arsed up, for the _awful_
Austin Powers Gameboy game, complete with fake Windows O/S, that I unfortunately own.
But the original PC game itself is
amazing, and there's even 'Action Supercross'
clans which fight for the fastest times on tracks and hold competitions. Isn't that
scary?