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Cheap Skate |
Copyright/Publisher: Future Designs, Program By: Daryl Bowers,
Graphic Design By: Pixel Perfect,
Concept By: Andrew Morriss, Ian Bastone & Daryl Bowers,
Music By: David Whittaker, Release Year: 1988, Genre: Skateboard, Number Of Players: 1
It's obvious really. You're the new kid in town, so all you want to do is make loads
and loadsa friends. It's pretty good job then, that your best friend, for the moment,
is a skateboard. You may look like a nerd most of the time, but when you get on that
groovy piece of wood you start to look like a nerd with some power.
Anyway, your spots can't be that bad because the leader of the local 'boarding' gang has
offered to give you a membership test. All you have to do is cope with fireballs, rolling,
spheres and headheight bars.
Got that? So hit the streets!
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Gordon Houghton |
I'm not the world's greatest skateboarding fan (all the boards I ever had just snapped)
and I've never been very good at getting the hang of skateboarding sims, but this one
was just about easy enough - even for me. You don't have to spend ages working out the
control method or trying to execute that perfect back flip - just grab hold of the
joystick and get stuck in. I'm not sure about the lastability though. It's hard to see
exactly what's ahead so you really need to have memorised the course. That's OK for
the first four gos but maybe not the fifth or sixth...
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K.H. |
Right! Let's get straight down to the nitty gritty. Do you want a proper skateboard sim
with plenty of complicated manoeuvres and incredibly complex jumping opportunities,
or not? If you do, get yourself a copy of Code Masters' Pro Skateboars Sim because that's
a lot more like the real thing.
On the other hand, if you just want to muck about or can't think of a present to give
your brother (what do you mean you're not giving him anything?) give this a go. I'm
not saying it's as easy as falling off a log but who ever said that games had to be easy
to be fun? Anyway, what else are you going to be doing on those long and boring winter
nights? On second thoughts, don't answer that.
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