Across the Big Pond, Ivan 'Iron Man' Stewart is something of a celebrity in the world of off-road racing. King of the four wheel drive pick-up truck, Ivan has won more tropjies and awards than you can shake a 4x4 at.

His exploits saw Leland write a coin-op which proved one of the most successful of 1988 with its three-player mode the rough and tumble of pick-up racing/rallying and classic Super Sprint-style action. Now Graftgold have taken on the task of converting the Iron Man coin-op.

It's the start of the racing season and the four-by-four trucks are ready and raring to go, Iron Man is there and so are three other contestants revving up on the start line. Before the race each truck driver was given #100.000 to customise vital parts of their vehicle.

The acceleration, top speed, shocks (for a smoother ride) and tyres (for better grip when turning) can all be upgraded to a maximum Five rating. Extra nitros (to add to the 25 initially installed in the car) can be bought for a temporary but terrific boost in acceleration around the course.

With the flag going down, the trucks intro away from the start line, bumping and bashing their way past each other up hill and down ditch. Extra nitros can be picked up on the way round and extra cash bags are there to be collected ( handy for use in the shop).

Coming first is recommended but the only requirement for staying in the championship is that you complete the fifth lap ahead of any other computer- controlled cars (and that includes Iron Man Ivan himself). Ivan may be pretty slow in the first few races but give him time and it'll be his rear bumper that you'll be seeing unless you upgrade wisely.

Fail to beat him and you're out but using one of the three shared continue-plays gives you another chance against him (and your friends). Get through the course and it's back to the shop to upgrade even more, the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place drivers getting a reward of a kiss from Miss Iron Bikini, a trophy and quite a bit of cash.

The next course out of eight beckons but to get to the eighth you have to go through the rest in order (and then the mirror imgage of them), making 37 levels in all. Can YOU beat Iron Man?

It wouldn't have pushed Graftgold's abilities too much to convert but they've worked wonders squeezing it all into one load on the C64 and providing bags of colour and detail in the cars.

The Amiga benefits with samples and a total of 18 tunes for tracks, countries and the trophy presentation (dig that banjo and honk that horn!). The 16-bit graphic quality is really taken advantage of with some excellent attention to detail in the cars.

The screen is packed and what you have is a slick looking game (right down the to the start-up where you input your date of birth and select your country). The C64 version is spot-on with no multiload to hinder the pace and the full set of effects straight from the arcade machine like the clouds of dust when you nitro off a bump, the hardy short cuts, and three-player mode.

Even the country selection is in there and amazingly everything's crammed into one load. Fun and playability together - all the ingredients to make Iron Man one very tasty cake indeed. You really get into the swing of things seeing the trucks rough riding it all over the place, it's a great feeling to nitro past the opposition to take the winning flag and bumping other vehicles around is game in itself. Through the simplicity of the control method - rotate left/right and accelerate - Iron Man is instantly addictive and proves one great rough ride all the way!