Pummel everyone. Kick their fairing and petrol tanks! Smack the side of that ones helmet but mind you dont give yourself a wrist injury. Quick! Snatch that truncheon slash night stick and BEAT THAT POLICEMAN! Ha ha! Take that, pig! I punch the air in victory and zoom around a swooping corner, soar up and over a blind bend at beyond 100 m.p.h. CAR! Crash, again. Thank goodness those fellows in Road Rash didnt actually suffer road rash because they wore titanium or whatever-proof racing suits. This was Electronic Arts 1992s take on Super Hang-On. Mega Drive multiplayer was cracking with this gem of a game as you and your friends experimented with various meta-games (nine years prior to Halo) including how far away you could run from your stricken and downed motorcycle only to hold pedestrian races back to them, or tried to fly the farthest through the air, superhero-style, causing deliberate bonnet-based accidents at the top of blind hills in order to help propel you further over the peaks and valleys of Road Rash IIs roads. A pumping soundtrack too, mainly because of the strangely memorable baritone of the Mega Drives audio chips. Speaking of chips, what was that yellow bit of the cartridge for?
Bryan Langley’s first console was the Super Nintendo and he hasn’t stopped using his opposable thumbs since. He is based in Bristol, UK and is still searchin' for them glory days he never had.
