I got in so much trouble getting caught playing this at midnight when I had borrowed my mates' c64. Great value for 1.99 and so addictive. I can remember every note of this tune and I'm senile.
Hey, I can sing along with childhood-me's lyrics: If your name's Clumsy Colin Why would you ride a bike? You'll probably get yourself killed And that's not something you'd like.
After 32 years I remembered the tune perfectly. I hummed along as I showed my children my favorite commodore64 game. I remember going over the water with the bike but I don't think I ever made it to drag race.
I played this as a kid but I didn't really know what I was doing, I think I just always found it fun trying to stay on those structures without falling off haha
Hubbard's very first I believe (and it sounds like it!!!) Lovely tune though, hearing it again brings a tear to my eye taking me back to my bedroom and the little B&W portable TV I had my computer plugged in to!
I used to sit for soooo long waiting for this to load and if u dare even move once in my room, just move a little, it would crash on loading. Any floorboard in my room moved even one tiny bit and any game loading would simply black screen lol. Sometimes it took hours to get it working cos my brother or me would get bored and blow some shit up with my fucked up and dangerous as hell little chemistry set with pots of iron and what ever that for some reason my parents thought id like every xmas and so I always had stashed some where under my bed, another great thing long forgotten! But fuckkkk it was all worth itttttttttttttt, this and so many others were the best everrrrrrrrrrrr!!
My god, I think I repressed the memory of hoping this game would load only to have it crash just because I blinked or breathed to hard. I think I had rituals for getting this game tow work.
I was able to hum along to this tune the first time I heard it, thanks to it being so genius that I could predict every coming note perfectly at only 7 years old! My mate was well impressed 🤓 Great game though, it took 4 of use nearly 3 months of careful planning to finally get over the finish line, eagerly awaiting our fanfare completion reward....only to be met by the start new game screen! 🤣
I loved playing this game. Mastertronic 1.99 range. They were the days. Funny thing but no one i can remember ever considered the so called big ending to any of these little gems. It was all about just playing the games and enjoying them for what they were. Absolute Fun.
Loved this game back then. Its as laid back as the fantastic music. I managed to solve it too, although it took me much longer to find all the stuff. For the limited computer memory, I personally think the race was a nice ending.
Oh u actully did a full run. Must have been a hell to memorize/map out all the locations. Thumb up for u. i remember just biking around with no goal in mind
I can't imagine how much of a piss-off it must have been to go up those ramps, negotiate the turns, get soooooo close to the next component, and fall off and have to drive up there all over again! lol!
Love it, so many memories I feel old now. I made a map of the area with all the parts to collect numbered. Great game but looks a little dated today lol
This is the version that I remember playing (claimed using the KP crisps promotion), as I remeber all of those object placements. Although Im pretty sure my version had a white spite effect when sking over water, which wasn't the case in your version. I was suprised to see a very different version on the internet with far less object to collect, and no waterski object.
I had this at the age of about 5, it seemed at the time like a huge open world with unlimited possibilities... I don't remember ever managing to get all the parts.
Finally someone else who remembers that Skips crisps promotion! I don't think it was free, but it wasn't far off - something like collect 6 crisp packets and send them in an envelope with a cheque for 28p to claim the full game from KP! The best deal ever.
Just got a C64 from Fleebay. I saw this game on my friends C64 (Hello Stewart McAlpine!) back in the mid 80's. I bought this game on the strength of that mid 80's play. A cool game, with a better soundtrack.
bought this in about 86 on cassette - it had a yellow case.. mastertronic released it with their budget games for about $10. think its an early rob hubbard tune
Well DerSchmu, I spent DAYS worth of my life failing to complete this game back when I was young, But you can finish it without losing a life in 15 minutes......... Just remember, Nobody likes a smart arse. LOL !
Same to me....Atari 800 XL with datasette.....Christmas 1988.....in East Germany (there was a so called "Intershop", were you could buy western articles for hard to get West Germany Mark DM) ......I was totaly baffeled, as I ripped the paper from my present....What is this?...Just another lame board game?....Whoaaa......A computer! And this little thing? Clumsy Collin!.....and later at this evening bitter tears for blokading the TV for so long.......^^
Mastertronic 1.99 and, in the UK, Clumsy Colin KP Skips prawn cocktail crisps tie-in! Wonder why that's not mentioned here, probably that was a UK-only thing.
Ah Clumsy Colin. The brief long forgotten advertising campaign for KP Skips. Cant complain for £1.99 but what WAS the point of that race at the end? Awful lot of work for such little reward.
Clumsy Colin. heh, sounds like the UK version just hijacked a normal motorcycle game and tagged it together with the then advertising campaign character for uk snack KP Skips.
Hahaha, its weird though because there are other games where I was a bit more able to play Oh well, it was the NES and Super Mario Bros. which truly started the ball rolling in my gaming education!
I didn't know you could refuel there! ha ha, I only find out 28 years later! ha ha, I love the internet. I'm now gonna look for Tales of the Arabian Nights and Potty Pigeon which I was addicted to in around 1983!
Stevie Wonder man why did I have a connection to crisps in my head? i was thinking quavers for some reason, I remember playing this with my uncles when i was about 5 or 6 lol. Memories
