Skate Crazy

Pull on your skates and get down to the local car park where your prowess on
eight wheels is put to the test in the ‘Car Park Challenge’.

The player grooves his way around one level of the car park which has been
turned into a multidirectionally scrolling arena for the gladiators of roller
racing. Kick cans over, litter to collect and obstacles to avoid in the shape
of cones, ramps, sand, bouncing balls, flying frisbees, mazes of tyres and
rocks, and even other skaters. Finishing each level is a battle against time
to negotiate a series of gates in a set order, the next gate being signified
by a row of dots which flash between its flags.

To complete rounds successfully, though, suitably impressive stunts and tricks
are carried out to appease a set of four judges. Each have a card which they
periodically display at the bottom of the screen, notifying the player of his
progress. When the player’s energetic jumping skills have gained enough points
to qualify, he skates through the finishing gate and has his performance
rated. Failing to qualify forces the player to skate around the car park
against the clock, picking up a set number of pieces of litter. Beating a
level allows the player to skate to the level’s exit ramp, from where he
chooses to move up to the next level or leave the car park and move onto the
next part of the game, ‘The Skate Crazy Championship Course’.

This section of the game is a race against time over four horizontally
scrolling cityscapes of platforms and ramps, with the player building up speed
on his skates using a paced joystick waggling movement. Ground level obstacles
and gaps in the floor are crossed with leaps of controllable strength and
items at head height are avoided by judicious ducking. Birds and other
creatures also spell doom for the heroic skater, unless he is able to avoid
them or throw things at them.

Points are scored in this section by picking up extra skating paraphernalia,
such as pads, clothes, skates and litter.