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Overdrive

DOS - 1995
Also available on: Amiga

Overdrive is a fun fast-paced overhead racing game by Team 17.

In the style of Magnetic Field's Super Cars 2, although not as enjoyable as that classic. It's a conversion of the Amiga game from 1993, so this PC game was released two years later and it's overall a very good conversion with smooth scrolling, all the nice sounds and speech from the Amiga, good controls and also a MOD routine to replay Allister Brimble's Amiga music. S

upports a two-player mode but only by linking two computers with a serial cable - no split-screen mode. The game has to be run in real DOS mode, otherwise game speed will be very slow (not in Windows!). Also in 1995 Team 17 released a second overhead racer called ATR, but that one never made it to the PC from Amiga version.

Review By HOTUD

Comments and reviews

indstr 12 Feb. 2014

Hm, Team17. They seemed to have a lot of obscure games before they were well known. Still I might have to give this a check out

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DOS version
Game file
United Kingdom English
2 MB
Amiga version
Game file
United Kingdom English
8 MB

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