Cover art that over sold the experience

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By Justin Towell
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The box looked awesome, didn't it? Oh dear...

Kikstart 2 (ZX Spectrum, 1988)

Box art suggests: Frantic motorbike action with dirt,lights and cones to knock over/weave through.

The reality: Side-scrolling crapness. Admittedly, it does have the promisedcourse design mode, but we seem to remember that crashing whenever we tested its limits. And if you fell down the wrong hole, you couldn't get out again. Those were the days...

Above: The cover would have appealed to any young lad growing up in the '80s. The game? Meh

Justin Towell
Justin Towell

Justin was a GamesRadar staffer for 10 years but is now a freelancer, musician and videographer. He's big on retro, Sega and racing games (especially retro Sega racing games) and currently also writes for Play Magazine, Traxion.gg, PC Gamer and TopTenReviews, as well as running his own YouTube channel. Having learned to love all platforms equally after Sega left the hardware industry (sniff), his favourite games include Christmas NiGHTS into Dreams, Zelda BotW, Sea of Thieves, Sega Rally Championship and Treasure Island Dizzy.

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