TT Racer Atari 8-bit computer review [Matter of Import 090]
6TT Racer is a 1982 motorcycle racing game from British developer Centaursoft, for the Atari 8-bit computers. Subscribe to Blown Cartridges for more retro game review videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoDQj54Gd-w8RTdukMrQScQ?sub_confirmation=1
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TT Racer is a 1982 motorcycle racing game for the Atari 8-bit computers developed and released by British developer Chris Horseman’s Centaursoft. It’s a simple top down game that - like other early racing games - lacks opponents to compete against, the goal instead being to rack up a high score by covering as much ground as possible in the 60 seconds you’re given.
The track isn’t very long - if you avoid crashing you can complete the whole thing at a reasonable speed in 20 seconds - but it is narrow and is full of sharp 45 degree turns. It took a half dozen tries before I was even able to complete a single lap - if you crash, you’re sent back to the beginning of the track, something that can get a bit frustrating as the joystick controls are both imprecise and don’t have the natural acceleration and deceleration ‘feel’ of a modern racing game.
This is made more difficult by a gate that opens and closes, and a barrier that leaps from one branch of the track to the other, making it entirely possible for you to doom a run without realizing it.
While you’re certainly capable of tearing it up at high speeds the unresponsiveness of the controls and track obstacles make this inadvisable, and I found myself forced to travel relatively slowly just to complete a lap without crashing. Whether this was due to my own poor skill or just poor design I can’t say.
I get the sense that if the track had been generated procedurally instead of being hand-crafted it might have been more interesting, or allowed for a longer loop, but there really isn’t much reason to keep playing after you’ve made the circuit once. There are better racing games out there.
Regardless, TT Racer is a very simple game for 1982, something you’d expect to see from a hobbyist rather than sold commercially. I give the game a D ranking.
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