Action Biker (also known as "KP Skips Action Biker with Clumsy Colin" in the UK) is a 1985 game for 8-bit home computers released by Mastertronic. The game was a tie-in with potato snack food KP Skips, whose mascot was "Clumsy Colin" who featured in television adverts for Skips at around the time the game was published.
The player controls the protagonist Clumsy Colin who rides a motorbike and has to navigate a landscape to extra equipment to imp...
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Action Biker (also known as "KP Skips Action Biker with Clumsy Colin" in the UK) is a 1985 game for 8-bit home computers released by Mastertronic. The game was a tie-in with potato snack food KP Skips, whose mascot was "Clumsy Colin" who featured in television adverts for Skips at around the time the game was published.
The player controls the protagonist Clumsy Colin who rides a motorbike and has to navigate a landscape to extra equipment to improve the bike. Once all pieces are collected the player performs a final race against a computer controlled character. There is a time limit, and the player also has a limited number of lives reduced by crashing into background objects.
The Atari and Commodore 64 versions feature an isometric view of the town, which wraps around at the edges. The Spectrum has a different viewpoint.
There are several key areas to the map - the petrol station (where the player can refuel), the lakes (including an island that is initially inaccessible), the...
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