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This is a very playable conversion of Atari's classic stunt driving coin-op. A realistic simulator (first reviewed in issue 15), Hard Drivin' puts you behind the wheel of a sports Ferrari which can be put through its paces along either of two tracks: speed or stunt.

The speed track is a flat course, where car control is all important in order to maintain a high speed. The stunt track offers three major obstacles - the bridge-jump, the loop-the-loop, and the bank - each of which require precise control.

In this conversion, the juddering cabinet is not really missed that much, while the sensible control system almost manages to make the joystick a reasonable replacement for the wheel.