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Thrash
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Since its inception, the Neo-Geo has been lacking in good driving games. Riding Hero was weak and SNK has not bothered to try and do a first person racer since. Thrash Rally is a different story. This top-down racer is a short, but sweet road rally through Europe in which you can choose your type of vehicle and participate in the five stage Paris to Dakar Rally or in a World Championship mode. The graphics are excellent with many highly detailed characters lining the tracks and great use of the Geo's color palette. There is also a nice full-screen scaling effect when you go over ramps and the sound effects are up to usual Geo quality. The problem with TR is that it is way too short. I guess this is somewhat inevitable in a Neo-Geo game with its arcade first mentality. Also, I can name 7 or 8 other 16-bit racing games that I'd rather play. This is not good when your shelling out 200 bucks for a game. Oh, well I will keep my torch burning for an in-the-cockpit 3D racer on the Geo. Hey, I've got it, maybe Terry, Andy and Joe will buy some wheels and duke it out in the highways of America, now there's a game!
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