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Skitchin'

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This game is basically Road Rash except you're on roller blades and grabbing rides off the bumpers of cars. You pickup weapons off the ground to bludgeon your fellow skaters in a race to the finish line. There are also jumps to perform which will increase your cash output at the end of the race permitting you to purchase better upgrades. The upgrades help you stay alive longer but don't help out too much with jumps or speed. Staying alive is key though because you will wipe out at some point...HARD! Now the reason I have to say this game is more fun than Road Rash is this. Try to imagine three dudes on the back of a cop car pummeling each other in the face with crowbars, chains, and cattle prods hanging on for dear life to the trunk. Then you propell yourself off a car onto the back of that cop car with them for some up close and personal beat down action. Its hilarious to watch, let alone participate in because once people start falling off the car they instantly get run over by other vehicles and tossed around through the air like some kind of sack of potatoes. Pick this game up if you can, its a blast!

This game is so cool. So cool. You start off skating in different cities and competing with other early 90s punks with spiked hair and what-not and you get to hit them with chains and boards and crowbars that other people have absentmindedly left on the street. The best is when someone gets hit by a car and you see them fly into the air. You get to spend money upgrading protective equipment and wheels and stuff. The worst part of this game is at the beginning when it shows the disclaimer saying that you shouldn't skitch.

Those of you who haven't played this... remember the old Road Rash games? Those same people made Skitchin', and it shows. It's very similar, but with a crucial difference: the control is soooo much better, because you are only going the speed of a rollerblader. A rollerblader that has crowbars, chains, baseball bats, metal pipes, whips, cattle prods and of course, some nO2 to speed things up when you're in 15th place. The basis of the game is to win each race by kicking everyone's *** and Skitchin' (grabbing on the back of) cars. Between each race you can go to the store to get new gear which is recommended after getting hit by cars or slammed in the kneepad with some dude with a mohawk's hurtful metal pipe. The music in this game is extremely good for the time period it was made. Everything is old fashioned MIDI, but the music sounds like it was all produced by someone who's been producing Heavy metal for a long time. I wish someone made live cuts of a lot of these catchy moshpit-worthy songs. I only wish they made a new version that had today's graphics and live music.