It's 2013! I have just installed Windows 8 on my home computer, and one of the first things I did was install a Commodore 64 emulator. Yep.
Suicide Express wowed me back in the day with some of the first English audio. But it had really great game elements. A split-screen view and it was a hard game.
These days, there aren't many hard games, you can 'continue' or 'save' Let me count the hard games on my hand right now.
1. Super Hegagon 2. Super Meat Boy That's it. Okay there might be others but they are really, really hard to find. 'Gamers' are not just hardcore elite hand-eye coordination soldiers these days, they're your everyday average joe who likes playing Angry Birds and Temple Run.
Hard games back in the day, William's Defender, William's Robotron: 2084. Those were games to measure your skills by. Forget about bragging rights on having the top score in your neighborhood. To be able to last more than 15 minutes on these games, you have personally developed very useful hand-eye coordination skills.
You can sort-of get those skills with today's Super Hexagon.
Back to Suicide Express, it wasn't a top-caliber HEC (Hand-eye coordination acronym right there!) but it was fast, furious and hard.
Today, it still resonates a unique style and ambiance, along with the difficult gameplay.
It's the very first game I play when I install a Commodore 64 emulator.
Recommended!