Reviews

With Ultimate's fourth game they finally broke away from the move and shoot mould with this multiway scrolling driving game. You have to drive across a, fairly sparse and abstract, map of the USA picking up a set of cups, avoiding crashes and making frequent fuel stops along the way.

Instead of blasting away at your enemies, you instead have to avoid them here as two cars will come racing after you and try to crash into you. Making a tight turn or forcing them to crash into the scenery will buy you a little time, but they'll be on your tail again soon. It's quite a challenge to collect all the cups under this pressure, but not an impossible one. The main drawback is that it's all too easy to end up crashing into a piece of scenery as your reactions need to be very quick given the small size of the visible area.

Whilst it was a significant departure from their previous work, and quite an original idea generally, Tranz Am just doesn't quite have the same addictive quality as Jetpac. It's still one of the best 16K games around, however.

What an amazing game this is !!

The speed feeling is amazing as well as the maneouvres with the car.

The landscape is also of great quality as you almost got the feeling of being lost in the middle of the desert.

A magical game with smooth gameplay, superb atmosphere, and wonderful movility ... another gem by Ultimate.

Perfection exists, and it is called Tranz Am .

5 out of 5 .

It's a simple game to get into and can be enjoyable particularly if you have some nostalgia with this game, but it does get repetitive and boring fairly quickly and Jetpac is a far far better arcade game than this.

One of the earliest Ultimate works, a 16K arcade game inspired by Namco's Rally X, but this time in an open map of the USA where you must collect 8 cups before running out of fuel, avoiding cars, stones, trees, etc. Even though you can accelerate/brake, the car is hard to control. The graphics and speed sounds are acceptable, in the usual Ultimate standards.

Probably the least popular Ultimate game from those years.