Super Off Road – Game Boy

Super Off Road on the Game Boy was released in 1992 by Tradewest. It is a conversion of the Leland arcade game from 1989 called Ivan “Ironman” Stewart’s Super Off Road. The game was ported to pretty much every popular system at the time including: Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore 64, DOS, Game Gear, Lynx, Master System, Genesis, NES, SNES, ZX Spectrum, and of course, the Nintendo Game Boy.

I think this Game Boy version was just called “Super Off Road” due to licensing issues with Ivan Stewart – whoever he is.

I really like this game, and I’ve played it loads on the Amiga and the SNES. This port isn’t amazing, it is pretty slow and jerky, but it’s still a lot of fun. It’s also really easy – I’ve only played it twice, and both times I won most of the races, especially when you have your truck fully maxed out with upgrades. I’m not sure if there is a way to actually complete the game, as I played it until I’d got to the 20th race (not in this stream), and it seemed to just keep on going. If someone knows if it just keeps looping, or if there is an actual ending, please comment and let me know!

Equipment Used:

• Super NT
• Super Game Boy 2
• 8Bitdo SN30 Gamepad
• EverDrive-GB X7