Action SuperCross

It's interesting to see that this and Elasto Mania (its sequel) only had a discount in mid-2023 the last time. But boy these are classics that are worth playing! Elasto Mania has a lot of new features (hence the Remastered name) but this one comes in its pure version with Dosbox emulator in the works. Many of us played these two in secondary school that we began in 2001. We exchanged chat messages on floppy disks where we used an xls file to message one another. 2 years later we finally got to know the world wide web and joined the gaming community of this game via IRC and of course on their respective websites. Lots of opportunities to play various cups and also to meet foreigners and learn English by chatting with them. The game is a Hungarian product but the biggest playerbase is found in Finland and if you check the official website (Moposite) the forums are still active. It's fun seeing someone actively posting using my old nick in English (that I ditched for a Finnish name for a couple of years). It's a shame that the Hungarian community went downhill (pun intended) in a couple of years: less activity from players, unnecessary competitive attitude between members within the same team and way too much interest in Counter Strike. We were part of clans and I had a classmate bragging about founding the very first (not only in our country but in the gaming scene) that we joined very soon after starting to play these games. Too bad the emphasis was on the concept of "the more the merrier" which meant that after a while people started quitting (we did have most members but without any real added value). The founder did not have much to say and went on to becoming a university dropout later and wasting a lot of time with Dota. I kept on playing. We had something called OYC (One Year Cup) and that is where my career ended with Elasto Mania. I think I ended up 10th. This was without a team, without any help and without replays that went around between the best players. It felt good receiving a compliment from one of the top players at the time in my country who invested time into checking out who else ended up on the list. But back to Action Supercross. The original one released in 1997. You launch it, you collect the apples and you touch the flower to complete the level. And you do this 42 times. Then you come back and redo everything faster, better. Physics are interesting especially when you keep holding the directional key in the air. Pressing both keys used for rotation gave us the supervolt. This meant that the bike rotated faster and while it was a bug this was actually used to make completion of a level easier (faster). If you managed to press both keys at the same time exactly the amount of times you needed to (without holding them) you did an alovolt. You can play around in the level editor if you want and download some external files to play on. Do try this one and if you like it you can move on to Elasto Mania but a word of warning: the game can get you hooked easily!

Nice to have this shareware classic on Steam after all these years at a fair price. It's a simple DOSBox bundle, so there's no modern widescreen enhancements or achievements - just cloud and workshop support. Despite the 4:3 aspect ratio, I think the simpler aesthetic holds up a bit better than Elma visually. A fair amount of the levels were tweaked and reused in Elma, but there are some differences in physics and level design that make it interesting enough to replay, and the lost levels are a nice bonus.

ENG: Vrrrroooommm.... >:3 FIN: Vrrrroooommm.... >:3

I just love this game. When I found out that it was available on Steam I had the same feeling as when I received a CD-ROM from my grandmother in 2000 on my birthday (I still have it). Thanks for being part of my childhood.

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Huikea peli edelleen!

Action Super Cross has more action than the Action Super Circle, ya know what Im sayin'? >.> ya'll know what Im sayin, yeah you know what Im sayin'. Action Super Cross. Come get soooome! Circa 1997, coming to a 486 or better IBM or compatible PC near you

If you're not secretly playing this on the library computers at lunch time and alt-tabbing out every time the teacher walks past, you're playing it wrong.

this is the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ game from my ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ childhood Pentium Perkele!

10/10 would backflip again