Ramping It Up: Mad Skills Motocross

Starting a day with the ex-editor of legendary videogames website/gaming-community Oskar Skog mailing us is always a fine thing. He writes, lamenting the lack of Trials HD for the PC - bastards! sez us - but thinking Mad Skills Motocross will act like a helpful methadone. While he thinks it not Trials match, he thinks it more of a combo of Excitebike, Excite Truck and Trials, including a level-editor. You can get the demo here. The full thing is just under 20 quid, which does seem a trifle pricey, but the level editor certainly is attractive. I haven't played it - RUSHING AROUND! - but Skog has as fine an eye for an arcade game as anyone I've ever known. Footage follows...

Bonus marks for being called "Mad Skills Motorcross" which has had me trying to remember a crica-1999 PC Gamer office running joke where Matt Pierce kept on claiming to be General Madskillz or something similar. You probably have to had been there.