Buggy Boy

It is better as the arcade, the arcade isn't fun to play. Without doubt the best racing game on the 64.

A great effort and so much better than the Amiga conversion. Great sprites and a convincing 3D effect. On the easy side but still so much fun.

Really, a fabulous game! I’ve read where some people think it’s better than the arcade?!
Come on now.
No way the C64 comes close graphically. But the visuals are nice.

But wait. Pick up some speed and the game controls really well. You can manoeuvre around barriers quite nicely with practice. Try to get fancy in the arcade version and you slide right off the track!

So maybe they were right?!

A very good arcade racer with five long tracks and lots of deviously placed hazards to punish mistakes. Graphics are a bit chunky but move quickly and give a good illusion of speed. One of the best arcade conversions and well worth a play, even today.

My favorite racer on the C64. I liked that it wasn’t too hard to get along, and once you get the flow you can have some real fun time hunting for high scores.

The level layouts aren't that similar to the arcade game, but most of the basic features are recreated, the underlying fun survives the changes, and the speed and smoothness of the game engine is a fine achievement on such a slow-processor system, even allowing for the lack of other cars making the calculations simpler. Offroad took me about 10 attempts to clear, but it gets tougher after that. Among the C64's finest car games.

Back in the day as a boy myself the impression this gave me was of a kid game with a proxy car, I wanted to be cool like the dudes driving super cars in Test Drive. However after loading it up I was immediately captured by the jumping and two wheel stunt action.
A lesson to not judge a book by the cover, many hours of fun followed and I never looked back.
This game proves to be better than the sum of all its parts, one of the better driving games for the commodore.

A fantastic conversion and a wonderful racing game in its own right.
Difficulty ramps up quite steeply but not to an unfair level.
Responsible for me having many a late night back in the day.

Amazing racer and conversion. Definitely one of the best tapes I own. Plenty of fun sound FX.
Can be tough at first but once you memorise the Time gates on the tracks it becomes a lot easier.

For a lame player the difficulty level rises way too steep. The easiest track (Offroad) is a piece of cake, but in the next track I can't manage even the 3rd checkpoint before running out of time.

Other than that the game is nice. Played the Amiga version first but I quite quickly I remembered the playability being much better so I tried the C64 version and it indeed is much better.

The only racer I had in my collection that I would keep coming back to. Really fun, fast gameplay and totally addictive. Graphics were great but for me the sound let it down a bit, the engine noise was grating after a while haha.
I remember spending pretty much all xmas day holed up in my room playing this, after getting it on a compilation "fists n throttles"- good days!

Amazing conversion. It's very nearly as good as the original arcade version.

What a good game! The better conversion and all 8bit and 16bit conversion. So better than the CPC version (too slow) and the spectrum version (big sprites but unplayable). And all time classic.

10/10

A very well put together racer. Smooth, fast, varied, and fun.

8 / 10

Some things I love. The smooth scrolling, the precise controls, the excellent graphics and sound.
Some things im not so keen on. The unfair collision detection on bridges, the lack of any music on the title.
Small nitpicks though. A great game for score junkies.

I can't believe how highly rated this game is on here. It was above average at best.

Buggy Boy VS Power Drift

these 2 are the best driving games on the C64 for me buggy boy is my favourite, its just more fun and more tempting too keep playing both very similar but power drift scores 7/10 and buggy boy 8/10 only my opinion

A very good racing game, played it hours when I was young. Elite did a very good job with this one.

My two year old likes this one. Me too, very nice racing game with nice graphics.

I played, back in the days, the original coin-op that you sat in the cabinet with 3 monitors... They did a great job with the C64 version and one of the best buggy game on the C64!

Damn, this was one of the greatest miss of my C64 childhood. I had never played nor even seen this game, what a shame.

Awesome game! One of the very best racers on the C64. A great game to play with your firends. Single player suffers a bit as there is no tournament mode and you can't buy new cars or upgrades.

Top fun racer. Still one of my favorite racing games.

Graphics: 78
Sound: 74
Gameplay: 80

Never got the hype. I can name several other racing games I like a lot better than this (Super cycle, Power Drift and Stunt Car Racer, for example). This boy just bugged me.

Buggy Boy hasn't lost its charm over the years. It may look and sound simplistic (even in its time) but the playability and the fun factor are of the highest class.

I wasn't expecting much
but once started I couldn't stop playing.
Great arcade racing fun.

beware it's very Addictive!

Incredible game from Commodore 64 !!!
pretty cool, lot's of fun here
another of my fabourite games

The best "funny driving" game I've played on C64 ever. For example, Out Run is very very far behind ...

Just purchased off EBay and this game still is playable today as it was years ago.
The graphics obviously have dated but the gameplay is still there.
Music is good, not great and the sound effects are good for this type of game.
Zzap! 64 gave this a gold medal, I would have done at that time but now it would be just a sizzler with a overall score of 90%, but only just.
8/10

Buggy boy is awesome! Cute beautiful graphics and brilliant gameplay, the king of racing games in my opinion for the Commodore 64. A true classic!

Since you don't have to steer in curves, and there are no competing cars (except for the mysterious gemini racer that appears a few times), I wonder if this actually qualifies as a racing game. Basically, you only have to avoid the appearing obstacles. Nevertheless, it plays like a dream.

'The Daddy'

Possibly the Elite masterpiece, and still one of most enjoyable racing titles for C64. Exciting.

Excellent racer, nice graphics and awesome gameplay. Played it a lot and still do, the small number of available tracks never bothered me because what is there offers enough challenge and variety for months to come, and probably much longer. Modern developers should take a good long look on this one, this way they may find out that a good racer with almost endless replayability is not about super-shiny graphics and sim-elements... 9/10.

Although there's only five levels, it's hard enough to complete. Great game.

Whoaa, this game I cant recall playing as a youth... But did it just now on an emulator. Nice racing game, cant compete with pitstop tho.

Fine game 9/10. I played it on my C64 , on an Amstrad 6128 later on on my Amiga 500 and on a Spectrum 128. All of the versions were great. A true Classic !!!

Always wanted this one..

Brilliant little game. A real ray of sunshine on wintry wet days when I was a kid. Totally playable, cool graphics, lovely effects. All ran perfectly and the games pace was great. Definitely one to play over and over!

Perfect maniability and really really close to the original (in feelings of course).
This game was THE BEST adaptation to me... Fast and reactif... A piece of masterpiece.

10/10 (I would have score it higher if I could... )

Quite easy to complete all the tracks in a short period of time, but there is always some room for improvement. Maybe that's one of the reasons why I keep playing Buggy Boy again and again from time to time. Give it a try if you like pick & play games.

One of the very few decent car games on the C64. I liked Turbo Outrun and Powerdrift more coz I think they seem to convey speed a bit better.
But then again this thing was made long before they came along as and it stands its still a great game.

This was the best racer for the C64. And now that it includes a high score saver (thanks Remember!), it's even better...

As I played the Amiga's first I preferred that version but this was still a lot of fun nonetheless. It was all done in a small cute way which worked well and the 3D was nice too. Great little game.

Good memories here... Was young when I originally bought it... Remember being shocked when the rival buggy drives into the water... :0 lol Great playabilty, graphics and most of all fun... On of the best racing games of it's era... 87/100 For Mine.

An excellent conversion. Rare.

If someone ask me what cargames I used to play on the C64, this is one I'll remember for ever along with pole position and stuntcar racer...

not to hard either, and you never get tired of weeling or bumbing...

Especially the crazy jumps made this game a lot of fun.

Lotta fun!

A very good game and very enojayble to play, but I always thought the car moved very slow even at the maximum speed...

Like having a coin-op in your C64, without having to spend loads of money and still having all the fun and the frustration. The first time I played it, just blew me away.

Well one could sure play this for hours... But when one had reached all goals there was an emptyness and well the game didn't really give much more... It got booring even though the game is good.

I also used to rate this game as too easy, as it's not very hard to complete every track. It has to be said, though, that when you've done that, there's still plenty of room to improve your scores, taking risks to get extra points (flags in their order, banners, balls, extra times), so that the lastability value is much higher than what I thought back then. An enormously fun game, this is, and gracefully it aged too.

This is what all driving games should be based on. Forget realism, just pure gameplay gold. I really do love this game. 10/10

An OK game that does not reach the quality of other racing games that are done in this pseudo 3D style (like Super Cycle).

A very fun game that didn't try to match the Arcade version graphically (yet still succeeded to an extent) and focussed on the fun racing itself. Download and have fun today!

The amount of times I missed that damn bridge and fell into the water! This game was the business. The one game I could really pump my big brother at. (think he never played my C64 again after that - horray!!) Great graphics. Ah buggy boy, we'll never see the likes again.

Oh My God!! Does this game bring back the best memories of childhood or what. I don't know why I threw out my old games. I want them back!!!

Makes Grand Turismo look like a load of crap!

Great racer! Best racer on the c64 with smooth 3d-grafix and is very good to play. Overall 10/10

This version plays oodles better than the Amiga version. Give it a go.

This is a fun game! I love the graphics on it. Very colorful. Very fast too!

Lovely atypical racing game. As a conversion it may be not so faithful, but I actually think that it feels better than its coin-op counterpart: cuter and nicier. OK, there are a bit too many bugs, and it's definitely too easy to win every course. I found it much more fun to play while trying to beat other people's scores than on my own. In the end, though, I think this is really enjoyable, with all those flags, banners, logs to jump on, footballs to send to the sky, 45° ramps and most importantly 2 wheels driving! I also like very much the fact that you only have to care about the objects on the road, not about cornering like in all the other racers. My fave 3D racing game on the C64.

More of an interpretation of the original arcade game than a true convertion. And to be honest this is what makes this game so great. It really is a great game to play. I love it to bits. Looks good, sounds good, plays well ... And all in a single load!!!

Yup, this is Commodore perfection. This defines christmas for me as I think back to spending the entire day fixated by buggy boy back in 1987. A timeless classic.

It's a great little gem. Very cute, very playable, very engrossing all the way through. Control is simple, gameplay is captivating. It gives you a warm feel. I like it, it's good.

This is one of those C64 games that is almost universally praised, but always seemed a little overrated to me. It's technically sound; in fact the 3D graphics are among the best on the C64 - big, colourful and smooth (if not particularly fast). But in terms of gameplay, the slightly spongy controls and overly zealous collision detection (you scrape a shrub and your car does somersaults) always stopped me from really getting into it. It's still enjoyable, and it's all a single load which gives in a great arcade feel,
but with a little fine tuning I think it could have been a lot better. 7/10.

I really LOVE this game. I usually hate racing games, but this one is absolutely addictive, it has an excellent gameplay and great graphics.
10/10

Verry nice addictive racing game good music and game play

Most of Elite's conversions of Buggy Boy were strangely compulsive. I played the game to death on every format I owned it. The home versions aren't really like the arcade original, which had vibrant, chunky sprite-scaling.

I liked this, I played it quite a bit but never got past a mediocre standard. I still have the cassette with a note slipped inside the box with my best scores on it. They are- OFFROAD 94280, NORTH 68930, EAST 63810, WEST 77390 and SOUTH 67410.

I Love This Game

A game that was quite fun but nothing special thou...

Simple yet addictive. Fun but occasionally a bit too hard

I thought that buggy boy on the Amiga played a lot better. Granted, it's good, but pole position II with it's two-player and pitstop had more to offer.

Great graphics, one off the best racing games on the C64, completing this game is also not that easy.

Nicest looking "behind the car" game on the C64 (imo) nice, fun game indeed..

Very good game...

Hehe good old Buggy Boy. Neither the grafics nor the sounds were highlights but nevertheless this game is fun! Don't miss it.

Easy to control, fast and really challenging, you won't quit till you've made it through all tracks. If you need to develop a good memory, forget the fish, play Buggy Boy!

The music and SFX really aged on this one badly. Great gameplay, cheerful and fun, but I think overrated by you guys, sorry. I think it has been overtaken by many other driving games... It was a single load, so that really helped.

Im amazed that out of 144 votes this game averages a 6. 8?!?!? If there has ever been a driving game that deserves 10 out of 10 then this is it. Enough said.

Can't stop playing it. Once you started you play non stop until you cleared all Rotes, I still havn't made it throu myself. Still playing 7

Buggy Boy is my all time favorute!

Colourful, fast and a change on the usual racing format. Driving on two wheels in your buggy was soooooo cool.

Fun & fast racer that nobody should miss.

One of the most entertaining and playable racers on the C64. Not as advanced as games like Turbocharge - but so much fun!