Spy Hunter

Spy Hunter is a conversion of Bally Midway's arcade driving game, in which you drive the G-6155 Interceptor - an unarmed-looking sports car that is actually a weapons platform - down a highway full of enemy agents trying to run you off the road.

The hook is the weapon loadout and the road itself. You have machine guns and oil slicks, the enemies have the same, and the road forks: taking the wrong branch puts you on a bridge that closes faster. Reach the weapons van and you can swap the car for a boat, which turns the same chase into a river run. The arcade original is remembered for its Peter Gunn theme and for the fact that it is one of the few driving games of the era where the environment is genuinely out to get you rather than just being scenery.

• ▸Weapons van pickups that convert the car to a boat
• ▸Machine guns and oil slicks, mirrored by the enemy cars
• ▸Branching highway with routes that can close behind you
• ▸Endless chase structure with escalating traffic density