Motocross Mania - Memories

Another Silverbird release that was shown inside the inlays of the last few Silverbird releases, Moto-Cross Mania (or Motor Cross Mania depending on where you read it!) was also advertised by Silverbird in the run up to Christmas 1988 as a C64 only release.

After the sale to MicroProse, the Silverbird label remained dormant for a while and was eventually sold off to Tudor Enterprises. This left a number of intended budget games (including Moto-Cross Mania) out in the cold.

Author Richard Lowenstein (who was also behind Firebird Silver's Twinky Goes Hiking) eventually sold the game to German publisher Magic Disk, who released it as Topcross a year or so later.

Thanks to Frank Gasking's Games That Weren't 64 web site for helping solve the mystery as to what happened to this lost Silverbird release!