Back in the stone age the millionaire and playboy Millstone Rockafella arranges a bike race of the wilder kind. The winner will receive the "Ultimate Boulder Bash Bike" - a must-have for every cool caveman. So it comes that 8 teams - 6 of them consisting of 2 persons and the other two of single-dinos - race this tournament. Among the riders are some well known VIPs (at least if you spent lots of time playing other caveman games) : Chuck Rock & Chuck JR, Cliff Ace and Roxy, Stiggy and many more.
From the main menu you have the choice how difficult your game should be: Practice, Easy, Medium and ROCKHARD. Each difficulty level has 8 heats which makes a total of 32 tracks. If you win all 8 heats you gain a trophy. After being successful in all races you will get the adored boulder bash bike.
The first thing you have to do is to chose one of the 5 teams to race with. The next screen is a 3D racetrack and the camera zooms to your Fred Flintstone-like bike waiting for the starter-caveman to swing the flag. All bikes (except those of the dinos) have a sidecar with the second team member. He (or she) is responsible for hitting the other bikes with his (or her) special weapon. We have hammers, clubs, a screaming female and stuff like that depending which team you chose. If you hit one of the other bikes they get damaged or they drift off the track. But be careful if you are hit or if you ram the other bikes (or the obstacles on and next to the track) as your bike can be damaged, too. If your bike is wrecked you have to use one life to restart the current race.
The first race is in "Rock City". After that you have a night rally, desert drive, jungle rumble, swamp stomp, blizzard blitz, cave rave and finally the volcano dash. If you gathered enough points during each race, you get the trophy and the sceneries repeat with harder tracks.
For real fun try the two player split-screen mode and race against your friends. This feature increases the replay-factor dramatically.
The controls are a bit confusing at first. If you have no joystick you accelerate with „q“ and brake with „a“. To go left press ',' and to go right use '.' (full stop). Use to punch and to activate your nitro-boost. Hitting 'a' while steering makes it a handbrake turn. Press 'P' to pause the game. When paused you can change Graphical detail-levels with the function keys (F1, F2...).
The graphics in the game are quite good. (320 x 200 pixels, bitmap objects in a „flat“ 3D world) When you play in a windowed DOS-BOX you might want to have it full screen ... Though after seeing the full screen mode on a 19“ display, you will rather switch back to windowed mode. =;o)
The game runs smoother when you turn off the sound using the 'setup.exe'. You won‘t be missing it for there is (unfortunately) just a few medium quality SFX and very annoying music.
To conclude all that I have to say that BC Racers is a nice racing game that used the up-to-date technology of the early 90s. If you love games like WackyWheels you may have a lot of fun with BC Racers but it surely has not the quality to become an evergreen since the tracks do not vary enough and there are no power-ups or special weapons you can discover. I would give it 3 out of 5 possible points.