If you've never played HyperZone, it's basically a mix of Space Harrier and F-Zero. You accelerate to a top speed of 448 (KPH?), which you can't exceed. However, there are a lot of things that will slow you down, so learning to dodge the enemies and projectiles is paramount to getting a good run (although killing the bosses quickly is truly where the time savings is had). HyperZone is also a pretty impressive looking game. It was a SNES "launch" era title and shows off what the SNES can do with all it's mode 7 sprite scaling effects, not to mention it's quite a bit of fun to play also. There are 8 stages, each laid out like a race track of sorts except unlike F-Zero, you can freely go up and down in a faux 3D space... because... well... you're in a space ship! And speaking of ships, you get new ones as you go along (depending on how well you play) and each ship is better than the last in small, but effective ways. As a whole, the game isn't that difficult, even to 1CC/1LC. However, if you want to do a speed run, and do it like I did, it is anything but a cake walk.