If you enjoyed Konami's arcade game WEC Le Mans, released in 1986, you're sure to love Faster, the new title developed for the Atari STE.

Developed by a small team, Faster has won us over. The game features bright colours, lots of sprites, a day/night cycle and a soundtrack that includes engines, sound effects and music. Above all, it runs at 50 fps, offering an exhilarating sensation of speed and a level of gameplay rarely achieved on Atari.

The man behind the project is Jonathan Thomas, aka RetroRacing, an experienced developer well known to Atari users. He notably worked on the Atari STE version of Pole Position and was part of the team that ported Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge to the Atari ST.

The work of RetroRacing is all the more impressive for being entirely handmade. Faster imitates the technique of scaling sprites (which get bigger the closer you get to them), a feature that the Atari ST does not natively support.

Excellent news: Faster is available as a free download here, allowing you to play on original hardware. The game can also be played on Recalbox!

All you need to do is insert the ROM in a sub-folder "ste “ in the roms/atarist folder, launch the game with the BIOS ”Emutos “, force the memory to ”2MB “ in the emulator menu, then exit the menu without forgetting to select ”reset machine ’.

An update will soon allow you to launch the game without having to do this.