This piano solo of mine is an attempt at doing the title screen music from the 1991 arcade video racing game "Road Riot 4WD." In the game, players control weapon-equipped dune buggies and attempt to win races around the globe. A port of the game was released for the Super NES. Versions of the game for the Atari Lynx and Sega Genesis were developed, but never released.

Players control four-wheel drive dune buggies equipped with weapons. After conquering the basic track, players will have to navigate through 11 additional tracks in order to win the championship. The locations are Saudi Arabia, Iowa, Africa, Swiss Alps, Baja Mexico, Antarctica, Ohio, Las Vegas, New Jersey, California and Australia. A player has to beat three vehicles in order to win the race, and each race also has a quirky character acting as host for that race (so I'm guessing the yellow cars are racing on their behalf); the Las Vegas track, for example, has Elvis Vegas as your host. Antarctica's host is, appropriately, Aunite Arctica, while the host for the Australian race is Krazy Killer Karl. And so on.

An infinite number of missiles is used to knock opponents out of the way. Crashing into certain obstacles will allow the player to collect extra points (known as "hazard pay" in the game). The game is playable by up to two players, with a dual sit-down cabinet setup in the arcade or the always-on split screen of the SNES game.

If all 11 levels are completed, the player collects 500K points as a bonus. The player also collects points for where they finish in the race, up to 50,000 for winning, and obviously getting nothing for finishing last.

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Information taken from Wikipedia
This arrangement © me and me alone
Original music composed by Don Diekneite
Road Riot 4WD © Atari Corporation, THQ (SNES game), and everyone else who owns the rights

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Full game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_VlIcXpFG8