It's funny how certain pieces of music become indelibly linked with forms of media they weren't originally written for.
For example, Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells evokes images of the legendry horror flick The Exorcist and for many people it's impossible to listen to The Who's Who Are You without thinking of the opening titles for US crime drama CSI.
Similarly, when the strains of the Peter Gunn theme hit our ears we're forced to picture a heavily-armed 2D sport car racing up the screen, spewing bullets into the vehicles of evil-doers.
The tune - which was originally written for a 1950s cop show - is now irrevocably linked with Midway's 1983 arcade classic Spy Hunter.
This mobile phone adaptation of the coin-op original attempts to cram the high octane thrills of spills into your humble mobile phone handset, and for the most part is a rip-roaring success.
The objective of the game is to take down as many enemy agents as possible whilst avoiding innocent road-users. Your trusty G-6155 Interceptor is the road-going equivalent of a Swiss Army knife, and is capable of all manner of neat tricks.
By default the vehicle has twin machine guns mounted to its front. These can be used to take out rival cars but it requires a sustained assault to do fatal damage.
A more effective way of dealing with bad guys is to shunt them off the road, but naturally this is a little trickier - get it wrong and you'll end up wrapped around a tree yourself.
Additional offensive options can be gained by docking with the friendly weapons van which appears periodically throughout each level. Doing so will grant you with one of three different bonus items: oil slicks, smoke attacks and a missile launcher. Once one of these has been equipped, pressing the left-hand softkey will use the item in question.
Whilst battling it out with your road-based adversaries it's vital that you keep an eye out for other cars. Accidently taking out an innocent person will result in your points total being suspended for a short space of time - and when you consider that you earn extra lives by racking up as many points as possible, this can have serious consequences on your progress.
Occasionally you'll come across rivers that you have to cross. Thankfully, this doesn't spell the end of your covert quest as the G-6155 Interceptor is capable of transforming into a speedboat, allowing you to continue your fight for justice on water.
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