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Reminiscing: Motor City Online
DasHanselHM
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A friend and I got into a discussion about Motor City Online today. We talked for about an hour bringing up our old cars (my favorite was this impratical 47 Caddy with the huge, 502 I think, engine) and our old racing strategies. My friend had this Duster, it had a small block engine, awesome tires and traction bars up front. It ran the same way no matter the track conditions so he used to beat up on people in the nighttime, rain, backwards races. We had drag cars, although I sold mine because it became tedious. And even though we both had dial up and the lag has horrible we genuinely enjoyed the whole car building/racing experience the game offered.
My Camaro
My Caddy
Does anyone else remember this game? Or does anybody know of a game that offers a similar experience?
Also share some memories if you did play this wonderful racing game.
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....rather than being in the midst of a horrible recession, and full of drunken, teethless homeless dudes.
It was out in 2001, and they did cancel it. The rumor is that they canceled it to work on The Sims Online.
It's true, I was playing Sims Online when they cancelled it, and they gave the former customers of MCO a few months of TSO free. Needless to say TSO is in the crapper right now, if it isn't dead already.
I remember some of the epic times people would get on some tracks and I only beat one once through a fluke, but in a pvp race so it wasn't recorded. It was on the track that started in the parking garage (the name escapes me). I got t-boned and rolled over the wall that dropped down to the bottom of the garage. It saved me about 20 seconds, haha. It doesn't sound too glorious but my fourteen year old self got a real kick out of it.
I remember spending hours in my GTO Judge racing around the proving grounds trying to make enough money to get that next part and then doing it again.
Man, who wants to make a game? (If only I had the time). I've wanted to make a game just like this since MCO bit the dust. Even had a composition notebook full of database schemas and UI mock-ups.
If part A didn't work well with part B, you could end up losing power.
You kind of explained why no one played it.
I wanted to get into it, badly, but I didn't have the knowledge of cars to know what the hell was going on.
So, everybody won in the end. What a happy story.
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You didn't really need to know a lot about cars to build a good machine. You just had to be willing to tinker around with it some. I'm about as far away from "car guy" as you can get and I built some awesome racing machines.
My '67 GTO builds were legendary, and I was smoking people with Firebirds before they were the "in" car to drive.