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Name That Game- PC Edition
pantsy
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Hey guys, i require the aid of the PA video game hive mind.
I was trying to remember one of my favorite PC games as a kid. I think it came out in the mid or late 90s. It was a racing game where the focus was on not just winning the race, but also destroying your opponents' cars. The tracks resembled real tracks, but i recall obscene jumps and hazards such as chasms and possible lava pits. I think the cars had 3 stats: weight, health, and speed (possibly). You could win races by just ramming into other cars and doing damage to them, or forcing them into hazards. Whenever you got a kill, you would get a skull and crossbones that popped up on the screen. The only other things i remember are the fact that the logo had skid marks on it and that the two cars I used were a red and white car, and a green and purple car.
Any assistance in helping me find this game would be appreciated.
I was trying to remember one of my favorite PC games as a kid. I think it came out in the mid or late 90s. It was a racing game where the focus was on not just winning the race, but also destroying your opponents' cars. The tracks resembled real tracks, but i recall obscene jumps and hazards such as chasms and possible lava pits. I think the cars had 3 stats: weight, health, and speed (possibly). You could win races by just ramming into other cars and doing damage to them, or forcing them into hazards. Whenever you got a kill, you would get a skull and crossbones that popped up on the screen. The only other things i remember are the fact that the logo had skid marks on it and that the two cars I used were a red and white car, and a green and purple car.
Any assistance in helping me find this game would be appreciated.
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Or Demolition Derby I guess. Although no chasms or lava pits.
Whatever this game was, you should've been playing Carmageddon instead.
Haha! Brilliant!
Does sound like Destruction Derby 2 or something like that..
edit: although no skid marks across the box, I guess.
Oh, actually, there was another PC game where you could ram people off the road I think. I had it for a while but it was rubbish and I returned it. What the heck was that?
Sure it's not Carmageddon 3?
Crazy jumps, no weapons on cars, ramming other cars to wreck them to win...
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Unfortunately not
Oh, well if we're using PC in the antiquated parlance of a 'personal computer', then yeah, it was on all sorts of PCs back in the day. ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Amiga...But IBM PC? DOS PC? Windows PC? Not so much.
edit: and I played a Fatal Racing demo yeeeears ago. Man, I remember that. Good times.
I don't remember much about it, it was an adventure game meant for kids (I think I played it in like 4th grade) with an interface like Shadowgate. I think it was set in a pretty dark looking castle, but it had characters to talk to as well. The only two parts I remember clearly are a maze you navigate with a boat, I think in the flooded basement, and a part where an anthromorphic pig girl wants you to answer a riddle or something before you can climb up the staircase behind her. I think it had voice acting but I'm not sure.
Probably not though
Not according to GIS, the graphics were a lot better than that... It was sort of like Myst where the graphics could look good since there was no real time movement.
Also probably not though.
This game had the world's greatest and least annoying announcer in any videogame ever.
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Oh my god, that is horrible. I could feel my teeth grating with everything he says. 'YOU'RE GOING TOO FAST!" "YOU'RE GOING TOO SLOW" "YEEEEHAAAA".
And then the screen pops up with 29 LAPS TO GO. It felt like some sort of joke.
YOU'VE BEEN LAPPED! STEP ON IT!
I thought it was fantastic. That guy sure is enthusiastic.
YEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
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I'm laughing just thinking about it.
This game apparently had pretty good reviews at the time as well.
Oh shit. That name brings back a flood of memories. I'm suddenly back in my primary school computer room surrounded by acorn computers, jostling to get one of the good ones with a colour screen rather than the green or orange shitty ones.
Loading up Granny's Garden or Podd! Holy crap, Podd! Wow, I think the only other thing I recall is how fucking hard the acorn version of Lunar Lander was when you were 7.
"Bigfoot has craaaaaashed leaving an incredible path of destruction behind him!"
That is awesome.
I loved that book as a kid, I didn't know there was a video game!
"Your planet is doomed, and there is only one remaining seat on the spaceship leading citizens to safety. This will go to the winner of a sequences of races held within this futuristic world."
Of course.
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There was.
They had it at the library I would go to as a kid.
And my sister and I would play it to death every time we went.
And after that I have found a grand total of no other fucking person on the planet earth who even knew there was a game of it.