A reminder....

Jamin · October 29, 2009, 04:42:12 PM

...of what some of us were racing 25 years ago:

I used to play it round at my mates house as he had a bbc.

smilodon · October 29, 2009, 04:55:34 PM

I remember that game. Look at the texture on the wheel. It's almost 3D :woot2:

Jamin · October 29, 2009, 05:03:05 PM

Jamin · October 29, 2009, 05:23:07 PM

Another racing game I played was Vroom on the Atari ST, I remember it being very smooth, this one's nearly twenty years ago:

Benny · October 29, 2009, 05:37:38 PM

Pah, bloody technology. I cut my teeth on this.

On the Apple 2.

And if you want to play it;
http://www.virtualapple.org/nightdriverdisk.html

Romus · October 29, 2009, 05:37:59 PM

Quote from: Jamin;294506...of what some of us were racing 25 years ago:
I used to play it round at my mates house as he had a bbc.

Looks like it had some sort of physics engine.

Good video. Check it at least for those driver names. One was Hugh Jengine. :lmfao:

I never played that game. My first racing game was perhaps Stunt Car Racer on Atari ST.
Edit: the first car game I played was Road Fighter on MSX:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2k60eADtkg

Jamin · October 29, 2009, 06:21:58 PM

Quote from: Benny;294516Pah, bloody technology. I cut my teeth on this.

On the Apple 2.

I had night driver on a ROM cartridge for the Vic 20 but it was so appalling I didn't play it.

Lameduck · October 29, 2009, 06:37:41 PM

Quote from: Romus;294517Looks like it had some sort of physics engine. Good video. Check it at least for those driver names. One was Hugh Jengine. :lmfao:

I still have my BBC 'B' in the attic together with the 'Revs' game and about 30 other games, some on audio tape

I found the Manual a couple of years ago, and in honour of Revs and of the enjoyment given, I named all my LFS AI cars with the driver names :sad:
My favourite? Gloria Slap

Geoff Crammond? wrote the software (to run on 16k of memory. He later headed up the team that produced F1GrandPrix for the PC. Bleedin genius.:worship:

vobler · October 29, 2009, 07:04:07 PM

Quote from: Lameduck;294534I still have my BBC 'B' in the attic together with the 'Revs' game and about 30 other games, some on audio tape
I found the Manual a couple of years ago, and in honour of Revs and of the enjoyment given, I named all my LFS AI cars with the driver names :sad:
My favourite? Gloria Slap
Geoff Crammond? wrote the software (to run on 16k of memory. He later headed up the team that produced F1GrandPrix for the PC. Bleedin genius.:worship:

I had the BBC too. Revs was my first racing game, musthave been in 84 or 85. I still have some of the F1 titles for the PC somewhere too. I also had some of the Indycar titles.

Great fun all of them.

The next thing now is Onlive. If you haven't heard about it, google it.

Seany · October 29, 2009, 07:20:43 PM

Heh ahh the good ol days

. My first racing game was probably Outrun on the C64:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPcV8LrNu_Q

The first game I had that felt like real racing was Indianapolis 500 on the Amiga, many hours of fun I had with this game and spectacular crashes. (ahh one of the first games I owned that I used to crank up the GFX to max and think, "Damn I wish I had an A1200 so I could run it like that" :lmfao:)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFeaUy5d3E8&feature=related

Ben, Vroom was excellent, many fond memories of that game. :racing:

delanvital · October 29, 2009, 07:27:16 PM

I recall one from the ZX Spectrum... forgotten the name. Lots of green colours.

I also played Outrun on the C64 a LOT.

Lately, I found 4D Sports Driving aka. Stunts. Anyone here who played that?

Romus · October 29, 2009, 07:40:19 PM

Quote from: delanvital;294545Lately, I found 4D Sports Driving aka. Stunts. Anyone here who played that?

Around years 1991-93 we used to play that a lot at school.

obsolum · October 29, 2009, 07:58:32 PM

Ahhh, ya know it's easy to forget how far gaming has evolved these days

We've really come a long way.

Quote from: vobler;294537The next thing now is Onlive. If you haven't heard about it, google it.

Wow, that seems pretty revolutionary. I wonder if it'll be a success.

Link for the lazy

vobler · October 29, 2009, 10:32:30 PM

Quote from: obsolum;294550Wow, that seems pretty revolutionary. I wonder if it'll be a success.

I realy can't see why not. Why should everybody need to have all that 3D computing power in their house, when all they need to see is a movie?

Give it some time. It's a good concept.

obsolum · October 30, 2009, 06:42:47 AM

Oh it's definitely a great concept. But it remains to be seen what their pricing structure will be. Do you buy a game once and get to play it as long and as often as you like like you would do when you actually buy a game in a store? Or do you "pay per play"? Maybe there'll be a formula with which you can play any game as much as you want for a fixed price per month? Lots of possibilities there.

And I can imagine a project like that needs some serious infrastructure and has to be well maintained and monitored and constantly kept up to date. That brings a lot of costs with it, which they'll have to recover one way or the other.

I'll be keeping an eye on that