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What racing games, arcade & console, would you say were the great games prior to Gran Turismo? Pole Position and Bump N' Jump are pretty legendary. :cool:

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The Atari 2600 cart of Bump N' Jump had a red Firebird on the front. The sleeve art in those days was cool. :D

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dukes of hazard on the colecovision was awesome. probably a terrible game overall, but I played the hell out of that as a kid. and you could jump a car in it, holy shit!!! =p

rc pro am was the next racing game I played a ton, however the ai designer in that game was an evil bastard. you could just randomly lose any race when the ai cars accelerated to super speed.

I probably spent a couple hundred bucks on super off road in the arcade around that time. except it was not really my money, we found a cabinet at the arcade with a broken lock and we would clean all the quarters out of that to play super off road.

f-zero and mario kart on the super nintendo were what I moved on to after that. I spent a number of years getting blasted with my friends almost daily and playing f-zero time trials =O
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Death Track Racing? It was so technically brutal it was funny. Nothing like rocket powered and landmines to keep the race more... dynamic.
 
I probably spent a couple hundred bucks on super off road in the arcade around that time. except it was not really my money, we found a cabinet at the arcade with a broken lock and we would clean all the quarters out of that to play super off road.
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IMO a part of gaming died when arcade life went on the decline.:(

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The most fun I ever had with a racing game was Star Wars Racer. Say what you will about the movie but the game was awesome.
 
Man, bump n' jump was AWESOME. I still remember it perfectly, sound effects and all. I played it on an Intellivision 2. Matter of fact, I still have the console and a case of 100+ games for it. Still works too :)
 
Whacky Wheels! A blatant rip off of Mario Kart but I actually liked it more... I remember the days of multiplayer on the PC..
 
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I WAS JUST GOING TO POST THIS! - also known as Fatal Racing in the UK. This game is Stunts crossed with Destruction Derby crossed with Need for Speed.

WHIPLASH is my favorite racing game of all time. Man, I want to have a Global Celerity in my garage!!!

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikRvvEq_MT8&feature=PlayList&p=77BD7ADDDA907317&index=7

I love how it shows you the geometry of the track before the race, the music is awesome, and I loved how you could actually send commands and radio messages to your team drivers and work together like wingmen in Wing Commander to ask the AI drivers to help you take out other cars!!! The tracks were amazing and have a feeling of speed and excitement that I haven't found in any game since. The announcer also gets me pumped!!! Man, I got so good at riding the angles and the edges of the corkscrews and loops to get the maximum G forces and speed out of the car to prep for the best landings and the best driving lines. Also perfected jumping over enemies. I loved how all the other cars had named drivers too. Eventually I got so pissed off at Kryten and Slave.

I just put the CD in and I'm going to copy it over to DOSBox right now!
 
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Arrgh!!! I can't get Whiplash to work with DOSBox, it keeps telling me no CD is present even though I mounted a CD drive in DOSBox virtually. Any ideas? Is there something I specially need to do to mount a CD drive instead of a harddrive?

I copied the CD contents of the physical CD to a folder and then mounted that folder as "G:\" and installed from there.
 
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Arrgh!!! I can't get Whiplash to work with DOSBox, it keeps telling me no CD is present even though I mounted a CD drive in DOSBox virtually. Any ideas? Is there something I specially need to do to mount a CD drive instead of a harddrive?

I copied the CD contents of the physical CD to a folder and then mounted that folder as "G:\" and installed from there.
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I'm going to try to locate my CD, but:

http://vogons.zetafleet.com/viewtopic.php?t=19346&sid=efda2554cc63e3bdc7c383a17e213d68
 
VCS2600 said:
What racing games, arcade & console, would you say were the great games prior to Gran Turismo? Pole Position and Bump N' Jump are pretty legendary. :cool:

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The Atari 2600 cart of Bump N' Jump had a red Firebird on the front. The sleeve art in those days was cool. :D

Bump N' Jump Bird

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Omg I remember that first game, I played that game to death!
 
Spare-Flair said:
Arrgh!!! I can't get Whiplash to work with DOSBox, it keeps telling me no CD is present even though I mounted a CD drive in DOSBox virtually. Any ideas? Is there something I specially need to do to mount a CD drive instead of a harddrive?

I copied the CD contents of the physical CD to a folder and then mounted that folder as "G:\" and installed from there.
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Ahahahaha! I just dug out my CD today, installed it through DosBox, and it worked the very first time. Did you ever get it working?

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^ I have an athlon xp setup with a little 40gig harddrive and ti4600 to play these old games set up, i cheat like that :p

i was playing whiplash earlier today, it is still awesome.

i may have to throw stunts on my little p3 500 server.
 
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Super Sprint. I played that game quite a bit in the arcade, and a whole lot more on NES.
 
Tekara said:
Oh! the best racing game ever was Stunts:

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stunts_(video_game)

It still has a following even to this day. . . it was that good.
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Thank you, Tekara!

I remember thinking Stunts was such an awesome game at the time. Of course I was 5 years old when my brother introduced the game to me on the PC.

I should look for a version to run in DosBox or something... instead of playing what? Grid? Trackmania? Burnout Paradise? Pshhhh :p
 
I remember playing Stunt Car Racer for hours at a time.
The best ever was Test Drive 1, then Test Drive 2, or "The Duel"
And Spy Hunter from? 1983?, '84?

God, I am showing my age!! :D

Anyone else remember getting a CGA monitor, and thinking, "Wow, what a great, wonderful improvement?" I remember "Monitor" shopping, and looking for VGA, or SVGA, Interlaced, or non-interlaced.
 
F-Zero for the Snes
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DAYTONAAAAAAA!
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Lotus Challenge for the Genisis
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Road Rash for the Genisis
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Ahhh, the memories. They will never make racing games as good as the ones on this thread again.
 
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And last but certainly not least:

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Just look at those cockpit views. That game was freaking amazing for its time, and still is today.
 
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