Anybody remember old school racing?

Sweeper · Post by **Sweeper** » 06 Dec 2004, 13:23

In the days of NFSU2 has anybody at all looked back at the past?
I have recently been playing some old racing games from the DOS era.
And I was wondering if anybody had played a game like Death Rally?

Hehehe, had some fancy cars, pretty good game for a top down racer, all arcade but that was the fun of the game, in NFSU 1 I missed those 2 miniguns to deal with Chad

master m · Post by **master m** » 06 Dec 2004, 15:01

back in the days I played Deat Rally alot.

And the following games:
Grand Prix1, Stunts, Test Drive 1 &2, Offroad Racing

Zodiac · Post by **Zodiac** » 07 Dec 2004, 02:11

I dont think i ever played death rally but i remember playing all the early nfs games.. ive still got them here somewhere and all the cars i had downloaded for hot pursuit and high stakes lol

C8H10N4HO2O2 · Post by **C8H10N4HO2O2** » 07 Dec 2004, 18:30

I miss Carmageddon, 3 ways to win, Win the race, Destroy all your opponents, or mow down all the pedistrians (including sheep, cows, mooses, penguins, etc.)

Sweeper · Post by **Sweeper** » 08 Dec 2004, 11:21

Death Rally was probably the first racing game I tried and that I mastered.
I just loved the big guns and the abillity to use something else when you didn't have power or cornering skills.

(Back then I was 100% grip and didn't have a clue about drift)

Also I remember the late hours at school with Death Rally, sweet memories.

Neon Viper · Post by **Neon Viper** » 08 Dec 2004, 11:36

I miss carmeggedon too. And the orgiginal NFS...classic.

MoWGLi · Post by **MoWGLi** » 10 Dec 2004, 03:31

Street Rod is where it is at.

DaTooL · Post by **DaTooL** » 05 Jan 2005, 13:00

This is old school racing

Test Drive 1 = C64

Crazy Cars 1 + 2 = Atari ST

Stunt Car Racer = Atari ST

Nitro = Atari ST

Hard Drivin' = Amiga

Pitstop = C64

Enduro Racer = C64

Network Q RAC Rally - The one with the Ford Cosworth - Not the Celica = Amiga

Unbelievable classics in my view, non of that fancy 3d graphics, pixals and sprites forever.

Well untill Need for Speed Underground 3 comes out

boganbusman · Post by **boganbusman** » 05 Jan 2005, 14:21

What makes you think that they will make U3?

Anyway, the only old-school game I can remember playing is Mariokart on the SNES.

^Sparco^ · Post by **^Sparco^** » 05 Jan 2005, 21:55

Old school?

well.. The fist game I remember was called TD Cars (not sure)
Really old... may be 1988? I was born in August 1984

I remember the Corvette was there, and I always painted it in grey. It is funny how I still like soft colored cars.
And there was a Ferrari Testarossa. Can't remember more cars
But I remember there was a track builder... Really! You could make your own tracks, add obstacles in the road, jumps, tunnels etc.

Logically I havent got any screenshot

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'LAC' (Lamborghini American Challenge) 1993. By Titus

This makes me remember the game "Titus the fox" (offtopic...)

You were a driver who was sell a Lamborghini Diablo. Then you did races all over the USA making bets. It was cool.
Screen:

There was NOS in this game... yes yes NOS in the Lamborghini! But it was called 'Turbo'
And there was a mechanic upgrade called "Nitrous oxyde acceleration system"

The game size is only 620kb

I wonder which the size of 'TD cars' was
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And I remember the Lotus game. There were 3cars... I remember the Lotus Esprit. You could select the music in your Alpine radio LCD before a race

DodoBobo · Post by **DodoBobo** » 06 Jan 2005, 16:00

There was a game called Big Red Racing, it was pretty damn cool. I dont remember all the things bout it, but it was some insane offroad racing

DaTooL · Post by **DaTooL** » 06 Jan 2005, 18:18

Any1 remembers Screamers ? that was actually good, and fast for the time aswell

Also, ive been asked to remind everyone (well forced at spoon point) a game called Action Biker, the game were you had to ride around upgrading your bike, with the drag strip and the rollercoaster.

Just been playing that again, and its still as brick as it was then :/

Stereo · Post by **Stereo** » 06 Jan 2005, 19:48

NFS High Stakes... *sigh* I love that game. I got about 20 cars added to it. I always played split-screen with my friend. I dont play it anymore though. I lost the CD...

PSZeTa · Post by **PSZeTa** » 06 Jan 2005, 22:36

@ ^Sparco^

God, I remember ''LAC''. I absolutely loved it. I was only a few years old back then, but it didn't hold me back.

Though I didn't really understand English.. And the game suddenly stopped working because there was a strange burn spot on the disc.-_-

DaTooL · Post by **DaTooL** » 07 Jan 2005, 10:37

We can all get misty eyed when we look back. Racing games during the late 80's early 90's all had a unique edge which made them stand out to the others.

Even the earlier 80's games like pole position and night driver. Hats off to the programmers who wanted to get there games noticed and not follow the set trends. Ones that made Death Rally, Super Sprint, Micro Machines - even all the F1 games all had there differances in gameplay and presentation.

gonna dig out my atari ST and play Cisco Heat, or Power Drift. Just to play summit differant for the time being.

S2000_Skyline12 · Post by **S2000_Skyline12** » 15 Jan 2005, 20:29

wow to think about it i liked that game to

donaldgladden · Post by **donaldgladden** » 18 Jan 2005, 03:53

THE BEST OLD SCHOOL RACING GAME is drumroll plz. do do do do do do

The First Need For Speed on sega saturn.if it wasnt for that game i wouldnt know the meaning of Exoctic Euros.Besides it was the only time and first time i went 210 in a Euro sports car.Hint Hint Lamboghini Diablo.it was a rush with one of the first racing wheels made by Mad Catz.what a rush.BTW they even had the supra and RX-7 too!!!!