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Most racing games were horrible on the 8-bit computers. Even on the Amiga there were few actually good racing games. Lotus Esprit Challenge and Stunt Car Racer
by Flow 7y ago
Most racing games were horrible on the 8-bit computers.
Even on the Amiga there were few actually good racing games. Lotus Esprit Challenge and Stunt Car Racer(God bless) was among the good ones.
- philpem 7y agoE-Type on the Acorn Archimedes was pretty good. Unashamedly an OutRun clone, but with a Jaguar E-Type instead of a Ferrari. One of the most amusing parts of the game was the animation you got when you drove into something. The driver and passenger would 'jump' out of the car in a fairly amusing manner! (at least to primary-school age me)
- axilmar 7y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E82pl8rEOoY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E82pl8rEOoY Not really on par with Outrun though.
- philpem 7y agoI'll give you that. But to a kid playing it on lunch breaks, on the computers we used to do our school work? :) It's also a hell of a lot easier to play with a Voltmace Delta mouseport joystick (and you can say the same for ArcElite!). It may have had keyboard keys, but I'd need to look that up.
- radiowave 7y agoOf course, you're describing a 32 bit ARM system here. No surprise it outclasses it's 8 bit predecessors.
- Razengan 7y agoHey, Buggy Boy on the Commodore 64 was amazing.
- renaudg 7y agoChase HQ, Wec Le Mans and the Crazy Cars series were excellent on the Amstrad CPC. There’s an upcoming homebrew title named Vespertino which looks like what the Outrun conversion should have been.
- buckminster 7y agoThat's true, but Revs was awesome. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revs_(video_game) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revs_(video_game)