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E-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 th
by philpem 7y ago
E-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.