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Simulation Racing Leagues => Racing general => Topic started by: Wally on January 15, 2019, 10:53:57 PM
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Does anybody remember this game? 8)
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Must have been before my time ;D
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Sorry to burst your bubble, but that's not a sim from where I sit. :)
How does it go, though? This game wasn't available in Europe .
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You would flick a marble up the side with a spring, like a pinball machine, and the first player to get all their cars to the bottom won.
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Test drive, commodore 64...with a joystick lol(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190116/2e612a7eeb5c619e4164af9be319b6e2.jpg)
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You would flick a marble up the side with a spring, like a pinball machine, and the first player to get all their cars to the bottom won.
cool :)
Yeah my first was Indianapolis500 on Amiga that got me hooked I think. Decent driving model and awesome damage!
I think it had pit stops, even. It was very comprehensive, very lifelike.
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b7/Indy_004.png)
I mean I've played 'racing' games, including a very simple one on a programmable calculator of all things, but I do not class those as simulators.
I find even classing the C64 TD in that category, although it's getting there. I believe there was some ZX Spectrum game similarly simplistic but first person racing - still, it did not stick with me.
Edit: oh yeah, this one, the "Checkquered Flag" : http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0000912
(http://www.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/screens/in-game/c/ChequeredFlag.gif)
Having said all that, the real hook was LFS - online racing is so much more fun than lapping alone!
Funny that LFS still had a better interface & community features then, than AC now. Huh.
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Pfffft. Screens ::)
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Pfffft. Screens ::)
Oh yeah, I remember sitting in a carboard box, "racing" with my friends, does that count? :D
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This was as close as I got, 5th birthday present, complete with Can-Am cars. ;D
(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/1f/24/94/1f2494a2eb0ea59b5d9d7e9dbd02578c.jpg)
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You would flick a marble up the side with a spring, like a pinball machine, and the first player to get all their cars to the bottom won.
cool :)
Yeah my first was Indianapolis500 on Amiga that got me hooked I think. Decent driving model and awesome damage!
I think it had pit stops, even. It was very comprehensive, very lifelike.
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b7/Indy_004.png)
I mean I've played 'racing' games, including a very simple one on a programmable calculator of all things, but I do not class those as simulators.
I find even classing the C64 TD in that category, although it's getting there. I believe there was some ZX Spectrum game similarly simplistic but first person racing - still, it did not stick with me.
Edit: oh yeah, this one, the "Checkquered Flag" : http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0000912
(http://www.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/screens/in-game/c/ChequeredFlag.gif)
Having said all that, the real hook was LFS - online racing is so much more fun than lapping alone!
Funny that LFS still had a better interface & community features then, than AC now. Huh.
Still does! Also things like adjustable mirrors, split times as you pass timing point...
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Funny that LFS still had a better interface & community features then, than AC now. Huh.
In my mind AC has never past the Beta stage. It's woeful in so many areas.
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This was as close as I got, 5th birthday present, complete with Can-Am cars. ;D
(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/1f/24/94/1f2494a2eb0ea59b5d9d7e9dbd02578c.jpg)
Ha yes, awesome. I'd forgotten I had something very similar.
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Great to see a gift to a child can start a lifelong passion and hobby, can it still happen today?
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My first setup change ever was to bend the little contacts underneath the Scalextric car up a bit to reduce friction against the track.
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Mine was to replace the magnets in the AFX cars, to give stronger "Magna-Traction". ;D
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Funny that LFS still had a better interface & community features then, than AC now. Huh.
In my mind AC has never past the Beta stage. It's woeful in so many areas.
I think you've mentioned it before but What's your preferred sim and why? I've got some steam credit to burn, I have ams and rf2 in my wish list and also heard race room is ok, if you've tried these which is worth the dollars?
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Soz for the potato quality.
(http://xgn.com.au/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=2473.0;attach=1648)
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2% of my collection. 8)
(http://xgn.com.au/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=2473.0;attach=1650)
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So when do we come to your place for a slot car party?
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My first setup change ever was to bend the little contacts underneath the Scalextric car up a bit to reduce friction against the track.
Similar here, but I've also put slightly bigger wheels on to gain a bit more top end :D
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Replaced my 6v battery power for a 20v transformer. wwwwweeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
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My first setup change ever was to bend the little contacts underneath the Scalextric car up a bit to reduce friction against the track.
My brother had a Scaletrix (sp?) slot car set. I remember setting up the burm on one corner so I could launch cars off it into the Christmas tree.
But, my setup trick as a 5 year old was to spray CRC on the track on a corner so I could practice power sliding around it.
Good times.
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All these stories as little kids are quite funny, really.