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Author: honestgamer
Posted: November 07, 2010 (07:51 PM)
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The Izzy's pizza in Bend, OR used to have this game. I remember playing it when I was a kid. I have it on retro compilations now, and it's fun even with a controller. More people should definitely look into this one, though I still recommend Super Off-Road on consoles. Good review, by the way!


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Author: bloomer
Posted: November 08, 2010 (06:29 PM)
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I played this in the arcade on a few occasions (probably years or months apart). This review makes me feel I should have put in a few more 20 centses at one sitting. Because below unskilled there is another category I didn't leave, and it is 'incompetent' :)

But I guess I had no pocket money, and dad would let me play one game per occasion. Usually before a movie in town, or before we bought a hamburger while on holiday. So when I played this game and crashed really fast, I was unlikely to spend my one game money on it next time.


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Author: fleinn
Posted: November 09, 2010 (05:09 PM)
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..lol. I just remembered - the first game I played must have been RC Pro AM on the NES. hm.

..But Offroad Racer on the Amiga is still a solid title, imo. Had massively better animation, gameplay and resolution compared to the nes version. Strange.. that I haven't heard of any solid remakes of that one..

Btw, great sentence:
"Most players will quickly realize the true nature of the deceptive diagonal path and avoid it."

:)

There's a "1080 degrees spin" in there, unless that was deliberate. Like the intro to drift and braking. The entire gradual throttle and break mechanism with an on/off button really was extremely good. Gremlin rescued that with Supercars - but Super Sprint did it best.


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Author: zigfried
Posted: November 09, 2010 (05:37 PM)
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The 1080 degrees is intentional, because that lets people keep going in a straight line =D It does happen sometimes.

Thanks for the comments all! After playing it again (the last time was years ago), I was pleased by how well it has held up -- and how I was able to notice new things about it.

//Zig


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Author: aschultz
Posted: November 12, 2010 (11:16 AM)
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I really want to try this game now. Even in Pole Position, which seems inferior and less difficult, people managed to make it look so easy I got frustrated when I couldn't.

Once I learned to drive in real life, driving games got easier--so I'm thinking I missed out on a big sub genre I want to look into now. But I don't want just some schleppy driving game, and I want to try that shortcut.

And I'll cook myself a Tombstone pizza and pretend I'm playing it in a pizza parlor when I'm using MAME. You know, I'd forgotten about video games in pizza parlors.


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