Nostalgia - what's that game?

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I can't remember that much, so it might be a challenge.

Racing game from around 1996-97. Futuristic setting.
You had a pick a team, which set which car you got. The teams were country based I think, and the cars had made up manufacturer names.
The tracks were had things like loops and spirals.

It's a bit thin, but anyone got any ideas?

I used to play it multiplayer at Uni using a 20 foot long serial cable we rigged up between two bedrooms.
 
I should really know this too. I assume it was a DOS game, given that Windows was absolute cack for gaming back then.
 
Yep, was a DOS game.

Not Megarace - there was no combat element. Graphics were considerably better too I think (although you're never sure, looking back, are you?).

Stunt Driver was that very polygonal one, mostly remembered on the Amiga, right? The game I'm thinking of was much later - but I seem to remember it was considered a spiritual successor to Stunt Driver.


Pod doesn't fit either. I think the track was generally suspended in the air. I remember that the corkscrew bits you had to stay at the very outside edge of the track so you didn't just fall off when it was upside down. And I'm sure the manufacturers you chose between to choose your car were connected with different existing countries, so it was an Earth setting.

Not Re-volt. It was definitely real cars, not RCs. That's too late too. I played it at Uni, and left Uni in June 1997 I think.
 
bazzabear said:
Stunt Driver was that very polygonal one, mostly remembered on the Amiga, right? The game I'm thinking of was much later - but I seem to remember it was considered a spiritual successor to Stunt Driver
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That was Hard Drivin', which was eventually followed up by a sequel Hard Drivin' 2 and then Race Drivin'. It was one of the first 16bit titles to feature filled polygon (not shaded) wire frame visuals that made for a very engaging if sickly game at the time. Stunt Driver was a similar sort of game release around the same time.

Around the same time Hard Drivin' came out, Microstyle with Geoff Crammond released Stunt Car Racer, which imo eclipsed the lot with its track editor.
 
I know exactly the game you mean... let me find the name because I used to play it all the time. You could play split screen, incredible game
 
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