Nostalgia - what's that game?

bazzabear · 16 Jun 2018 at 07:21

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.

bazzabear · 16 Jun 2018 at 08:56

Nope, definitely not wipeout. The cars were wheeled vehicles, not skimmers.

bazzabear · 16 Jun 2018 at 09:04

It might have been from earlier than 1996 I guess and we just played an old game.

bazzabear · 16 Jun 2018 at 16:34

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 · 16 Jun 2018 at 16:37

I'm sure the name of the Japanese manufacturer was a portmanteau of some genuine Japanese manufacturer names, but I can't properly remember it.

bazzabear · 16 Jun 2018 at 19:26

Yep, you're spot on. Just got a pointer on Reddit and had come back here to give the right answer. It is indeed Fatal Racing.