rec.autos.simulators

: The worst racing game I have bought was Test Drive 4x4!  Oh this
: looks good I thought!  Trying to manouvre a Landy through mud
: and over rocks (seeing as I have experiance of 4x4 off-road
: driving), quite a challenge I thought!  Well was i dissapointed
: or what?  The real sad thing is that I bought it the same day as
: GPL, really spoilt the occasion:(

Well, I'm going to reach wayyyy back to 1992.  After two years of wringing
out hot laps on the original Accolade Grand Prix (in hindsight a ***
game as well, but the sim world was in its infancy) I gladly plunked down
my hard-earned cash for their 1992 version.  It was dismal.  Even with
nothing to compar it to it was bad.  Then I bought Crammond's little gem
about three months later, and the Accolade box realllly started to look
sad.  Since then I have been a more selective shopper (and demos have
helped), so I have not been disappointed by a purchase since then.

Stephen

That reminds me of when I was going to buy an F1 game with Nigel
Mansell's name in the title, but changed my mind and went for F1GP
instead :-) I never found out what the Mansell game was like, and
I don't recall ever seeing it mentioned here - can anyone tell me
what they thought of it?

regards
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Jan.
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Jan.
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I used to have "Nigel Mansell's World Championship" for the Gameboy. It
wasn't all that bad, in fact, except for some backmarkers that made
Phillippe Alliot look co-operative, a really *** tune, and a completely
ridiculous blurb on the box. IIRC it went something like this:

Hold on to your engines and pour on the coal as you hit the track with
<yellow italics> the greatest name in World Championship racing, Nigel
Mansell. </yellow italics> You're in control. You've got the machine. But
can you handle it? Try rough weather, a mean track and competition that
won't quit.
[and so on and so forth]

--
David.
"After all, a mere thousand yards - such a harmless little knoll,
really." (Raymond Mays on Shelsley Walsh)

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**************************** Michael E. Carver *************************
     Upside out, or inside down...False alarm the only game in town.

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The first one was no more than a spiced up Pole Position (some 8 years
later, imagine!  :-)  )

You Made The Right Choice  <SuperGrin>

JoH
On Tue, 29 Feb 2000 08:21:57 -0000, "Ian Hill"

I got it on a free cd (about three years ago?) that came with 7 games,
the above was one of the titles, absolute ***in every area, sound,
graphics, handling.

8-)

*Peter* -  http://www.racesimcentral.net/~peterpc/home.html

"Go Kart Challenge"
"Virtual Karts"
"Big Red Racing"
"Destruction Derby"

On Mon, 28 Feb 2000 09:52:41 -0800, Chris Bloom

--
David.
"After all, a mere thousand yards - such a harmless little knoll, really."
(Raymond Mays on Shelsley Walsh)

        Don't go knocking Big Red Racing.  Still my favorite Arcade Racing
_Game_.  Also a great way to blow 10 minutes.

                                        -Tim

Please don't knock off the most under-estimated arcade game of the last
century ;-)

--
-- Fran?ois Mnard <ymenard>
-- May the Downforce be with you...
-- http://www.WeRace.net
-- People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realise
how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world.

All in all it was a good effort. shame about the cassette tapes taking about
10 minutes to load each track <G>

MS