Re: Worst Racing Games!!

Thank goodness for demos, they've kept me from buying some real stinkers like Andretti Racing (those Andretti's will put their name on anything for a buck...),OF1R and Spirit of Speed. The worst driving game I own, NFS III...yeech<g>. -- don [|]-(_)-[|] "Chris Bloom" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > Well seeing as there is a topic regarding favourite racing games > going at the moment, I was wondering what everybody regards as > the worst racing game they have had tried? > > I have built up quite a colection of racing games/sims over the > last few years. Okay, I have NFS 3 and Screamer 2. Are they > really that bad though? The graphics on the former are pretty > cool and it is fun to race an opponent on a single machine. It > is also alot more forgiving than GPL after a dozen beers!). No > for what they are and pretend to be those games are alright. > > 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:( > > Chris > > > * Sent from RemarQ http://www.remarq.com The Internet's Discussion Network * > The fastest and easiest way to search and participate in Usenet - Free! >

Well seeing as there is a topic regarding favourite racing games going at the moment, I was wondering what everybody regards as the worst racing game they have had tried? I have built up quite a colection of racing games/sims over the last few years. Okay, I have NFS 3 and Screamer 2. Are they really that bad though? The graphics on the former are pretty cool and it is fun to race an opponent on a single machine. It is also alot more forgiving than GPL after a dozen beers!). No for what they are and pretend to be those games are alright. 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:( Chris * Sent from RemarQ http://www.remarq.com The Internet's Discussion Network * The fastest and easiest way to search and participate in Usenet - Free!

Nascar Revolution tops my list along with Andretti Racing and CART Unprecision Racing ... Phillip

'Power F1' was awful!

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> Well seeing as there is a topic regarding favourite racing games > going at the moment, I was wondering what everybody regards as > the worst racing game they have had tried? > I have built up quite a colection of racing games/sims over the > last few years. Okay, I have NFS 3 and Screamer 2. Are they > really that bad though? The graphics on the former are pretty > cool and it is fun to race an opponent on a single machine. It > is also alot more forgiving than GPL after a dozen beers!). No > for what they are and pretend to be those games are alright. > 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:( > Chris > * Sent from RemarQ http://www.remarq.com The Internet's Discussion Network * > The fastest and easiest way to search and participate in Usenet - Free!

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thats my vote... pez

Anybody race "Talladega USA" on the C64? :-D Matt

Hot Rod Harry...! hands down.... and a real close 2nd would be some hunk of ***I can't remember the name of... maybe Back Road Racers...? you had to race down some squirrel trail dirt road to the track you were going to race on... <ummm, ok..> only software I think I've ever actually returned - exchanged it for Virtual Karts (Microprose) which wasn't anything spectacular, but I did at least get a kick out of it for a while.... if hadn't been for the excruciating load times, it might have actually stayed on the HD ~yeah, I know I probably went a little too far back and digging UNDER the sludge at the bottom, but when you said "worst racing games" I had flashbacks... On Mon, 28 Feb 2000 09:52:41 -0800, Chris Bloom

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>Well seeing as there is a topic regarding favourite racing games >going at the moment, I was wondering what everybody regards as >the worst racing game they have had tried? >I have built up quite a colection of racing games/sims over the >last few years. Okay, I have NFS 3 and Screamer 2. Are they >really that bad though? The graphics on the former are pretty >cool and it is fun to race an opponent on a single machine. It >is also alot more forgiving than GPL after a dozen beers!). No >for what they are and pretend to be those games are alright. >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:( >Chris >* Sent from RemarQ http://www.remarq.com The Internet's Discussion Network * >The fastest and easiest way to search and participate in Usenet - Free!

Well I've seen a few duds over the years. OF1R after all the hype turned out sour (but not horrible), ABC Indy Racing wasnt quite up to***(but was OK after alot of setup tuning), then theres the usual assortment of bargin bin specials that you can get maybe a weeks worth of fun out of then they become drink coasters. But the worst example of a so called "racing sim" HAS to be NasRev. That is the ONLY game I have ever returned. It was a total flop after all the media hype saying it would be a (then) N2/99 beater. It didnt even beat N1!!!!! It had good graphics but thats about it...and the graphics were choppy anyways so what good is eye candy if it cant run smoothly. Thats the biggest flp I've ever owned....but im sure there are worse. Chris "Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn't any. But this wrongs the jackass."--Mark Twain

For the biggest disapointment, I think it was called Manx Racers. I was hoping it was going to give me the Isle of Man, in the same way GPL delivered the gift of the Nurburgring, but it was just arcade crap. -- Don Scurlock Vancouver,B.C.

That one was indeed vile... I think I'll go with that one as well. Wasn't a fun arcade game either. Jan. ----

> I have built up quite a colection of racing games/sims over the > last few years. Okay, I have NFS 3 and Screamer 2. Are they > really that bad though? Screamer 2 is appreciated by many people here for the entertainment it gives, even if it doesn't take itself seriously. It's probably the best title to have fun drifting and powersliding into the corners. As for the worst racing games.. for me there is too many to list. Worst for me is a title that had potential, was hyped and failed it's hype. C:PR, SoS, any NASCAR title by EA, Prost GP, etc.. I don't consider F1RS and MGPRS2 as worst racing games, FYI :) -- -- 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.

My personal worst game has to be Official F1. Terrible gameplay, I hate the unlogical menus, graphics are crap. The only thing I loved was the helicopter flight over the track. I spent most of the time I 'played' the game in that chopper.

In article <[email hidden]>, [email hidden] (Chris Bloom) wrote: > I was wondering what everybody regards as > the worst racing game they have had tried? "Lotus: The ultimate challange" by Gremlin is pretty Dire! I got it on a free cd (about three years ago?) that came with 7 games, the above was one of the titles, absolute crap in every area, sound, graphics, handling. 8-) *Peter* - http://www.cix.co.uk/~peterpc/home.html

Chris Bloom <[email hidden]> wrote: : 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 crap 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

Chris Bloom <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > A piece of good advice seems to be avoid any game which is > endorsed by a driver/team in its title! 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 -- Ian Hill, Cambridge, UK Email: [email hidden] http://ianhill.tripod.com Please visit www.thehungersite.com today!

I got that one. It's a PC port of the Amiga game "Vroom". Not that bad, but you did well to get F1GP instead. Jan. ---- Ian Hill <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:89fvj5$1ju$[email hidden]... <snip>

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> 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 > -- > Ian Hill, Cambridge, UK Email: [email hidden] > http://ianhill.tripod.com > Please visit www.thehungersite.com today! >

Terrible, I agree. Very buggy as well. Jan. ---- Adam Moore <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:BoHu4.4149$[email hidden]... > There was a game released in Australia a few years ago called "Touring Car > Challenge". What a piece of crap. > > "Chris Bloom" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:[email hidden]... > > <Snip>

[email hidden] (Ian Hill) wrote in <89fvj5$1ju$[email hidden]>: >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? 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 nasty 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)

I guess non of you have had the mispleasure of Sega Touring Car Championship, where you could park your car on a banked corner and watch it slid to the inside of the track. Anything you can think of from handling to steering to graphics was bad. Come to think of it, they never sent my $20 rebate, even after several unanswered emails. I keep the cd near my table with a note on it that says "Never Again!!". Slot "Chris Bloom" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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> Well seeing as there is a topic regarding favourite racing games > going at the moment, I was wondering what everybody regards as > the worst racing game they have had tried? > > I have built up quite a colection of racing games/sims over the > last few years. Okay, I have NFS 3 and Screamer 2. Are they > really that bad though? The graphics on the former are pretty > cool and it is fun to race an opponent on a single machine. It > is also alot more forgiving than GPL after a dozen beers!). No > for what they are and pretend to be those games are alright. > > 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:( > > Chris > > > * Sent from RemarQ http://www.remarq.com The Internet's Discussion Network

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Don't forget EA's NASCAR series, they all basically suck... Chris Bloom wrote:

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> > Well seeing as there is a topic regarding favourite racing games > going at the moment, I was wondering what everybody regards as > the worst racing game they have had tried? > > I have built up quite a colection of racing games/sims over the > last few years. Okay, I have NFS 3 and Screamer 2. Are they > really that bad though? The graphics on the former are pretty > cool and it is fun to race an opponent on a single machine. It > is also alot more forgiving than GPL after a dozen beers!). No > for what they are and pretend to be those games are alright. > > 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:( > > Chris > > * Sent from RemarQ http://www.remarq.com The Internet's Discussion Network * > The fastest and easiest way to search and participate in Usenet - Free!

I think I've got you ALL beat -- I had a $19.99 item to return to CompUSA and it was beyond their 15-day return period, so I couldn't get a cash refund. They were gracious enough to let me exchange it for a similarly-priced item, so I picked up "Swamp Buggy Racing" from Wizard Works. Heck, I've seen Swamp Buggies on Speedvision, and I really wanted to help encourage Wizard Works to produce more great racing games like Dirt Track Racing, so I picked up Swamp Buggy Racing -- and BOY is it BUGGY! The graphics are REALLY blocky (but fast), the lighting is pretty neat, but the gameplay is, uh, limited, and there are some problems with non-Soundblaster (Creative Labs) sound cards, so this rinky-dink little game locks up my system EVERY time, and there's no real fix short of a new sound card (to which I say NO WAY, not for this game!). Beyond the lockups, though, Swamp Buggy Racing actually has LESS going for it than the Dirt Track Racing DEMO. Very disappointing, considering how promising it looks. I'd love to see more driving/racing stuff from Daylight Productions (the developer) AND from Wizard Works, but I hope they both put more work into it in the future. -- JB Benjamin wrote in message <[email hidden]>...

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>Hot Rod Harry...! hands down.... > >and a real close 2nd would be some hunk of crap I can't remember the >name of... maybe Back Road Racers...? you had to race down some >squirrel trail dirt road to the track you were going to race on... ><ummm, ok..> only software I think I've ever actually returned - >exchanged it for Virtual Karts (Microprose) which wasn't anything >spectacular, but I did at least get a kick out of it for a while.... >if hadn't been for the excruciating load times, it might have actually >stayed on the HD > >~yeah, I know I probably went a little too far back and digging UNDER >the sludge at the bottom, but when you said "worst racing games" I had >flashbacks... > >On Mon, 28 Feb 2000 09:52:41 -0800, Chris Bloom ><[email hidden]> wrote: > >>Well seeing as there is a topic regarding favourite racing games >>going at the moment, I was wondering what everybody regards as >>the worst racing game they have had tried? >> >>I have built up quite a colection of racing games/sims over the >>last few years. Okay, I have NFS 3 and Screamer 2. Are they >>really that bad though? The graphics on the former are pretty >>cool and it is fun to race an opponent on a single machine. It >>is also alot more forgiving than GPL after a dozen beers!). No >>for what they are and pretend to be those games are alright. >> >>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:( >> >>Chris >> >> >>* Sent from RemarQ http://www.remarq.com The Internet's Discussion Network

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In article <89f86l$4gi$[email hidden]>, "don hodgdon" <[email hidden]> wrote: >Thank goodness for demos, they've kept me from buying some realstinkers >like Andretti Racing (those Andretti's will put their name onanything for a >buck A piece of good advice seems to be avoid any game which is endorsed by a driver/team in its title! Chris * Sent from RemarQ http://www.remarq.com The Internet's Discussion Network * The fastest and easiest way to search and participate in Usenet - Free!

Terrible, I agree. Very buggy as well. Jan. ----

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> There was a game released in Australia a few years ago called "Touring Car > Challenge". What a piece of crap. > > <Snip>

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I think there were at least two of those. One very early on the Amiga, and another one sometime later. 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" <[email hidden]> wrote:

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>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 >-- >Ian Hill, Cambridge, UK Email: [email hidden] >http://ianhill.tripod.com >Please visit www.thehungersite.com today! >

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There was a game released in Australia a few years ago called "Touring Car Challenge". What a piece of crap. "Chris Bloom" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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> Well seeing as there is a topic regarding favourite racing games > going at the moment, I was wondering what everybody regards as > the worst racing game they have had tried? > > I have built up quite a colection of racing games/sims over the > last few years. Okay, I have NFS 3 and Screamer 2. Are they > really that bad though? The graphics on the former are pretty > cool and it is fun to race an opponent on a single machine. It > is also alot more forgiving than GPL after a dozen beers!). No > for what they are and pretend to be those games are alright. > > 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:( > > Chris > > > * Sent from RemarQ http://www.remarq.com The Internet's Discussion Network

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>In article <[email hidden]>, >[email hidden] (Chris Bloom) wrote: > >> I was wondering what everybody regards as >> the worst racing game they have had tried? > >"Lotus: The ultimate challange" by Gremlin is pretty Dire! > >I got it on a free cd (about three years ago?) that came with 7 games, >the above was one of the titles, absolute crap in every area, sound, >graphics, handling. >

That's cos it's incredibly ancient. Was that one of those hopeless Special Reserve 'free gift' CDs, by any chance? -- David. "After all, a mere thousand yards - such a harmless little knoll, really." (Raymond Mays on Shelsley Walsh)

>"Go Kart Challenge" >"Virtual Karts" >"Big Red Racing" >"Destruction Derby" Don't go knocking Big Red Racing. Still my favorite Arcade Racing _Game_. Also a great way to blow 10 minutes. -Tim

oh yes, i've bought them all: "Go Kart Challenge" "Virtual Karts" "Big Red Racing" "Destruction Derby" On Mon, 28 Feb 2000 09:52:41 -0800, Chris Bloom <[email hidden]> wrote:

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>Well seeing as there is a topic regarding favourite racing games >going at the moment, I was wondering what everybody regards as >the worst racing game they have had tried? > >I have built up quite a colection of racing games/sims over the >last few years. Okay, I have NFS 3 and Screamer 2. Are they >really that bad though? The graphics on the former are pretty >cool and it is fun to race an opponent on a single machine. It >is also alot more forgiving than GPL after a dozen beers!). No >for what they are and pretend to be those games are alright. > >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:( > >Chris > > >* Sent from RemarQ http://www.remarq.com The Internet's Discussion Network * >The fastest and easiest way to search and participate in Usenet - Free! >

<[email hidden]> wrote > "Big Red Racing" Please don't knock off the most under-estimated arcade game of the last century ;-) -- -- Fran�ois M�nard <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.

I had a title for the amstrad CPC464 called Nigel Mansell's Grand Prix. It wasn't bad for it's day. I got it around 1988. It had variable turbo boost and you had to balance boost against fuel consumption to go the full distance. You also had the option to pit for tyres or risk a blowout if you stayed out. All in all it was a good effort. shame about the cassette tapes taking about 10 minutes to load each track <G> MS "Jo Helsen" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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> I think there were at least two of those. One very early on the Amiga, > and another one sometime later. > > 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" > <[email hidden]> wrote: > > >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 > >-- > >Ian Hill, Cambridge, UK Email: [email hidden] > >http://ianhill.tripod.com > >Please visit www.thehungersite.com today! > > > > > ======================================== > Jo Helsen EDP Operations BF Belgium > [email hidden] > ========================================

HEY!! I had a buddy come over to my house one night and we spent about 3 HOURS racing DD! I thought it was such a blast! Certainly no sim, but a helluva lotta FUN. 'course you're entitled to your opinion - even if it's wrong! lol j/k Gunner

Power F1, so bad I swore never to buy another Eidos game again (that didn't last)

>oh yes, i've bought them all: > >"Destruction Derby" HEY!! I had a buddy come over to my house one night and we spent about 3 HOURS racing DD! I thought it was such a blast! Certainly no sim, but a helluva lotta FUN. 'course you're entitled to your opinion - even if it's wrong! lol j/k Gunner

Agreed on Power F1. I got it after GP2 and what a piece of crap! It looked nice when it ran, but I could never get control of the car. gave up after a couple of hours on that one. BTW, My daughter and I still get out Big red racing once in a while to play on the home LAN. It's fun to race the trucks thru the gravel pits. easy, but fun. "Harry_Jones" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > Power F1, so bad I swore never to buy another Eidos game again (that > didn't last)

I agree, had a lot of fun with Destruction Derby. The worst racing game ever must be*** something's V8 challenge, released a couple of months ago. What a piece of ***that was. I installed it, played it literally for less than a minute and deleted it again. What a terrible game. That latest f1 sim from psychnosis stinks too. I hope so much that f1 2000 and GP3 won't disappoint us, it's time for a decent f1 sim! And Big Red Racing... now that brings back some good memories. Had a lot of fun with that game, even now it's still fun too play. Allthough it becomes really hard, I never was able to finish the championship. Did anyone succeed in this? What happened after you won the championship? A couple of days ago I installed Viper Racing again. This is also one of those golden oldies that keeps interesting. The driving model is really superb, especially after you upgraded the car a little bit. But there are some problems with Viper Racing: tracks are not really great, the cars look out of place when viewed from the outside, and the AI is really really really bad. All in all a sim with a superb racing model, but the rest of the game is not so good. A Viper Racing 2 with some more realistic tracks, better graphics and improved AI would be a real winner... Andre On Wed, 1 Mar 2000 17:38:39 -0800, "Don Hancock (\"Gunner\")"

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>>oh yes, i've bought them all: >>"Destruction Derby" > HEY!! I had a buddy come over to my house one night and we spent about 3 >HOURS racing DD! I thought it was such a blast! Certainly no sim, but a >helluva lotta FUN. >'course you're entitled to your opinion - even if it's wrong! lol j/k >Gunner

what a funny game!! You had to pit every lap because you would run out of fuel if you tried to do two laps!!

Have to agree with you there. There is a 12 second difference between 1st and 15th in qualyfying as well. Crappy game. Got it for chrissy (cos i asked for it stupidly enough) played it for three tracks then onto the shelf. It reinvented the love i have for GP2 so it aint to bad in that respect

This is interesting - reminiscing games you hoped were buried safely six feet below. I haven't bought that many but two spring in mind. First: Cart Precision Racing - it was impossible to get control of the car. If that had been possible the game would have been fairly ok. Second: Nascar Revolution - never before have I bought such crap. OJ Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.

> This is interesting - reminiscing games you hoped were buried safely > six feet below. > I haven't bought that many but two spring in mind. > First: Cart Precision Racing - it was impossible to get control of the > car. If that had been possible the game would have been fairly ok. Are you using a steering wheel or joystick? I couldn't control the game with a joystick, but when I got a Nascar Pro it wasn't hard at all. Some of the street courses are a little tricky until you learn them, but it shouldn't take long to be able to do fast laps without crashing. Solo, that is. The AI will take you out every time... <remove 7of9 for e-mail replies> -- Bill Jones e-mail addresses: (860) 701-1201 WWW: http://pages.cthome.net/billj

I bought that game for my brothers ST in about '89, yes it was crap! Chris * Sent from RemarQ http://www.remarq.com The Internet's Discussion Network * The fastest and easiest way to search and participate in Usenet - Free!

yup, there's no end of us out there with permanent psychological damage from staring at wierd psychadelic (lots of psy's here) patterns on TV screens while tapes loaded. and that noise....aaargh. ds :))

Hey, I had that on my Spectrum. It was one of those game where changing gears for corners was optional. :) <snip> -- Peter Ives - (AKA Ivington) No person's opinions can be said to be more correct than another's, because each is the sole judge of his or her own experience.

Andretti Racing for sure. Got it bundled with some hardware I bought, unfortunately it didn't make it through to the end of the day before being pc systematically removed. 8-( Gee, in fact it stunk so bad that I got a visit from the environmental health inspectors after they received complaints from my neighbours. -- Peter Ives - (AKA Ivington) No person's opinions can be said to be more correct than another's, because each is the sole judge of his or her own experience.

On 28 Feb 2000 21:11:00 GMT, [email hidden] (Schlomo4) wrote: >Well I've seen a few duds over the years. OF1R after all the hype turned out >sour (but not horrible), In one row with SOS Jens --------------------------------------------- [email hidden] Remove "NOSPAM" before using my email-address Visit my webpage at http://members.xoom.com/JensSchu/ for some serious stuff concerning: Radio controlled airplanes Racing simulation, esp. GPL Classic cars, esp. Morris Minor

I have that as well, it's my worst ever buy. I have never finished a lap of Bathurst yet before removing from the HD. Holden racing did not get back to me either. Both their race cars were on the box.

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> There was a game released in Australia a few years ago called "Touring Car > Challenge". What a piece of crap. > > Well seeing as there is a topic regarding favourite racing games > > going at the moment, I was wondering what everybody regards as > > the worst racing game they have had tried? > > I have built up quite a colection of racing games/sims over the > > last few years. Okay, I have NFS 3 and Screamer 2. Are they > > really that bad though? The graphics on the former are pretty > > cool and it is fun to race an opponent on a single machine. It > > is also alot more forgiving than GPL after a dozen beers!). No > > for what they are and pretend to be those games are alright. > > 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:( > > Chris > > * Sent from RemarQ http://www.remarq.com The Internet's Discussion

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Aren't the people who did Viper racing meant to be doing a NASCAR sim for Hasbro? There was a big noise made about it in RAS about a month ago but since then all has been quiet. Havn't heard much about WSC lately either? Two promising possibilities, lets hope they don't fade away before we get to see them. Chris * Sent from RemarQ http://www.remarq.com The Internet's Discussion Network * The fastest and easiest way to search and participate in Usenet - Free!

I went out and bought Monster Truck Madness and Streets of SimCity on the same day. These were the first driving type games I ever bought. They were so horrible, I never looked at another driving game or sim for a very long time. Michael Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.