SBK Superbike Racing - Info Needed

Does anyone know about this upcoming sim? I read about it in a UK PC Game magazine! One advantage over Castrol Honda Superbike sim is that it has REAL tracks and not fictional tracks ! -- Tim A. Deatherage "admitted sim ***"

This game rocks. I saw it at E3 and it was stunning - easily the prettiest racing game at the show. I know, I know, NFS3 looks cool, but the course get old real fast. Superbike Racing had the most incredibly detailed track I have seen in any racing game - sim or otherwise. And it was a blast to play. They were using joysticks so it took a little getting used to but after a while I got to like it - leaning the bike by "leaning" the stick actually felt quite natural. It felt MUCH more realistic than MR2. I can't understand why there hasn't been more information about this - it was being shown in ***'s booth so maybe that has something to do with it :^) Anyway, I can't wait for this one to hit the shelves. Todd

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>Does anyone know about this upcoming sim? >I read about it in a UK PC Game magazine! >One advantage over Castrol Honda Superbike sim is that it has REAL tracks >and >not fictional tracks ! >-- >Tim A. Deatherage >"admitted sim ***"

There's some info/screenshots on *** Interactive's home page. Sorry but I can't remember the url. Good looking sim, the bikes look spot on. Nick

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> Does anyone know about this upcoming sim? > I read about it in a UK PC Game magazine! > One advantage over Castrol Honda Superbike sim is that it has REAL tracks > and > not fictional tracks ! > -- > Tim A. Deatherage > "admitted sim ***"

Superbike Racing site: [link lost in import] Castrol Honda Superbike was pretty lame! This one looks to be the real deal. Looks like *** wants to compete with Papyrus. No other company has tried and succeded, yet these boys have 2 cool sims coming! Where do I sign up for beta testing??? :) Also check out ***'s Professional Sports Car Racing sim, this one looks great too. Racing at a 12hr event at Sebring will be incredable with night/weather effects!!! I even liked this one more then Superbikes, played it for 4hrs at E3. LAN racing was awesome! Hey if the *** representative who I beat for those 4hrs is reading this, CAN I BE A BETA TESTER 4 Professional Sports Car Racing??? :) Both titles I hear are suppose to be released sometime around xmas. I CANT WAIT! [link lost in import] Arthur s t e a l t h r a c i n g http://www.***sys.com/stealthracing.html

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>There's some info/screenshots on *** Interactive's home page. Sorry >but I can't remember the url. Good looking sim, the bikes look spot on. >Nick >> Does anyone know about this upcoming sim? >> I read about it in a UK PC Game magazine! >> One advantage over Castrol Honda Superbike sim is that it has REAL tracks >> and >> not fictional tracks ! >> -- >> Tim A. Deatherage >> "admitted sim ***"

On Fri, 7 Aug 1998 04:10:38 -0400, "Arthur Axelrad"

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>Superbike Racing site: >[link lost in import] >Castrol Honda Superbike was pretty lame! This one looks to be the real deal. >Looks like *** wants to compete with Papyrus. No other company has tried >and succeded, yet these boys have 2 cool sims coming! Where do I sign up for >beta testing??? :)

<snip> >Arthur >s t e a l t h >r a c i n g >http://www.***sys.com/stealthracing.html Looked real good till I got to the bit in the press release where they said "Superbikes is also set to feature licensed riders from the championship, including Carl Fogarty and Michael Doohan.". If they did the research they said they did they shouldn't have made such a simple mistake. (For those that don't know Mick Doohan is a multiple 500cc GP world champion and is in the running to win this years 500 championship. He has never raced in the superbike world championship). Another case of the publicity people not letting the facts get in the way of making a product sound good. Jeff

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> Looked real good till I got to the bit in the press release where they > said "Superbikes is also set to feature licensed riders from the > championship, including Carl Fogarty and Michael Doohan.". If they > did the research they said they did they shouldn't have made such a > simple mistake. (For those that don't know Mick Doohan is a multiple > 500cc GP world champion and is in the running to win this years 500 > championship. He has never raced in the superbike world championship). > Another case of the publicity people not letting the facts get in the > way of making a product sound good.

LOL. Oh well, Mick will be pleased to hear this. More money in the bank for him if he knows :))

Does _anybody_ not know about Mick Doohan? :-)

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>Looked real good till I got to the bit in the press release where they >said "Superbikes is also set to feature licensed riders from the >championship, including Carl Fogarty and Michael Doohan.". If they >did the research they said they did they shouldn't have made such a >simple mistake. (For those that don't know Mick Doohan is a multiple >500cc GP world champion and is in the running to win this years 500 >championship. He has never raced in the superbike world championship).

Hi, Jeff Just thought I would let know that your statement about Mick Doohan is not entirely correct. Back in 1988, I taped a number of the first World Superbike Championship races. I still have those tapes. One of them was in Sugo, Japan, and there were a number of racers from the Australian and Asian Championships, as well as a multitude of Japanese riders. Amongst them was one Michael Doohan, a Yamaha rider from the australian series, who won the second heat. That`s how I know it`s the same one: I saw him on the podium. I do think that he never did a full SBK Championship, so you`d be right in that perspective, but he did do that one race, at least. Daniel Fris

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>Hi, Jeff >Just thought I would let know that your statement about Mick Doohan is not >entirely correct. Back in 1988, I taped a number of the first World >Superbike Championship races. I still have those tapes. One of them was in >Sugo, Japan, and there were a number of racers from the Australian and >Asian Championships, as well as a multitude of Japanese riders. Amongst them >was one Michael Doohan, a Yamaha rider from the australian series, who won >the second heat. That`s how I know it`s the same one: I saw him on the >podium. >I do think that he never did a full SBK Championship, so you`d be right in >that perspective, but he did do that one race, at least. >Daniel Fris

I guess I'll stand corrected on that. Thanks for the info. Jeff