CART deal Midway & Papyrus

I read Midway got the cart license. Does this mean that PAPYRUS will not be making a cart sim ? I thought they had the Cart license. -- Remco Denessen

i certainly don't hope so, i also did read this news it also said that midway was gonna use the lisence for their line of arcade style racers. Man i'm waiting for so long for a good cart sim. I played indycar II many many hours but i can't wait until someone brings out an up to date version with good physics and accelerated 3d graphics. I love the circuits in the cart serie esp. the street circuits. Andre Hanegraaf Amsterdam >I read Midway got the cart license. >Does this mean that PAPYRUS will not be making a cart sim ? >I thought they had the Cart license. >-- >Remco Denessen

I agree. I love Long Beach. Racer X Veteran Sim Racer Victory Lane- http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/Speedway/1423/

If you want to get directly to it, *any* computer simulation of real world racing is "fantasy-style", regardless of how well--or poorly-it is modeled. They may very well make an arcade game, but I don't think you can necessarily read the fact into the term "fantasy-style". Jerry Morelock > > Where did it say 'arcade'? Did I miss something? > > All I saw was 'exclusive rights'. > Ok to be more precise they : "have the exclusive publishing rights to > produce a series of fantasy-style CART racing games for all major video game

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> platforms as well as for the PC and coin-op systems." > It's a license for "fantasy-style" CART racing game they wrote. > Fantasy-style is not something Papyrus would do, no ? ;) > -- > -- Fran?ois Mnard <ymenard> > -- May the Downforce be with you... > "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."

The Midway Press Release really shows that the license is for an arcade-style racing game, not a simulation. IIRC Papyrus still has a CART license for the next two years. -- -- Fran?ois Mnard <ymenard> -- May the Downforce be with you... "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."

Ok to be more precise they : "have the exclusive publishing rights to produce a series of fantasy-style CART racing games for all major video game platforms as well as for the PC and coin-op systems." It's a license for "fantasy-style" CART racing game they wrote. Fantasy-style is not something Papyrus would do, no ? ;) -- -- Fran?ois Mnard <ymenard> -- May the Downforce be with you... "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."

> If you want to get directly to it, *any* computer simulation of real world > racing is "fantasy-style", regardless of how well--or poorly-it is modeled. > They may very well make an arcade game, but I don't think you can > necessarily read the fact into the term "fantasy-style". Heh, unfortunately, it gets worse: http://www.gamefan.com/hotinfo.asp?s=3302&rs=0 Quoting Mike Ribero executive vice president of Midway: "But we'll go beyond that, bending the laws of physics, defying the laws of gravity and adding dream race venues that should provide some incredibly entertaining gameplay." I hope that we get SOME kind of gpl engine/downforce game... -- Gregg Lukomski http://www.matchmove.com

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> > If you want to get directly to it, *any* computer simulation of real world > > racing is "fantasy-style", regardless of how well--or poorly-it is modeled. > > They may very well make an arcade game, but I don't think you can > > necessarily read the fact into the term "fantasy-style". > Heh, unfortunately, it gets worse: > http://www.gamefan.com/hotinfo.asp?s=3302&rs=0 > Quoting Mike Ribero executive vice president of Midway: > "But we'll go beyond that, bending the laws of physics, defying the > laws of gravity and adding dream race venues that should provide > some incredibly entertaining gameplay." > I hope that we get SOME kind of gpl engine/downforce game...

I just don't see why they would need a CART license to make a wipeout game?! Seems such a waste to give those guys an exclusive... -- Arne Martin

An exclusive license to make the NFLBlitz version of a CART racing game. Its not an out and out exclusive license for games with the CART name. :) Although I could completely deal with a realistic sim that didn't have a CART license at all, as long as it realistically modeled the cars and the racing physics of the champ cars. :)