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DAMN I’ve never quite listened to a Passport.Mid sounding This Good! Next step: install!!

Now, that was the most boring opening I've ever seen.

Played this for hours on the Amiga A500, mainly just seeing what the biggest crash I could cause in the race and watching the replay.

I played this a lot back in the day. On an old laptop, the LCD display gave an extra impression of speed. Never had sound that great, though. Reversing and knocking everyone out was one of the first things I did, too. Then went on to tinkering with the car. The stock March/Cosworth is the slowest but easiest to drive (the high drag is an indication), though the main reason everyone passed you in training is probably because you drove with a full fuel tank. In qualifying, you drop as much fuel as possible and also do some other optimizations. The wheel temperature is important - if your wheels get hotter e.g. on the outside, you need to adjust their tilt. I got good enough that I could finish top 3 in qualifying and usually lead the race for a bit. But eventually I always crashed into a wall or a car while lapping it.

Back in the day all I had at home and school was the PC speaker, but it still did the job

I was just thinking about Indy 500 after your review about Grand Prix! I remember getting this game as a pack-in with my first Sound Blaster along with a copy of Lemmings. I wasn’t big into racing games, but I remember all the history of Indy 500 in the included manual being fascinating stuff. 😎

I just started playing the Wolfenstein series and came face to face with the awful port that's on steam, so I came to RUclips to search for a better option, and here we are! Thank you.

This was a game I played a lot of as a kid and I'm generally not into racing games, but this is probably the one - other than Grand Turismo 3 and Burnout Revenge - that I played a LOT of and enjoyed. Such classic sound effects, instantly remember it all.

Hurrah! Thanks so much for this! Such an incredible game for '89!

For 89 on PC this was awesome

I can see why this is so fondly remembered! I'm a sucker for these kinds of early 3D visuals, and the gameplay looks solid. And yes, there appear to be a few recordings of players tacking the full 200 laps on RUclips. Suffice to say it's quite the endurance test!

Nice driving Lawnie, no thrustmaster required! Didn't know about this one thanks.

16:35 "The people did not came here to see a pile of cars exploding and crashing!" Well... it's the US... maybe they did

I'm not long after commenting on the other game, so this is a pleasant surprise! I think that I played it between 1989-90, though at the time, I thought it was an Indiana Jones game originally! I think that this works on an 8088 CPU, so I can play it on the 808x mini laptops, and it definitely will be getting installed along with Rogue, Indiana Jones 3, Wolfenstein 3D (via a source port), and Lemmings... Although I think that using my Pocket 386 would be better able to emulate my experience back then, seeing as I see 386 CPUs as faster 286s or slower 486s! I coincidentally see 286s as faster x86 808xs and slower 386s, which is why I'd never be interested in one typically. The x86 808xs are interesting to due to being able to do stuff that 286s can't, whereas I got a 386 so I could have a portable Win3.11 machine, plus I wanted to have something I can test ISA cards with! Anyway, moving away from my semi-digression, I totally get why people rate this so highly!

Xenon 2 Megablast. That was the dogs danglies back in the day! You should check that one out sometime!

A true man of culture.

And you make plenty of exercise!

Gemstones? Pink Floyd mentioned? Crazy Diamond?

Music was invented by Beethoven and peaked with PASSPORT.MID

Love both the music and performance! Your enthusiasm is infectious.

I clicked on this video because I recognised the image in the thumbnail. There's a bit more lore behind, or adjacent, to this game. I'm originally from South-Eastern Europe, Romania to be exact, and in Romanian the game looked a bit different and was called "Bilutze", basically meaning "Little Balls". This was a super popular game in the region thanks to ye olde pirating ways - I have an entire podcast episode talking about that - however it had no color-coded corners, and instead the board was limited to the square connect-4 type grid. This version of the game is called Color Lines and you can find it as such 😉

Best Breakout clone I ever played was a game called Ricochet a long time ago. This one seems very dull in comparison. And as for that music.... well, I would have turned that off very quickly.

I always appreciated that you care as much as I do about the music in your old DOS games. If or when my real hardware ever fails, I will give this a try. It sounds good to me.

Man, talk about experimental with the choice of music! It sounds like it's been randomly generated. The ball physics appears to be rather simplistic compared to other Breakout games, as the player doesn't seem to be able to influence the angle that it bounces. It's a bit odd that it notifies you of your Top Ten status after every ball as well instead of waiting for the game to be over.

The music sounds very discordant... I'd definitely turn it off too!

That's pretty good soundfont indeed! Candy.mid is especially banging. Love the Dancing Baby and Bonzi Buddy gifs.

It's a banger.

Bruh, Gamos made so many games with these round dudes. They were office games kings before bigfish and pop cap.

These guys made some really interesting games. Simple puzzle games that can actually hold my attention for at least 5 minutes in 2024 deserve praise.

Happy Monday! Thanks for another week of uploads!

It seems like its Chinese Checkers only with starting zones at the top, bottom, and the two sides.

For multi jump you just mark the final cell, and the computer figures out the move itself.

do modern racing games even show the direction of the track ?

I remember playing this one a couple of decades ago, coincidentally whilst I was still living in Ireland! I should play it again at some point! Widelands is an open source version of it, essentially, as far as I know!

This should work on the 808x mini laptops fine, because it's text-only!

This looks fun... I'm not sure if the Deluxe version will work on the 808x mini laptops, but the original should work on all of them! More and more, I'm considering at some point next year I want to see how well I could fare on a Pocket 8086 for a week, but I need to get some CF cards to make it happen, as well as also testing software out!

I used to play this a lot back in the day. The fun was also finding various power ups within the rocks. For example, the orange one you collected meant that you could fire fireballs for a limited time. But there were a whole range of different things available. The multiplayer games were good fun.

I played that game soooooooooooooooooo many countless hours in my youth, still one of the best memories from back then :)

It sucks that ID has basically decided to abandon this game. Literally every console known to man has an official DOOM port, yet Wolfenstein only has a PS3/Xbox 360 port and that's literally it. The PC version is literally not even optimized for modern platforms, which blows my mind. How can such an influential game get such a poor treatment by its creators? T.G.F.M. (Thank God for Modders!)

Oh wow colors, I only had the CGA version so all we got was white, black cyan and magenta lol

fullresolution=desktop output=opengl aspect=true scaler=normal2x forced

I'm still sore at EA over killing Westwood, Bullfrog, and Origin! Anyway, this is another game that'll work on the VGA variants of the 808x mini laptops, which is nice, although the original unmodded version is quite clunky! It's also technically freeware.

So, this game can run on an 8088 CPU, but unfortunately the sequel can't! I've been intrigued by this game for a while at this point, and would one day love to own a big box copy of it and its sequel!

I miss this game!

I used to play in a green monitor lol

I remember this fondly. I played this on an XT.

Played this game a lot along Test Driver, Stunts (not Stunt Driver), Indy 500 and Street Road. Then Microprose and Papyrus games later.

Man this was my childhood and I randomly remembered this after 20 years or so 🥲

Oddly enough, I've actually played Indy 500, albeit on a 286... Also had no idea what I was doing at the time, as I was quite young! Also, this is one of the games I recall working on an 8088 CPU, but obviously you'd need a VGA variant of the 808x mini laptops, unless you attach an EGA or VGA card to the Book 8088 v1.0!

not helpful. too wordy. just needed a short and too the point of a step by step