@@retrospiritsgaiden morbid curiosity got the better of me and I whacked in the hu-card and took it for a spin ...really wish I hadn't 😅. everything feels so shaky and jerky! collision detection is off the chart, but very much not in a good way. what the fricking frick?!! 😫 I'm so curious as to how such a terrible port was made, I'm off in search of some documentaries/history of's, just to try to heal my shattered dreams, and try to find some semblance of an understanding as to how one of the coolest arcade games of its time, on one of the coolest systems of the time, could end up so timelessly uncool! the only consolation I have is that I didn't intentionally pay good money for it, as it arrived as part of a job lot many many years ago. I'll actually feel a bit guilty about selling it on! might have to put a health warning in the description 😬
haha yeah i agree hard! this game is comically broken, the collision detection is awful, but the main problem with that is that it bounces your car outwards and the road always has stuff at the side, and the road itself is more twisty than than something really really twisty, and it's lightning fast,so you have no room to recover. The music also sounds like someone humming the tunes through a kazoo, possibly under a box in a shed. It is absolutely dangerous to human health! i'm not glad i paid about a tenner for it, but it could've been worse as prices have gone up these days.
Graphically the game is not bad, the problem I found when I played it for the first time was the playability and the damage detection system. Very frustrating and annoying. The fx sound could be better too. I would give it a 6.5/10, because it has many elements close to the arcade version. I would always buy this game, but because I loved the arcade version and i love the PCE and because i'm a fool too😅
I agree that the graphics are pretty well drawn, nicely colourful and they move really fast in game. It definitely looks cool in screenshots... but the gameplay is pretty broken. I too love the arcade version it's just a shame none of the home ports get all the elements correct (although i heard the Amstrad CPC version is a pretty good game). Even the version you can get on the Sega Saturn isn't the same as the arcade version unfortunately. Hopefully Taito will bring it out on the Egret 2 at some point.
MAYBE the sprites could be reused to remake the messed up amiga version
wow i didn't realise the Amiga version was that bad! I remember it being ok, just checked a video out....my memory was very wrong:(
Less Crockett and Tubbs, more Crock of sh_t and Dumps. Sorry, it's the best I've got to offer right now
haha - that's pretty good!
@@retrospiritsgaidentoilet humour definitely seems appropriate for this title, hey.
@@hotcoffeebreath very much so:)
@@retrospiritsgaiden morbid curiosity got the better of me and I whacked in the hu-card and took it for a spin
...really wish I hadn't 😅.
everything feels so shaky and jerky! collision detection is off the chart, but very much not in a good way.
what the fricking frick?!! 😫
I'm so curious as to how such a terrible port was made, I'm off in search of some documentaries/history of's, just to try to heal my shattered dreams, and try to find some semblance of an understanding as to how one of the coolest arcade games of its time, on one of the coolest systems of the time, could end up so timelessly uncool!
the only consolation I have is that I didn't intentionally pay good money for it, as it arrived as part of a job lot many many years ago. I'll actually feel a bit guilty about selling it on! might have to put a health warning in the description 😬
haha yeah i agree hard! this game is comically broken, the collision detection is awful, but the main problem with that is that it bounces your car outwards and the road always has stuff at the side, and the road itself is more twisty than than something really really twisty, and it's lightning fast,so you have no room to recover. The music also sounds like someone humming the tunes through a kazoo, possibly under a box in a shed. It is absolutely dangerous to human health!
i'm not glad i paid about a tenner for it, but it could've been worse as prices have gone up these days.
Graphically the game is not bad, the problem I found when I played it for the first time was the playability and the damage detection system. Very frustrating and annoying. The fx sound could be better too. I would give it a 6.5/10, because it has many elements close to the arcade version. I would always buy this game, but because I loved the arcade version and i love the PCE and because i'm a fool too😅
I agree that the graphics are pretty well drawn, nicely colourful and they move really fast in game. It definitely looks cool in screenshots... but the gameplay is pretty broken. I too love the arcade version it's just a shame none of the home ports get all the elements correct (although i heard the Amstrad CPC version is a pretty good game). Even the version you can get on the Sega Saturn isn't the same as the arcade version unfortunately. Hopefully Taito will bring it out on the Egret 2 at some point.