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"Takuro Spirit" (takurospirit) 12/17/2014 at 17:09 • Filed to: None

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Learned to drive stick and spent many a quarter playing this and it's successor Race Drivin' back in my youth.

Anyone want to by me a Xmas present?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Atari-Hard…

EL_ULY > Takuro Spirit 12/17/2014 at 17:11

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coooooooooooool

MonkeePuzzle > Takuro Spirit 12/17/2014 at 17:12

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played some similar game, but ferrari based with three monitors, at Dave N Busters. It stole more than a quarter, and was unbelievably hard to learn. Like someone dropped you into a ferrari on the start line of a race and said don't crash, rather than letting you pootle around the parking lot for 5 minutes to learn the clutch.

I loved it, but it would have made me broke

Takuro Spirit > MonkeePuzzle 12/17/2014 at 17:20

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Yeah they made a three-monitor version of Race Drivin'. Same game with more cars and tracks.

Brickman > Takuro Spirit 12/17/2014 at 17:22

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Awesome.

Takuro Spirit > Brickman 12/17/2014 at 17:24

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Yeah, you HAD to use the clutch and WOULD stall the car if you didn't keep the revs up. Or puss out and select AUTO. Then the stick, it did nothing.

rad_mike > Takuro Spirit 12/17/2014 at 17:49

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I always went with the auto, after the first few times trying the stick. My defense: I was like 10, had never driven a car before, let along a stick, and wanted to do well in the game...so, at about 50-75 cents a pop, which was like 5-10% of my weekly allowance, I couldn't afford to use the stick!

Takuro Spirit > rad_mike 12/17/2014 at 18:03

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I eventually learned that if you just went WOT and dropped the clutch it launched you perfectly every time. Then came the fun of shifting gears without grinding....

crowmolly > Takuro Spirit 12/17/2014 at 18:05

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Dude, get out of my head!

I was going to do a post on this over the holidays.

I remember it vividly. Was .75 to play and had the most realistic manual trans simulation I've seen yet. I want to say the wheel had feedback too... did it?

Spaceball-Two > Takuro Spirit 12/17/2014 at 18:17

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I hated the loop.

Takuro Spirit > crowmolly 12/17/2014 at 20:04

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Yup. :D