"Grindintosecond" (Grindintosecond)
06/04/2019 at 10:50 • Filed to: None
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"Grindintosecond" (Grindintosecond)
06/04/2019 at 10:50 • Filed to: None | 3
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Well I think it is.. A long period of debugging and coding brought hospitalization for stress, exhaustion and a random collapsed lung after for the programmer after it was all said and done. This was the first sprite-scaling race game. On release it was massively popular and a huge step forward in game design. Pole position didn’t come out for another year. The programmer for the Atari 2600 port was hit by a drunk driver while riding a bicycle. It seems anyone who touches this program has issues. But, through their efforts, the 3rd person perspective first debuted here is the legacy.
I lost many quarters to this game and even now if I find a functioning one, I can’t floor it in high gear without insta-crashing into someone else. I have to soft foot the pedal or I hit something. Istill want to know what the ambulance has under the hood for it to outrun a formula car.
Montalvo
> Grindintosecond
06/04/2019 at 11:17 |
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I remember sinking a lot of time into this game at an arcade in a summer camp I used to go to. By the time I left the camp I knew that game inside and out . Sidenote: a collapsed lung HURTS, it was the most physically painful thing I have yet to experience 0/10 do not reccomend .
RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
> Grindintosecond
06/04/2019 at 11:28 |
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Mazes and Monsters, on the other hand, is a far-out game.
ttyymmnn
> Grindintosecond
06/04/2019 at 11:58 |
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I was more of a Pole Position fan.
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Grindintosecond
> ttyymmnn
06/04/2019 at 12:29 |
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once it hit, me too. but only if the settings allowed 250mph+ otherwise it got zero replay from me. PP2 for the win, test track only.
MiniGTI - now with XJ6
> Grindintosecond
06/04/2019 at 23:23 |
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I remember DROOLING over the screenshot of this in the catalog that came with the Colecovision we got for Christmas in 1984. Shame that was 5 minutes before Colecovision games disappeared from stores. To this day I don’t think I’ve ever played it, but I still often think of the screenshot with the “Cars Passed” g raph when I’m flying down the expressway.
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Grindintosecond
> MiniGTI - now with XJ6
06/05/2019 at 12:55 |
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I had the colecovision version and the wheel set. It was awesome except for the manufacturing defect making the car slowly drift right at all times making a drive involve constantly slow left turning just to go straight. Took 4 c batteries but i don't recall replacing them often.
Nauraushaun
> Grindintosecond
06/06/2019 at 17:47 |
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I’m reading masters of doom at the moment. If you want a book about that era and the rise of shooters rather than racers that's it