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Help me /vr/, you're my only hope. 2015-12-23 03:07:04 Post No. 2870975
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Help me /vr/, you're my only hope. 2015-12-23 03:07:04 Post No. 2870975
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So /vr/, I need your help.
In the 90's my parents bought an PC which included demo-CD, which had a car combat-like game, where you drove around in a futuristic arena-like environment. A futuristic car game that isn't about racing, but built around death matches. The story was the same as running man (the Arny somewhat-classic): You were a prisioner in death row and instead of rotting in jail they put you in a futuristic car in an area to duke it out with some other racers.
All I remember from it was that it was somewhat early-ish 3D. Advanced enough to have something in the pixels, but "early" enough to have a burning man sprite go out of the car sometimes when you destroyed one, and if you shot and killed said burning man, you would earn a "mercy kill."
It was almost like a blocky prototype version of the Extreme G bikes... but for PC, not the N64 of course.
If anything, I remember it had 3D-ish lasers and that after you reached your killing quota, you had to drive to the center of the map to leave via a bright andshiny tube. If you didn't, this arena-wide laser would pop up and destroy absolutely everything in the arena, including you.
Also, it bragged that it had a Playstation port "coming soon". Not sure if that ever materialized.
So far I can tell you it isn't Hover, Death Track, Twisted Metal, Carmageddon, Destruction Derby, Mega Race (or its sequel), nor Necrodrome.
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>>2870975
How is it not Carmageddon?
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>>2870986
There were no player portraits in the HUD. And the vehicles are too big. And there weren't any roads (like I said, it was an arena game)
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>>2870986
I was about to say...
but maybe you'll find it on this list here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_vehicular_combat_games#Car
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Sounds like the Death Race films.
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DethKarz?
Hi-Octane?
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Nevermind. Found it.
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Well, since I already started this thread, I'll give you guys some minutes to try and guess the game (and no, it isn't carmageddon). Found it on archive.org. Looked for old demos (figured that sinceI played it on a sampler way back, there was always the chance that the game was unreleased. It was released, btw) and there it was.
So, I can confirm the game exist. It's apparently obscure as FUCK and the Playstation port never materialized. Can also confirm its not in the wikipedia page (which is ironic, since the game has a wikipedia page).
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>>2871005
wtf
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Just spit it out, son. Only games we play here are on retro consoles...
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>>2871013
Fair enough.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeathDrome
https://archive.org/details/DDROME
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R59SaWjP-G4
tl ;dr: 1996 PC game called Deathdrome.
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>>2871017
were you really about to do the "nvm found it" thing?
wow
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>>2871023
I... actually did. I mean it, tho'. I had been looking for the game for 2 years (for some reason, I remember it as DeathDrone) and I was genuinely asked for help.
It only happened that I thought going to archive.org AFTER creating the thread.
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>>2871035
My bad. Won't happen again.
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