INFO: Car course simulator - Inside

[Jayson]

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I believe when I played this at the Harrisburg East Mall, it was in Beta /
Prototype, I'm not entirely sure. It wasn't the 'funnest' game on the
block, but interesting never-the-less.

It was a sit down, I believe it had force feedback of some sort, could
choose between manual or automatic, etc. The entire purpose of it was to
simulate real driving if I remember right.

Cant even begin to think of what the name of it was. Hoping to get some
help on that. Anyone know?

 

[Guest]

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Hard Drivin'
http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?letter=&game_id=8072

or the equally annoying...
http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?letter=&game_id=8073

not to be outdone by...
http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?letter=&game_id=9226


now if the flames on the side actually made the thing run faster they might
have had something.

Fondest memories of this game was trying to crash into anything moving while
driving in the oncoming lane as fast as possible.


k.


"Jayson" <jayson_hansen@keepyourspam.hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>I believe when I played this at the Harrisburg East Mall, it was in Beta /
> Prototype, I'm not entirely sure. It wasn't the 'funnest' game on the
> block, but interesting never-the-less.
>
> It was a sit down, I believe it had force feedback of some sort, could
> choose between manual or automatic, etc. The entire purpose of it was to
> simulate real driving if I remember right.
>
> Cant even begin to think of what the name of it was. Hoping to get some
> help on that. Anyone know?
>
>

 

[Guest]

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Keith- those links reminded me of one of the worst game acquisitions
ever (for me anyway). There was an Estate / Garage sale in a nice
neighborhood that had a Race Drivin Cockpit for sale. Nobody had
snapped it up since it was in the basement but I decided to give it a
shot since 1) the basement was a walkout and 2) the game looked like
it had just come out of the crate.

I paid my $400 to the seller and recruited a buddy and a box truck to
help me retrieve it. At this point you'd think the story has a happy
ending which it would, except we managed to tear the vinyl floor
getting the machine over the threshold and the homeowner had just
sodded the only exit out of the backyard. Which also happened to have
a narrow gate and a +45° slope.

The sod made moving the game across the lawn nearly impossible but we
still made headway until we reach the gate which was actually more of a
barrier across a small swamp. The dolly started sinking, I fell on my
back and the game came down on my legs. I scrambled out from
underneath and over the next several minutes the dolly continued to
become one with the Earth until it was fully obscured by sod, mud, and
about half a dozen earthworms.

We ended up going to Home Depot for several sheets of plywood to
construct a temporary roadway and eventually made it to dry ground,
loaded the game in the truck and began the process of fixing the sod
and digging the dolly out.

I went back the following evening with my tools to repair the vinyl
floor and as I worked the homeowner started talking about the tragedy
of what happened to her Son, then went into great deal about her
personal life, then started crying. Talk about uncomfortable, I had
zero experience on what to say so I just listened all the while wishing
I'd passed on this whole deal.

After spending the better part of a weekend plus several more hours on
repairs and cleaning I sold the game for, you guessed it $400! I still
have all that damn muddy plywood in the garage too.

Mike Doyle

 

[guinness]

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Another game is SimDrive...where you actually sat in a real Miata. I played
it in Nashua, NH.

http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?letter=&game_id=9548

tim (NH)

"Jayson" <jayson_hansen@keepyourspam.hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:l%PYe.121048$Ep.75592@lakeread02...
>I believe when I played this at the Harrisburg East Mall, it was in Beta /
> Prototype, I'm not entirely sure. It wasn't the 'funnest' game on the
> block, but interesting never-the-less.
>
> It was a sit down, I believe it had force feedback of some sort, could
> choose between manual or automatic, etc. The entire purpose of it was to
> simulate real driving if I remember right.
>
> Cant even begin to think of what the name of it was. Hoping to get some
> help on that. Anyone know?
>
>

 

[Jayson]

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> not to be outdone by...
> http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?letter=&game_id=9226
>


Thats the one I believe. Or atleast it has pretty much the same graphics.
Although, when I played it, it did not have scenery (or rather the scenery
was nothing more than good ole 2d "grass") and you were the only car on the
"track"..

It must have been the same game in prototype... though, the date of that
game is later than when I remember playing it. (I would have been 15 when
that came out and I had my permit then, so I wasn't too concerned with
driving games at that time for obvious reasons).

I searched klov high and low (as much as I could tolerate going through
every single game). I wish there was a way to view all games by year (vice
just sorting those under a certain letter by year), not to sound ingrateful
as I'm certainly glad we have a resource such as klov available to us.

 

[Guest]

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What a tick hard driven is rare? I used to play the sit down at a
roller rink a few years ago (hated it but meh) and I bet it i still
there.