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[SteveWinwood]

You know those punk highway gangs, the ones who really think they rule the road? You just hate them, don’t you? So you say, ‘Somebody ought to do something about them criminal highway gangs!’ And we says, ‘Oh yeah?! Well, why don’t YOU do something, mister big-mouth!’. You don’t have the car? We’ll give you the car! You don’t want to get arrested for taking the law into your own hands? Not a problem! You know why? Because it AIN’T REAL! It’s a whole lot better than real, baby! It’s virtual television: reality’s worst nightmare!

MegaRace was the Crysis of it's time. This shit looked amazing when you were 6.



I, and many others, got this game for free when my family got a new PB computer and boy did I play the crap out of it. I didn't realize until way later that it's not actually a racing game but more of a shooter on rails. Still awesome.

You play as THE ENFORCER who is charged with virtually wiping out a bunch of virtual gangs on virtual tracks in a virtual reality reality show. So you drive in a super fast car with machine guns on it and blow up some dudes for future fat people to watch while they sit on their couch. Yeah it's awesome.

Oh and then there is the star of our show... LANCE BOYLE

This dude is so awesome. He is your fmv host and he explains everything going down in the deep canon of MegaRace. He introduces you to the level, and the gang you'll be blowing up, and even giving out prizes! He is also really 90s. And by 90s I mean cool as shit. Oh and he was the doctor in Heavy Rain.

So you hook up your joystick and you start cruising through corkscrews on some purple planet with factories and avoiding little signs on the track you don't know what they mean and all of a sudden it hits you. This music rocks socks.

Yes.

Yes it does.

It's by the same guy who did the Dune soundtrack, Stéphane Picq, and boy does he know awesome music.

It has everything you could want in a game: Humor, a whole bunch of "different" cars, violence, racing. What else is there?

You just won yourself a prize enforcer! Come and take a look!

So at the end of the day this shit is on gog.com and you should buy it and play it. I don't know who gets the money if you buy it because I'm pretty sure the company went out of business but whatever.

 

[sp3000]

Amazing game. There is a level where you go in a particle accelerator and a whale. Utterly awesome.

Lance boyle is a legend. The prizes were hilarious. One of them

I actually enjoyed the sequel also.

 

[antitrop]

That's a bold statement.

MegaRace was the Crysis of it's time. This shit looked amazing when you were 6.

A statement so wild you can't help but love it.

Fuck yes. This game was incredible on my Packard Bell! Love the host.

I, also, played this on a Packard Bell at what had to be age 10 or 11, good times.

He is also really 90s. And by 90s I mean cool as shit.

Fuck yeah! The 90's!

 

[zeitgeist]

I played it on Sega CD a lot. I thought it was so badass.

 

[patrickthehedgehog]

Fuck yes. This game was incredible on my Packard Bell! Love the host.

 

[Xander51]

Haha, I admire the conviction of this thread. And I agree, MegaRace was amazing to me as a kid, and it hit right when I was convinced FMV games were the future. I never really played the sequels.

 

[Deleted member 22576]

http://www.gog.com/gamecard/megarace_1_2


I know what I'm doing tonight.

 

[SteveWinwood]

http://www.gog.com/gamecard/megarace_1_2


I know what I'm doing tonight.

I never even played MegaRace 2, but this screenshot makes me want to:

 

[RelentlessRolento]

Woah! Forgot about this! Use to play it all the time at my cousins place as a kid.

 

[DiscoJer]

It was pretty much the game that justified buying a cd-rom drive for my PC.

 

[freenudemacusers]

GOTF

I never even played MegaRace 2, but this screenshot makes me want to:

GOTF2

 

[ultron87]

I remember watching the audio visual spectacle of MegaRace with my Dad and Brother. It was definitely the most impressive thing we'd seen from a videogame at the time. I never realized how barely a racing game it was. That's kind of awesome.

 

[freenudemacusers]

A must play with a wavy Packard Bell keyboard

 

[SJRB]

MegaRace 2 is infinitely better man, come on.

 

[SteveWinwood]

How about this:

 

[freenudemacusers]

How about this:

i remember those feels ...

and SkiFree T__________________________T

 

[The Broken Ska Record]

I just nostalgia'd all up in this bitch.

All that's missing is that 3D Dinosaur game.

 

[Phoenixazure]

OH MY GOD

I remember this game! my aunt had mega crace 1 of all things with ski free on her computer. I could never figure out how to accelerate in that game in any time i played until the last time i remember which i did and i just kept playing it more and more, with the creepy FMVs happening after each one in the weird futuristic vibe. Man that takes me back. Maybe I'll grab it off GOG one of these days

I just nostalgia'd all up in this bitch.

All that's missing is that 3D Dinosaur game.

AHH!! The one with the dinosaur running at the screen, and then you're fighitng bugs in this weird/creepy amusement park thing? I'm nostalgia'd out

 

[SteveWinwood]

I just nostalgia'd all up in this bitch.

All that's missing is that 3D Dinosaur game.

Spoiler

Click on it

 

[Giard]

Oh god, this thread is my whole childhood. :'(

 

[freenudemacusers]

All that's missing is that 3D Dinosaur game.

oohhh shiiittttt

i hate you steve

 

[SteveWinwood]

I remember all of this joke: http://youtu.be/30Kx0livsMA?t=5m29s

I have no clue why.

 

[The Broken Ska Record]

Spoiler

Click on it

Fuuuuuuuck. Yeeeeeessssss...

 

[Phoenixazure]

Spoiler

Click on it

Oh lawd. I feel old now.

 

[CrunchyFrog]

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Preach it brutha. Loved this game as a kid

I remember all of this joke: http://youtu.be/30Kx0livsMA?t=5m29s

I have no clue why.

I remember something like this, but it there was like a lab in the middle of the jungle or just this big facility.

 

[freenudemacusers]

speaking of FMV games, anyone else play Novastorm?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xjwI5J5Qy4

My first gaming shame, I could never beat it.

 

[Phoenixazure]

I remember my dad buying this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8hw6TlBTNI Voyeur and freaking out on how i had to use a code to play the game, and the various scenes just throwing me for a loop. for all intents and purposes, this was one of my first adventure games as well

 

[Zizbuka]

There was a racing game, much newer than MegaRace, can't remember the name.
Really game, don't think it got a lot of love. Damn, I remember great graphics for the time (10 years or so ago), lots of desert maps, had to drift around corners to win.

Oh man, I hate getting old.

 

[freenudemacusers]

I remember my dad buying this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8hw6TlBTNI Voyeur and freaking out on how i had to use a code to play the game, and the various scenes just throwing me for a loop. for all intents and purposes, this was one of my first adventure games as well

haha wtf ... reminds me of phantasmagoria, which i had to borrow from a friend cuz i wasn't allowed to buy it

 

[B-Dex]

oohhh shiiittttt

i hate you steve

I LOVED this game. LOVED.

 

[freenudemacusers]

I LOVED this game. LOVED.

I let the clock run down once just to see what happened when the comet hit and I felt really bad.

 

[Yerolo]

Some people were 6 when they played this ?

Man...I feel old

 

[SteveWinwood]

I let the clock run down once just to see what happened when the comet hit and I felt really bad.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5YnkKhgkew

Also I remember 3d Body Adventure where you had to run through the whole body. You had to zap cells and if they were good ones they'd yell at you and tell you the patient was going to die

 

[adelante]

Yes OP, I agree with you!! Going through those crazy loops were some of the best gaming memories I had as a teen.

 

[freenudemacusers]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5YnkKhgkew

that's a heavy burden to lay on a kid

 

[B-Dex]

Damn that Triassic Tour music.

 

[Camp Lo]

How about this:

I just tripped and fell into nostalgia.

<3 Packard Bell navigator

 

[Gen X]

At first I thought I might've played MegaRace on the 3DO but the more I think about it the more I realise I might have the name mixed up with another futuristic racer.

 

[kutthoat5150]

oohhh shiiittttt

i hate you steve

fuuuukkkk, the nostalgia in this thread is getting me! The one line I remember in that game "Look Ma! No internal organs!" I never did beat both of those games but I remember playing the hell out of both of them

 

[SlipperySlope]

Aaaaaahhhh, back when computers came with software. I miss my old Packard Bell

 

[Phoenixazure]

Another big nostalgia trip is this fucking game

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVKaQcJgeS0

Sensory Overload, some doom clone that FREAKED me the fuck out when i was 6 or 7 when i played it. I barely got passed like the first 20-30 min of the game cause i always got so freaked out when the guys popped up.

There was another game too that was REALLY good. It was line graphics in 3d that involved flying a ship in an arena type thing blowing up opponents. in arenas. came out around the same time

 

[squall23]

All these nostalgic feels man.

 

[SteveWinwood]

There was another game too that was REALLY good. It was line graphics in 3d that involved flying a ship in an arena type thing blowing up opponents. in arenas. came out around the same time

Aw man with the bumper cars and the flags? What was that called?

 

[Phoenixazure]

Aw man with the bumper cars and the flags? What was that called?

I don't know. it was against black with line graphics/crude solid shapes. It had powerups, bosses, enviormental hazards, and a thumpin soundtrack. Still, this thread really made my night.

 

[SteveWinwood]

I don't know. it was against black with line graphics/crude solid shapes. It had powerups, bosses, enviormental hazards, and a thumpin soundtrack. Still, this thread really made my night.

Hover!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2lXPeNR3eo

Is what I think I was talking about. I don't remember bosses though.

 

[PunjabiPlaya]

Oh, since I guess we're doing this, who all remembers Dinosaur Safari?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EryANyRgxn8

 

[freenudemacusers]

Oh, since I guess we're doing this, who all remembers Dinosaur Safari?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EryANyRgxn8

Hover!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2lXPeNR3eo

Is what I think I was talking about. I don't remember bosses though.

yes to all of this

anyone else play wacky wheels? good ol apogee (rip) kart clone:

I played this for hours

edit: apparently this was the result of a bad breakup between apogee dudes and the people who made Skunny Kart. god all these memories.

 

[Emperor Bohe]

Hover!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2lXPeNR3eo

Is what I think I was talking about. I don't remember bosses though.

I remember this shit. I have so much fond memories of windows 95

 

[Phoenixazure]

Hover!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2lXPeNR3eo

Is what I think I was talking about. I don't remember bosses though.

No it wasn't Hover, though i did play this quite a bit. I think it was a shareware game, it was vector graphics.

I did also remember playing Al Unser Jr. Racing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmKbrB8rdKc

Anything later than this and we'd be getting to newer stuff

 

[freenudemacusers]

now that I think of it, a lot of my games were on those 100 FREE DEMOS cds that came with PC GAMER and the like, and I had to mail actual money to people to get games. jesus. now going into another room to get my credit card is too much work.