Used to love this game, I would’ve been about 12 when it came out. It was the height of technological skill back then to be able to connect to friends online in the village and play the maps I’d made (who quickly learned that the plinth with flashing lights and a rocket launcher was always, always a squish trap). Of course, after convincing everyone else in the house to let me have exclusive use of the phone line for an hour.
We got the shareware version of this game preinstalled on our 386 when we got it. Tons of fun that paved the way to the monument of platforming that was Jazz Jackrabbit.
Holy shit, I just realized I owned this game. Weirdly even after seeing the title of it, it didn’t click in my memory that I owned it and played it. This was juusst near the point when I was starting to lose interest in gaming, so I guess it didn’t stick in my memory really firmly.
The game was really good, though, I think. The graphics were quite remarkable for its time.
Taking a quick look at Megarace 1, this clearly looks like an improvement. 3D modelled cars are better than the sprites of the original. The tracks are more elaborate with better details and scenery.
It just depends on how it plays. Just that part of history where CD-ROM technology came in and everything had to include video clips! It was the future man!
The really bad games where the ones claiming to be interactive movies!
Yeah, the minimum requirements were a 486DX2 66MHZ. Which, by the time I played it, I had. By then the newest computers were already on pentium 3 though.
This game came out in 1996, the first Pentium 3 was released in 1999. In fact, the Pentium 2 wasn’t even out yet (1997), so at best you could be running this game with an expensive as all heck Pentium 200 but most people weren’t running with that kind of hardware when the game came out.
That said, yes, we weren’t rich so I was trying to scrape by on my 386SX40 as long as I could :-)
When I was a kid I played a lot of GORILLA.BAS, and the destruct cheat code for Tyrian lol (which I still can’t believe wasn’t sold as its own game, was definitely good enough to sell well)
I never got to experience worms on DOS, but I did play hours of the PS1 version of it with friends. My god, it was such a good time! I didn’t care for the art style change that came in Worms 2, but then got used to it for when Worms Armageddon came out. Worms Armageddon was peak worms for me, and that one I did play on PC exclusively.
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