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Carmageddon is a classic vehicle based action game with horror overtones. If you remember Death Race 2000 then you know the basic idea of Carmageddon already. Not content with just being a homage game to that classic movie, Stainless Games Limited went further and created a phenomenon in gaming. Spawning a few sequels and remakes […]
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Carmageddon Goes Free for Android Users, Reports of Bugs Already
October 8th, 2016 
Carl Williams 
Posted in Comp, News, Portables 
Tags: android, carmageddon, Death Race 2000, free to play, horror, In App Purchases, racing, Stainless Games 
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Electronic Arts Gives Gamers Road Rash II on Sega Genesis – July 22nd, 1993 – Today in Video Game History
July 21st, 2016 Carl Williams Road Rash II by Electronic Arts (EA) is one of those early success stories. Forget their current, horrendous, Digital Rights Management (DRM) antics and focus on their past they were quite good. EA were great at picking the right games to publish and developing some cool games of their own. I mean, come on, look […]
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Posted in Genesis, News, Sega Tags: electronic arts, fighting, Motorcycle, racing, Road Rash, Road Rash II No Comments »
Street Race VMU New Sega Dreamcast Memory Unit Racing Game Released
July 8th, 2016 Carl Williams The Sega Dreamcast is obviously a console that is loved by many gamers. There is a surprising number of those fans that apparently know how to program the defunct Sega console. Take the Visual Memory Unit (VMU) for instance. This was a revolutionary piece of technology that NO console manufacturer has bothered to replicate with […]
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Posted in News, Sega Tags: dreamcast, Junkyard, racing, retro, retrogaming, sega, Street Race VMU, Visual Memory Unit, VMU 1 Comment »
So Bad It’s Good – Dark Summit Rocked the Slopes
June 14th, 2016 Michael Crisman If you ask someone to name a great snowboarding game from the PS2/Xbox/Gamecube generation, the only one that should come to mind for any normal person will have ‘SSX’ somewhere in the title. Anyone who’s first response is Dark Summit, published by THQ in 2001, isn’t in full possession of his faculties. Evidence for this […]
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Posted in Console, News, Nintendo, Sony, Xbox Tags: action, adventure, gamecube, microsoft, nintendo, ps2, racing, radical entertainment, snowboarding, so bad it's good, sony, thq, xbox No Comments »
RPM Racing II Becomes Rock n Roll Racing on Super Nintendo – June 4th, 1993 – Today in Video Game History
June 3rd, 2016 Carl Williams Sometimes doing these historical articles we come across a tidbit of information that is not widely known. Sure, the hardcore of the hardcore know it but for the most part, the average fan will learn something new. One such tidbit is that this game was originally planned as the sequel to RPM Racing. I knew […]
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Posted in Game Boy Advance, Genesis, News, Nintendo, Portables, Sega, Super Nintendo Tags: blizzard, interplay, racing, RC Pro-AM, Red Asphalt, Rock n Roll Racing, silicon & synapse No Comments »
Crazy Taxi 2 Makes Sega Dreamcast Curazy – May 28th, 2001 – Today in Video Game History
May 27th, 2016 Carl Williams Sega knew how to make arcade games. That is historical fact. Many of the top arcade titles are Sega releases. In 2001 one of those fun arcade titles came home to the Sega Dreamcast. Crazy Taxi 2 is obviously a sequel to Crazy Taxi, another arcade to Sega Dreamcast release. The key word here is […]
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Posted in Dreamcast, News, Sega Tags: action, arcade, crazy taxi, dreamcast, racing, sega No Comments »
Revenge of the License: World’s Scariest Police Chases (PS1)
February 14th, 2016 Michael Crisman One of these days I will learn not to open my mouth and express any opinions about video games when I’m around my editor. Innocuous comments made over Facebook chats often wind up condemning me to a week’s worth of misery. I point out how awful some game looks, and before I can finish the […]
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Posted in Console, News, Sony Tags: activision, driving, fox interactive, playstation, ps one, ps1, racing, revenge of the license, sony, uds, unique development studios, world's scariest police chases 1 Comment »
Vanishing Point Burns Rubber in Cars, Trucks and SUVs on Playstation – Today in History – February 5th, 2001
February 4th, 2016 Carl Williams Racing games are a staple of gaming. We saw them in the early days on the Atari 2600 in Night Driver. We saw them propel forward in the 8-Bit days with Rad Racer on NES. 16-Bit gave us great titles like Outrun and Super Hang-On while 32-Bit heralded in the age of the “Racer” series […]
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Posted in News, Sega, Sony Tags: 2001, 5th, acclaim, dreamcast, February, playstation, psone, racing, sega, sony, Vanishing Point 1 Comment »
Amiga Racer to Remind Commodore Amiga and MorphOS Fans of the 80s
January 17th, 2016 Carl Williams With a name like Amiga Racer, it has to be good, at least on target graphically. The team at AmigaTec.com are working on this homage to the classic arcade games, including up to date development videos. For those of you that remember the greats such as Out Run and Rad Racer, Amiga Racer will feel […]
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Posted in Comp, News Tags: amiga, Amiga Racer, AmigaTec.com, arcade, commodore, Out Run, racing, rad racer, retro, retro gaming, retrogaming No Comments »
Sega Rally Championship Slings Mud on Sega Saturn – December 28th, 1995 – Today in Video Game History
December 28th, 2015 Carl Williams Sega Rally threw the gauntlet of mud down and for the most part, Sony and Nintendo had nothing to counter with on this level.
