Driving skills

Phelan · 10th September 2009, 10:52 AM

I don't know if any of you are old enough to remember Super Cars and Super Cars 2 on the Amiga? (was it out on ST also?) I was a tad obsessed with it to be honest and used to play it for hours on end.

Just found this cool video showing an entire play through and it made me want to dig out my Amiga and get playing it again - alas my Amiga is now in the great computer place in the sky. May have to look into an emulator - wish they would bring one out for the iPhone.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWzlO7HkF3w

I never really gelled with racing games where you drive like real life (Gran Turismo, Forza etc) and always loved that top down look - to be honest it's probably cause I'm much better at adjusting the car on screen rather than worrying about gear changes, dirt, clutter on the track, speed, braking and all that jazz
Plus you got rockets on your car!!

Now what got me thinking about this was that sometimes I work with Toshiba on projects and they just launched a little web game with the top driver getting a laptop, tv and some tickets to V8 and it uses the same Super Cars look down.
http://www.testdrivetoshiba.com.au/

I can't win cause I work with them on occasion but my top score was 275,539

I should also point out that I'm not nearly as good as I remember!

n2o · 10th September 2009, 11:58 AM

thanks for the heads up

Guszast3r · 25th September 2009, 8:17 PM

263,342 on First Go.

indierokkr · 27th September 2009, 2:28 PM

261,109 on my first go, this is going to be addictive!

csimpson · 28th September 2009, 3:43 PM

Gave it a go to pass a few minutes, ended up with 286424 on my first try.

It makes me want to play the original GTA again

GrayFox · 25th October 2009, 8:26 PM

I remember playing this game on some random arcade machine when I was about 4 or 5. So basically 20 years ago. Wasn't very impressed with it at the time. Still nothing has changed

Croc · 27th October 2009, 4:51 AM

loved super cars
it works on winuae emu and also there is atari st emu on psp and super cars work well on it too if you want it on something portable, i been playing it and even in today world of 3d games it is still a lot of fun and gameplay more fun than lots of rubbish out there.

10th September 2009, 10:52 AM	#1
Phelan Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 139	Driving skills I don't know if any of you are old enough to remember Super Cars and Super Cars 2 on the Amiga? (was it out on ST also?) I was a tad obsessed with it to be honest and used to play it for hours on end. Just found this cool video showing an entire play through and it made me want to dig out my Amiga and get playing it again - alas my Amiga is now in the great computer place in the sky. May have to look into an emulator - wish they would bring one out for the iPhone. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWzlO7HkF3w I never really gelled with racing games where you drive like real life (Gran Turismo, Forza etc) and always loved that top down look - to be honest it's probably cause I'm much better at adjusting the car on screen rather than worrying about gear changes, dirt, clutter on the track, speed, braking and all that jazz Plus you got rockets on your car!! Now what got me thinking about this was that sometimes I work with Toshiba on projects and they just launched a little web game with the top driver getting a laptop, tv and some tickets to V8 and it uses the same Super Cars look down. http://www.testdrivetoshiba.com.au/ I can't win cause I work with them on occasion but my top score was 275,539 I should also point out that I'm not nearly as good as I remember! Last edited by Phelan; 10th September 2009 at 12:00 PM.

27th September 2009, 2:28 PM	#4
indierokkr Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: South Perth Posts: 559	261,109 on my first go, this is going to be addictive! __________________ Good Trades: oopy, dantheman65, nez, reflex898, Sans, Drex, sanjayschrapel, Impala, soul, excelsior44, warney, MYSRH, quazorpc, kwanq, YodaMatt, m4rk, dajvid, nakky, bizarroking, AMLagonda, Bloar, 12388, XCelR8, Monty94 http://www.flickr.com/photos/indierokkr/

28th September 2009, 3:43 PM	#5
csimpson Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Sydney Posts: 7,628	Gave it a go to pass a few minutes, ended up with 286424 on my first try. It makes me want to play the original GTA again __________________ twitter

25th October 2009, 8:26 PM	#6
GrayFox Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Melbourne Posts: 681	I remember playing this game on some random arcade machine when I was about 4 or 5. So basically 20 years ago. Wasn't very impressed with it at the time. Still nothing has changed __________________ [Intel i7 920 @ 3.2ghz] [Gigabyte UD3-R] [ 6gb DDR3 Corsair] [GTX 295] [Antec 902 Case] [Antec Signature 650w PS] [Dell 2408WFP] [Stock Cooling]

27th October 2009, 4:51 AM	#7
Croc Member Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Moon Posts: 1,350	loved super cars it works on winuae emu and also there is atari st emu on psp and super cars work well on it too if you want it on something portable, i been playing it and even in today world of 3d games it is still a lot of fun and gameplay more fun than lots of rubbish out there. __________________ I bite

25th September 2009, 8:17 PM	#3
Guszast3r Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Sunny Coast Posts: 362	263,342 on First Go.