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identify arcade game

  • 13-01-2011 2:23pm
    #1
    ntlbell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,288 ✭✭✭✭


    Sorry but I fear this is going to be a bit vague.

    It was my fav "racer" in the arcade think it was out about 15-17 years ago.

    So there was 4 steering wheels and you all lookded down on the screen it was like build into a table.

    As you earn money from races you could buy better gear for the cars if iirc the cars were sort of small, not like F1 cars. I think the name may have had nitro in it

    I know, shocking details. But in you I trust :D


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  • #2
    Dark Savior
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 276 ✭✭Dark Savior


    Mmm, Super Sprint:confused:http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=9952

    or maybe Iron Man Ivan Stewarts Super Off road http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=12843


  • #3
    ntlbell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,288 ✭✭✭✭ntlbell


    Dark Savior wrote: »
    Mmm, Super Sprint:confused:http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=9952

    or maybe Iron Man Ivan Stewarts Super Off road http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=12843

    loved them both, it was after these i'd say.

    4 wheels but the screen you looked down at it wasn't in front if you if that makes sense.

    like this

    but a lot more moderen and 4 wheels :pac:

    Ms_Pac_man_Galaga_Table_Arcade_Game_By_Namco.jpg


  • #4
    o1s1n
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    Master of the Universe


    Was it Off Road?


  • #5
    pdbhp
    Registered Users Posts: 2,041 ✭✭✭pdbhp


    There was a game that fits the description though for the life of me I can't remember the name of it.
    It was top down and the cars looked F1 (ish) you could get nitros and there would have been the usual hazards of a game of that age like holes in the ground and oil spills etc there was also short cuts and the like.
    OP have you any more info regarding the game??


  • #6
    ntlbell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,288 ✭✭✭✭ntlbell


    o1s1n wrote: »
    Was it Off Road?

    do you mean was it called off road? or was it "off road" :)

    I think it was sort of in the streets but the enviroment changes as you went up the levels


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  • #7
    ntlbell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,288 ✭✭✭✭ntlbell


    pdbhp wrote: »
    There was a game that fits the description though for the life of me I can't remember the name of it.
    It was top down and the cars looked F1 (ish) you could get nitros and there would have been the usual hazards of a game of that age like holes in the ground and oil spills etc there was also short cuts and the like.
    OP have you any more info regarding the game??

    I'm trying to rack the brain and come up with something else that was uniqe to this particular game. I'm sort of remember the cars as small and bubble like like a newish micra. I'm afraid to say something that might knock you off the cent tho cause it's pretty fuzzy, I played this game day and night can't belive i've forgot so much.

    The streering wheel was pretty small, compared to super sprint and much thicker. you got to a sort of little shop after each level to buy up engines/boosts etc

    This is all that's coming back to me. bloody teenage drinking! :mad:


  • #8
    LoGiE
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 2,975 Mod ✭✭✭✭LoGiE


    I know Badlands is only two player so thats out...


  • #9
    ntlbell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,288 ✭✭✭✭ntlbell


    LoGiE wrote: »
    It was... Badlands? Hot Rod or maybe Indy heat?

    We have a winner, thanks a mil!!

    Hot rod indeed :)

    hotrod.png


  • #10
    LoGiE
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 2,975 Mod ✭✭✭✭LoGiE


    It used the same hardware as Crackdown and Bonanza bros and was released in 1988. I've played it in mame but never came across it in the wild. Which arcade did you play it in?


  • #11
    Duggy747
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭Duggy747


    ntlbell wrote: »
    hotrod.png

    Good grief, that takes me back to Mosney :D


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  • #12
    ntlbell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,288 ✭✭✭✭ntlbell


    LoGiE wrote: »
    It used the same hardware as Crackdown and Bonanza bros and was released in 1988. I've played it in mame but never came across it in the wild. Which arcade did you play it in?

    Leisureplex in Tallaght :)


  • #13
    pdbhp
    Registered Users Posts: 2,041 ✭✭✭pdbhp


    ntlbell wrote: »
    Leisureplex in Tallaght :)

    God Damn thats the game I was thinking of.
    We probably played it with each other as thats where I used to play all my arcade games


  • #14
    ntlbell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,288 ✭✭✭✭ntlbell


    pdbhp wrote: »
    God Damn thats the game I was thinking of.
    We probably played it with each other as thats where I used to play all my arcade games

    Probably, miss spent youth :pac:

    Hot Rod was my outlet after getting knocked off SF :)


  • #15
    pdbhp
    Registered Users Posts: 2,041 ✭✭✭pdbhp


    ntlbell wrote: »
    Probably, miss spent youth :pac:

    Hot Rod was my outlet after getting knocked off SF :)

    Sh1t man are you me cos thats exactly what I did..This is getting mighty wierd:eek:


  • #16
    ryanglynn86
    Registered Users Posts: 10 ✭ryanglynn86


    Hi guys. I am looking for the badlands game you mentioned. Does anyone know of anywhere I could buy it?


  • #17
    yrwhu8jxtni06a
    Closed Accounts Posts: 362 ✭✭yrwhu8jxtni06a


    ryanglynn86 wrote: »
    Hi guys. I am looking for the badlands game you mentioned. Does anyone know of anywhere I could buy it?

    it was on midway arcade treasures 3 compilation which goes very cheap on amazon uk


  • #18
    Dr Bob
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 3,184 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dr Bob


    ntlbell wrote: »
    Leisureplex in Tallaght :)
    only coming to this thread now , but not only was that the game I was thinking of , its actually the same damn CAB I was thinking of.(used to do a lot of gaming there in the early nineties), Although I always preferred the final lap II that would have been fairly close to it :)


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