"When I were a lad"...
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Yup, World's Scariest Police Chases, great game..
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- MarcoM1972
I bought a MF at a boot sale for a fiver but it was broken. I displayed it with the good side forward. Never had the other ships but had an X-Wing Luke with sabre, in the box and an Imperial Storm Trooper (desert version) also in mint condition. Unfortunately I bought them when I was a kid so they weren't original releases.
I had Luke also. His head broke of and I lost the head. I remade it out of a wine cork. I also had Wampa and a snow speeder. Oh sweet memories.
The other week I bought batteries for the orange Nintendo Donkey Kong dual screen game and watch. Insane, how many hours I spend with that.
The Baja Bug was all kinds of awesome, some guy made a life size one!. My Tamiya's were a bit rubbish TBH but the properly good models were too pricey even after saving all my pocket money for a year! Modern RC cars are scary fast compared to what we had, can't wait for sprog 1 to be old enough to justify getting him one...I'll be getting my own too so we don't have to fight over it 
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- SOLID_LIFTERS
...better made as well!
How about one of these...
Never had the stunt bike - but i did have the motorhome and trailer and the dragster where the rails would retract turning into a rudimentary single seater 👍
I had both the bike and the trailer.
I still have the action figures. I gave them to my sons along with the Legos.
I actually had the full game of Rage Racer. That is the only game ever (Racing-wise) that you basically had to be ON IT. I don't mean the modern day thing of being "ON IT" for several corners.
I mean, ON IT for three, long, painful laps. Each lap lasting just under 2 minutes. Or maybe a bit longer, the years haven't been that kind to me.... So, basically 6 - 8 minutes of having to drive EXTREMELY cleanly and EXTREMELY fast with the knowledge of where each AI car would be at ANY specific point of the racetrack at ANY time..... and having the reactions of a cobra to any slight deviations.
And the god-damned invisible walls! But they were required to really rack up the pressure and make you focus.
Honestly, Rage Racer was the best game that gave me the feeling that you literally had to perform to the best of your ability and really did leave you feeling totally drained and in a sense of awestruck shock that you ACTUALLY completed the last four races at such a high and difficult speeds.
Mind you, I am talking about the later stages of the game, as the earlier stages were pretty slow and cumbersome to get by, and having to race the four tracks, five times through (for Stage 1 to 5) was a bit tiresome (great for memorising the track though) and then again backwards, six times (Stage 1 to 6), which Stage 6 was with the extremely fast cars. Can't remember if it was forward AND backward, or just one way.
Annoying thing about that game was, once you completed it all and got gold in it, there wasn't an actual reward of finishing the damn game! Just a "Congratulations" and some sort of credit roll sequence.
Oh, that game was GOD for any F1 fan in the early 90's! I had that and sunk many hours in it. Then found out about mods for it and that made it even better (different tracks and cars, etc etc). I can't play it now as the computers are too powerful for the software and literally makes the gameplay something like 10 times faster than I can physically react to! Crazy. But man, that was a great game.
Pity I had to use the keyboard controls and always had Traction control on.... damn.
That Tomy Turbo... I believe I still have it somewhere.... And it was amazingly simple, yet so amazingly brilliant to use!
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- CHVRCHES_GTP
When I were a lad, I used to play Hot Wheels with their massive parking lot set and one thing that I will never forget is this:
The Tamiya Dash Car
. I used to have the complete track for the car but as I reached 7 my parents gave it to the poor including my old cars because I was no longer a fan of it, and are towards Hot Wheels and Matchbox. Not satisfied, I bought another one and enjoy myself. Oh, those days were awesome! 👍
The Tamiya Dash Car
. I used to have the complete track for the car but as I reached 7 my parents gave it to the poor including my old cars because I was no longer a fan of it, and are towards Hot Wheels and Matchbox. Not satisfied, I bought another one and enjoy myself. Oh, those days were awesome! 👍I LOOOVE the Ridge Racer series on the PS1. The new ones are ok, but these were amazing!
http://www.Japanese-sai.com/Games/Rage_Racer/Rage_Racer_Guide_01_A.jpg
I did have a demo of the RR4 game and I kinda found that it wasn't as awesome as Rage Racer for getting that rush of "gotta be on it to win it!" feeling. Although I must say I am quite sure if I had the proper game, it would have come close to it. Very close.
Only thing was, most of the cars were the same variety in the manufacturers! Just a bit longer and a bit faster, until you got to the special ones.... not really what one was expecting, to be fair. It was when it was trying to compete against GT as well, with the amount of cars on the disc. Personally, RR series is all about arcade and being on fire to complete the game, rather than trying to be all simulated and realistic.
BlueByte Settlers games were awesome too in the past! The first one was confusing for a new guy of 8 years old, but quite addictive..... And you could fight with another settler!
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My first ever racing games well besides my hot wheels track and the car map like nine hundred posted. I've still got an NES and Excitebike hooked up. In fact Excitebike is in it right now Haha. I played those 2 games forever. The only one that got more time was Blades of Steel.
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- axletramp
My first proper full size Lego kit which led to great things including me designing my own cars and trucks and then drawing up detailed step-by-step instructions. I think I might still have a few. I also used to take existing designs by Lego and scale them up by 2x and 4x, etc.
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- spunwicked
Yeah, it was a bit of an acquired taste.
It was a completely different departure from the Ridge Racer series, as it was a darker, more moodier tone to the whole game. And no actual sense of achievement for completing the game (as far as I could understand it!).
Ridge Racer was known for brighter, brasher colours before Rage Racer.
Rage Racer was more unforgiving, with the slides and the invisible walls. And also the god-damn-I-hate-you moments whenever you made a small mistake and got punished rather severely for it (losing a place or just totally not getting anywhere).
That was my opinion of the game though. Still, never really had a adrenaline rush of pressure from any other game apart from that.
It was a completely different departure from the Ridge Racer series, as it was a darker, more moodier tone to the whole game. And no actual sense of achievement for completing the game (as far as I could understand it!).
Ridge Racer was known for brighter, brasher colours before Rage Racer.
Rage Racer was more unforgiving, with the slides and the invisible walls. And also the god-damn-I-hate-you moments whenever you made a small mistake and got punished rather severely for it (losing a place or just totally not getting anywhere).
That was my opinion of the game though. Still, never really had a adrenaline rush of pressure from any other game apart from that.
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- Canada
This is what I had for my first five years:
And the toy I never let out of my sight:
I can't find a pic of it. It was a little red steering wheel game where you raced at Daytona, Talladega, and it was a lot of fun. Black and white graphics, but nonetheless, I rocked at that game. I wish I could find it.
And the toy I never let out of my sight:
I can't find a pic of it. It was a little red steering wheel game where you raced at Daytona, Talladega, and it was a lot of fun. Black and white graphics, but nonetheless, I rocked at that game. I wish I could find it.
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- FMecha_EXE
This is what stuff I get when I were a lad... and as I grew up.
(Most of them are rejectful stuff)
And this stuff. (Click it, you shall get what I meant if you do)
I too grew up with second Michael Schumacher era.
(Most of them are rejectful stuff)
And this stuff. (Click it, you shall get what I meant if you do)
I too grew up with second Michael Schumacher era.
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- Canada
And this stuff. (Click it, you shall get what I meant if you do)
I too grew up with second Michael Schumacher era.
I feel for you, it all looks like poorly crafted plastic.
