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ZwackInc
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 Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2010 6:04 pm Post subject: Turn based Car Wars |
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www.dark-wind.com
It's pretty much the old Steve Jackson game of Car Wars in a multiplayer environment. Graphical style isn't great and it's quite expensive when you sub but it's pretty easy to get into and fun. Basic functionality's free so you can easily see if it's for you before you part with any cash.
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Brootal
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| Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2010 6:03 am Post subject: |
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I'll have to give that one a go.
The sub seems a bit high for what looks like an indie game, but I'll be giving it a burl
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Redeem
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| Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2010 2:08 pm Post subject: |
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| Carmagedden goes turn based. Funny. |
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Disaster Area
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| Redeem wrote: | | Carmagedden goes turn based. Funny. |
Tsssk Tssk Redeem, Car Wars has been out I would guess nearly 30yrs now. I remember it on the local games store shelves in a tacky plastic box. Not a bad game, but it took ages to do anything, and involved lots of square paper  |
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Brootal
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| Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2010 1:42 am Post subject: |
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| Disaster Area wrote: | | Redeem wrote: | | Carmagedden goes turn based. Funny. |
Tsssk Tssk Redeem, Car Wars has been out I would guess nearly 30yrs now. I remember it on the local games store shelves in a tacky plastic box. Not a bad game, but it took ages to do anything, and involved lots of square paper |
Lol, yep, tragically I've even got a copy gathering dust on the shelves. Lots of square gridded paper with pics of roads and towns and whatnot on it, and just like all games of that are rather slow and complex to wade through.
Lol at Carmageddon, I guess since they didn't come out on your precious spectrum, you never heard of autoduel or roadwar 2000. Mad Max has a lot to answer for 
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General Strike
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| Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2010 9:21 pm Post subject: |
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| Ah yes, I have fond memories of battlecars on the spectrum. Half an hour of loading and designing your own cars, then five minutes of anticlimax racing round a track dodging the mines! |
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Indricotherium
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Heh, I've got Car Wars and the Truck Stop supplement in a drawer as well!
Oh the memories... if I crack it open I'm sure my stats for my custom 'Rhino Bus of DOOM' (Anti-tank gun mounted on front, AP mines on sides, top, back and bottom and all the armour it could carry) is still in there. Even then I had my rhino fixation! 
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Disaster Area
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| Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2010 11:43 pm Post subject: |
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| Indricotherium wrote: | Heh, I've got Car Wars and the Truck Stop supplement in a drawer as well!
Oh the memories... if I crack it open I'm sure my stats for my custom 'Rhino Bus of DOOM' (Anti-tank gun mounted on front, AP mines on sides, top, back and bottom and all the armour it could carry) is still in there. Even then I had my rhino fixation! |
hehe - yeah I remember Truck Stop, with all the big articulated paper/card trucks. Can't remember if I played it though. I am guessing it couldn't do a 'bootlegger' though |
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Redeem
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The closes I got to 8-bit car games were Spy Hunter, Out Run (terrible conversion), and Turbo Esprit.
Ah the memories, makes me smile with glee! |
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Indricotherium
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| Quote: | | I am guessing it couldn't do a 'bootlegger' though |
No sir, it would not. Shove you right off the road though, hells yeah!
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