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Carmageddon - Kill, waste, win. (youtu.be)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This game was on everybody's naughty list. And that's why everyone wanted to play it. It's not the best racing game, with floaty handling, and moon inspired physics, but it was amazing with it's localized damage model, and the option to win a race not by racing fast, but destroying your opponents or even killing every pedestrian on the map (but who had the time and/or patience for that?)

If you had A Voodoo card this game would look even better, with full 3D acceleration.

https://www.mobygames.com/game/367/carmageddon/

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I remember buying this on day one. I took it home and downloaded the patch I think directly from the publishers. By default, you were running over zombies that had green blood. The patch put the normal red-blooded humans back in. In Germany, I think all the pedestrians were replaced by robots.

I'll never forget the old grannies and their Zimmer frames, "I was in the war!" I loved searching the map for the bonus that turned your vehicle to stone and then hunting down that bastard-armoured APC police tank! One of my favourite vehicles as it was so tough.

The cherry on the cake was when the 3Dfx patch arrived! Lovely stuff.