Kickstarter: 90's Arcade Racer

TL · January 22, 2013, 19:38:57 PM

[align=center:3pt6etdj][size=180]A racing game inspired by the great arcade racers of the 90's [/size]

Launched: Jan 18, 2013
Funding ends: Feb 17, 2013

[size=140]This is a an arcade racing game for PC, Mac, Linux and hopefully OUYA based on games that I loved playing in the arcades growing up.You could say it's inspired by those games, maybe a tribute to them or simply a rip off, any of these could be true!

The three that ate up most of my coins where Scud Race, Daytona USA and Indy 500, my goal is to recreate the feeling these games evoked from players by maintaining the colourful, vibrant look and sense of speed but with modern visuals and car handling models.[/size]

[size=180]Watch video & more info here![/size][/align:3pt6etdj]

TrekMD · January 22, 2013, 20:02:01 PM

That looks great!Â

Shadowrunner · February 12, 2013, 17:17:32 PM

Just reading about this. It's been successfully funded and it's now coming to Wii U also.
Cool looking game!

TL · February 12, 2013, 18:36:33 PM

Great news!Â

nakamura · February 12, 2013, 18:55:10 PM

It's utterly ridiculous that we are having to make the games we want to play ourselves now.

Kudos to the guy making the thing. It looks great.

DreamcastRIP · February 12, 2013, 20:07:27 PM

Quote from: "nakamura"It's utterly ridiculous that we are having to make the games we want to play ourselves now.

A tad over-dramatic when there's been the likes of the following games released these past few years,

OutRun 2006: Coast 2 Coast
OutRun Online Arcade
Sega Rally (Sega Rally Revo, as it's known in North America)
Sega Rally Online Arcade
Daytona USA (HD update)
Crazy Taxi (marginally tarted up re-release)
Sega Racing Classic (arcade coin-op)

And that's just the retro racing/driving videogames from one publisher, Sega. There may be other games from them too that I'm not remembering right now.

nakamura · February 12, 2013, 20:13:37 PM

Perhaps but it's hard to deny that titles the community have been clamouring for years are not being made by developers, even for XLBA etc.

No port of Scud Race or decent ports of Daytona or Sega Rally. Streets of Rage Remake should have been snapped up. There is a Metroid 2 remake floating around that could be snapped up by Nintendo. No new F-Zero or Starfox shooter.
Kickstarter has seemed to help matters with things like Shadowrun and Elite appearing.

TL · February 12, 2013, 20:20:23 PM

Quote from: "nakamura"Perhaps but it's hard to deny that titles the community have been clamouring for years are not being made by developers, even for XLBA etc.

No port of Scud Race or decent ports of Daytona or Sega Rally. Streets of Rage Remake should have been snapped up. There is a Metroid 2 remake floating around that could be snapped up by Nintendo. No new F-Zero or Starfox shooter.
Kickstarter has seemed to help matters with things like Shadowrun and Elite appearing.

Yeah totally agree

nakamura · February 12, 2013, 20:21:59 PM

Argh Daytona has been done! Sorry I forgot.Â :-[

DreamcastRIP · February 12, 2013, 20:30:16 PM

Quote from: "nakamura"Argh Daytona has been done! Sorry I forgot.Â

Yes, it's on that list of games I mentioned too. D'oh!

nakamura · February 12, 2013, 20:34:05 PM

Haha! Sorry, I had multiple things going on.

I'm not just picking at Sega though like I said in my reply. There are titles that could be made for a fairly low budget and at least be released digitally and do pretty well I personally feel. That Streets of Rage remake was ripe for an XBLA or PSN release. 1200 points would have been well worth it. Give the guys who coded it a % of the profits and everyone is happy.

DreamcastRIP · February 12, 2013, 20:47:03 PM

Quote from: "nakamura"... That Streets of Rage remake was ripe for an XBLA or PSN release. 1200 points would have been well worth it. Give the guys who coded it a % of the profits and everyone is happy.

Sounds great in theory, yes.

Setting such a precedent may lead to a situation the publishers don't find desirable. Namely that it'd likely motivate a ton of other folk to hack publishers' IP in the hope of being granted the same sort of deal. The 'net would soon be awash with even more hacks and unsolicited 'updates' of IP that the legal owners of would understandably not wish to see happen.

So, yes, I understand why Sega and other publishers don't wish to in any way officially approve of such things. Sure, keyboard warriors of teh internets can piss and moan all they want when the likes of Streets of Rage Remake are clamped down on but que sera, sera.

nakamura · February 12, 2013, 20:48:06 PM

Yeah I get what you are saying it would just be nice that's all.