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The Last Ridge Racer

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Re: The Last Ridge Racer

#32
In 1993 I had my 11th birthday party at a bowling alley and they had a Ridge Racer cabinet. Seeing those graphics completely rearranged my molecules. I had no idea that a video game could look so realistic.

Re: The Last Ridge Racer

#34

I remember the Ridge Racer installation at Codona's in Aberdeen, from when I was part of a team that ran a prototype networked computer games cafe on the other side of the burger bar. I might if I dig around still have some video of people playing it from a promo reel I shot!

Please do share it with the arcade blogger

Re: The Last Ridge Racer

#36

I remember the Ridge Racer installation at Codona's in Aberdeen, from when I was part of a team that ran a prototype networked computer games cafe on the other side of the burger bar. I might if I dig around still have some video of people playing it from a promo reel I shot!

Please do share it with the arcade blogger

If I find it I will.

Re: The Last Ridge Racer

#38

I love using the left 40% of my display to show an image of a car while the actual blog post now requires more scrolling and looks 'meatier'. Awful UX.

Not to state the bleedin' obvious, but I will - the point of the UX is that the site adapts to the device being used. And it adapts well. The large image on the left in desktop mode is certainly different, but I like the execution personally.

Re: The Last Ridge Racer

#39
post #2

I just remember the ps1 version. It was quite a feat to get the black car :)

Defeating the black and the white car is probably my greatest video game achievement (though that's not saying much0. Probably wouldn't have been possible without the twisty controller.

Oh wow, I had one too and completely forgot about it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeGcon

Re: The Last Ridge Racer

#40
post #17
post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I see we’ve crossed the PlayStation nostalgia event horizon, just as we crossed the NES and SNES ones before.

And the 2600 before that.

With that one, I remember using the rotary controller to catch bombs in buckets of water. I had to defocus my eyes to watch the entire screen at once. :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaboom!_(video_game)

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