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Re: The Monster Truck Madness 2 site is unchanged from 1998

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Motocross Madness 2 is also still up: http://www.microsoft.com/games/motocross2/ And this list wouldn't be complete without Midtown Madness (1?) http://www.microsoft.com/games/midtown/ [edit] I'm sure you can find a bunch of others by browsing through the wayback machine ( http://web.archive.org/web/19980214201021/http://microsoft.c... ), like http://www.microsoft.com/games/outwars/

Motocross Madness and Midtown Madness were both such fundamental pieces of my childhood. I wish I could convey the amount of nostalgia I have. Motocross Madness was the first time I actively tried to use a computer to 'do' something. I had to program my own tracks, and it was insanely hard at the time, but god were those the glory days.

I'm with you that game was amazing. The track designer was such fun. Really wish they would have continued the series. The track designer was really easy to learn I feel compared to the current modding tools that come with games. And it had enough stuff to keep me for a long while. Must have played that game for a few years.

Re: The Monster Truck Madness 2 site is unchanged from 1998

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The System Requirements brought back memories: * Multimedia PC with a Pentium 133 or higher processor * Microsoft® Windows® 95 operating system or Windows NT® Workstation operating system version 4.0 with Service Pack 3 * 16 MB of RAM; 32MB recommended * 30 MB of available hard-disk space; 110 MB recommended * Quad-speed CD-ROM drive; 6x recommended * Super VGA, 16-bit color monitor * Microsoft Mouse or compatible po…

I love this review[0] on Amazon:

>The system requirements are a bit steep, but if your computer can handle the game, you'll find this an extremely fun game to play.

[0]http://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Monster-Truck-Madness-2-PC/p...

Re: The Monster Truck Madness 2 site is unchanged from 1998

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Motocross Madness 2 is also still up: http://www.microsoft.com/games/motocross2/ And this list wouldn't be complete without Midtown Madness (1?) http://www.microsoft.com/games/midtown/ [edit] I'm sure you can find a bunch of others by browsing through the wayback machine ( http://web.archive.org/web/19980214201021/http://microsoft.c... ), like http://www.microsoft.com/games/outwars/

Wow. Motocross Madness brings back some incredible memories. I had a force-feedback controller with it too. Loved that moving the controller actually moved the bike. Good times.

Re: The Monster Truck Madness 2 site is unchanged from 1998

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post #57
post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Now compare this with modern mobile devices which run slowly and can do a fraction of what PCs were able to do 15 years ago having 10x lower clock rates.

Exactly. Yet every media out there says that "mobile gaming is the future - it will soon catch up with what the consoles and PC can do". Ha!

Interactive gaming with VR? Maybe. Mobile gaming? I'll eat my hat when that happens.

Re: The Monster Truck Madness 2 site is unchanged from 1998

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post #56

An HTML file virtually unchanged in fifteen years still renders cleanly in a modern browser. Backwards compatibility across open standards is a wonderful thing.

I think we miss part of the user experience of having only 640x480 pixels.

Re: The Monster Truck Madness 2 site is unchanged from 1998

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post #48

The System Requirements brought back memories: * Multimedia PC with a Pentium 133 or higher processor * Microsoft® Windows® 95 operating system or Windows NT® Workstation operating system version 4.0 with Service Pack 3 * 16 MB of RAM; 32MB recommended * 30 MB of available hard-disk space; 110 MB recommended * Quad-speed CD-ROM drive; 6x recommended * Super VGA, 16-bit color monitor * Microsoft Mouse or compatible po…

Now compare this with modern mobile devices which run slowly and can do a fraction of what PCs were able to do 15 years ago having 10x lower clock rates.

What 'modern' mobile devices are you using?
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