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.
The Monster Truck Madness 2 site is unchanged from 1998
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Re: The Monster Truck Madness 2 site is unchanged from 1998
#62Re: The Monster Truck Madness 2 site is unchanged from 1998
#63I see your monster truck madness website, and I raise you the Space Jam website, unchanged since 1996 http://www2.warnerbros.com/spacejam/movie/jam.htm
Re: The Monster Truck Madness 2 site is unchanged from 1998
#64For being a 15 year old game I'm surprised at the amount of features it has (instant replay, view from other trucks, etc.)
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#65The 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…
>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
#66I used to love this game. Wonder why they keep these sites up? I mean looking at the domain it's hardly buried deep within the MS site...
Re: The Monster Truck Madness 2 site is unchanged from 1998
#67Motocross 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/
Re: The Monster Truck Madness 2 site is unchanged from 1998
#68Earlier 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!
Re: The Monster Truck Madness 2 site is unchanged from 1998
#69An HTML file virtually unchanged in fifteen years still renders cleanly in a modern browser. Backwards compatibility across open standards is a wonderful thing.
Re: The Monster Truck Madness 2 site is unchanged from 1998
#70The 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.