Driving Crazy - Stunts
Published on March 24, 2019 2:56 PM
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Now, I'm willing to bet you guys have never heard of this game. Stunts was a PC driving game released by Broderbound back in 1990. In it, you race other cars on stunt tracks, doing jumps and loops, etc. It's in "3D", and was quite impressive at the time. I never owned it, but I use to play it at my friend's house after school. I was a little obsessed with it. 

The key to it though, the feature that made it truly great, was that it had a track editor where you could make your own stunt tracks. I fooled around with this a lot, making my own crazy tracks that were impossible to complete. 

Besides screwing around with Basic programming when I was very young, this was the first opportunity I had to be really creative with a video game,, and I was thrilled with it. I loved making my own tracks. 

The actual driving was pretty bad though. The car didn't control too well, and most of the time, I would spin off the road or crash. I guess it was good for the time though. 

But that track editor... SO fun. 

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Posted on March 24, 2019 4:16 PM

It kind of reminds me of the early 3-D arcade racing games Hard Drivin' and Stunt Drivin'.

Posted on March 24, 2019 5:30 PM

Yeah it’s a lot like Hard Drivin’

Posted on March 24, 2019 4:25 PM

I just got home to learn the rattling sound underneath my car was my broken tailpipe that is pretty much severed from the pipe under my car. Interesting coincidence. lol

Posted on March 24, 2019 5:30 PM

Shouldn’t have jumped that ramp! Tongue Out

Posted on March 25, 2019 2:42 AM

Maybe the inspiration for the Stuntman series a decade later. I played a little bit of that. 

Posted on March 25, 2019 3:29 AM

Maybe. In retrospect, this game is very rudimentary.