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Methamphetamine addiction: part 2
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The only videogame my dad has ever gotten into (other than Pong) was NFS II SE. He wouldn’t race, he just liked driving around at 35 MPH and looking at the scenery. He enjoyed this so much he bought a wheel and pedals for it. I loved this game as a kid, and the fact that I could play it with a wheel. The song “Headless Horse” off the soundtrack is pure 90s cool as well.
They didn’t really go well for me. I would only go back if I got future knowledge in my dreams. Like PTSD style flashbacks (would not want to be a 30 year old man stuck in a toddler’s body)
NFS 3 Hot Pursuit was my absolute jam when I was a younger man. The graphics were amazing for its time and it still ran like a dream on my trash homebrew.
That game made me want an MX5
Hot Pursuit was the best one IMO
My favorites where Underground and Underground 2. The Soundtrack was awesome.
The gameplay variety and music kept me playing for hours on end. Would still love to play with a good setup and friends.
I had NFS 1 through 3,
NFS on my C-64(nope, Test Drive, the memory is so fallible sometimes) and the later two on my PCs. All were great fun, but I do think Hot Pursuit was the favorite simply because of the way it was set up for game play variety. I can still see one of the tracks in my mind a lot, the road through the hilly area during the fall, the leaves being scattered as I blew past the speed traps. Obviously much clearer in nostalgia vision than it probably was.The first Need for Speed came out in 1994. And even if the grafics do look old, never ever did this run on a C64. It was a DOS game, maybe you confused it?
You are absolutely right. It was Test Drive I was thinking about.
I was about to chime in: Test Drive 2 was my jam back in those days.
I played these on pc. I even got the force feedback steering wheel for the 3. Loved playing cop in hot pursuit
Hot Pursuit and the Porche one were my favorites; I remember steering with a force feedback joystick.
Porsch Unleashed was quite a bit more simulator-like, at least the steering mechanics and coefficient of friction. I always kind of enjoyed the arcade physics of the original trio, without going completely slot-car, as keeping racing lines and risking shortcuts was still heavily rewarded. They all had really good soundtracks though, with that late '90s techno and grunge. Or at least that’s what my nostalgia tells me.
The italdesign ooh buddy
Personally Im partial to Underground 2
Riders on the stoooorm
Underground 2 was the best.
This one was gold. they’ve been trying to rechase this dragon for years.
to their credit, i’ll say that N4S rivals was pretty good.
and I forget the original on Xbox but that wasn’t bad either as I recall.
The next great one for me was Project Gotham Racing. Like with SSX the first one was gold while the 2nd was at times over the edge. Like with how THPS3 went to the edge, except that was the best
What do you mean by rechasing the dragon?
My guess would be: reliving your first time high, newer games will not live up to the nostalgia.
Mark my words: the Ford Indigo and GT90 are the future of cars. By the time the year 2000 gets here, we’ll all be driving them shits.
I had the special edition and had a great time playing it. My favourite was the F50. I still watch the intro video and listen to the menu theme once in awhile
The F50 is amazing. Modern Ferraris look so ugly.
The music of the SE was so good. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QvMimQ9YD1Y&list=PLE730706C5F8C6F79&index=7&pp=iAQB8AUB goes so hard
I LOVED this game! Every part of it, I spent so many hours playing it…
I used to watch the intro every time as I thought it was the coolest thing ever https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASUCj2Uyats
Playing this as an Aussie teenager, the Australia track was kinda hilarious, I was always like damn, this loop through that scenery should take about 32 hours minimum
Haha, that’s great! What related landmarks does that track allude to?
Been fucken ages, but it has the Sydney Harbour Bridge, plus a bunch of the cliffs on the freeway north of Sydney (which are sadly much less majestic since a freeway expansion on the early 2000s). Then it also has some red desert which is at least 1000km away, plus some old mining towns, which is somewhere in between.
I just looked up a lap of it on youtube though, and the graphics are waaaaay worse than I remember… I guess I had low standards in the 90s 😂
Underground 2 please
That stupid dinosaur… every. fucking. time.
NFS2 Special Edition was so good. My favourite of the series. The menu music alone were bangers.
Especially the Hollywood map to could access with a code from the menu. That rocked so hard.
Yeah, I remember. You can actually unlock it when doing this knockout championship. I also remember that knockout was kinda buggy when playing multiplayer.
