Racing games with pre-rendered tracks

MegaRace

MegaRace 2

Hot Wheels Stunt Track Driver

Toy Story Racer (GBC)

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I wanted to play stunt track racer so bad as a kid, but we were a mac family and my grandpa tried installing early mac/win compatability software to get it to run but it didn’t work. when I looked the game up later I was so let down lmao

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Technically not a racing game I guess since you never race against anyone. The videos were encoded as 2d polygons which is super unusual and a trick inherited from the devs’ demomaking days on the amiga.

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Whoa, that looks wild! Very clever trick.

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wow that looks crazy. i’ve never seen that technique before. the whole game is aesthetically incredibly confident.
looks like the fx programmer is in the comments of that vid, which is neat.

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Elon Musk worked on that game

also

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When I was a kid I had it and I was deeply impressed and fully convinced by the graphical effect.

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