Iron Draggon
10-30-2006, 01:11 PM
from the wiki at wikipedia:
"Top Gear Rally is a rally game for the Nintendo 64, Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance. It features six tracks. It has a feature that allows the user to give their virtual cars custom paint jobs. Although the name stayed the same, the developers changed between consoles. As a result, the games are very different depending on the platform, but they often have similar features such as the paint shop.
The Nintendo 64 edition of Top Gear Rally has an electronic MIDI soundtrack composed by the same artist as the older Super Nintendo Top Gear releases. The game features a realistic physics model with functioning suspension, a relatively new gameplay development for the time. The graphics were very advanced at the time of the game's release, and as a result the game will slow down dramatically if more than 3 cars are shown at once. Kemco/Boss Games did not have licenses to use the real car names so the names are somewhat disguised within the game. However, an advantage to this is they can use car damage (although the damage does not affect performance). The game's release was met with mixed reviews from journalists and gamers alike. This version of Top Gear Rally was also released as a PC title called Boss Rally."
I didn't know that Top Gear Rally and Boss Rally were the same game... and actually they aren't exactly the same, but the two games certainly have alot of stuff in common...
compare these screenshots:
http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/screenshots/9/199069/topgear_screen001.jpg
http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/screenshots/9/199069/topgear_screen005.jpg
http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/screenshots/5/196805/bossraly_screen001.jpg
http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/screenshots/5/196805/bossraly_screen002.jpg
the first two are from Top Gear Rally... the last two are from Boss Rally... you can tell that they're both taken in roughly the same areas of the two games, but you can also tell that the PC version is alot more detailed than the N64 version... so it's more like enhanced Top Gear Rally remix...
I don't own an N64 and a copy of Top Gear Rally anymore, but I used to... I remember it being alot of fun... I enjoyed the ability to customize the car graphics the most though... my preferred car was the Toyota Celica Supra, customized with my name on the back bumper... MONROE... I still had that car saved on the cart when I sold it and my N64... I figure whoever bought it prolly thought that the Monroe on the back bumper was an ad for Monroe shock absorbers...
anyhow, I just bought a copy of Boss Rally for the PC on ebay for practically nothing... only $1 plus shipping for a brand new factory sealed retail box... yes I've read the reviews... so it's frustrating and it hella sucks... I figure that in itself is all the more reason to own it, especially when I can obtain it cheaply... games like that fade away into obscurity and sometimes end up becoming rarities... don't care if that happens or not... I always loved Top Gear Rally on the N64... so now I'm gonna own the PC version...
"Top Gear Rally is a rally game for the Nintendo 64, Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance. It features six tracks. It has a feature that allows the user to give their virtual cars custom paint jobs. Although the name stayed the same, the developers changed between consoles. As a result, the games are very different depending on the platform, but they often have similar features such as the paint shop.
The Nintendo 64 edition of Top Gear Rally has an electronic MIDI soundtrack composed by the same artist as the older Super Nintendo Top Gear releases. The game features a realistic physics model with functioning suspension, a relatively new gameplay development for the time. The graphics were very advanced at the time of the game's release, and as a result the game will slow down dramatically if more than 3 cars are shown at once. Kemco/Boss Games did not have licenses to use the real car names so the names are somewhat disguised within the game. However, an advantage to this is they can use car damage (although the damage does not affect performance). The game's release was met with mixed reviews from journalists and gamers alike. This version of Top Gear Rally was also released as a PC title called Boss Rally."
I didn't know that Top Gear Rally and Boss Rally were the same game... and actually they aren't exactly the same, but the two games certainly have alot of stuff in common...
compare these screenshots:
http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/screenshots/9/199069/topgear_screen001.jpg
http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/screenshots/9/199069/topgear_screen005.jpg
http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/screenshots/5/196805/bossraly_screen001.jpg
http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/screenshots/5/196805/bossraly_screen002.jpg
the first two are from Top Gear Rally... the last two are from Boss Rally... you can tell that they're both taken in roughly the same areas of the two games, but you can also tell that the PC version is alot more detailed than the N64 version... so it's more like enhanced Top Gear Rally remix...
I don't own an N64 and a copy of Top Gear Rally anymore, but I used to... I remember it being alot of fun... I enjoyed the ability to customize the car graphics the most though... my preferred car was the Toyota Celica Supra, customized with my name on the back bumper... MONROE... I still had that car saved on the cart when I sold it and my N64... I figure whoever bought it prolly thought that the Monroe on the back bumper was an ad for Monroe shock absorbers...
anyhow, I just bought a copy of Boss Rally for the PC on ebay for practically nothing... only $1 plus shipping for a brand new factory sealed retail box... yes I've read the reviews... so it's frustrating and it hella sucks... I figure that in itself is all the more reason to own it, especially when I can obtain it cheaply... games like that fade away into obscurity and sometimes end up becoming rarities... don't care if that happens or not... I always loved Top Gear Rally on the N64... so now I'm gonna own the PC version...