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    gather round those of you who think they have "played" games before as i tell you of a tale about one game that blinded me with life like graphics. "hard driven' " on the mega drive it was/is a racing game if memory serves you race against no-one ...(awesome), ou can not pic/choose your car and there is only one track...(super awesome) which i will say spilts into two parts a SPEEDtrack and a stunt track..(super mega awesome). But heres the thing...**a silence falls**... it was 3D ....yead **and the crowd goes super mega awesome nasty plus wild**. It was like i was actually there in that one track in some type of car which i can only guess is the car off the front of the cartridge, and the slick mission objective to beat your previous time. but as it didnt remeber your previous time the mission changed to looking super-fly in the 3D world

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    Wow, that was, super awesome!

    I've never played this game, but I still don't think I am missing much.

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    Welcome to the boards, but since when has DP's Classic Gaming section become a gaming blogsphere? Never. With all of the issues in this post and given your user name of choice it doesn't appear much good will come of this. Sure, Hard Drivin' was a great game back when it was launched, today though it's frame rate is too low, very primative 3D graphics, clucky controls and limited gameplay the only true advantage of having this game is to simulate crashes in the loop.
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    I freely admit that i'm not up on all of the clasic games out there, but you can't really rag on on hard drivin since it was the first 3d racer... ever.

    It's especally impressive that they managed to fit it into an NES cart: http://lostlevels.org/
    (scroll down, i don't know how to like to that article)

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    Hard Driven is one of my guilty pleasures and I'm pretty sure I've posted that comment a couple other times previously on the board when the game got mentioned

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    Quote Originally Posted by ProgrammingAce View Post
    I freely admit that i'm not up on all of the clasic games out there, but you can't really rag on on hard drivin since it was the first 3d racer... ever.

    It's especally impressive that they managed to fit it into an NES cart: http://lostlevels.org/
    (scroll down, i don't know how to like to that article)
    I know and understand that but it just hasn't aged well at all. The first time I played it was in '96 on the Genesis at a friends house and we spent so many hours after school messing with that, playing Warlords and dial-up with Warcraft II. Ahh, those were the days of middle school.
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    I thought it was pretty cool that the arcade cabinet had a little ignition key. Didn't seem terribly amusing otherwise.
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    It's so awesome it can't be spelled correctly!!

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    Hard Drivin' has aged awfully, but I have to admit I thought it was kinda cool at the time. I have no idea what I was thinking.

    But, if you drove through the cow, it went "moo."

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    This is my all-time favorite Genesis Hard Drivin' review. Kinda stupid but I always laugh when he does the "Boogide! Boogide! Boogide!" thing:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCmUpLLdtLw

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    I corrected the spelling of the game in the subject so that future searches on this game will reveal this enlightening review.

    And the game hasn't AGED badly, it was PROGRAMMED badly. Sorry, but even back then, the game was known around here as Hardly Drivin'.

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    I loved that review too! The pwned part is always good for a laugh.

    Quote Originally Posted by norkusa View Post
    This is my all-time favorite Genesis Hard Drivin' review. Kinda stupid but I always laugh when he does the "Boogide! Boogide! Boogide!" thing:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCmUpLLdtLw

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    i just recieved this game in the mail off ebay , great genesis racer back in the day !!!

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    I must agree, I found that review to be surprisingly pleasant.

    +10 points for Goldstein!
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    Quote Originally Posted by digitalpress View Post
    Sorry, but even back then, the game was known around here as Hardly Drivin'.
    How did I never think of that?

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    I played the Genesis version and, more recently, the arcade version (via a compilation).

    Aside from its 3d-ness, the game is terrible.

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    What happened to the original poster, u02nb5?

    Anyway, I remember playing the arcade game back when it was released. At first, I thought it was really cool. After a few minutes, I realized it was an unplayable mess.

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    lol great post (im serious)

    this game was such a POS, a neighbor of mine had it back in the day and i tried it, for exactly 15 minutes, until i saw a dust bunny down the hall and decided to go play with that instead.

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    Quote Originally Posted by norkusa View Post
    This is my all-time favorite Genesis Hard Drivin' review. Kinda stupid but I always laugh when he does the "Boogide! Boogide! Boogide!" thing:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCmUpLLdtLw
    Stupid is, as stupid does. Haha, nice clip.

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    I liked the original arcade version. Mainly because I hadn't played anything remotely similar to it to that point. But I always had a hard time staying on the road. It's physics were a little too good for my tastes, mainly because I've always preferred a more arcade-y feel to a driving game. But still, a novel idea that has fleshed out into a staple of video games. I don't recall playing the Genesis/Mega Drive version, but I did put a lot of time into the Amiga version and then later the Atari Lynx one. On the Amiga, I could get fairly far into it, whereas with the Lynx game I could never get past the loop-de-loop. I usually hit the cow a few times and gave up.

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