Games where you can play in your city and/or state

[DigitalSpace]

Are there any games out there where you can play in the city you live in, or anywhere else in your state?

I live in Portland, OR. The first Tony Hawk's Pro Skater features the infamous Burnside skate park that's located here. Rampage World Tour has a Portland level (I'm guessing Rampage will probably be mentioned a lot). Also, Big Rigs Over The Road Racing (that crappy PC game that won Gamespot's worst game of the year award this year) claims that you drive from Portland to Miami, but with how misleading the game is I doubt it.

And then there are all those NBA games where I could play a home game as the Blazers.

So, what about you?

(I'm sure this will be easy for anyone in New York or California. )

[Jibbajaba]

I named my town in Animal Crossing after my hometown. Does that count?

I am from Fresno, CA. I currently live in a small city of about 60,000. I doubt that either city will ever be featured in a game. Being that I am from California, I guess GTA: San Andreas counts, right?

Chris

[sirgeoph]

BloodRayne starts out in the swamps of Louisiana and is filled with horrible cliche cajun accents.

Close enough, considering I don't live in the swamps, nor do I have an accent. Although, a lot of people think New Orleanians are from New York when they talk. What's up with that? Ah, fuggetaboutit.

[hezeuschrist]

For the sake of argument, I should hope to omit any (traditional) sports game from the discussion.

But I'm from rochester MI, nothing ever happens there :/

[chrisbid]

rampage

[Iron Draggon]

The only ones that I can think of off the top of my head are Turbo Outrun and US Racer. Both games let you race through Houston, Texas. But I don't recall any other games ever even mentioning it, except maybe Apollo 13 and Space Shuttle. For such a major city, it sure is overlooked alot. You would think that the 4th largest city in the nation would be mentioned alot more. But if any city in Texas is ever mentioned, it's usually Dallas. Because no one in this country has ever forgotten that stupid TV soap opera. I don't know why it's so fascinating for them, but for most people, Houston might just as well be called South Dallas. We're bigger than Dallas/Ft Worth & San Antonio combined now, but Dallas still gets all the attention and all the glory in Texas.

[boatofcar]

From Dallas: Behind the Scenes

Dallas started life in 1978 and grew to become one of the most watched Television series of all time.


In1985 Leonard Katzman the Executive Producer, gave a rare interview to Barry Norman, revealing some behind the scenes secrets of Dallas, including why he thinks Dallas was a big success and his view of Dynasty


Along with Leonard Katzman, both Linda Gray and Larry Hagman are interviewed, giving an insight into the top soap


Barry : I hear Dallas is shown in Beirut?


Larry : I read the other day about the hostages who would be incarcerated in this room, the ones they took away from the plane and the young terrorists would come in and they would all lye down on these mattresses and watch Dallas and they said they loved JR, they loved this character. They asked the hostages if they had ever been to Dallas and they said no, and they said what you haven't been to Dallas that's the most famous place in the world.

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Yes, I'm that bored

[Iron Draggon]

SIGH... the power of TV...

[SoulBlazer]

Etenerl Darkness takes place here in Rhode Island.

But besides sports games, that's the only one I can think off at the moment. Oh, a bunch of Civil War/US History related games as well.

[NeoZeedeater]

Skitchin' has Vancouver, BC which is where I live.

[pacmanhat]

THPS 1 and Rampage both have Minneapolis, which I'm a hop skip and jump from. I suppose that counts.

[imanerd0011]

There isn't a game that features my town, and I'm 99.99% sure there NEVER will be. I live in NY though, so there are tons of games that feature NY in them. I can think of TMNT 3, Double Dribble (hey... they play at the Knicks homecourt, right? )

[FlufflePuff]

Dragon Warrior 3 has a town named Village of Soo. Looking at the map, this geographically coincides with my hometown of Sault Ste. Marie, MI. Sault Ste. Marie is often shorted to the Sault or the Soo. I've never made it far enough into DW3 to actually see the Soo, but I somehow doubt they bothered to recreate the landmarks.

[Lord007]

I believe in the game Liberty or Death, one of the two territories for Connecticut is Norwich where I live. That's probably about it...

[retroman]

ya....any sports game....

[Famidrive-16]

California Speed
San Fransisco Rush

[Iron Draggon]

ya....any sports game....

Good one! I didn't even think about all those! But that's kinda cheating for most of us in the major cities. BTW, I wish the Aeros were an NHL team!

[Quintracker]

I would be very surprised if any game took place in West Virginia.

[Iron Draggon]

I would be very surprised if any game took place in West Virginia.

Deliverance maybe? Sorry, had to say it. But I can do that, my mom is from WV.

[Leo_A]

MS Flight Simulator has the local airport in my backyard in it.

NASCAR games and Grand Prix Legends have Watkins Glen in them for a race course.

I have various rail lines in this state thanks to add-ons for MS Train Simulator.

Think that's it.

"I've never made it far enough into DW3 to actually see the Soo, but I somehow doubt they bothered to recreate the landmarks."

What landmarks? The locks?