Amiga Exclusive Driving Games 

Yeah, cool little game!

Haha glad I could remind you. Great music! downloads.khinsider.com/game-soundtracks/album/all-terrain-racing-amiga/02_Track%2520Select%2520%2520Sport.mp3

Good times! :)

Thanks, Scott. Yes, some wildly varying levels of quality here.

The reason that they were exclusive to the Amiga was either because they came quite late in the day (e.g. Roadkill and Xtreme Racing were both 1995 releases I think) and so didn't get much attention because they weren't technically cutting edge and the Amiga was a forgotten computer, or alternatively because they were of very poor quality. Most of the very poor games, like Flying High, came later in the Amiga's lifetime when only amateurs were releasing games on the Amiga and of course most of these amateurs had limited talent.

Crazy, right!

I seem to remember the tech demo running decently on our A1200, which only had Fast RAM in the trapdoor (either 2MB or 4MB of Fast RAM). It was probably a little bit jerky but not much, I was impressed with it. I wasn't aware that it had actually been released in the end.

VirtualGP does what no other Amiga 3D game does: it runs smoothly in 320x512 (!) pixels resolution. i play it frequently on my A1200/68040@40MHz. Author Paolo Cattani a hero, genius. :-)

Thank you! Ah, wish I'd kept may Amiga that long. I lost it in tragic circumstances. But went back and have now had an A1200 for about 8 years.

Definitely one of the best here. Love the graphics.

Amazing what the Amiga could do, and such a variety of styles here. Happy New Year!

Thank you! Yes, the voice samples really add some spice to the game, don't they. The manual states it has four circuits, but doesn't mention whether they are also played in reverse.

Max Rally actually looks pretty good, and if that had come out 5 or 6 years earlier it would surely have gotten the recognition it seems to deserve. At the time when I saw it in magazines (never got to play a demo, unfortunately) I was put off by the car sprites, which don't look very exciting, and I wrote it off as probably another amateurish effort that wasn't worth bothering with. Appraising the visuals now I can recognise that the graphics are rather smart looking, and things like the pace of the car and view distance seem to be pretty much spot on. The moving platforms add a bit of variation to the gameplay and I bet they would have made for some very fun and frustrating two player sessions. I was a satisfied owner of Xtreme Racing and Roadkill. I didn't play Xtreme Racing at its highest resolution, but with only a bit of Fast Ram added an A1200 was considerably faster and we had either 2mb or 4mb of Fast RAM, so I enjoyed it. Roadkill had those excellent voice samples, coupled with the weapons and other pick ups they made it very fun, but the paucity of different tracks, the restriction to right angled turns and most of all the lack of a two player mode were a bit disappointing. Overall though I would rate Roadkill as at least a 75% game, Xtreme Racing about 80%.

Yeah, Lotus was brilliant.

Merry Christmas, Steve! Ah, that's not what I expected, but thanks for clarifying.

Yeah, that is interesting!

Yes, such a variety of genres/generations on the Amiga. It really was the greatest.

Roadkill is great. I think max Rally is definitely worth a go if you like that style.

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Thanks! Yeah, max Rally is definitely worth checking out; one of the best here.

I was a big fan of Super Cars 2, very fun in multiplayer in particular and I was a fan of the graphics and track design. Lotus was good, more so in the second and third iterations than the first. They were very fast and smooth, fairly simple but smart looking graphics with some nice effects from wind and snow etc, and the sound effects and music were fantastic. Skidmarks was great too, a really nice surprise when I came across that on a coverdisk, so much so that I bought it and the sequel Super Skidmarks.

Lotus are the best racing games for Amiga.

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Awesome. So much quality to be found on the Amiga. It's the GOAT!

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Thank you!

Thanks, Rob.Yeah, that's a cool idea.

Fun indeed!

Thanks, Steve!

Yep, trying to make the Amiga do things it wasn't really designed to do, and moreover I think the people left trying out these things were unfortunately rather inexperienced (Flying High being a prime example, which got panned in the magazines even at a time when they were usually far too generous to new releases). But the F1 effort looked good to me, even if it was never a fully fleshed out game that I am aware of.

Roadkill is definitely one of the best here!

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Defo.

I liked that one, but pretty sure it also came out on ST.

All the music is from the games shown, unless otherwise stated. So, that's from F17 Challenge.

@@onaretrotip thx it seems there are 2 versions i assume, the cd32 version i couldnt find on youtube, as this one sounds very different ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-MEEWskmYpwA.html

@@musicotaku666 I think the one in the video is the 'World Championship' music.

It was indeed. That was one that was originally on the list but I excluded.

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If only. You'd be rich!