one of the best in its genre, it's amazing how progress has gone in inrah over the past 25 years, just one generation. Now it is a complete and absolute old school, which in a sense, and its charm. By the way, my son also loves to play this game, and has repeatedly seen teenagers or younger ones play it. The game, if not for the graphics itself, is very exciting.
Absolutely delicious, far superior music than PC sound card (but pc speaker had something special because they achieved that with a such limited audio device)
I grew up with this game, fond memories of me and my younger brother playing this when I was just 8 years old. I used to always let him win 😊 The music has still stayed with me all these years, still hum the tunes today.
Okay, I have gone WAY too long not knowing the "Desert Loading" tune from Lotus III is the Tooting Common arrangement featured in Zool's SNES port. And props on finishing with Space Ninja, easily his most recognisable tune thanks to the gremlin ninja too. Lotus III was just a banger OST from start to finish, Phelan did not hold back for this game. What a bop.
By far the most gorgeous menu interface in any game ever. So simple and clean, perfect sprites and usage of colors. One of the top games from my childhood.
I've always liked Lotus cars - whatever their problems, they're just the automobile equivalent of my local footie team - and that attachment honestly started with game. My favourite part about it though was not the music, or RECS, or even the actual cars - it was the title screen! The way it just filled up the whole monitor couldn't help but stun me every time I loaded the game. It promised that you were about to play THE ULTIMATE CHALLENGE, and aged 7 years old, I believed it.
Lol you just did a complete play by play of my thoughts and feelings of this game. I can track my love of cars and games back to this single game series - watching the intro screen gave me full on goosebumps when that engine sound revs up.
I remember playing this game against my brother in the 90ies on Amiga. I almost beat him, but then suddenly on a hill he switched into a stronger gear and overtook me. I never drive with auto-transmission since then!
Lotus 2 was the best as you said. I had the demo version and later the complete game. As for the slowdowns, yes it has in the whdload version while it runs better with the disks :-/
Emulator name? Can't capture Amiga video out in a digital format except for a video camera recording the CRT which would give a lot of flicker/distortion and other artifacts... There are no slowdowns in Lotus 1 2 or 3. Except in split screen mode - local PvP (Don't remember which one) but that's because the system has to render twice the graphics per video frame. I had a recording somewhere, but I probably deleted it because my video camera ran out of storage. I will try to dig it out from one of my SD cards. I'm using an accel (50MHz 030 GoldTop on A1200), but it doesn't speed any games up. They run at their original speeds.
@@retrofan7164 We don't really know, as it was a NDOS format disk, wasn't it? So they probably squashed more onto the disk as usual with custom formats.
Fantastic game! The intro sound, several years after, heard here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_rE1HhslE6U.html at about 40 seconds...
It was important to put the Amiga in NTSC mode (using custom bootdisk or freezer or bootmenu on the ECS+ Amigas) for maaany games! the additional 20% FPS really make a big difference!
The A1200 would explain no slowdowns I suppose. That's why I'm saving up for an A600 for OSC/ECS - NO AGA. Out of the number of demos and games that I've tested (6GB HDD image of software) several have AGA related glitches. Sushi Boyz - Ghosttown for example. It just doesn't look right on AGA amiga. There is no workaround in software. Right around the part "insert coin" the graphics looks all messed up. Many others. I just don't have a list. Is it possible that the games run too fast? I have not been able to time the frames (most are 50HZ PAL).
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This lotus III is not the best, Lotus 2 has superior smoother animation and with better feels of speed, they just overloaded too much useless things on this Lotus III, they should have kept it simple as it was in Lotus 2. Sometimes, i dont understand people who made a thing very good orignally and destroy it into another series, keep quality damn!!!
I honestly find it annoying how if the difficulty is above 90 on a Sprint Race, the AI are unbeatable like the one at 1:42:34 a nearly perfect performance and you barely held onto 8th
It's a common problem with racers from that era. Jaguar XJ220 on Amiga is one of the worst offenders - virtually impossible to beat the AI on certain tracks.
? It means the emulation works properly. This game had a low framerate on an A500. It was a flaw of the original game. Emulation isn't there to correct it (even if it can).
@@bubbanstix2536 if that's so then my bad. usually people set the cpu speed too slow on dos box and it stutters but as this is amiga it's propably different.
@@kukkapurkkiteam Lotus III was disappointing for its lower framerate and many fans considered the second game better for that reason. Still, it's on amiga and I'm not sure the framerate was very high in the second game either.
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