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NHRA Drag Racing game coming next year!!!

5 posts by 4 people · 28 Aug 1997 - 06 Sep 1997

Mark 28 Aug 1997#376361
I was just at the U.S. Nationals site, and I saw this link: http://www.usnationals.com/news/feature_day27_3.asp Tantrum Entertainment is going to be doing a drag racing simulator and debuting it at the Chief Auto Parts Winternationals next February!! All I can say is it's about time!!! If the game plays as good as the screenshot at the above link looks, it should be a big hit for hard core drag racing fans.
Kevin Earl 28 Aug 1997#376362
Quoted text (10 lines)> I was just at the U.S. Nationals site, and I saw this link: > http://www.usnationals.com/news/feature_day27_3.asp > Tantrum Entertainment is going to be doing a drag racing simulator and > debuting it at the Chief Auto Parts Winternationals next February!! > All I can say is it's about time!!! If the game plays as good as the > screenshot at the above link looks, it should be a big hit for hard > core drag racing fans.
FINALLY! I was hoping that someone would make an NHRA sim that's worth something and it looks like this is it. Good options, good graphics (at least that one screenshot I saw looks good), it appears to be the answer to what was sorely lacking for the computer racing fan for a good long time. Personally, I hope that Tantrum sells tons of these sims and the other players in the sim racing market (mainly Papyrus, but also Microprose and Microsoft) wish that they had listened to what the public was wanting and not what they thought the public needed as Tantrum rolls in the money. My only complaint is that there will only be Top Fuel and Funny Car in this version, no Pro Stock (my favorite class), but that's not that major of problem. It'll be fun to match race Force or Bernstein. There was talk of a sequel after they see how the first one does with more classes. One can only hope... Kevin
Doug Gordon 04 Sep 1997#376838
I missed the earlier discussions of this game. Can you fill me in on the details? This might be one way to "relive" an earlier life -- I used to drive an A/FD in the early 70's. Never made it to Top Fuel, but we ran in the 7.0's and high 190's which was pretty competitive (made it into the Pro Comp field at the '75 Indy Nationals). Will this game be widely distributed and available? Any web site for previews? -- Doug Gordon (Remove "nospam." from e-mail address) > That makes 3 of us. > Tobbe, Sweden > >> FINALLY! I was hoping that someone would make an NHRA sim that's > >>worth something and it looks like this is it. Good options, good > >>graphics (at least that one screenshot I saw looks good), it appears to > >>be the answer to what was sorely lacking for the computer racing fan for > >>a good long time. Personally, I hope that Tantrum sells tons of these > >>sims and the other players in the sim racing market (mainly Papyrus, but > >>also Microprose and Microsoft) wish that they had listened to what the > >>public was wanting and not what they thought the public needed as > >>Tantrum rolls in the money. > >That makes 2 of us!!! > >>My only complaint is that there will only be Top Fuel and Funny Car in > >>this version, no Pro Stock (my favorite class), but that's not that > >>major of problem. It'll be fun to match race Force or Bernstein. There > >>was talk of a sequel after they see how the first one does with more > >>classes. One can only hope... > >I like Pro Stocks myself (anyone but WJ), but I can live with the fuel > >classes. The way I took that interview, as soon as this first one hits > >the stores, they're going to be starting a version with all the > >sportsman classes. > >Now all we need is a good dirt track simulator :)
Kevin Earl 06 Sep 1997#376936
Quoted text (14 lines)> I missed the earlier discussions of this game. Can you fill me in on > the > details? This might be one way to "relive" an earlier life -- I used > to > drive an A/FD in the early 70's. Never made it to Top Fuel, but we ran > in > the 7.0's and high 190's which was pretty competitive (made it into > the Pro > Comp field at the '75 Indy Nationals). Will this game be widely > distributed > and available? Any web site for previews? > -- > Doug Gordon > (Remove "nospam." from e-mail address)
From what I saw on the news section of the www.usnationals.com last week, it will only have current Top Fuel Dragster and Funny Car drivers and cars, and should be widely available by Pomona. We can only hope... Kevin

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