Papy's SODA Racing: $12.99 @ Babbages

I was in a Babbages today (Sun 1/18) in Maryland and they had half-a-dozen copies of Papyrus's SODA Racing for $12.99 .. I thought it was a mistake, but they sold it to me without questions for that price. Enjoy ...

You got a sweet deal! I paid about $45 at best buy.

-/-WW >I was in a Babbages today (Sun 1/18) in Maryland and they had >half-a-dozen copies of Papyrus's SODA Racing for $12.99 .. I thought it >was a mistake, but they sold it to me without questions for that price. >Enjoy ...

>>I was in a Babbages today (Sun 1/18) in Maryland and they had >>half-a-dozen copies of Papyrus's SODA Racing for $12.99 .. I thought it >>was a mistake, but they sold it to me without questions for that price. What ever happened to the 3dfx patch for thsi game? Haven't heard a peep about it. Joe

I just bought it tonight for $12.99 at a Babbages in Harrisburg, Pa. Therefore, it appears maybe all of the Babbages are reducing the price. I asked the clerk about it, but he was surprised at the price decrease also. For $12.99 I figured I don't have much to loose.

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> Where in MD? I will go today...Please respond to > -/-WW > >I was in a Babbages today (Sun 1/18) in Maryland and they had > >half-a-dozen copies of Papyrus's SODA Racing for $12.99 .. I thought > it > >was a mistake, but they sold it to me without questions for that > price. > >Enjoy ...

Thanks for the tip!! It's true, I bought mine at the Babbage's in Montgomery Mall in Bethesda, MD for $12.99. They had about 2 left.

THANKS I got the last one after calling all the Babbage's in the Milwaukee area and having them hold it for me.The box was marked down from 59.99 Does the game suck that bad ? or maybe the rumored patch will never come (like nascar)and everyone knows it . >I was in a Babbages today (Sun 1/18) in Maryland and they had >half-a-dozen copies of Papyrus's SODA Racing for $12.99 .. I thought it >was a mistake, but they sold it to me without questions for that price. >Enjoy ...

I saw it for that price at the Montclair Mall in Montclair (southern) California. Very surprising, and IMHO an unbelievable bargain! Patrick.

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> I just bought it tonight for $12.99 at a Babbages in Harrisburg, Pa. > Therefore, it appears maybe all of the Babbages are reducing the price. > I asked the clerk about it, but he was surprised at the price decrease > also. For $12.99 I figured I don't have much to loose. > > Where in MD? I will go today...Please respond to > > -/-WW > > >I was in a Babbages today (Sun 1/18) in Maryland and they had > > >half-a-dozen copies of Papyrus's SODA Racing for $12.99 .. I thought > > it > > >was a mistake, but they sold it to me without questions for that > > price. > > >Enjoy ...

Darn. Didn't even have it at my local Babbages.

Software Etc which owns Babbages also had Soda for $12.99. Go get'em! dave henrie > Darn. Didn't even have it at my local Babbages. > >I just bought it tonight for $12.99 at a Babbages in Harrisburg, Pa. > >Therefore, it appears maybe all of the Babbages are reducing the price. > >I asked the clerk about it, but he was surprised at the price decrease > >also. For $12.99 I figured I don't have much to loose.

Thanks to Doug and the rest of you for posting about this. I saw Doug's message and stopped into my local Babbage's (Albany, NY) earlier this week, but the one copy of the game they had was marked full price, so I figured that it was just a local discount. After seeing some more posts from around the U.S., I went in again yesterday. It was still marked $54.99, but I asked the cashier to scan it to check the price, as I had heard it had been discounted. His eyes popped out in surprise and he said, "Man, that's a pretty good deal!!!". "Just one of the wonders of the Internet" I said, as I took home my prize... :) Before you send me UCE, I know what you're thinking... Did he complain to five or six postmasters last month? Now, you must ask yourself one question: "Do I feel lucky?" Well, do you, punk?

The only reason you guy are buying this piece of garbage is cause it's new. If it was 18 months old and $12.99 you wouldn't touch it.

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> > THANKS > > I got the last one after calling all the Babbage's in the Milwaukee area > > and having them hold it for me.The box was marked down from 59.99 > > Does the game suck that bad ? or maybe the rumored patch will > > never come (like nascar)and everyone knows it . > Few reasons. > Nitch market. It is not Nascar racing and for that reason, it is not going > to sell as much. > People that did buy it and did not like it probably gave up on it too fast. > I found the more I played SODA, the more fun I had. It is not an easy sim > to be good at. You just can't load up a car and start racing competitivly. > You will spend alot of time spinning of the track and getting lapped by the > AI. This frustrates the basic casual race sim buyer. > High system requirements. Great for Rendition users but pretty tough on > everyone else. > Brian

Works fine on a PII300 without a Rendition ;-) Cheers, Richard

>The only reason you guy are buying this piece of garbage is cause it's >new. If it was 18 months old and $12.99 you wouldn't touch it. "The Nerve" it's like the third time I see your bashing about SODA Off-Road Racing. Please shut up and go back racing at POD. Or Cart:PR. Fact. SODA is the racing simulator that is the closest to real racing. Probably to difficult for you. And your addition to this thread (and my reply to your idiot and immature reply also) is helping at not this newsgroup, witch principal reason of living is to help people. Hello to all btw. * Fran?ois Mnard * With great respect, * May the downforce be with you, * Good race at the Brickyard, (-o-) * <ymenard> on NROS, sponsored by * http://www.awpss.com/ * SimRacing director, AWPSS * Official Mentally retarded guy of r.a.s. * Excuse me for my English (I'm French speaking) * Excuse me for my provocative posts and reply's <g> begin 666 ymenard.vcf M0D5'24XZ5D-!4D0-"DXZ3>EN87)D.T9R86[G;VES.TXN#0I&3CIY;65N87)D M3#M#14Q,.U9/24-%.DXO00T*5$5,.TA/344[1D%8.DXO00T*0412.TA/344Z M.SLQ,30V.2!/=FED92U#;&5R;6]N=#M-;VYT<F5A;"U.;W)D.U%U96)E8SM( M3E1!0DQ%.C$Q-#8Y($]V:61E+4-L97)M;VYT/3!$/3!!36]N=')E86PM3F]R M+F%W<'-S+F-O;2\-"E523#IH='1P.B\O=W=W+F%W<'-S+F-O;2\-"D5-04E, M.U!2148[24Y415).150Z>6UE;F%R9$!A=W!S<RYC;VT-"D5.1#I60T%21 T* ` end

Hate to disagree with you but I probably would buy it even if it was 18 mos. old. I just bought NFSSE for $14.95, along with Rally Championship & Screamer2 for $24.95, & ICR2 for $27.95. These games might be slightly old, but in my opinion these are great buys at their price.

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> The only reason you guy are buying this piece of garbage is cause it's > new. If it was 18 months old and $12.99 you wouldn't touch it. > > > THANKS > > > I got the last one after calling all the Babbage's in the Milwaukee area > > > and having them hold it for me.The box was marked down from 59.99 > > > Does the game suck that bad ? or maybe the rumored patch will > > > never come (like nascar)and everyone knows it . > > Few reasons. > > Nitch market. It is not Nascar racing and for that reason, it is not going > > to sell as much. > > People that did buy it and did not like it probably gave up on it too fast. > > I found the more I played SODA, the more fun I had. It is not an easy sim > > to be good at. You just can't load up a car and start racing competitivly. > > You will spend alot of time spinning of the track and getting lapped by the > > AI. This frustrates the basic casual race sim buyer. > > High system requirements. Great for Rendition users but pretty tough on > > everyone else. > > Brian

Hi Steve, I just liked the fact that you posted "anonymously". I bet 5 bucks that the guy will come and flame you with something like "Those Papy guys don't know how to make this darn game. I can't control those darn trucks". Hehehe. ;-) . I can say easily that 99.9% of us are in admiration with the job you did for SODA. Just tell him too look at the credits... If you master SODA, you are ready for real racing... Fran?ois Mnard, <ymenard> on NROS, sponsored officially by [link lost in import]

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>Just wanted to say that it's nice to see that there are at least a few >people around who actually like their games to be challenging, and >such that you need to hone your driving skills. Funny notion, isn't >it, that a game should be challenging? <wink> >Some of these folks should just stick with a mario kart game or >something if they don't like realistic driving physics and a bit of >challenge. >steve >-- >Steven Travers

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Hi, I think SODA is a great game! The driving model takes a lot of getting used to! Even though I'am an aweful driver at SODA, it is lots of fun, especially hitting those huge jumps and catching tons of air! Sure some things could be better, (framerate, well at least it has a better framerate than MS CPR did my system!, it would also be nice to be able to race your own tracks in a champoinship serise). The track designer is really neat (try creating a 0.3 mile track, it's crazy!), and it would be nice to see a track designer in other Papy sims in the future. SODA is defently worth $12,99 IMO! John

you're cool, buddy. -- Steven Travers

Hi John, Just wanted to say that it's nice to see that there are at least a few people around who actually like their games to be challenging, and such that you need to hone your driving skills. Funny notion, isn't it, that a game should be challenging? <wink> Some of these folks should just stick with a mario kart game or something if they don't like realistic driving physics and a bit of challenge. steve -- Steven Travers

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>Hi Steve, >I just liked the fact that you posted "anonymously". I bet 5 bucks that the >guy will come and flame you with something like "Those Papy guys don't know >how to make this darn game. I can't control those darn trucks". Hehehe. ;-) >. I can say easily that 99.9% of us are in admiration with the job you did >for SODA. Just tell him too look at the credits... >If you master SODA, you are ready for real racing... >Fran?ois Mnard, ><ymenard> on NROS, sponsored officially by [link lost in import] >snip

Thanks for the nice words Fran?ois. Several experienced real-life former off-road racers have bent over backwards to praise SODA's physics as being very, very realistic. If that's not what turns you on, then that's cool. Buy something more arcadey and unrealistic like MTM, and just say "SODA's physics and/or control don't appeal to me." There's no need to spew vomit here about it if it doesn't do it for you. If, however, you like a nice long-term challenge, realistic driving, dozens of user-created tracks to download and the ability to easily create your own, and a cool worldwide internet hotlap tracking application, then I hope you'll check SODA out for real and give it some time instead of spinning out in the demo for 3 minutes and concluding that it sucks. It's a great game. I've been ***ed to it for over a year and a half ;-), and I'm not tired of it. steve -- Steven Travers

On Thu, 22 Jan 1998 19:40:54 -0800, Dave Henrie

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> Software Etc which owns Babbages also had Soda for $12.99. Go get'em! >dave henrie >> Darn. Didn't even have it at my local Babbages. >> >I just bought it tonight for $12.99 at a Babbages in Harrisburg, Pa. >> >Therefore, it appears maybe all of the Babbages are reducing the price. >> >I asked the clerk about it, but he was surprised at the price decrease >> >also. For $12.99 I figured I don't have much to loose.

I just bought SODA at Computer City for $14.99, the store had quite a few copies.

Snip I agree SODA is a GREAT sim, and the recent bashing it took in mag reviews, especially PC Lamer, were total BS. Yes, the frame rate is unacceptable for non-Rendition users, but even in "ugly" mode this game is a blast! Throw in the fun of making your own courses make this game a bargain!!! I play Quake 2 once and I don't really feel like playing much more, but SODA will be on my HD until the next version comes along. All the reviews take scant notice of the realistic feel of the game and are bashing it only because of the high system requirements. Nice job! SODA is a classic!!!! MTM has, well, gone the way of CPR! Regards,

Got mine Today, I ran it about 10min thought it was pretty cool ! Gonna try some more soon. I'm running a 686L200+(=150mgz) I thought it was workable. I don't know where the extreem requirements came from. Dave

>>High system requirements. Great for Rendition users but pretty tough on >>everyone else. >Works fine on a PII300 without a Rendition ;-) Funny, I've never noticed that it was all that bad... I've got a P166MMX w/32Megs and a no-name PCI video card that's getting kind of flaky, and I get no noticable stutter in 640x480 with all detail turned on. Ah well, YMMV Mark Remove 'notreal' to reply via email.

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> >>High system requirements. Great for Rendition users but pretty tough on > >>everyone else. > >Works fine on a PII300 without a Rendition ;-) > Funny, I've never noticed that it was all that bad... > I've got a P166MMX w/32Megs and a no-name PCI video card that's getting > kind of flaky, and I get no noticable stutter in 640x480 with all detail > turned on. > Ah well, YMMV > Mark

I agree. I'm only running a 133 with 32 ram, but it seems to run fine with some of the graphics (sky, etc.) on auto. I'm sure it would run better on a higher system, but I can't complain for $12.99. Plus, when I get time I plan to try to make a 1/4 or 1/2 mile banked oval. It seems using the Buggys on a track like this with high horsepower will give us the closest thing to a Sprint Car sim that we now have. Too bad someone can't model a Sprint Car look from the Buggys.

marked on the box $12.99. I told the check out guy that I was suprised to see this current release priced so low. He said, 'We always try to beat the competition's price.' Is that funny or what? Dan P.

I called my local Software Etc. ( Owned by Babages) and told them that I had heard it was a nationwide price... they looked it up on their computer and the sales clerk was surprised I was right..! They immediately said they were out of stock.....Nevertheless, I sent my sweet wife to the mall (because I didn't believe them !) and low and behoe they found one I immediately created a .60 mile flat oval track and it's a blast ! If anyone has created a 1/2 mile or less High Banked Oval I would like to exchange tracks ! T. Deatherage

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>>I was in a Babbages today (Sun 1/18) in Maryland and they had >>half-a-dozen copies of Papyrus's SODA Racing for $12.99 .. I thought it >>was a mistake, but they sold it to me without questions for that price. >>Enjoy ... >marked on the box $12.99. I told the check out guy that I was >suprised to see this current release priced so low. He said, 'We >always try to beat the competition's price.' Is that funny or what? >Dan P.