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General Chat => Arcade Lifestyle => Topic started by: vernimark on January 15, 2013, 08:28:26 PM

Title: verni - SPEED FREAK (probably I forgot to post before...)
Post by: vernimark on January 15, 2013, 08:28:26 PM

Here is my SPEED FREAK picked up in germany 2 years ago with the very famous asteroids cocktail (that I'll never forget @!!#)...

I restored it last year but probably I forgot to post them :D

more pics here  http://tinyurl.com/a4qfzph

vernimark

Title: Re: verni - SPEED FREAK (probably I forgot to post before...)
Post by: Belike on January 15, 2013, 09:58:41 PM

Cool, seems like you collect mostly unique cabs. ;)

Title: Re: verni - SPEED FREAK (probably I forgot to post before...)
Post by: vernimark on January 15, 2013, 10:00:11 PM

I don't find them, they find me...  :shock:

Title: Re: verni - SPEED FREAK (probably I forgot to post before...)
Post by: DarthNuno on January 15, 2013, 10:28:17 PM

I love that game!  :-*
Great memories on that one...
 :spaceace:

Title: Re: verni - SPEED FREAK (probably I forgot to post before...)
Post by: f4brice on January 16, 2013, 06:19:10 AM

Hehehe, another Speed Freak owner !  ;D

Mine : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiynX1K_x0k

(it's me playing on the video  ;) )

Title: Re: verni - SPEED FREAK (probably I forgot to post before...)
Post by: Luigi on January 16, 2013, 06:31:09 AM

Awesome! :)


I wish those cabs would find me..if only once  ::)

Title: Re: verni - SPEED FREAK (probably I forgot to post before...)
Post by: Alpha1 on January 16, 2013, 04:03:06 PM

Did this come from the Belgian museum of games? I heard they were bought and split between two collectors in Germany.

One I forgot who it was, and the other was World of Arcade.

Title: Re: verni - SPEED FREAK (probably I forgot to post before...)
Post by: vernimark on January 16, 2013, 04:46:07 PM

I don't tink so. I bought it in germany from a german collector

Title: Re: verni - SPEED FREAK (probably I forgot to post before...)
Post by: speleo_de on January 16, 2013, 06:23:28 PM

I can close the gap - it does come from the Belgium museum...

belgium museum -> world of arcade -> me -> vernimark

Title: Re: verni - SPEED FREAK (probably I forgot to post before...)
Post by: Muerto on January 16, 2013, 07:23:32 PM

cool!! like your style in games! def. not mainstreem! ;)  ;D
Thecabinet shapelooks alot like Warrior from Vectorbeam..

(http://www.arcade-museum.com/images/107/1070571659.jpg)

Title: Re: verni - SPEED FREAK (probably I forgot to post before...)
Post by: level42 on January 16, 2013, 11:25:50 PM

Looking at Fabrice's video again I cant help but thinking: man, this had the potention to be the best racing game of its era if they would have tweaked it and tweaked it and tweaked it....like Atari did on f.i. Asteroids.

What Cinematronics did right is clear enough:
- the road moves very fluently, unseen until then
- the car racing on the other side of the track towards you
- the scenery stuff, IIRC there are cows, hitchhikers and even birds flying in the sky.....truelly a first in racing games....

Where they failed is at the fine tuning. Too quickly you seem to crash for no reason, it is almost uncontrollable already in third gear. Meaning gaining speed again, going through the gears only to crash yet again in no time. It frustrates even during the first game, but it makes you feel the game is at fault and not you !.........
If they would have teamed up with the game designers at Atari this would have been a killer racing game.....