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'A Trip Down Memory Lane'

This forum gathers all the official activity that accompanied the revival.
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I was in the war
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Post by I was in the war »

I remember playing Carmageddon 1 on pc when I was really young. Maybe... when I was 10 or so. I used to rent it, the cd was scratched but worked, and the manual....well, only the first and the last page lasted and they were "customized" by those who used to rent that game.

I also own Carmageddon 2: carpocalypse now for PC. So sad I lend it to a friend but never I never got it back.

But the most remarkable things I have experienced with Carmageddon are these three.

First: I spent the night before getting my driver's license (that was just 3 years ago) playing to Carmageddon 1 on my PC. That was my first attempt to get the license and, as I have just said, I got it then.

Second: My cell phone ringtone is the siren of the police car in Carmageddon 1.

Third: Just few months ago, I finished this tribute to Carmageddon 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VN_F-pfhHBI

From the bottom of my heart: thank you very much to those who made carmageddon 1 and 2 possible. I remember some lines of the manual that went like....: "We would like to dedicate this game to our families (sons, daughters, wifes...), but it is so ugly and vicious that we cant do that. But we would like to tell them that we love them anyway."

Yes...many memories. Thanks again.
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Post by gmoff01 »

Since playing the original Carmageddon, "Splatter Bonus!" has been a permanent part of my lexicon. Any time something particularly graphic happens during a movie or TV show, or even when someone drops food, I have to forcibly restrain myself from shouting it.

Cant wait for the new game!
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Post by Anoniempje »

There I was, so many years ago. Behind my computer, Windows 95 was running.

To my left side 2 mates also behind their computers.

Across, 3 mates. The sun was about to rise after a warm summer night somewhere in July.

I remember it well because it was a lan party the birthday boy threw. The year. I do not recall.

It doesn't matter.

What matters is the sun. If it rises it will shine in my eyes. I need my eyes.

I need to see where he is

I destroyed 4 cars already. All that's left is me and him.

We meet at the stadium. The 50 yard line.

He is ready.

I am ready.

The engines roar, the cardboard people scream. My ears bleed in the foam of my yellow and red headphones I ripped from my discman. That sound quality.... still haunts me. I look to right to find the incable volume wheel. His engine revs up.

He is at 30 yards. when I hit 8 on the numpad.

He is faster. I'm still accelarting

He is at top speed, i barely am.

Closes and closer we creep together, the people scream. Time slows.

He chose the wrong car. My low car shoves under his, he gets launched in the air.

He hits a pingpong barrel as he hits the ground.

I can hear the sounds from his speakers, from my headphones.

I hit the wall.

I think i won.

First sunbeams hit my eye.

It was a good night.
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Post by Econobrick »

I've got a real life one for ye.

One time, our '94 Ford Tempo (a quality motorcar!) broke down at the bottom of our street. (which itself, is one steep incline)

The car was blocking someone's driveway, and since it was a short distance from our house, my brother got the idea to tow it up the street.

How, you ask?

Calling a tow truck?

Hell no! With a 440 4-barrel equipped 1967 Chrysler Newport (!), a length of boat rope tethered to the Chrysler's rear axle and the Ford's front suspension at the other end. With him driving the Chrysler, and me behind the wheel of the Tempo, should anything go wrong.

(but how could it?! a vehicular mutant tail thing? Surely this is nice and legal!)

So he drives the Newport down to the bottom of the hill, gets the rope out of the trunk and ties it between the two cars just as planned.

I get in the Tempo and put 'er in neutral. He tells me if shit should hit the fan, pull the emergency brake, simple.

So we start up the hill and everything goes fine. We drive a bit past the house up the hill in order to back the two cars into the driveway. (we can't have the disabled car blocking the Newport in the driveway, of course. You know how hard it is to push a small car a couple of feet out of the way in neutral?!)

Getting as far as need be to back 'em in, my brother in the Chrysler about to throw 'er in reverse, steps on the brake abruptly...

Guess what happens next?

The Tempo starts rolling backward... I try to put the thing in park...no dice.

The rope snaps and the car continues down the hill, steadily speeding up.

At this point, I try the emergency brake. Nothing.

All I can do now is try to get the car off the street so i don't get T-Boned on the busy street at the bottom of the hill.

So I jerk the wheel to the left, the car goes off the street, onto the neighbor's lawn further down and comes to rest by slamming into their house.

The Tempo, needles to say, was totalled.

The old Chrysler was unscathed.

Unfortunately, no one was hurt.

So maybe it's not 100% a Carma story...maybe more of a "proof of De-evolution" story.

Maybe it is, indirectly. Me and my brother are both Carma modellers, after all.

Oh yeah, the neighbors moved out about a week later. :P
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Post by Drennargh »

Carmageddon was the first computer game my brother and I got, even before we got our first computer. Needless to say, it made quite an impression. We even built most cars out of Lego and crashed it for real. Too bad you can't auto-repair Lego.

The impression is still very vivid, even so much that at all of my friends at some point get confronted with Carmageddon through me. Now I'm studying at a university, and we had a lecture in another city, so I volunteered to drive there with 3 classmates.

When I picked them up, I arrived with Max Damage-like gloves, a T-shirt with a giant flaming skull, in my badass Toyota Yaris. OK maybe that's not so badass, but it does have a CD player, into which I inserted a peculiar black CD with an evil looking driver printed on the cover. I skipped track 1 because no one likes that anyway, and then it came: ZERO SIGNAL. START YOUR ENGINES ALL COMPETITORS. Ready to drive, friends? I know I surely was.
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Post by Cat_Bow »

Drennargh wrote:I inserted a peculiar black CD with an evil looking driver printed on the cover. I skipped track 1 because no one likes that anyway, and then it came: ZERO SIGNAL. START YOUR ENGINES ALL COMPETITORS. Ready to drive, friends? I surely was.
That CD is pure evil... I'll explain

A few years ago I spent the night at my brothers house and since I had brought my laptop and each one has (as in present) his own CD, we played (doing all kinds of mischiefs) till the morning light (which reads about noon). Packing my stuff to leave I noticed my CD on the table... at that time it felt right to take the CD to the car and listen along the way since I already listened to it all night long (wrong move junior).

On my way home listening too FF I got a bit carried away and was a little over speed limit... lets just say that the old lady didn't stop on the stop sign... I kinda T-boned her, more like L-bone... her car flew towards oncoming traffic and my car still moved on to hit the stop sign. BTW I had a petrol Mercedes 190... Heinz Faust put to shame ^^

Ta dahh!!



All I could see inside the car was flying dust and to the side my KO'd girlfriend and FF still playing, when I left the car, the fist thing I said was: "wasted"... my native language isn't even English, go figure.

After that the CD survived another accident and is in my dvd drive as we speak... that's why I say it's pure evil... BTW what did you guys used to make the Cd's they are bulletproof, forged in hell or something?

Anyhow this is my carmageddon most stupid moment, In the beginning I didn't want to share this but since so many have already shared their adventures and misadventures I went along.

Ps. the laptop didn't make it
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Post by wachuwamekil »

I recall single making my friend so angry at me that they didn't talk to me for a few days, and almost give up this franchise all together (but not totally, has a good ending :D ).

So back in '99 we had regular LAN parties, and at the time I was very much into Starcraft. In this particular instance we were playing a 2v2 match and everyone though it would be awesome to turn on me and give it to me good. And they did, I had no chance because I allowed my team mate (the one who planned the coup) to build in my base ... it was brutal.

Well that pissed me off something good, and in about a month or two we decide to have another LAN party. So they jokingly said 'lets play 2v2 starcraft har har har'. I turned down the idea, but suggested we play this new game I got ... Carmageddon II, everyone agreed including that coup starting douche.

Little did he know the rest of the guys knew this game well, and knew it was so much more than a racing game on crack.

So the race starts, and I choose my good 'ole standby Abby Cab. So I run through and explain the game to coup-de-douche-bag and he feels that he has it. So the race starts in Beaver City, and we are all racing and the first power up is obtained. I don't recall what exactly it was, but I do recall a scream coming from the other ream 'What the hell!!?? I thought you said this was a racing game ..'.

It really just went down hill from there, from that point on he was new meat in our prison of death. Within about 2 minutes of every race he had been eliminated. My personal favorite time was when I was stalking him just tailgating him a little. Bumping him here and there, until I finally unleashed my spring of death. Threw him across the board, he would reset, I would do it again. Eventually he 'sploded and I heard the oh so pleasing 'F#(* this F@(#ing game'. At that point I accepted that I ... well ... won.

The happy part is that he was addicted to the game and purchased it shortly after. Thank you Carmageddon for some amazing LAN Parties!
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Post by SlasherZA »

Man, the list of memories.

This was one of the very first games I ever played multiplayer (against my brother and father), building up tons of fond memories.

One of the bits I enjoy was racing a tag match and having the small low car, trying to get away from my pursuers. I usually dodged a while then made my way to one of the billboards that was ever so slightly raised off the ground - JUST enough for that car to fit underneath and none of the others... Epic way to run away.

Obviously the big trucks and tippers were great fun for destruction as well... I remember soooo much about this game. The hand dripping blood when moving the mouse in the menu in Carma 2, etc.

Pity that the lan feature doesn't really work since vista / windows 7 took away ipx network protocol as standard support. We still played Carma 2 when it was VERY old. Carma TDR:2000 was crap, really have faith in this being an AWESOME game!
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Post by v85rawdeal »

Chasing the Spice Girls or the Teletubbies around...

Pure unadulterated violent humourous chaotic fun!
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Post by mart666 »

I really liked the level were you would jump into a bunch of cows. I did that jump over and over. I'd love to see the football stadium again in the new game :-)

It was real fun powersliding those players. The funny thing I still do is screaming "hang on too your helmets" when something unexpected happens.
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Post by EdyPakito »

Those were the days... Cutting classes in highschool cost me being held in the same grade for three years... But it was worth every piledriver, splatter and cunning stunt bonus I ever won...

Pushing my pentium 1 to the limit just for another skid mark... Blowing up the speakers with Fear Factory...

Nowadays I'm a 28 year old man with an excellent social and work life but there is a hole to be filled by old ladies with crutches flying, cows being grinded and a "GOTC'HA" graffiti...

My girlfriend will dump me if she sees this but...

I miss you CARMAGEDDON, you're the love of my life...
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Post by jimday »

I always loved Carmageddon. The plowing, the smashing, the gory nature of the game.

Just excellent, perfect for me.

In Carma1 adored running over pedestrians, especially cattle. When I really was

pumped up with hunger for revenge I tried to exterminate all living things on 2 or 4

legs. Gotta catch'em all!!!

In Carma2 loved the wreckage. The physics were awesome and the miles that you could

fly were almost infinite, either with afterburner+ramp or kangoroo on command.

First time facing Big Dump, I literally sh*t my pants. It was HUGE! Eventually I

beat him. Got to love those zoo animals, pretty little penguins, deer, goats, pigs,

lambs, etc. Just want to pet'em, hug'em, cuddle'em, squeez'em 'TIL THEY POP!

God I love those games. Let the Reincarnation be as awesome as the others or even

better.

ps: oh and instant handbake is a must and Lambogenie was my favourite.
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Post by subzero »

Don't remember the year, (I was around 12) and Carmageddon 2 was at the game shop at the mall, I went to see if they had a copy available, they had one left. I told my mother that I must have this game for Christmas. She laughed and said that its way to violent and inappropriate for someone my age. I was devastated. Few weeks went buy was at the mall again, checked to see if it was there, GONE, sold out. Again devastated, and with no hope of even trying to talk my mom into getting it. Anyways Christmas morning arrived open some gifts had a great morning, the last wrapped gift was handed to me, "From: Santa" it said, I carefully unwrapped it and saw the 2! I ripped it open and there it was the copy at the store my mom (err.. I mean Santa) bought the day after I was there and hid it from for weeks. I ran in the computer room installed it and was running over people and shearing cars all morning on Christmas day. One of the most vivid memories I have of any childhood Christmas.

Just want to say thank you!

P.S: please have car shearing and stadiums full of players! And an awesome metal sound track!
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Post by Belgianbonzai »

Before playstations Dual Shock, before N64's rumble pack... I played Carmageddon on my macintosh with a subwoofer in my lap, aimed at my stomach, so I could actually feel every single kill. Imagine being at a club or loud concert, where you feel the bass really deep vibrating in your body,... Well,...every pedestrian I drove over fast enough would put a nice loud "WHOOMP" through the speaker, shooting it at my guts, making the experience oh so much more satisfactory.
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Post by szabi113 »

The best games I ever played : Carma & Carma 2 !

Once my father want something to do, and i sad to him: "if the timer reach the 00:00, i will go and help you"

After 20 minutes he came back, and he realized it, that the time for the race is just increasing. He was not happy :P

(sorry for my bad english)
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Post by michalkow »

The original Carmageddon wasted my childhood, and made one of the biggest dangers on the street out of me!!!

NOW IT'S MY SONS TURN!!!
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Post by Mail Man Dude »

I remember, back in the 90's...good time in video game industry. i went in poland , where i got brothers , friends and family, and they always add some Amazing stuff that we couldn't get in france, like BLOOD and BLOOD2 the chosen, Shadow Warrior by 3D realms, gore cool and funny stuff.

one of my brother said, hey dude, what kind of good car games do you have in your country and which is a little bit about destruction? couldn't answer something else beside of..Mario Kart, Destruction Derby, Road Rash 3d..he just laughed at me so hard and say

Dude do you want to play something more destructive that Destruction Derby, more aggressive and Mature rather than Road Rash 3D and eat Mario Kart at the breakfast?

didn t know what to say, this guy always showed me some...HARDCORE GAME like Harvester, Phantasmagoria, KingPing Life of crime and i always get addicted to this stuff

and then, he showed me this Big red box with ..a bald dude with a fuck up crazy face.

he launched the game and...well i don t really need to describe the feeling, i guess it was the same as hundreds of thousands of people who liked Carmageddon

and even now in 2011. i m still playing it, with the second and the cool version of PS1.

i remember 3 specials words, that my brother said about Carmageddon, Those people who make this game, are bad guys and crazies.

well... i guess that the Bad guys are Back;)
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Post by Jack Dandy »

Also..

Pinball mode + Gas station = OH GOD I CAN SEE FOREVER
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Post by Otis_P_Jivefunk »

Oh man...the memories.I can still smell the odour of the room in which I spent lots of time playing the Carmageddon demo.And boy did I play that demo until no pedestrian was alive anymore.Eventually a sick (like in a 35 year old doctor playing Carmageddon and watching porn all day long) family doctor of mine told me he had the FULL version of Carmageddon and I was like WOOOOT?The day he installed it for me on my Pentium 1 16mb of ram and 1mb of video card was one of the greatest moments of my life (better than the first time I had sex actually).Of course he started to brag about his skeelzor and how he can kill pedestrians with the rear end of the car while drifting along the road.But I was confident about it and here I was destroying every car in less than 5 minutes in one of the desert towns (the ones with mines around).The psycho doctor still confident.It was his turn again...and there he was playing with stig-o and he was full speed ahead chasing Gotcha! (addicts know what that is mwahahha) when it eventually made a quick left turn.But the psycho doctor kept on going ahead making me wonder if he is somewhat braindead for the moment but in fact he wanted to crash the car at full speed into something solid.And there he was ending up crashing into a tall building almost wasting his car.But he was happy...he started laughing so sinister and devilish that I actually was frightened and had goose bumps.I left the room and went straight into the bathroom and locked myself inside.Stayed there for about 20 minutes and then I decided it was not very mature of me to do that so I went back.And there he was...the psycho family doctor of my family smoking pot and drinking booze and talking trash in english (this is Romania...where everything is possible) until he eventually dropped onto the floor ,probably because of over-excitement.First I thought he was dead but he wasn`t.He just fainted a little bit and I noticed that he also vomited a little bit on the floor.God allmighty...was that a perfect Carma scene or what?Then my parents came back home from the grocery shop and they were absolutely stunned by what they were witnessing.Fortunately I was quick enough to shut down Carmageddon so they would never know what caused such mayhem in the living room.But me and the doctor...we know what happened.It was our dirty little secret.And my oh my did those days made me crazy for the rest of my life.I am so sick in the head at age 23 that everybody is frightened when they hear my gorey ,bloody reactions or stories or ideas and so on.The look on their faces is absolutely priceless.Thank you devs for such a sick ,bloody ,gorey ,vomitingly great and emotionally disturbing creation.Good luck developing the "Reincarnation".Please make sure it is as sick and good as the first episode of Carma.Otis P. Jivefunk out!gotta get my biaciz back on the street in a hurry so that you guys have some naked ladyz to kill on the sidewalks!
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Belgianbonzai wrote:Before playstations Dual Shock, before N64's rumble pack... I played Carmageddon on my macintosh with a subwoofer in my lap, aimed at my stomach, so I could actually feel every single kill. Imagine being at a club or loud concert, where you feel the bass really deep vibrating in your body,... Well,...every pedestrian I drove over fast enough would put a nice loud "WHOOMP" through the speaker, shooting it at my guts, making the experience oh so much more satisfactory.
This is awesome. :-)
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Post by jagieXK »

Carmageddon 2:

Drive slowly with your car under the bridge at CitySlicker, at the gasstation.

Your car is flat and you can drive further, but be careful your car can explode hehe!!
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Post by lacer8 »

In college, Carmageddon was my favorite game. I would play the crap out of it. Sometimes after late nights spent studying and taking breaks to play the game, reality would blur. I remember one time driving back home to visit the family from college and on the long drive, I kept nearly slipping into Carmageddon mode. I'd be considering the cars around me and trying to determine the best way to bump them so they'd spin off the road and out of my way. Fortunately, I caught myself before ever actually doing it. I think police and families wouldn't have been as impressed with my Artistic Bonus. ;)
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Post by random_monkey »

My memory of Carmageddon comes from the modding at the time. Most kids get told off for looking at porn. I got told off for using the net for downloading as many ~300kb cars as I could before getting rumbled.
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Post by Dargol »

Some time after the release of the first Carmageddon, I was scheduled to have my wisdom teeth removed. I was so fucking scared of the dentist, for they live to tear of peoples teeth. I overcame that fear, however. There was one very special thought in my mind that made me keep my dentist appointment. After weeks of waiting in panic and seeing nightmares, the doctor drilled my wisdom teeth into pieces and pulled the sharpnel out one piece at a time. After the painful oral experience I went home with that one special thought in my mind. I was high on painkillers (which didn't help that much) and I tasted blood in my mouth... it was time to play some Carmageddon. The result: best gaming session ever.
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Post by MortalMaxx »

Whenever I see an old lady crossing with a walker the street I can't help but to steer a bit in that direction.

Also my favorite memory is the satisfaction you get from smashing into an enemy car at full speed with the ACME damage magnifier on in combination with the solid granite car power-up.

Nothing beats that feeling. NOTHING.
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Post by Dunge »

I remember that time when as a theoretical physicist I pushed some anomalous material in a scanning beam of the anti-mass spectrometer and suddenly it created a portal to a dimension called "Xen" and aliens came out of nowhere attacking us! Plus the government tried to cover this up!

Oh wait.. wrong game.
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Post by DethKid »

My mate had a real shitbox of a car...

In the last few months of its life every-time we went to get in it we noticed it had been leaking oil...(which in hindsight was probably a bad thing.....and dangerous...)

at noticing this I would always shout with way too much enthusiasm "you wasted 'em!!"

There was nothing more satisfying in Carmageddon (I + II) than watching the car corpse of your recently defeated opponent leaking oil all over the track.

Just thinking about it gives me a simultaneous feeling of both achievement and satisfaction

Give me free stuff...i will love it...

i am so pumped for this game...it shall be mine..

Il be checking in often to see how its all going
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Post by jimmypopali »

Never, ever making the loop area in Carmageddon 1. No matter how many time I tried (at least with the defaul cars).
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Post by BattiushPL »

I remember I was about 10 years old and I saw Carmageddon Splat Pack on my cousin's computer... It was something amazing, the graphic, the gameplay, the physic. I was like charmed. And he won ONLY ONE race because we didn't know that you may repair your car with just one button.

The greatest memmory of all I have with the 3rd lvl i think (from the top of coure)- Prison. When I get my car on the high way, speeding, takng 2 barrels with turbo, heading straight and jumping off the road (because of almost 90 degree turn left) and smashing with car into a building, destroying car to all black parts.

And Carmageddon in the real life? I was heading to the school with my cousin. It was arond 10 minutes to lessons and 15 km. He was accelerating fast with this smile like it was belonging to Max. 120 km/h and he said "we are gonna make it" and exactly in the same moment a roe-deer jumped across the road and hit into our left side. It went into the air, rolled throug the hood and felt on the right. Car was broken (bacspace did not worked) and the roe-deer... Well, let me say that in the game were more pleasent views :>

Also cut hand in the menu as a cursor brings pleasent memories...

Last level- where satan is playing on the PC, looking at Carmageddon loading screen- a masterpiece.

And this great impression of driver face when you have instant handbreak and eyeballs pops out of orbits.

In Carmageddon 2 I remember I was driving with Max. I bought uprages (armory was almost full) and it was mission before me. It said destroy your oponents car. I thought "well, give me this sucker, I have such a powerfull car now". I was driving straight, on the map I sam him. We were on the head-on collision. I jumped into the air and... smacked into Big Dump! My car imidietly was destroyed and I was like "what the hell, Gotcha?". Thean I realised, I was underestimated my enemy and that was it, what made me fail...
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Post by NiPPonD3nZ0 »

Carmageddon is one of my all time favourite games! i like alot of games, but Carmageddon it's on the top of the top 10 list of games!

Fuck graphics

fuck playability

give me FUN!

the first time i played Carmageddon was in a friend's Pentium MMX 166MHz, with 32mb of RAM and 2gigs of hard drive, with an S3 Virge DX with 2 megs... It was the Christmas Special Demo (i was willing to bought it if i could find it) and it was hours after hours after hours of PURE FUN...

HANG ON TO YER Hellmet
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Post by Eagle mk 1 »

My first game I bought at the free record shop, it was the last copy they sold, and it was carmageddon 2, I only had the carmageddon 1 demo and couldnt find the game anywhere, so I played this game at a friends house before and I remember standing infront of the desk and there was a line of 8 people all buying useless crap such as pop cd's magazines and more crap such as school book agenda's, I thought it would be nice to have a pedestrian repulsificator right now

My pc was far from sophisticated, I sometimes had to use an afterburner to ignite that SOB, but it somehow installed carmageddon 2, without the 3d option tho, but I didnt care, I had the game and it was cash, this was a good day

somewhere around spring 1999 I am 15 at the time, so are my friends and we're all just kinda experimenting our first beer and weed and what not so Im just with my friends in their basement.. we had a couch in that basement and a pc that had among other games carmageddon 2 on it, we used the ''you die.. you pass'' system which means no cheats, if your car is broken someone else gets to play and this system worked fine , till my friends older brother , his name is Matt came down the basement one time and insisted that he should play next, he was a real bully and we were all around 14,15 and he is 24, now this is a classic asshole , still living with his parents and bullying my friend, his younger brother the whole time.. but this wouldnt go unresolved

now, him being bigger and somewhat agressive, we kinda just lost the nerve to tell him to f*ck off, so he's playing carmageddon 2, for like ten minutes, keeps dying,crashing all the time while not earning us any points whatsoever, instead he was using up alot, using INSERT and BACKSPACE to respawn and repair constantly, but still unwilling to give up his ''turn''

now this guy his name is tony, is sitting in the corner of the room in the basement and while everybody is quiet he says; wow we sure could use a pedestrian repulsificator right now, and we all looked at each other and start smiling, but since we're all kind of stoned from doing weed for the first time this comes off as kinda creepy to Matt, we're all smiling and ''lurking dangerously'' to him, and he doesnt know what to make of it, he left and he never came to the basement again, it was a good day
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Well, my story isn't funny, poignant, silly, barely legal or barely plausible, but simple :)

Thanks to Carmageddon I've become a 3D artist. It was my inspiration to model 3D cars and have fun while doing it and after, by smashing opponents and pedestrians with them. So I have really good memories of it back when it was released, having a lot of fun and spending many hours driving, crashing and just causing mayhem. I've started editing when Carma 2 was released, and that was the point of no return.

Today, that's who I am and what I do for a living, and loving every minute of it.

This is my portfolio: http://www.a3drstudio.com/

And this is a remake I did some time ago as a tribute:



Looking forward to see a new Carmageddon!
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Looking forward to see a new Carmageddon!
Woah! legend AdR! hope your keeping well mate, great to see you here, hopefully look forward to some releases for CarmaR - awesome job getting into the gaming industry btw!

tribute model looks awesome too!
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I remember when I was driving Towmeister through the tunnel in Dusty Trails Scenic Coastal Drive. I've hit a Mega-Turbo power up at the beginning of the tunnel and managed to build up blinding speed, then suddenly, when I reached the end of the tunnel, poor Mech Maniac got in my way and his Grungebuster got probably the worst, most violent hit in the history of Carmageddon. He was the last opponent, and I was watching him flying into the horizon while people were applauding to me, heheh. Then, when I checked him in the damage gallery, the Grungebuster was just a flat plank that was the undercarriage of the car, with wheels and Mech's head levitating in the air over it.

I wonder how it would've looked if C1 had damage model like C2? The car would probably had been chopped into quarters.
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I cant remember the names of the power-ups or the cars, but I clearly can remember the best moments y had playing Carmageddon:

1- I won the car that had the lightning included ( I repeat, I cant remember the name), but I didnt want to play with it. But I found a power-up that allowed me to have every pedestrian showed on the map. So I decided to kill the all. I cant remember how much time it took me to kill them all, but my hands were in pain. Suddenly, when I killed the last pedestrian, I won the race. So, that was what happens when there are no pedestrian left.

After that, i decided to spend all the credits i took for so amazing achievent restoring and upgrading the car. I found that i had all the best parts for my car avaliable. So i upgraded all the car and played another race. A simple tiny minor scratch to any car was enogh to destroy my oponent, so the hunt became into a get-away (it was to easy to win, even if i was stopped oponents that touched me were destroyed).

2- One day, I had the "sticky bits" power-up and I started to run over pedestrians. Some of them were sticked to the front of the car, screaming and bleeding. I decided to switch on inside camera. I found that i could see pedestrians sticked. I turnes on the whipperd (limpiaparabrisas) and i could see the blood on the front glass.

3-One time, I tried to run over a old woman with a "walker" ( is that the proper name?) But could not even if I was running at 140 km/h.
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