What was the name of this Hot Wheels game?

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Good afternoon folks. I have an urge to play one of my childhood favorites, but I can't for the life of me remember what it was called. I'll describe it as best I can.

• It was from the HotWheels franchise.

• It was for PC.

• You raced cars from a 3rd-person perspective, and did "tricks" by making the car backflip, or rotate while racing on one of the many tracks.

• I remember two levels. One being based in a bedroom, and the other in an overgrown green house of sorts.

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Was it Stunt Track Driver?

Here's a video of the Greenhouse level:

And here's a video of the bedroom level:

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Identify this 1990s PC racing game with white old-fashioned car

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Somewhere around 1997 I remember playing a fun racing game over and over again. I remember it was a shareware or demo version from a Computer magazine Cover CD. I remember playing it on something eqiuvalent to 486DX4 100 MHz CPU. I am pretty sure the game was older than 1997, much more probably around 1995. I believe it was a Windows 95 game, but am not 100% sure.

The gameplay was pretty straightforward. I remember driving a white, old-fashioned car (similar to cars from 1950s, such as Mercedes Type 300 or AC Cobra) all the time (I think it was the only car available, at least in the demo), around various rural-like courses, in a rally-like racing.

The graphics were generated quite similarly to Road Rash or Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge, so the view was third-person perspective. The car was a sprite that moved only during turning or crashing, and everything was 2D.

Overall the graphics were rather colorful. I think there were two or more road types on one course (asphalt and dirt), but I am not sure about that. The surroundings were mostly some sort of village buildings, with maybe some rocks, hedges, ledges, bridges. I believe the course could go up and down, so at times could make the car jump for significant distance.

There were many static and moving obstacles on course that you had to avoid. I remember turns were not that difficult, compared to the amount of obstacles on course. There were also checkpoints, and probably there was also other folks that raced with you. Finally, I think the game features some happy-tuned music.

Not very informative I know, but it was my favourite racing game of that time and it would be great to play it again now :)

Thank you in advance!

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Could this be by any chance Speed Racer? I know it doesn't exactly match you description but it does feature a white "old fashioned" car, sprite graphics and happy-tuned music

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F-Zero-esque racing game with Don Knotts?

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I was at a bar this weekend where a guy claimed to have played a 3D or pseudo-3D racing game in the vein of F-Zero on the PC in the early to middle 90s, in which after every level or so, video footage of Don Knotts would appear on the screen and provide the player with a pithy quip.

While I remember video footage inside games getting pretty popular around the time thanks to stuff like Mortal Kombat and Command & Conquer, this particular game seems a little far-fetched—and IMDB predictably has nothing.

Has anybody played a game that matches this description, or was my bar companion just making things up?

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According to this review of the game MegaRace (1994), the host is a "blue suit looking crackpot who looks frighteningly like Don Knotts." It was apparently released on the PC as well.

Here's a (multi-part) video of someone playing through the game. Seems to fit your description quite nicely.

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What is the name of the racing game where you actually built your car?

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I remember a PC game from probably 2001-2003, where you actually had to buy individual parts, and bolt them on.

After a race, you were in your garage, and you had a parts catalog and your wrench and spray paint. You could unbolt doors, seats, replace belts. Pretty much the most realistic garage feature of any game I have ever played.

Can anyone remember this game?

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Could it be

Street Legal Racing ?

Seems that you can build from scratch.

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Help identify an old Monster Truck Racing Arcade game

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Hey everyone, the details I can remember are the following:

What I am 100% certain of:
Monster Trucks
Commonly found in pizza shops
Top down view
1-4 player
Joy stick (and maybe two buttons A and B) per player

Possibly in the game:
NOS/speed boost
customize your Truck (Shocks and Wheels)

That's about all I can remember

Thanks in advance everyone!

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This doesn't exactly match your description since it doesn't have joysticks and only 3 players, the arcade version of this had 3 steering wheels, but are you thinking of Super Off Road, or it's full name Ivan "Ironman" Stewart's Super Off Road?

You can see the full details in the Wikipedia Entry and on Arcade Museum, but it had customizations to the trucks and nitrous boosts. They had versions later for NES, Super NES and other systems which may be where you're thinking about the joysticks, or I could just be wrong.

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Identify freeware game series about cars/planes in various unlikely scenarios

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There was a series of 3 seperate freeware games for Windows a number of years ago (likely circa 2000 - 2006) that were about cars/planes in various unlikely scenarios. I'm asking about all 3 at once since they were all linked off the same developer's website. Each game is unusual, but thinking about all 3 of them as a series makes them more identifiable.

They were all in 3D with a chase camera behind the car. Some of them may have had first-person views too.

In the first game you drove this flowery, boxy, low poly car that could convert into a boat or plane or something. All you could do was drive around an island, there seemed to be no goal.

In the second, you had a car that you had to drive around off-road delivering pizzas. There was also a plane you could fly instead.

In the third game you could race different cars down a mountain, sort of like a skiing game with cars. It had decent graphics, and as I recall a first-person mode with a steering wheel inside the car as well.

Does anybody remember what these games were called? I think it was a Scandinavian title.

Edit: Solved, not enough rep to post solution, see below.

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Sounds like Lego Island.

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Identify this racing arcade game from the 90's

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I am trying to identify this game I played in my youth. It was a racing game where you had to jump over gaps in the floor. It was set in space and there were no other cars to race against so the goal was simply to get to the end of the level by correctly jumping over the gaps. I remember that gravity was a large part of the game (possibly in the title) and different levels had different gravity so in some levels you could jump higher than others. The HUD contained a progress bar showing how far you had left on the track.

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While you neglected to mention what you played this game on, could you possibly be talking about SkyRoads? It has all of the features that you mentioned.

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