My memories of this are also from playing it on the original PlayStation. When I saw the article headline I immediately heard the "Ridge Raaacer" voice in my head, it's been 20 years and I still remember it clearly.
Oh wow what a flood of memories from a PlayStation announcement.
Strike the weak spot for MASSIVE DAMAGE
Same for me, have driven millions of miles knowing every turn, tips and even exploiting corner cases (over speed after special drift moves). Was 1000% fun.
I see we’ve crossed the PlayStation nostalgia event horizon, just as we crossed the NES and SNES ones before.
And the 2600 before that.
Yeah that’s at the edge of my memory. I recall a really cool space game that had planet landings too. To pick up fuel tanks.
Solaris, maybe.
Gorf as cartridge on C4?
That's it!
With that one, I remember using the rotary controller to catch bombs in buckets of water. I had to defocus my eyes to watch the entire screen at once. :)
That horizon passed a while ago. PS2 nostalgia is definitely a thing, and the Xbox 360 turned 17 today meaning kids that grew up with that are adults.
The console wars of the 90s-10s were insane, albeit tepid compared to the various vying powers of 80s. Crazy that modern hardware can emulate all that came before, but doesn't out of legal reasons.
Defeating the black and the white car is probably my greatest video game achievement (though that's not saying much0. Probably wouldn't have been possible without the twisty controller.
That's what i keep saying to my children. "You have no idea how difficult a game can be if you haven't wasted weeks as a child, trying to get the black and white car in ridge racer."
Oh wow, I had one too and completely forgot about it.