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DeadPoolX wrote: ↑Fri Dec 24, 2021 12:17 pm

Tawmis wrote: ↑Thu Dec 23, 2021 9:44 pm Oh. Dang - I forgot it was my turn for this!
Let's see...
I remember this computer game.... the title had some weird title and accent marks... I never did get very far in that game....

Is this a game by Sierra or LucasArts?

No, this game was actually licensed by the Tandy Corporation and ran on those old TSR-80s.

(That may quickly give it away)

OK ... Tawm, you didn't answer my question, though. So:

Is the title in German? (Or Swedish, or Norwegian, or Danish, or Finnish, or any of the Scandinavian countries)?

Tawmis wrote: ↑Fri Dec 24, 2021 3:52 pm

DeadPoolX wrote: ↑Fri Dec 24, 2021 12:17 pm

Tawmis wrote: ↑Thu Dec 23, 2021 9:44 pm Oh. Dang - I forgot it was my turn for this!
Let's see...
I remember this computer game.... the title had some weird title and accent marks... I never did get very far in that game....

Is this a game by Sierra or LucasArts?

No, this game was actually licensed by the Tandy Corporation and ran on those old TSR-80s.

(That may quickly give it away)

That sounds like it might be a game called Raäka-Tu (there's actually an accent mark above the "U" but for some reason the board kept giving me an error when I tried posting it, so I had to remove the accent mark).

Rath Darkblade wrote: ↑Fri Dec 24, 2021 5:52 pm OK ... Tawm, you didn't answer my question, though. So:
Is the title in German? (Or Swedish, or Norwegian, or Danish, or Finnish, or any of the Scandinavian countries)?

Sorry! I had missed that!

I don't believe it's a specific different language, it does however have like "accent" marks over some of the letters. But nothing I ever found "translated" the title.

DeadPoolX wrote: ↑Fri Dec 24, 2021 6:06 pm

Tawmis wrote: ↑Fri Dec 24, 2021 3:52 pm

DeadPoolX wrote: ↑Fri Dec 24, 2021 12:17 pm

Tawmis wrote: ↑Thu Dec 23, 2021 9:44 pm Oh. Dang - I forgot it was my turn for this!
Let's see...
I remember this computer game.... the title had some weird title and accent marks... I never did get very far in that game....

Is this a game by Sierra or LucasArts?

No, this game was actually licensed by the Tandy Corporation and ran on those old TSR-80s.

(That may quickly give it away)

That sounds like it might be a game called Raäka-Tu

Well, damn. Yes, that was it.

Wow. OK, nothing left to say but that the double-dot mark is known as the umlaut (aka "diaeresis").

Tawmis wrote: ↑Fri Dec 24, 2021 6:07 pm

DeadPoolX wrote: ↑Fri Dec 24, 2021 6:06 pm

Tawmis wrote: ↑Fri Dec 24, 2021 3:52 pm

DeadPoolX wrote: ↑Fri Dec 24, 2021 12:17 pm

Tawmis wrote: ↑Thu Dec 23, 2021 9:44 pm Oh. Dang - I forgot it was my turn for this!
Let's see...
I remember this computer game.... the title had some weird title and accent marks... I never did get very far in that game....

Is this a game by Sierra or LucasArts?

No, this game was actually licensed by the Tandy Corporation and ran on those old TSR-80s.

(That may quickly give it away)

That sounds like it might be a game called Raäka-Tu

Well, damn. Yes, that was it.

Cool.

Okay, I remember a console game where I'd drive around in adult (nothing to do with p0rn, Tawmis!) cartoon-like animated environments killing gang members and punks on a quest for revenge.

Because this game is confusing (due to a few issues around its launch and name changes), I'll add a couple of hints to start this off...

HINT 1: Although I only played the console version in the US, this game was released years earlier (with better visuals and audio quality) in the arcades in Japan.

HINT 2: This game was released under THREE different names based on region and format. One of the reasons for the name change in North America was to avoid confusion — and potential legal issues — with another game that had the same name and had slightly similar gameplay.

DeadPoolX wrote: ↑Fri Dec 24, 2021 6:26 pm Okay, I remember a console game where I'd drive around in adult

Oh! I know what it -

DeadPoolX wrote: ↑Fri Dec 24, 2021 6:26 pm (nothing to do with p0rn, Tawmis!)

.... oh.

DeadPoolX wrote: ↑Fri Dec 24, 2021 6:26 pm cartoon-like animated environments killing gang members and punks on a quest for revenge.
Because this game is confusing (due to a few issues around its launch and name changes), I'll add a couple of hints to start this off...
HINT 1: Although I only played the console version in the US, this game was released years earlier (with better visuals and audio quality) in the arcades in Japan.
HINT 2: This game was released under THREE different names based on region and format. One of the reasons for the name change in North America was to avoid confusion — and potential legal issues — with another game that had the same name and had slightly similar gameplay.

Hrm. Googling cars and revenge pulls up BURNOUT (Revenge, specifically). Which I know is not the game, as I've played all the Burnout games, repeatedly!

So let's narrow it down -

Was this game available on multiple consoles when released (such as PS, XBOX, etc) or was it console exclusive to one?

Tawmis wrote: ↑Fri Dec 24, 2021 7:50 pm Was this game available on multiple consoles when released (such as PS, XBOX, etc) or was it console exclusive to one?

It was available on multiple platforms in Japan; however, it was officially released on only two home platforms outside of Japan. One of those two platforms is the version I'm thinking about (because it's also the version I played).

Is it one of the Grand Theft Auto games? (I haven't played it, but from what I know, it's adult but nothing to do with p0rn ... unless, of course, you use a certain very famous (as in, it hit the news way back when) mod) ...

Rath Darkblade wrote: ↑Sat Dec 25, 2021 7:10 am Is it one of the Grand Theft Auto games? (I haven't played it, but from what I know, it's adult but nothing to do with p0rn ... unless, of course, you use a certain very famous (as in, it hit the news way back when) mod) ...

No, it's definitely not any of the GTA games. In the game I'm thinking about you CAN'T get out of your car because the entire game takes place from behind the wheel.

Hmm. Is it one of the RoadKill games?

Does this driving game have the word "Dragon" somewhere in it?

Rath Darkblade wrote: ↑Sat Dec 25, 2021 5:36 pm Hmm. Is it one of the RoadKill games?

Nope, it's none of the games in that series. Truth be told, I'd never heard of any of those games.

HINT: The game I'm thinking of is a lot older than the RoadKill series, and used neither 3D models nor sprites.

Tawmis wrote: ↑Sat Dec 25, 2021 6:29 pm Does this driving game have the word "Dragon" somewhere in it?

No, as far as I can recall, the word "Dragon" is nowhere in the game.

HINT: The game's antagonists were heavily influenced by a well-known film series set in a post-apocalyptic future (despite this game NOT taking place in a post-apocalyptic future).

Fook. This feels like it should be searchable - but it's still yielding a lot of results when I try and monster mash the clues into google to figure this one out.

So... are you one of the Driver Series Games?