Author Topic: Please help me find the name of a childhood game (Read 3025 times)

Katkat · « **on:** June 14, 2013, 08:31:49 pm »

I am trying to find a driving game that I liked in the 80's. All i remember is that it was an upright cabinet with a steering wheel and there was a vertical road with multiple lanes. You needed to avoid the other cars and there were levels were you drove in the dark (with headlights) and on ice.

Thanks!

darkSSide · « **Reply #1 on:** June 14, 2013, 11:00:23 pm »

Did it have an ambulance once in awhile?
Maybe Turbo?

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Katkat · « **Reply #2 on:** June 14, 2013, 11:16:42 pm »

I do not remember if there was an ambulance... But it was not Turbo. On Youtube I saw that Turbo has a 3D road and the game I remember looked more like: - a vertical, multi lane road from bottom to top.

Thanks!

wp34 · « **Reply #3 on:** June 14, 2013, 11:19:48 pm »

Sure sounds like Turbo to me.

Katkat · « **Reply #4 on:** June 14, 2013, 11:46:07 pm »

Looking closer at Monaco GP, it looks very similar, but not sure this is the one...

darkSSide · « **Reply #5 on:** June 14, 2013, 11:50:49 pm »

It still might be Turbo because I remember it being like that Monaco GT,not so much looking forward like Turbo is. You might remember it differently like I did but Turbo does have times when it goes in night time as well as rain as I remember it.

Sent from my Atari 2600

JDFan · « **Reply #6 on:** June 15, 2013, 12:04:11 am »

Perhaps Spy Hunter :

darkSSide · « **Reply #7 on:** June 15, 2013, 01:24:11 am »

Quote from: JDFan on June 15, 2013, 12:04:11 am

Perhaps Spy Hunter :

I didn't mention this cause that was too easy

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Katkat · « **Reply #8 on:** June 15, 2013, 08:16:46 am »

Not spy hunter...

leapinlew · « **Reply #9 on:** June 15, 2013, 11:43:34 am »

It's turbotastic!

Generic Eric · « **Reply #10 on:** June 15, 2013, 03:48:14 pm »

Bump and Jump

yotsuya · « **Reply #11 on:** June 15, 2013, 04:14:11 pm »

Sure sounds like Monaco GP to me. It has all those things you mention.

Katkat · « **Reply #12 on:** June 15, 2013, 10:51:17 pm »

It might actually be Monaco GP or something very similar. If anybody can think of other games that look similar, that would be great...

yotsuya · « **Reply #13 on:** June 15, 2013, 11:08:24 pm »

I bet it's Monaco. Unfortunately, it's not in MAME.

Gray_Area · « **Reply #14 on:** June 16, 2013, 02:06:34 pm »

Yup, totally made me think of Monaco GP. But since you don't remember when seeing it, I suggest you not care.

@yotsuya: it's in HBEMAME, but I think it still doesn't support analog controls.....

crashwg · « **Reply #15 on:** June 16, 2013, 03:42:13 pm »

First thing that comes to mind for me is Night Driver. It doesn't fit the description exactly but I figured I'd try anyway.

Katkat · « **Reply #16 on:** June 16, 2013, 05:44:42 pm »

So I asked my brother and it is similar to Monaco GP, but it's not Monaco... He found Grand Champion - I will have to play with it some more - maybe this is the one?

Katkat · « **Reply #17 on:** June 16, 2013, 08:45:41 pm »

OK - this one looks promising: http://flyers.arcade-museum.com/?page=flyer&db=videodb&id=4057&image=2
The lights looked just like that. I also remember ambulances. No evidence to MAME support though...

Henry Jordan · « **Reply #18 on:** June 17, 2013, 07:35:28 am »

I didn't get the game you're talking about. But here I'm sharing a Nintendo game (my favorite childhood game) which looks similar to your game.

Road Fighter

Play it once, I'm sure you're gonna like it.

Vigo · « **Reply #19 on:** June 17, 2013, 01:59:54 pm »

Another home game that is taken from monaco GP is LeMans for the C64. Used a paddle.

TOK · « **Reply #20 on:** June 21, 2013, 04:35:10 pm »

Take a look at Chequered Flag by Konami


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