077 · RAD RACER
This is no ordinary game pak. This is Rad Racer. Nintendo’s thrilling 3-D video game. Rad Racer comes action-packed with revolutionary 3-D technology and 3-D glasses (they’re free inside) that will have you really believing you’re in the middle of a cross country rally race – cruising along at 200 miles per hour! FOR MORE NESTALGIA as well as show notes and links check out www.NEStalgiacast.com
Show notes
- Introductions - Espo
- Originally known as Highway Star in Japan
- Development History - Espo
- Square is back at it again with more 3D sim
- Square owner Masafumi Miyamoto wanted to demonstrate Gebelli's 3D programming techniques.
- In Japan, it is one of the few titles for the system designed for use with Nintendo's Famicom 3D System peripheral for 3D experience.
- Square is back at it again with more 3D sim
- First Impressions - Everyone
- Rad Racer is only the second “racing” game we have had. And I like the style! (Espo)
- Gameplay
- Players drive a Ferrari 328 or a Formula One racing car through a race course.
- Rally through a course and its checkpoints before the timer expires
- Even if time runs out, the vehicle can continue to coast for a while; if the vehicle reaches a checkpoint before running out of momentum, the game continues.
- Additional Thoughts
- OutRun exists, should this game matter? (Yes, because it’s on the NES)
- Rad Racer II
- NES North America only. Considered inferior by players
- These are the Square Games that will lead us to the creation of Final Fantasy
- EGL (Mike, Sean, Sam)