This game is how I learned to drive a manual 30 years ago. After spending USD20 and about two hours I'd totally trained my legs. But it wasn't until I got in the real car and did it in real life for the first time that I learned the true power of simulated learning. Back then the only other option was to spend several hundred dollars and weeks at a driving school to learn the exact same thing. In America the arcade version version drove on the right. This game is my first love of racing simulators, and maybe of all video games. Pole Position was my Godfather. As a kid I never ate pizza because I was too busy playing Pole Position whenever we went to Round Table or Chuck E Cheese's. Later as an orphan on the streets I'd panhandle for quarters to spend all day driving this game but I always drove auto. Then came the day when I found a car I couldn't pass up, but can't drive a stick wasn't about to stop me. I bet in about ten years someone will be saying the same thing about STATIONEERS and how it was responsible for teaching them how to become a genius in handling thermal goddamnics.
I was actually surprised to see (via mame) that this actually had a surprisingly large number of localised revisions. Predominantly the whole 'side of the road' business which I honestly didn't expect. Then again, thinking about it, Tengen = Japanese = Left Side of Road. So I guess it kinda made sense to localise it for both sides for the other 80% of the world that drives on the right (I stand to be corrected, but I think it's only the UK, Ireland, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand that drives on the left).
Can confirm in Canada, I also learned to drive stick through this game. It was called Stunt Driving. Also unrelated was how I knew about the LM002. Sadly I wasn't old enough to notice side of the road-ness. When I say "learned" it was really just more an abstract understanding of a clutch pedal's function. But I definitely leaned heavily on the simulation the first time I tried to drive a 4 speed Ford Festiva a decade later. Thanks for the memories.
bro i remember playing this game on my sega megadrive off some bootleg cart that my parents bought at the local market for full price lmao. thought it was the most realistic shit ever
that was perfect gg!!
This game is how I learned to drive a manual 30 years ago. After spending USD20 and about two hours I'd totally trained my legs. But it wasn't until I got in the real car and did it in real life for the first time that I learned the true power of simulated learning. Back then the only other option was to spend several hundred dollars and weeks at a driving school to learn the exact same thing.
In America the arcade version version drove on the right. This game is my first love of racing simulators, and maybe of all video games. Pole Position was my Godfather. As a kid I never ate pizza because I was too busy playing Pole Position whenever we went to Round Table or Chuck E Cheese's.
Later as an orphan on the streets I'd panhandle for quarters to spend all day driving this game but I always drove auto. Then came the day when I found a car I couldn't pass up, but can't drive a stick wasn't about to stop me. I bet in about ten years someone will be saying the same thing about STATIONEERS and how it was responsible for teaching them how to become a genius in handling thermal goddamnics.
I was actually surprised to see (via mame) that this actually had a surprisingly large number of localised revisions. Predominantly the whole 'side of the road' business which I honestly didn't expect.
Then again, thinking about it, Tengen = Japanese = Left Side of Road. So I guess it kinda made sense to localise it for both sides for the other 80% of the world that drives on the right (I stand to be corrected, but I think it's only the UK, Ireland, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand that drives on the left).
Can confirm in Canada, I also learned to drive stick through this game. It was called Stunt Driving. Also unrelated was how I knew about the LM002. Sadly I wasn't old enough to notice side of the road-ness.
When I say "learned" it was really just more an abstract understanding of a clutch pedal's function. But I definitely leaned heavily on the simulation the first time I tried to drive a 4 speed Ford Festiva a decade later.
Thanks for the memories.
bro i remember playing this game on my sega megadrive off some bootleg cart that my parents bought at the local market for full price lmao. thought it was the most realistic shit ever
You're an absolute psychopath for playing this game at 6 fps in 2024 😂 love it
I think it occasionally hits double digits for a few seconds here and there 🤣