In 1993 I had my 11th birthday party at a bowling alley and they had a Ridge Racer cabinet. Seeing those graphics completely rearranged my molecules. I had no idea that a video game could look so realistic.
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.
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.
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.
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. :)
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."
I remember the Ridge Racer installation at Codona's in Aberdeen, from when I was part of a team that ran a prototype networked computer games cafe on the other side of the burger bar. I might if I dig around still have some video of people playing it from a promo reel I shot!
What they did to that poor Full Scale Ridge Racer was criminal. There's absolutely no reason someone would claim preservation, but grab the mazda and let the videogame parts to rot, other than pure malice.
Incorrect sir. The whole point of wanting to save this machine, and emulate the code is so that it will 100% be made public. As the article states, this will happen when the time is right.
What you have to know about gaming collectors is they are all insane. Some more than others. In this story you have at least 3 people with some problems. Greed, allure of exclusivity, compulsive hoarding, scamming, predatory speculation, its all there.
I feel that often people start projects like this with the best of intentions, life gets in the way, and then the "time" is never "right". It would be better to share incomplete things early to reduce this risk.
But what is the downside to sharing the code in an incomplete state, in case the folks working on emulation cease their work? The world is full of projects that never get "finished."
It would require same amount of scrolling, you can't have lines that long to keep it easily readable anyway.
What I don't like it's alighned to right, I prefer to read centered text, but it's their website, so whatever, if I don't like it I can just close it (or could try to block picture element through UBO).
edit: tried to block all elements on the left including header, but it's still aligned to right just leaving big dark left column
Not to state the bleedin' obvious, but I will - the point of the UX is that the site adapts to the device being used. And it adapts well. The large image on the left in desktop mode is certainly different, but I like the execution personally.
