19 points

I can hear this image.

What an epic sound. Unrivaled by anything before or since.

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Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

It’s sooo good

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.

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16 points

Pssst…buy the Mitsubishi GTO.

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So it wasn’t just me then? That car killed everything.

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As a kid, the AWD made it so much more forgiving. And once you did all of the weight reductions and upgrades, it could decimate just about anything.

It led to my buying a beat up old '94 black 3000 GT a few years back for $900(!!!) to fulfill the childhood fantasy. Not a VR4 sadly and it only survived a few months, but what a glorious few months they were.

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3 points

And a stock viper for making money in the normal car race!

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3 points

I always struggled with Vipers. Still do, really, in more-modern sims. Shelby Cobras are similarly unwieldy (but fun).

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It was tricky to drive, but much easier unmodded. It also just shredded that particular race, which IIRC is the most lucrative in the game

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The Toyota 3000GT is also really effective. My friend and I used to play this religiously back when it was new. I used the GTO, him the 3000GT. We’d spend hours doing custom tuning and testing before saving our cars to memory cards and hanging out to race.

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I loved my green GTO in that game.

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2 points

Yes, the green/white and white/green upgraded racing liveries are imprinted in my brain.

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2 points

Pure shot of nostalgia thinking about that. I used to play it all the time with my Dad and brothers back in the day.

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Friendly reminder! If you’re offended by the fact that PlayStation 1 is in a retro gramming group… You should really get a colonoscopy.

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I promise you no one is offended but we still want colonoscopies

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3 points

Lol I was hurt by reality at first :(

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3 points

But not by the colonosxopy, I hope?

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2 points

I’d consider any console whose games could not receive update patches as retro.

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Gt1 had the best soundtrack

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GT1 OST was great but I’d argue that GT2 had a better soundtrack

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us or eu? i had the eu and didn’t like it, but ya know, music is a personal thing.

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I wish they would remake this game with new graphics. These old ones were so much better. I don’t want DLC or live services, I just want a driving RPG where I start with stock hatchbacks and gradually progress up the ranks and save up money to get better cars and win harder races.

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I haven’t played a GT in a very long time. That’s not what they are anymore? I have up on the genre when each car part had like 20 options and I had no clue what was good for a given track

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The modding / emulation scene is bonkers for this game, friend!! Check out the link I posted.

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8 points

I remember being amazed at how “realistic” the cars looked, nowadays it looks pretty dated.

That game got me into Garbage (the band) though. One of their songs was on the game soundtrack.

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First time my brother mentioned it he thought the live play was a commercial / live racing at first. It sounds silly now but at the time the graphics were much better than anything we were used to in racing games. Also back then it wasn’t unknown to have proper live filming for video game commercials. We were both adults at the time too, unsure if that’s worse or better heh.

Now I check out Forza Horizon and am like, yeah that’s digital, nice and shiny but definitely digital.

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