Shit Game Time: Turbo Kart Racer

[ZEUSDAZ]

Well here we go again with another SGT video review and this time round I will be torturing myself by playing Turbo Kart Racer on the CPC


This game was actually requested by 3 youtubers at the same time to play and shit-rate this so how can I possibly ignore this game, could it be that bad?! ,....YEP!


Enjoy,...if you can
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[gimbal]

Ah but it moves so smoothly at 5fps.

[Nobby_UK]

I doubt it was even 5

[rothers]

CPC had hardware scrolling... next to zero games used it. It's like the ST->Amiga ports but so so much worse...

[Bruce Abbott]

Originally Posted by rothers

CPC had hardware scrolling... next to zero games used it. It's like the ST->Amiga ports but so so much worse...

To be fair, 1 pixel horizontal scrolling in mode 0 is very difficult and relies on the monitor handling non-standard sync timing. Virtually no games used it because the technique wasn't officially documented or known about by most programmers. As far as I know it is not possible to achieve 1 pixel horizontal scrolling in mode 1 (the mode this game runs in).

This game sucks, but the CPC's weak support for hardware scrolling is largely to blame. The same game on the Amiga would be a piece of cake to do in comparison. You could probably do it in AmigaBASIC and get smooth animation at 50Hz.

The reason this game sucks is that the designers tried to make the CPC do something it wasn't good at, perhaps because the game was a straight port from the ZX Spectrum.

[rothers]

Oh I know Amstrad didn't even document the hardware features, and it's a shame. It's good to see new games using them, though. Makes you realise the CPC was probably the most powerful of the popular 8bits.

... if you accept those hardware features being used.

[Retro1234]

tbh cool game really.
I've watched a few of these and the guys that narrates them is proper bitter, moaning etc , yeah not a big fan of his vids.

[Nobby_UK]

Then why watch ?

[gimbal]

It's kind of ironic that Retro is moaning about someone moaning I guess he can stay anyway.

[Foebane]

Originally Posted by gimbal

Ah but it moves so smoothly at 5fps.

Why the heck is it only 5fps? I've seen BBC Micro games that zipped along faster!

Originally Posted by rothers

CPC had hardware scrolling... next to zero games used it. It's like the ST->Amiga ports but so so much worse...

This shit game reminded me of Rally Speedway on the Atari 8-Bit: much zippier, chunkier but plays better, is OLDER and looks gorgeous in full 50/60 fps (YouTube videos don't do it justice).

Originally Posted by Retro1234

tbh cool game really.
I've watched a few of these and the guys that narrates them is proper bitter, moaning etc , yeah not a big fan of his vids.

Retro1234, this is NOT a "cool game". And someone has to call out quality control on these poor games, especially when spending money to buy them is involved.

[gimbal]

Originally Posted by Foebane

Retro1234, this is NOT a "cool game". And someone has to call out quality control on these poor games, especially when spending money to buy them is involved.

Yes.

~30+ years ago that should have happened. Now we gripe and groan about what could have been and what shouldn't have been.