I played the fullsize Super Off Road this Friday at our local barcade.
It is generally fun mayhem, but sometimes a frustrating airborne collision will set you back half a lap. Easy to win 6-8 races on 1 credit(was probably on lowest difficulty) .
I still prefer Championship Sprint overall, for the precise control, full slide turns and the shortcut jumps. (Plus laying down awesome donuts by constantly spinning the wheel)
Special mention to Badlands which adds guns and an apocalyptic theme.
Or the original Sprint series that had no speed-limiter, which made for hilarious out of control death drifting.
Similar top quality games on home computer were:
Supercars II on the Amiga, top multiplayer action.
and
Slicks ‘n’ Slide for DOS. 3-4 player on a single keyboard with excellent drift physics, just brilliant!
I was 21 in 2008, and I’d been a fan of Ctrl Alt Del since near it’s beginning. I was a huge web comic fan in general, and I got intensely emotionally invested in them, even the silly ones.
This strip hit me exactly as he intended it to. It resonated with me I guess because of my brother and sister in law going through a miscarriage shortly before. Either way, it had a powerful impact on me and I didn’t see this “tonal shift” as a problem. That’s kinda dumb if you ask me, lots and lots of comedies have serious moments.
Anyway, I didn’t know this meme until a few years ago and it always makes me sad. It’s dumb, I know.
I’m super sensitive to negativity, which is why I was always a lurker in reddit, I always got shat on whenever I shared anything, to the point that I’d just delete my account and hide from the internet for a while.
Tbh, the “tonal shift” had been happening for a long time. This was not out of the blue at all. It was only unexpected for the “A comic must and can only be funny” crowd.
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