
Welcome to the most brutal sport around. Destruction derbies are so passé, audiences want blood, so we strapped the drivers to volatile rockets. Smash your opponents into dust or better yet each other. Drag their faces across the ground at over 100 MPH...and give a whole new meaning to road rash!
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Languages: English**languages with full audio support
Engagement
Hours played at review time, across 33 reviews with recorded playtime.
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FINALLY!!! Huge fan of this game since it's original release and I've brought several others onto the bandwagon with me. This is pretty much a straight port of the game since the patch to play on newer Windows versions with LAN multiplayer. I've had trouble getting it going on newer Windows 10 builds, so happy to see it on Steam! The slight lag from the button press and the sometimes odd ways to get a controller programmed are again consistent with the patched versions since Windows 7. I do hope they spend some time to improve those aspects and hopefully update for simpler multiplayer through Steam.
Nostalgic, but also genuinely a good game. surprised no one has taken this concept and made a redux
This is one of the best games in existence, and I'm glad to see it on Steam. My dad took me to the computer store a few cities over to buy a second copy so that we could play it in multiplayer. They had a whole stack of Rocket Jockey, a cascading end-cap pile of beautiful flaming skulls, and I remember to this day my satisfaction at seeing them all. They must have been on sale, because I remember getting a copy for something like 10 bucks. I could already hear the surf rock winding up. We walked out to the van, that midnight blue one with the mismatched rear seat and the little exposed bolt holes in the floor through which you could see the freeway, and my dad started slapping his pockets. He peered in and cursed. The keys were still in the ignition, safe from us behind locked doors. I don't know what his plan was. I'm sure he briefly considered breaking in. It must have been the white van by then, the one with the carpeted floor and electric locks, or else he probably would have. Instead, he bought me a hoagie from the sandwich shop a few doors down from the computer store. It was likely smoked turkey, but mostly tasted like mustard. I ate and he sat beside me, quietly cursing. We were headed back out with some new conviction to jimmy the lock when we ran into some lady my dad knew. She lived in the next town over from us. Embarrassed but relieved, my dad admitted we were locked out of our car. She was more than happy to help, no problem at all, and drove us home in her clean, sleek new station wagon utility vehicle. Maybe my dad went back for the van later that evening, or maybe he waited until the next day. I didn't much care at that point. I had a second copy of Rocket Jockey. I still have it. We never did get the multiplayer to work.
I am so Thrilled they rereleased this legendary game. It handles a little bit rough with there being some delay between the button pressed and the action happening. Mapping a modern controller is a little weird since you have to change the keymappings on the keyboard section and not the gamepad section, but with a little love and a few fixes this will be amazing especially if the multiplayer still works EDIT: on there Zoom platform verison of the game they were able to fix the input lag and said they are working on implementing to the steam version so this should be fixed soon. It does only have LAN multiplayer but with a VPN and a little work around you can play online 2nd edit: also if you play on using a gamepad with this game make sure to map the buttons in the keyboard area, its a little weird but it works
You are good people for doing this. Thank you.
What can I say by far if not my favorite game from my youth. LOVE LOVE LOVE this game from race, to ball to WAR!! It has everything you want in a game. Just learned the guy who did the soundtrack also did the one to Pulp Fiction. ROCKET JOCKEY two thumbs wayyyy up.
I have a great nostalgia for this game. I remember being fairly adept at it at 10 years old when it came out but damn if I can figure it out now. Will keep playing with it and hopefully I will get better. Not sure how multiplayer will work, will there be a forum with links to join games? The multiplayer screen is just as dated as everything else and I honestly cant remember how that stuff worked 27 years ago.
I am thrilled to have RJ on Steam, but it's not even the best modern compatibility layer written for this old gem. As of 7 days post-launch, there are still several critical problems unique to this release. * No Game pad or Stick Support * Easily reproducible crash bugs (unique to this release) Multiplayer has always been an awkward subject for Rocket Jockey, so I won't hold that against "Zoom Media Group," and I'm still looking for a reliable infrastructure I can make for the community.
Arty "THE TORCH" Jablonski!
i can't believe i can play this again.
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