Screamer

Endlich. Ist nicht das erste Mal seit Mitte der 90er Jahre, dass ich versuche, Bleifuss/Screamer auf neueren Computern zu spielen. Die Versionen, die ich bisher hatte, zuletzt auf GOG, funzten aber nicht, das Spiel war schlicht nicht steuerbar. Die Steam-Variante funktioniert tatsächlich direkt nach Installation. Es ist natürlich erstmal ein Schock, die Grafik, der Sound, die Kollisionen mit anderen Autos - da hat sich in den letzten fast 30 Jahren doch was getan...;-) Aber man sollte auch den Nostalgie-Faktor nicht unterschätzen. Es dauert keine 2 Strecken, bis man den Bogen wieder raus bekommt und halbwegs elegant durch die Kurven driftet. Ich glaube aber nicht, dass ich den gleichen Ehrgeiz wie in meiner Jugend entwickeln werde und auf jeder Strecke um Zehntelsekunden kämpfe. Dafür sind die neueren Funracer, allen voran Forza Horizon 5, doch zu abwechslungsreich und gut. Aber den Karrieremodus werde ich trotzdem nochmal durchfahren, um am Ende das Raketenauto freizuschalten...

Jugué a esta MARAVILLA cuando salió en 1995, con su caja grande de cartón, cd, manual e incluso una carta de garantía!!. Fue el mejor juego en su momento y a día de hoy para mi sigue siéndolo, tanto que lo tengo en Steam y GOG. La única sombra que tiene este juego es simplemente su Emulador, hay que modificar el archivo "dosboxScreamer.conf" para que use 128 bits de memoria (Parametro "memsize=128") y asi evitar el crasheo constante. Este juego en su momento me encantaba tanto que en el CD había un ejecutable para acceder a la pantalla de configuración de tu SoundBlaster y me pasaba horas ahí solo para escuchar la magnífica banda sonora, hasta que descubri que pulsando la tecla F8 si no recuerdo mal.. podías acceder al selector de pistas en mitad de una carrera y escuchar la música que querías. Es un juego 100% recomendable que debería ser comprado y jugado, es un "Must Have"

<insert_like_a_sir_meme> Hmm... Ah, yes... This fine game exemplar seems to follow a heavy influence by the 90's old school games pioneered by SEGA's Daytona USA with a hint of Konami's Winding Heat... And indeed... It was a shame I didn't have that marvellous pinnacle of the technology they called Pentium processor at the time to savor this experience...

Steam Deck player. I have linked the game to ProtonExperimental, otherwise it will not start. Then perfectly playable on the Steam Deck. I have arranged the keys differently, it does not work well if the gas and brake are under the four-point key together with the steering. It's an old game that will give you a headache, it's still enjoyable if you like old dos racing games with arcade vibes.

Очень древний артефакт из 1995 года. Пиксели размером с кулак.

Este es un juego al que jugaba de adolescente y que me encantaba, salvo por una pequeña cosa: el juego petaba en la quinta carrera siempre. Daba igual cómo lo configurara o en el ordenador en el que jugara que siempre me pasaba lo mismo. Pues bien, el fallo sigue estando puesto que se trata del juego tal cual, sin ningún tipo de retoque o mejora. Es una lástima, puesto que es un clásico divertido y creo que con unas pocas horas de dedicación se podría pulir el tema de las petadas y mejorar el soporte para mandos (uso Xpadder para poder mapear los botones del teclado y que todo funcione correctametne). Ya no hablo de mejorar los gráficos o la jugabilidad... al fin y al cabo los que compramos este juego es por el recuerdo y nos gusta tal y como era, pero sí unos mínimos de ética, que te están vendiendo de nuevo un juego con más de 20 años sin arreglar absolutamente nada y ejecutándolo mediante un emulador libre. Lástima...

A classic in every sense of the word. Calling it the Duke Nukem 3D of arcade racing would be a stretch but it certainly was a thought popping up in my mind. Low-poly arcade racing, old school unlocks (modes and tracks, through progression), run of the mill rock music and a cheesy commentator (that you can turn on and off at your leisure), what more could you ask for? Well certainly not the old school crashes I remember from back then :P but if you can live with that and stay stubborn like I did you will get past them sooner or later. I only encountered two that happened at the exact same spot but it only occurred during the first lap and didn't occur past that point. Even today I still had fun with this. p.s.: I played this more than 11 minutes, about an hour and 30 minutes (not to mention the hours back in the day) but it was in offline mode and Steam doesn't take that properly into account

Be very careful when purchasing this game. Not that there isn't much wrong with Screamer other then the crashes. I just find it very very hard to recommend as an entire game on its own being released on Steam. It's more of an artifact then a game because of the kind of impact when released and the later game that went after it. I grew up playing Screamer Rally and I wanted to experience the games origins, so this was around and decided to purchase it, so that's satifiying on its own but then you don't really buy your way into success. The game however is clearly the more you play, the more you'll experience and understand what truly goes on but that was 1995 when gamers almost had more time with so little other alternatives like Ridge Racer, Test Drive or Need for Speed. Screamer is a racing game which uses sports and exotic cars modelled after a Ferrari or a Porchse and put them onto a track to race on. Almost unseen then and is believeable considering there really isn't anything on it's time. So the game isn't as welcome as it can as playing the arcade mode to see what's going on wouldn't let you win. So out of boredom and maybe to get the most out of the game, I decided to maybe try to sit in the championship mode but the game goes really easy on you and you can actually win races and experience the other content of the game which doesn't fail to deliver. Could see where the game was going with that. The game physics isn't the best. Maybe really early game but slamming and rear ending other racers and find yourself against the wall is too unrealistic. The game AI cars slam into you and again find yourself against the wall. This would cost you the race in almost very case. The vehicles are extremely wide for the tracks, so getting to the first place is a challenge in the single player races as the tracks feel narrow. The game is flash with colorful graphics and the game does hold but loads of trial and error to winning races as the gameplay is dated.