Stunts (video game)
Stunts is a racing game from the year 1990. The game was programmed by the group Distinctive Software (DSI ) and first marketed in the U.S. by Brøderbund in versions 1.0 and 1.1 for PC. At the same time brought Mindscape in Europe the same game under the name 4D Sports Driving in versions 1.1 for PC and 1.2 for the Amiga out. The game came with then fantastic unconverted " 3D polygon graphics " out. The influences of its predecessor, Test Drive, also of DSI were clearly evident in the graphical implementation and operation.
The game
On a staked fence with a large area you can with various cars in automatic or manual transmission on a track (but off the track ) a race against time, or different enemies go. The goal is to as quickly as possible to get from the start to the goal, while approximately follows the route. Often you can go off the road, and some abbreviations are accepted by the game, while others are punished with penalty times.
The special feature of stunts is that not only are pre-defined routes to drive, but that there is also a built-in track editor, with which you made of prefabricated sections with a square base, which are used in a landscape grid, can build their own racing courses. In addition to straight lines, curves, highways, ramps, tunnels and flyovers, there are also obstacles such as concrete cubes and unusual routings such as loops, screws, ski jumps ( eg to jump over skyscrapers ).
The individual race can be " replays " save and view from different perspectives again as so-called.
Stunts today
Although the game is now more than twenty years old, it still enjoys worldwide popularity. After the end of the 1990s, the game was declared abandonware or by the developer firms themselves as freeware, many people discovered the game. In the mid- 1990s saw the first websites on the Internet, which dealt with stunts and offering it for download. Especially since the game under 1 MB is packed great, it was fast spreading over the Internet. When, in the late 1990s first competitions were started, in which a competition managers were sent for a certain distance replays by e -mail, started the game - for the circumstances of his age - to boom a second time.
Even today stunts is played by a worldwide community. Several competitions running at the time, there are hundreds of websites for the game, a lively forum and a stunts chat channel. Since 2004, their frequency is "World Stunts Meeting" at which players come from different nations: