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Death Race video footage

Posted by mos6507, 03 December 2008 · 139 views

Death Derby

This clip was brought to my attention recently. It is, as far as I know, the only video footage of Death Race online. I have the old VHS tape that I got from Rob Mitchell but I haven't digitized it. The DR section is very brief at around 1:00 in. Enjoy.

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Nathan Strum
Dec 3 2008 1:05 PM

Seems to me someone in the arcade forums here owned one of these, but I could be mistaken.

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mos6507
Dec 3 2008 1:35 PM

Now Chris Wilkson has mine, but he hasn't gotten it up and running again yet. Supposedly the owner of Funspot has one but I'm not sure if it's on the floor. I was planning on going over there to find out.

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Thomas Jentzsch
Dec 3 2008 3:13 PM

How close is that hack to the original?

http://www.widel.com/downloads.htm

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mos6507
Dec 3 2008 4:03 PM

Thomas Jentzsch, on Wed Dec 3, 2008 2:13 PM, said:

How close is that hack to the original?

http://www.widel.com/downloads.htm

Not close at all. It even uses a joystick. The person who sent me the link is working on a flash version of the game. I'm kind of coaching him on how it works based on the VHS footage I have of it.

This is closer but the gremlins are moving diagonally which is not right, and the keyboard control ruins it. It's also too slow to back out of or roll through obstacles compared to the footage I remember. With minimalistic games such as this the devil's in the details.