The second challenge is Motorbike games!
As before, these are split into Easy/Medium/Hard categories. Some categories might have more than one game...
I'll reveal answers in two weeks (on 19th December).
One clue:
Bike Easy 2: correctly guessed by @sKeno - Suzuki Alstare Extreme Racing - a semi-sequel to Redline Racer, featuring the same tracks (and more) but enhanced graphics. The Dreamcast version was reasonably well-known. Lightweight arcade racing from Criterion Games (prior to the Burnout series).
Bike Easy 3: correctly guessed by @Gevatter - Moto Racer 15th Anniversary - available in the Moto Racer Collection, this is a mobile game ported to PC. Doesn't play as well as the other Moto Racer games.
Bike Medium 1: correctly guessed by @Valenfield - MotoGP '07 - the 2007 edition of MotoGP was the last to be developed by Climax Games. It featured (as per MotoGP '06) an Extreme mode, with street racing tracks in the same area as the real-life races. This is from the Prague track.
Bike Medium 2: correctly guessed by @sKeno - Super-Bikes Riding Challenge - prior to their Ride series, Milestone had a go at bike street racing with this title. It's based on the engine that powered SCARS (Squadra Corsa Alfa Romeo) and Evolution GT (aka Corvette Evolution GT).
Bike Medium 3: correctly guessed by @Zuffenhausen Weiss - Jacked - no longer widely available, this was going to be a tie-in to the Ice Cube bike film Torque, then they didn't go with that license. It's sort of like Road Rash.
Bike Hard 1: correctly guess by @sKeno - GP vs Superbike - this was the ultimate culmination of the games based on the engine first seen in Johnny Herbert's Grand Prix 1998 and Castrol Honda Superbike. You could race F1 cars against superbikes, but it didn't play at all well. Amusingly, the engine for all these games predates Direct3D, starting out life as a DOS-based software engine powering Teque's/Eidos Interactive's Power F1 game.
Bike Hard 2: correctly guessed by @Zuffenhausen Weiss - Cyclemania - Accolade's stab at a CD-ROM based bike racing title, it plays something like MegaRace, with pixelated sprites overlaid onto low-resolution real-life video. Amusingly, whenever you crash, you see a crash video clip from real life bike races!
Bike Hard 3: correctly guessed by @Zuffenhausen Weiss - Moto Extreme - this is a terrible DOS-based sort-of sequel to the terrible Sega 32X game Motocross Championship. What IS going on in this screenshot?! (and apologies for FRAPS counter still being visible!)
As before, these are split into Easy/Medium/Hard categories. Some categories might have more than one game...
I'll reveal answers in two weeks (on 19th December).
One clue:
- Easy = readily available to buy still, or fairly well known in the past.
- Medium = maybe not available to buy (apart from eBay); a bit less known.
- Hard = good luck on guessing these!
Bike Easy 2: correctly guessed by @sKeno - Suzuki Alstare Extreme Racing - a semi-sequel to Redline Racer, featuring the same tracks (and more) but enhanced graphics. The Dreamcast version was reasonably well-known. Lightweight arcade racing from Criterion Games (prior to the Burnout series).
Bike Easy 3: correctly guessed by @Gevatter - Moto Racer 15th Anniversary - available in the Moto Racer Collection, this is a mobile game ported to PC. Doesn't play as well as the other Moto Racer games.
Bike Medium 1: correctly guessed by @Valenfield - MotoGP '07 - the 2007 edition of MotoGP was the last to be developed by Climax Games. It featured (as per MotoGP '06) an Extreme mode, with street racing tracks in the same area as the real-life races. This is from the Prague track.
Bike Medium 2: correctly guessed by @sKeno - Super-Bikes Riding Challenge - prior to their Ride series, Milestone had a go at bike street racing with this title. It's based on the engine that powered SCARS (Squadra Corsa Alfa Romeo) and Evolution GT (aka Corvette Evolution GT).
Bike Medium 3: correctly guessed by @Zuffenhausen Weiss - Jacked - no longer widely available, this was going to be a tie-in to the Ice Cube bike film Torque, then they didn't go with that license. It's sort of like Road Rash.
Bike Hard 1: correctly guess by @sKeno - GP vs Superbike - this was the ultimate culmination of the games based on the engine first seen in Johnny Herbert's Grand Prix 1998 and Castrol Honda Superbike. You could race F1 cars against superbikes, but it didn't play at all well. Amusingly, the engine for all these games predates Direct3D, starting out life as a DOS-based software engine powering Teque's/Eidos Interactive's Power F1 game.
Bike Hard 2: correctly guessed by @Zuffenhausen Weiss - Cyclemania - Accolade's stab at a CD-ROM based bike racing title, it plays something like MegaRace, with pixelated sprites overlaid onto low-resolution real-life video. Amusingly, whenever you crash, you see a crash video clip from real life bike races!
Bike Hard 3: correctly guessed by @Zuffenhausen Weiss - Moto Extreme - this is a terrible DOS-based sort-of sequel to the terrible Sega 32X game Motocross Championship. What IS going on in this screenshot?! (and apologies for FRAPS counter still being visible!)
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