LGR - Race The Nags - DOS PC Game Review
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Date: 2022-04-14
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DesignMHuff
I used to have a game that looked very very similar to this. it came in a compilation game disk for windows 98. I forget what it was called, but it looks like an updated version of this. The killer part of it was you could buy horses and sell them, you could have a 'stable' and you could enter them in several different kinds of races and different turf (like dirt or grass. I sunk so many hours into it. Also you could tweak your horses stamina and such so you could make a virtually invincible horse. almost invincible, there were always horses that can beat you, but I'd love to figure out what it was called and be able to play it again some day.
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I used to have a game that looked very very similar to this. it came in a compilation game disk for windows 98. I forget what it was called, but it looks like an updated version of this. The killer part of it was you could buy horses and sell them, you could have a 'stable' and you could enter them in several different kinds of races and different turf (like dirt or grass. I sunk so many hours into it. Also you could tweak your horses stamina and such so you could make a virtually invincible horse. almost invincible, there were always horses that can beat you, but I'd love to figure out what it was called and be able to play it again some day.
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Tanara
Huh. weird that you'd review this as I was playing a horse racing game. Hooves of Thunder. It's. um. way more in-depth, though. Poring over the detailed racing forms and factoring in race length and such to pick your winners, for instance. Elegantly simple, it's not. But I do like it, though I think I have to run it on an older computer, on Win 7, the auction screen doesn't work properly.
Doing a multiplayer game on this could totally be fun, though. Also, I noticed it says not the horses, but the _jockeys_ go down. So this is some sort of really amateur horse race with new jockeys racing on old nags?
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Huh. weird that you'd review this as I was playing a horse racing game. Hooves of Thunder. It's. um. way more in-depth, though. Poring over the detailed racing forms and factoring in race length and such to pick your winners, for instance. Elegantly simple, it's not. But I do like it, though I think I have to run it on an older computer, on Win 7, the auction screen doesn't work properly.
Doing a multiplayer game on this could totally be fun, though. Also, I noticed it says not the horses, but the _jockeys_ go down. So this is some sort of really amateur horse race with new jockeys racing on old nags?
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handsomebrick
As a kid I made a game in BASIC where there's a little guy walking towards a row of barrels, and you have to repeatedly press a key to launch the barrels out of his way one by one, you can't launch the barrels too quickly because eventually they fall back down, but this is tricky because the little guy's speed keeps changing. It was crazy simple but weirdly addictive, maybe I should have polished and distributed it somehow so LGR would make a video on it 20 years later.
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As a kid I made a game in BASIC where there's a little guy walking towards a row of barrels, and you have to repeatedly press a key to launch the barrels out of his way one by one, you can't launch the barrels too quickly because eventually they fall back down, but this is tricky because the little guy's speed keeps changing. It was crazy simple but weirdly addictive, maybe I should have polished and distributed it somehow so LGR would make a video on it 20 years later.
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Peter
You can run dos games using mashed potatoes, you need some chicken though or the floppy disk will be lonely, and some bacon placed in the floppy drive, the bacon receives signals from the chicken (which must be sat next to the floppy disk with the mashed potatoes or your hard drive will crash) and plays the game, I hope you found this useful lgr: ) (does not work with windows cd rom or Mac games released after 1990)
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You can run dos games using mashed potatoes, you need some chicken though or the floppy disk will be lonely, and some bacon placed in the floppy drive, the bacon receives signals from the chicken (which must be sat next to the floppy disk with the mashed potatoes or your hard drive will crash) and plays the game, I hope you found this useful lgr: ) (does not work with windows cd rom or Mac games released after 1990)
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James
If someone brought this back as a phone game it would be awesome. I mean, who wouldn't want to play the fake ponies with fake money while taking a real crap in a public toilet?
BTW everybody, what's your personal pick for a ridiculously awesome horse name? I like Peeping Tom Techie (by a photo finish) Pinocchio's Nutsack (by a nose) and Ninja Assassin Gnome, just because! :)
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If someone brought this back as a phone game it would be awesome. I mean, who wouldn't want to play the fake ponies with fake money while taking a real crap in a public toilet?
BTW everybody, what's your personal pick for a ridiculously awesome horse name? I like Peeping Tom Techie (by a photo finish) Pinocchio's Nutsack (by a nose) and Ninja Assassin Gnome, just because! :)
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pstar7
In Japan they have two different horse racing games. One is plastic horses Galloping around oval track with CRT screen to animation. Second track is on a huge three screen. You sit on a comfortable chair in front of the monitor that's touch screen. You pick a jockey and horse, then you'll see an animation or watch the animation on huge three screens to watch.
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In Japan they have two different horse racing games. One is plastic horses Galloping around oval track with CRT screen to animation. Second track is on a huge three screen. You sit on a comfortable chair in front of the monitor that's touch screen. You pick a jockey and horse, then you'll see an animation or watch the animation on huge three screens to watch.
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Ruptured
Does anybody else besides me like to think of -Voice Over LGR- and -Live Action LGR- as two separate entities? Like Clint is just some normal dude trapped in a house full of old tech stuff and the LGR voice is keeping him there for his amusement.
. maybe I need to stop watching LGR when I'm sleep deprived.
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Does anybody else besides me like to think of -Voice Over LGR- and -Live Action LGR- as two separate entities? Like Clint is just some normal dude trapped in a house full of old tech stuff and the LGR voice is keeping him there for his amusement.
. maybe I need to stop watching LGR when I'm sleep deprived.
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GeorgeQGreg
Floppy disk in mashed potatoes. eek! Hope the floppy was also a potato.
Man, Dick Olsen! I remember playing his Basstour as a kid! Loved it! Nostalgia. though I recently decided to play it again after probably over a decade, and I didn't like it as much as I remembered liking it. Still, very nostalgic!
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Floppy disk in mashed potatoes. eek! Hope the floppy was also a potato.
Man, Dick Olsen! I remember playing his Basstour as a kid! Loved it! Nostalgia. though I recently decided to play it again after probably over a decade, and I didn't like it as much as I remembered liking it. Still, very nostalgic!
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Amanda
Hi just wondering if you remember the program years ago to make 3D shooters like depth dwellers 3D engine or something like that I had it and made a few games back around 92-94. Was fairly easy to use and can quickly make a awefull game in 10mins or so. I'm sure the same engine was used for depth dwellers.
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Hi just wondering if you remember the program years ago to make 3D shooters like depth dwellers 3D engine or something like that I had it and made a few games back around 92-94. Was fairly easy to use and can quickly make a awefull game in 10mins or so. I'm sure the same engine was used for depth dwellers.
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NotABot55
I was reminded of this game when playing Pocket Card Jockey. granted it was a lot less betting on the ponies and a lot more on raising them, but you don't find many horse racing games here anyways. (-Track- enthusiasts aside, it seems we just care about the Triple Crown if at all and not much else)
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I was reminded of this game when playing Pocket Card Jockey. granted it was a lot less betting on the ponies and a lot more on raising them, but you don't find many horse racing games here anyways. (-Track- enthusiasts aside, it seems we just care about the Triple Crown if at all and not much else)
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