Together Retro: RC Pro Am

Post by **Yaxley** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 5:09 pm

Awesome. I have both the game and the time to play it this round.

And it turns out I'm just as bad at it as I remember.

Post by **executioner** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 11:07 pm

So many years forgot this one existed, remember I use to go to a firends house to play. Man the races are tough specially on that last lap, just played a little while.

Post by **racketboy** » Sat Jul 19, 2008 7:30 pm

Does anybody else find themselves spending too much time aiming their car to shoot instead of driving?

Post by **ott0bot** » Sat Jul 19, 2008 9:37 pm

racketboy wrote:Does anybody else find themselves spending too much time aiming their car to shoot instead of driving?

Not as bad as Wipe Out....but yes indeed. I just fired this one up again. I have a real chip on my shoulder for this game because my brother would always kill me on this game. And once when I actually won he wouldn't let me play with him for like two weeks. What a chump....

Post by **racketboy** » Sat Jul 19, 2008 10:16 pm

ott0bot wrote:
racketboy wrote:Does anybody else find themselves spending too much time aiming their car to shoot instead of driving?
Not as bad as Wipe Out....but yes indeed. I just fired this one up again. I have a real chip on my shoulder for this game because my brother would always kill me on this game. And once when I actually won he wouldn't let me play with him for like two weeks. What a chump....

Seems like the handling is a little looser in the original than the Gameboy version I'm used to. Maybe that's part of my problem.
Still fun, but it starts to make my head hurt after a while...

Post by **executioner** » Sat Jul 19, 2008 10:48 pm

racketboy wrote:Does anybody else find themselves spending too much time aiming their car to shoot instead of driving?

On the nes it felt like that and I was playing on a ds, but on the genesis didn't have that feeling.

Post by **4ppleseed** » Sun Jul 20, 2008 1:39 pm

So is this the start of the love affair between Rare and Nintendo?

Post by **Ivo** » Mon Jul 21, 2008 9:26 am

I had a quick play of this (RC Pro Am 1, NES). The car seems to turn very easily (or too easily? Is that what you call "slippery controls"?). If I had to sum it up in a sentence, I'd say it's certainly fun, but unpolished.

I'll play a bit more before giving up on it though, but I'm pretty sure there are much better games of this type - unsurprising as this one is a very early / pioneering example of the genre, but I feel in this genre the better titles obsolete the early titles more than in other genres (which is sort of the case in general for sports and racing games, with notable exceptions). Maybe that's just my feeling though.

Ivo.

Post by **racketboy** » Mon Jul 21, 2008 6:00 pm

Ivo wrote:I had a quick play of this (RC Pro Am 1, NES). The car seems to turn very easily (or too easily? Is that what you call "slippery controls"?). If I had to sum it up in a sentence, I'd say it's certainly fun, but unpolished.

I'll play a bit more before giving up on it though, but I'm pretty sure there are much better games of this type - unsurprising as this one is a very early / pioneering example of the genre, but I feel in this genre the better titles obsolete the early titles more than in other genres (which is sort of the case in general for sports and racing games, with notable exceptions). Maybe that's just my feeling though.

Ivo.

I agree with you. I would actually recommend trying Super RC Pro Am for the Gameboy. I grew up with that and found it to be more well-rounded. I've been playing the original more just to give it more of a chance and have a frame of reference.

I also tried Pro Am 2 for the NES and realized it was significantly different. Just try it sometime and you'll see what I mean. A cool game -- but very strange after playing the originals.

Post by **Ivo** » Sun Aug 17, 2008 9:37 am

After playing a good bit more of this (I'm lagging behind on Together Retro) I have to say this doesn't feel like a classic to me. Maybe I'm unfairly "biased" by more modern games in this style (or maybe the true classics were the sequels of this series, which I haven't tried). The car handles a bit weird, the track mini-map is confusing because the perspective makes horizontal and vertical segments of the map correspond to diagonals on the main screen, in many cases the game isn't "fair", and personally I prefer when games like these have an ending. I've manged to go up to track 32 with all first prizes resorting to numerous save & loading, and even that was quite hard (just qualifying is a lot easier, but by then it's also nearly impossible without tool assistance). At a certain stage there was one track with 9 laps where you really needed to have stockpiled ammo from previous tracks.

But for such an old game, it's not bad. It just isn't worth playing nowadays when better games of this type are available.

Together Retro: RC Pro Am

My opinion