reminds me of death race

Yeah, the piece was inspired by a 1997 PC game called Interstate 76, which is part of a long line of automotive carnage, including Twisted Metal, and Carmageddon, all tracing back to the 1975 cult hit "Death Race 2000."

It's super cheesy by today's standards, but if you want to see the original film that inspired this year's "Death Race" then check out "Death Race 2000." I saw it years ago and... well, if you don't hold any high expectations for it and you just might enjoy it ;)

I saw both 2000 and 2008 death race ...I like the mustang a lot more

Haha, yeah it's hard to compare them to each other. The cars have definitely come a long way since then...

Interstate 76 was amazing, but it's follow up, Vigilante 8 was absolutely blinding. <3

HA! And I thought I was the only one who still remembers or even liked Vigilante 8!

I remember playing the demo to I-76, I wish I could find it again.

Haha, yeah I think I first got the demo out of a copy of PC Gamer or PC Accelerator... I must have played that one mission about a hundred times... Seriously.

Oooohhh, now I recall. Yeah I think I had that mag too during that time. But I wish I could find the whole game and hope it works on XP.

I recently reinstalled my old copy of it on this very machine, which is running up to date XP and it worked beautifully. I think there's still a patch lost somewhere that I would need to install for it, because I found that there were a couple quirks with the npc vehicles where when they were driving straight their front wheels would flash left to right and because of that the would drive very very slowly...

Old demo copy?

Oh no, the full version of the game. That demo copy I used to have is probably LONG gone by now...

Lucky....

I thought Death Race was more like Twisted Metal or Full Auto than the original film, myself.

Wicked sick. o______________________o

Well, I have you to thank, inspiring me with all the black and white goodness you orgasm on that board.

Yea well. I rarely do this kind of hi-contrast comic-themed awesomery. Vdisco does more of that, but I appreciate your sentiment despite my attempts at being humble by rudely dismissing what you said. ARRRRGH. I don't know how to speak. D:

How about "We help eachother even when we're not aware of it!" as a um.. Kinda proverbial reply.

I'm guessing the board blew up right after due to overload of awesome.

"I am Calypso, and I thank you for playing Twisted Metal."

that line is time less

Hey! That remember me Vigilante 8 on Nintendo 64, you know, deathmatch on a civilian battlefield with some custom car! (Las Vegas, Farm, Area 51)

Ow yeah, that was fun!

That's exactly what popped into my head when I saw this. I loved that game, it was one of my favorites for that system (both it and the sequel).

Ahaha yeah! A fan, good to see that! So by the way, there is no game like this on PS2 or Xbox, I mean, there are some races games with custom car like that but in deathmatch, I see nothing :/

There was that game for the 360 with weapons strapped to cars (name escapes me at the moment), but that was more like Burnout with guns (from what I hear; never had a chance to play it, so maybe I'm gone). Nothing so far with the odd cars, characters, upgrades, and general awesome tone.

If ever was there a game that needs a next-gen installment, it's Vigilante 8

Héhé yeah, you dam right :)

I beleive the game you're referring to is called Full Auto. Just though I'd let you know

That's the one, thank you so much. Been meaning to look that one up for a while now (probably pretty cheap by this point, too).

Hey you're welcome

Oh yeah, also Vigilante 8 IS getting a next gen update... It's called something like Vigilante 8 Arcade, don't know what system it's for, or if it's anything promising... I only just heard that it exists.

Niiiiice

I'll dig around for it, hopefully it's coming for a system I actually own.

Interstate always seemed to me like a wildly reinterpreted version of the tabletop game Car Wars, running on a heavily reprogrammed Mechwarrior 2 engine.

Oh yeah! I vaguely remember hearing about that game! Wouldn't surprise me if it was an inspiration for I'76...

As somewhat of a fan of both that ol' game and Interstate, I have to say you would be suprised by how simmilar the car building sheets were.

Btw someone really needs to remake that game with up to date graphics and decent physics engine.

There have been a couple mods.. I know there is one for Battlefield 2 that looks very authentic to the original games, and then there's one for GTA San Andreas... Which is actually a mod within a mod. You need to get the multiplayer mod for it, and THEN you can get a mod that changes the cars and adds guns and stuff, but looks a lot less faithfull to I'76.

AND! I think there's another Vigilante 8 coming out this fall... It's called Vigilante 8 Arcade or something. I have no idea what it's about, though.

Delicious vigilante 8 game is delicious :9

But still I76 was way more stylish. Can't outcool the funk.

Holy shit. I didn't know anybody remembered that game.

Graphically it may not hold up anymore, but I fondly remember many days and nights spent on the desert sand in the Piranha, waxing creepers.

Eh, graphics are seldom what make a game good. The best it can do is enhance something that's already good. In this case, the best it can do is enhance a game about muscle cars duking it out with aircraft weaponry, which is already pretty awesome.

Graphically it didn't hold up THEN, let alone NOW. The pop up was at epic levels, which was worrying seeing how it only needed to render a few boxes on screen at any one time. Still good tho.

Whoa. Interstate 76. That brings me way back.

The games you play with desaturation and contrast please no one.

Huh?

Nice old 196....3? lincoln continental... Hard to tell what exact year it is, but I dig it. :)

61, but they're all pretty similar. The bumper is the only real defining part between the years, but I drew this guy from memory so it's not even quite right.

Nice! I've played all the Twisted Metal games 'cept 'Small Brawl', and loved V8 and 2nd Offense.

Great illo, man.

Interstate 76! Fuck yeah. Im suprized that another person knows about it... that game was fuckin fun as hell, then Vigilante 8 was awesome, then the other awesome carnage games, Carmageddon and such... also must put a mention out to the Mad Max trilogy >:3

I so want to make a post apoc car irl. most i've done is my own submission of one
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/1487363/

Fire when ready...

We cant stop here!

I remember watching my friend play Interstate '76 in the last '90s and at the time, we were amazed by the graphics. Granted it is by pale comparison versus today's games, but still, the idea behind it was well written and the music....the MUSIC! It was so funky it just made you want to dance! Amazing picture, I didn't know anyone could be so detailed in Oekaki!

Oh man, the music was almost the best part about those games. I still listen to that soundtrack all the time. I don't know how they managed to put together such a great score for a video game... but the composer and bass player for the soundtrack was Arion Salazar who went on to found Third Eye Blind, on keyboards was Tom Coster, a previous band-mate of Carlos Santana's, and on drums was Bryan Mantia who had played for Primus and Guns N' Roses... (thanks wikipedia for providing the names). I mean, EPIC lineup.

Soon as I read that title, Interstate '76 came to mind. Been ages since I'd heard anything in reference to it. That game was great fun, I oughta dig it out again sometime and see if I can get it working on my machine. Man, that brings back memories. ^^

This is a warm-up?! Goodness. I wish I could draw vehicles like you :O

Well, vehicles are pretty much the only subject matter I've been drawing consistently since I hold a pencil, so I'd hope I was good at them by now... :)

death race? XD

Wait, where's Sweet Tooth? lol. Awesome job on this ^^

I love you.

o____o

This is one of the coolest pictures I've seen on the internet. Car combat is my favorite genre of games, and the first game I played on PS1 was Vigilante 8 2nd Offense. You did an excellent job on this, and might I add that it would look cool on a t-shirt.

Speaking on Interstate '76, I recently purchased a copy of Interstate '76 Nitro Pack in the wrapper at a flea market for $5.

RAD! It's worth it for the sound track alone.

I've only played it for less than 30 mins, but that's all the time you need to determine that it has a kickass soundtrack.

Interstate '76 Wooooo!!!

That game rocks totally. :3

I'll tell you right now that I have the original I'76 soundtrack on my regular WMP playlist. The graphics were pretty good for 1997 considering the competition in driving games at the time. I have the full version right here, but I was never able to get it working on WinXP.

"Hey Stampede, how about a poem?"

*kzzhch*

I'm silver smooth
Bathed ten times a second in an aerosol fire
Five thousand degrees in here
I course with electricity from my feet to my tongue
Where I vomit a torque-delivering spark

*kcczzh*

Man, that's heavy.

YOUR WARMUPS ARE SILLY

buy the car already. lol

i love shit like this.
One day im gonna draw a full picture like this

Gearing up for the Twisted Metal Tournament are we?

reminds me of twisted metal. god i loved that game.

Maaaaan, I LOVE I '76...

I've still got the 'Gold' disks on my rack here. Sad that modern machines seem to gag on the rock-bottom rendering engine, though... Like Dungeon Keeper 2, you get so far and then it just spazzes out and dies...

Interstate 76 ftw!

What is this Interstate 76 and where can I get it.

But really, the scratchy pixellated oekaki style here is spanking.

Interstate 76 was a PC game released in 1997 by Activision... I don't know if it can be found anywhere now, nor do I think it would hold up by today's standards, but it's one of those nostalgic games for me. There was a spin-off series of games called Vigliante-8 (V8) of which I think a sequel just came out for Playstation 3... Or was it Xbox.... Well, it was called V8 Arcade I think?

Okaydokay.

Interstate 76 was a PC game released in 1997 by Activision... I don't know if it can be found anywhere now, nor do I think it would hold up by today's standards, but it's one of those nostalgic games for me. There was a spin-off series of games called Vigliante-8 (V8) of which I think a sequel just came out for Playstation 3... Or was it Xbox.... Well, it was called V8 Arcade I think?

fffffffffffffffff

OMG I can't belive I missed this!

I absolutely loved Interstate 76, I have the gold edition lying around somewhere, I'm going to install it again and see if I can get my new wheel working with it.

If you never played the game with a wheel you missed alot of fun, its so much better with a wheel. Probably because the cars handeled somewhat more realisticaly than any other game like it.

Interstate 76 was and still is my favorite game of that genre.

Arg, yeah I wish I would have had a wheel. It would have improved the experience I'm sure... I had a force feedback joystick which worked well with the game, so I could at least drive the cars more accurately, but a wheel would have been more suitable.

The game obviously left a lasting impression on me too :)

I just looked up the mod for BF that you mentioned to someone else, it looks realy promissing. Its a good thing I picked up a copy of BF2 recently. I bought it for the hell of it, and now I'm glad I did!

I would love to see a complete stand alone remake of I'76 with all of the content from the expansion included, that would be awsome.

Unfortunately, games that get remade very rarely come out as awsome as the original. For Interstate, nothing but original would be good enough.

Maaan, it was ONE AND ONLY car game with REAL automatic transmission, where all positions working properly. I've got myself Andretti Wheel back in thoose days, and i had 80% of fun just cruising the map.

In the "right-pedal action" period, we have almost no chance to get something like is76 was.

FurriaK out *tchhhh-t*

I actually have pretty fond memories of pulling a hand brake turn at high speeds, chucking it in reverse to drive backwards while I unload with my front mount guns, and then whipping back around to drive away. >.< Tactical driving was probably the best way to dominate in that game, knowing how to get the car lined up for every situation.

I think moves like that would be pretty hard without a wheel though.

Dunno, i had wheels since i was 9, so.... i actually haven't chance to compare

Lincoln Continentals for the win.
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/1287758/

That 61 Reminds me of Spectre from the twisted metal series. So I-76 was the precursor to the vigilante series? I didn't know that. I played vigilante, but was more of a Twisted Metal guy.

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"Jump? What jump?"

"What was that?" "Flying saucer." "Oh."

Such a fun game!

-Kh... i don't like surprises.

-Thrust meh babe, just drive

-Told ya i was goooo-oooood, lalala-lala-la.

now thats a car!!! why dont they make'em the way use 2!!

Convoy, this is Staaampeede! Code sixpack, code sixpack!

Looser have to clean Skeeter's Van

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