"MegaRace" aka. "Drive Fractalus"

[ItsMeMario]

I stumbled across this video from 2014 by user SynaMax...I wasnt aware "Drive Fractalus" got recycled into "MegaRace".





I loved the game as a kid

Video Game History 101 - Drive Fractalus

With the presence of a MegaRace reboot still in the air I feel that it is appropriate to elaborate on this little cul de sac in gaming history...

www.gaminginstincts.com

Not much can be found online...anyone here ?



Also the "reboot" looks like still beeing made...incl. Lance Boyle

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[unclejun]

You can always look for info in magazines of the era, it will take you a while!

The full video from which the Drive Fractalus footage is extracted is available at https://www.abandonware-videos.org/affiche_vid.php?vid=5&page=2
It's the 3rd one, Over Game.
I did make a thread about it on AG long ago where i posted english subtitles.

There was a thread about Drive Fractalus too iirc.

 

[ItsMeMario]

Oh wow ! Thank you so much for sharing these !

The intros of these french magazines alone got me glued to the screen. Epic !

Seeing all these memories, all the games I played...all those epic musics that I remember.

Felt like one of those "arte" art shows they showed at nights back then...

 

[unclejun]

The thread with the subtitles:

L'Oeil du cyclone: Overgame / a partial history of video games, from the 70's to 1993

[ATTACH] L'Oeil du cyclone was a french tv show dedicated to subcultures and experimental arts, that and some really unusual stuff. It was broadcasted...

assembler.mcretro.net

That particular tv show was quite something, yes.
The Imagina specials are very cool too!

"Tracks" on Arte is more music oriented but they did/do some nice stuff on the computer/hacker/demoscene, sometimes.

There is a sister website with all sorts of computer/gaming french paper magazines at https://www.abandonware-magazines.org/