Stunt Car Racer (Amiga)

Used Car Financing from up2drive.com.

A quick demonstration of the Amiga version of SCR. I remember when you would get airborne so high, the track would appear microscopic and fishbowled, and thinking how the heck am I going to land on that–and you would. One of the two true classic racing games on the Amiga, the other being Vroom. WinUAE decided that you should see this 2:17 segment and that’s the way it will be! :| Disappointingly, no completed remakes that I know of. I’ve found a few that are in the very early stages of …

25 Responses to “Stunt Car Racer (Amiga)”

  1. Cygnes Says:

    Oh my. I remember playing the hell out of this!

  2. smacdonald1971 Says:

    I still remember the fun we had linking this up in multiplayer mode with an rs232 cable. After playing it seriously for a while, we ended up just mucking around to see how bad a wreck we could produce. The funniest was when we reversed one car at great speed up a large hill with the other car going forwards up the other side of the same hill - the clunking sound as the cars met and one car scraped across the roof of the other was superb.

  3. smacdonald1971 Says:

    Brilliant game. I kept my old Amiga for years so I could keep playing this, until I discovered the WinUAE emulator could play it perfectly on the PC.

    I loved the fact that if you completed and won the entire championship, it would repeat from the start, but this time with blue tracks and much much faster cars :)

  4. Gerardus1970 Says:

    This was a real joystick wrestler of a game. Hard, but lots of fun.

  5. lollybluk Says:

    Haha I remember the car looking like a triangle block of cheese

  6. toggsuk Says:

    Because it had shit sound and graphics :p

  7. polghirstenskoetter Says:

    Great game. I still hate the WRECK screen…

  8. liteglow2000 Says:

    True !

  9. ChipZilla69 Says:

    I so miss the old days.

  10. nooblet911 Says:

    motorstorm 2 for the ps3 is a good enough scr for new times

  11. nooblet911 Says:

    graphics and sound-wise yes, but the dos version ran faster

  12. nederwiet1 Says:

    yeah it was very hard but quite fun.Damn i’m getting old too

  13. VideyoJunkei Says:

    this version blew away the DOS version at the time…

  14. TWOJAME Says:

    I remember trying a demo of this in the shops when it came out. Damn i’m getting old

  15. nomen Says:

    This was one tough racing game. It used to have me pulling my hair out! lol

  16. darkuser999 Says:

    Would you believe it took me about half a year to realise there were other tracks aside from big hump and little ramp. It was then that this game got interesting!

  17. kalsolarUK Says:

    if I play this today I still get vertigo over some of the higher jumps. lol. Amazing…a unique game.

  18. Zazaza47 Says:

    I miss this game….

  19. sharpanator Says:

    it ws more fun than trackmania back in its time

  20. greenfoam Says:

    I had the world record for every non super league track in this game once :)

  21. vizeeee Says:

    the motor noise could be better…

  22. jouranoos Says:

    hehehehe, that kinda sums the audio side of SCR nicely:)

    This game is the definitive precursor of Trackmania….

  23. JTeam45 Says:

    This was my fav.

  24. bluebird787 Says:

    ooooooooaaaaaaaaaaaaaooooooooooooooooaaaaaaaaaaaoooooooooooooaaaaaaaaaaaaoooooooaaaaaaa

  25. Bluesage2009 Says:

    the DOWNWARD, roller coaster bits.

    I guess todays equal is TRACKMANIA series…

    but the new kid’s are brought up with this, it will never been as magic as it was for us ! :)
    MAGIC :)

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