The Escapist - Steve Jackson:
I truly despise the Escapist. The articles are often worth reading but the layout gets a solid D-. They might as well have made it Flash. Anyhoo, Steve jackson, whom I sorely missed speaking with at ADC, spouts off a bit. He even says the magic words... yes, he'd like to do Car Wars as a video game. Have you seen my custom car chits and my 8 foot city maps? No? Well, come on down to the office. I'd be happy to hand you your ass in an Auto Duel. Auto Duel. God, I just like the sound of those words. In related news he said he'd probably do Munchkin first. Bloo and I have chatted up a KoL mixed with web based mmo sort of pitch on that one. Guess we aught to polish it up.The Escapist - Steve Jackson: The Escapist Interview
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Steve Jackson is a myth. For an old time roleplayer like me this name is like drinking water. Fresh and clean water.
I suddenly remembered that Interstate '76 game... It had an awesome OST.
Yeah, Interstate '76 did it right. A decent storyline, superb style, and just a lot of fun to drive around and fight.
I think a new AutoDuel would work very well as a single player game and multiplayer cooperational. A realistic Official AutoDuel circuit (PvP in arenas) would be a great addition.
$50,000 unlimited autoduel class - I would OWN you, dude. ;)
East Midville is MY TOWN.
HDFOJ for the WIN.
Oh it's on!
Ram plate, linked HR's and a bumper tigger will be announcing my arrival on flight kikin' yor' azz from turreted VMG to the lovely HDFT valley.
Any civilian can make a kick ass autodeuler for $50k. Doing it at $5k is the true test.
"Any civilian can make a kick ass autodeuler for $50k. Doing it at $5k is the true test."
$5k ia barely a decent motorcycle.
I prefer my duellin' on FOUR wheels, TYVM.
There's another word for duellists who dig motorcycles = pavement-stain.
Actually, our favorite was "million dollar tournament" = $100k unlimited each for 10 players on the full Midville map. Winner is the last one with at least 1 person alive.
So you had people that (like me) dumped all $100k into a single uber semitruck, while some others took swarms of cheapo cars or motorcycles. One guy essentially took an army of 100 MONDOs, which made it REALLY interesting for the rest of us.
2 judges meant that we had some fog of war, too.
FWIW my semi quickly became the focus of everyone's attention, and I ended up turning down a street with about 20 motorcycles coming the other direction. We were both holding fire until the last possible moment, playing chicken until at about 12" on the map *WHOOSH* we both opened up - all his bikes, and my turreted antitank gun, and tandem turreted vulcan autocannon.
Result: all but 1 or 2 of his bikers died (blast radius for the win), but my tractor was essentially hollowed out from the front. The trailer, fortunately, rolled to a stop diagonally across an intersection, giving me nice fields of fire down all 4 directions/streets (gunners were still alive with supplemental power plant in the armored trailer.
So I was just a pillbox, shooting anything I could from that static spot.
End ruling from the judge several hours later was that the guy with the army of MONDOs won (barely) because it was determined that EVENTUALLY my guys would run out of ammo and have to come out, while they controlled the rest of the town. IIRC his army of 100 was whittled down to maybe a double handful including his 'general'. LOL what a great game.
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