Ik zag deze avond toevallig een oude aflevering van Top Gear, je weet wel toen het nog een leuk programma was en alles nog mocht. Om een of andere reden triggerde dit herinneringen van vervlogen tijden. Een tijd dat ik zelf nog 12 of 13 was, en waar ik random begon met het tweaken van […]
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I do not understand Sim Racing anymore, or is it SIM Racing? Perhaps I am turning in some old dude that yells towards a cloud in the sky. Properly balling his fist towards it. People are so fanatic and serious about it these days. Whatever happened with the days of the Hot Laps for the […]
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There was a time when we came from school that we turned on the computer and started F12001. Well for me, this was for a while the daily routine back in my early teens. Now 25 years later EA Sport’s fourth F1 games (F12000, F1200CS, F1 Manager Came before) is the forgotten one in a […]
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A few weeks ago, the wonderful news appeared that Microprose is to re-release the Geoff Crammond Grand Prix series. Many of you tagged me on X when the official announcement came. Grand Prix 1, Grand Prix 2, Grand Prix 3 and Grand Prix 4 will re-released on steam. Without the license, the series had. Instead, […]
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Golden Age of Racing by Brain in a Jar and published by Midas Interactive Entertainment was released in 2005 for the PC and PlayStation 2. An amazing attempt to relive the glory days of the 1960s with Coopers, Lotus cars, Ferrari’s and so on. Indeed this is an amazing attempt; personally, the game feels unfinished […]
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F1 Manager from EA Sports turned the wheel recently 25 times! Yes, our all-time favourite F1 manager game, and for decades the only one on the market is that old. However, over here, we had F1 Manager 2001 and F1 Manager and if you look deeply in the game data it says F1 Manager 1999. […]
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It is April 2000, when I walked with my father into the local computer store. To collect our new computer, a Pentium 3 with 128MB, a Radeon ATI 256 graphics card and an IDE disk with 40GB! In those days, companies offered a PC plan where employees could buy computers with discount. In that shop, […]
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The Formula One was once a place of joy and excitement for Fans. Especially in the days internet became a common thing in the late 1990s and early 2000s in many households. Teams tried a lot of stuff to lure the fans to their websites. The Orange Arrows team from Tom Walkinshaw might have been […]
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In 2021, EA Sports purchased Codemasters and re-acquired again the rights to design Formula One games. Indeed, re-acquired because EA Sports is well known by a lot of gamers from the past. In 2000, the company published their first F1 2000. The game was buggy and after a couple of patches they started working on […]
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Vakantie racer also known outside the Netherlands Holiday racer was one of those cheesy race games Davilex made. The game was published in the early 2000s, and my gosh this game unlocks many childhood memories! The memories of imagine as a 10 year old your racing towards Monaco to stay at some fancy 5 stars […]
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