Power Drift C

パワードリフト / Power Drift (Japan)　SEGA 1988　C 7'29''00　Player　KIN　収録Ver　Mame32Plus!0.100　ゲームの世界とはいえステージ５の高架コースは高所恐怖症の私の心臓には悪いです。　

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[neptronix]

WOW. This in 1988? What an impressive graphical feat! Sega was so ahead of their time!

Remember guys... Wolfenstein 3d came out in 1992. Doom Came out in 1993.

John Carmack is regarded to as a hero.. but look at what Sega's programmers were doing 5 years earlier !!

[haxorseidis]

Yu Suzuki is a genious.

[Jagged85]

It's pretty obvious this game is running faster than Wolfenstein 3D and Doom. The reason for their fame is because, like malducci pointed out, because of what these games were able to pull off on the PC, which at the time had inferior hardware compared to arcades. Sega's Super Scaler engine required expensive arcade technology, whereas the ray casting engine of Wolfenstein 3D and Doom was designed to run more efficiently on PC hardware.

[stringanime]

As chunky and weird as the graphics are, it's faster and better looking than the Mode 7 effect. This looks closer to the action seen in Wario's Mine shaft in Wii Mario Kart.

[malducci]

Carmack didn't have the thousands of dollars hardware that this machine is running (a dual board super fast scaler and blitter). He was regarded a hero for what he was able to pull off on the PC, which was nothing compared to this hardware even many years later.

[bigbubba75093]

are you playing with controller or steering wheel?

[JohnSTF72]

Sega really knew how to handle sprites in the arcades.

[TheOtherLioyd]

The claim to fame of Carmack's engines isn't being 3D so much as being fast. Tons of game "out-3D'd" Wolf3D even before Wolf itself, but they rarely could run at a speed that allowed action-based gameplay. Sure enough, they were usually RPGs.

[Relugus]

Also, if remade now they could have online play in the home version, imagine racing against 11 other people in the crazy world of Power Drift.

[BloodyBay]

Afterburner, not Hang On. Hang On was the reward for Courses B and D, IIRC.

But that was just the game's way of rewarding you for coming in 1st Place for all five tracks, like "Here. You won five gold cups, so now you get to show off by racing in an F-15 or on a motorcycle. Good luck!" :)

[BloodyBay]

Amen to that! Power Drift was downright sexy-looking for what hardware it had at the time; even now, looking at this video, I still appreciate the attention that Sega put into making the cars look like real, working, functioning cars. Giving the drivers personalities was icing on the cake.

It makes you wonder what Sega would give us if they remade Power Drift with today's hardware and graphics capabilities, doesn't it?