I actually do own South Park Rally as well and consider it a bit of a guilty pleasure, to a point where I got everything in the game.
Any luv for Chef's Luv Shack though??? I sadly haven't tried those games due to just never getting a chance and later the modern concensus of them being junk but I guess they're more of the sorts of game that you can have some fun with with the biggest problem being the lack of quality.Whoa there. The N64 version was not considered shit at the time. The PS1 version was definitely shoddy, but on N64 it was a fun novelty with hilarious multiplayer.
Who could forget the fart gas wars with the Terrance and Phillip dolls, or the iconic master password... "Bobby Bird". A schoolyard legend.
Single player was repetitive, but the story was cool. You can see why Parker and Stone dismissed the game, but lots of kids/teens liked it back then.
South Park Rally was a really fun, madcap kart racer. One of my favourite Acclaim titles. It's easy to mock these now, but they were good N64 games to own back then.
my latest acquisition is
Off-World Interceptor Extreme is a PS1/Saturn port of a 3DO game (sans the "Extreme"). It's a driving action game in the style of Atari Roadblasters: you drive to the end of the level under a strict time limit and kill enemies along the way. Your car can shoot lasers, missiles, call in airstrikes, jump and suspend it with jumpjets, and you can pick up crash and upgrade your rig and buy new ones between level.
Though I can't really call this a well-made game, what's with the wonky physics and extremely kitsch aesthetics, I really like this one! The action is fast, frantic, and simple. Sometimes that's all I want.
The most unique thing about OWIE is that for some reason, its cutscenes get the Mystery Science Theater treatment in the game itself. It's not a goof, like someone grabbed the wrong files or something, the back of the box advertises it as a feature. I guess the producers were serious about including FMVs at first and were horrified at what they got.
Apparently the two hosts have a cult following in nerd circles or something, but the cutscenes would've been much funnier without them tbh.
My latest acquisition is probably the only work of fiction to mix hip hop and tank warfare in ex-yugoslavia
Shellshock is a tank simulation for the PS1 and Saturn by Core Design (you know, the Tomb Raider guys). The premise is that a group of U.S spec ops started a mercenary outfit called "Da Wardenz'" (yeah it's one of those game) after being left for dead. You're the newest recruit in charge of driving the tank and doing missions to stabilize various fictional eastern european and asian shitholes.
The lead designer had some pretty amusing words about the bizarre collision of hip-hop and gritty millitary simulation
The actual driving a tank is perfectly fun and serviceable. The most interesting aspect is that you can collect suitcass during the missions to upgrade various attributes of your tank, but there's a twist: every bit of damage you take needs to be repaired between mission, and it cost $$$ to do it. $$$ that could be spent on upgrades...
It may seems odd seems like that but I actually really liek the mechanic of having to pay for repairs in games that have it. It means every decisions matter.
