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  Another early silver label NES title, Rad Racer was Nintendo's "OutRun" clone/competitor. Basically, you race a Ferrari through all hours of the day and night and through various landscapes....and this sounds a heck of a lot like Enduro for the Atari 2600.
I mean, pretty much at frst glance, Rad Racer looks like a regular ol' NES title that you'd find at your local CVS for $22.99 in 1989, or your local Blockbuster video between Toobin' and Altered Beast. The "RAD" part though, is that you could put on 3D Glasses (those crappy cardboard blue/red filter ones from the 80's on back) and press the "Select" button, and play the game in full 3D. Today that seems like a laughable gimmick, and believe me, it probably is, but back then, just even the inkling of an idea of having "3d" on a video game could play at home without some expensive doohickey that likely was a waste of $50-126.00 was awe inspiring. Over the decades, this 3D feature of Rad Racer was forgotten and it's been pretty much pegged as a racing game, but that's actually what made it so special.Who Says Emulation Is Evil? - My Experiences Rad Racer was one of those titles I saw in those various posters You'd get with NES carts as a kid but never owned, nor played it. However, once I got my chance to play it via NESticle in the early 2000's I kept them in my want-list for awhile. They are very hard, but seemed like a good little driving simulator. I think I got this copy at a thrift shop in Everett, WA somewhere around 2008 or so. |