janosh666
Joined: Jan 11, 2005
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Apr 02, 2006 - 11:43 |
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Combat Cars , anyone remeber that old MadMax -inspired tabletop game where u packed a car full of rockets mines and flamethrowers and blew ur opponents to pieces? Now that would be a cool online-javabased game dont u think, buying new weapons and modding ur cars and shooting eachother up.
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MrMojo
Joined: Apr 17, 2004
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Apr 02, 2006 - 13:12 |
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An offtopic perhaps for general chat? |
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janosh666
Joined: Jan 11, 2005
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Apr 02, 2006 - 14:24 |
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ops sorry got a little carried-away |
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DonTomaso
Joined: Feb 20, 2005
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Apr 02, 2006 - 14:37 |
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Well... the game was great, when I was 14 or so... but it is best looked upon in an nostalgic haze... |
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poodle-man
Joined: Aug 02, 2003
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Apr 02, 2006 - 14:51 |
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I loved it. There is actually a Steve Jackson game called car wars which is the same sort of thing with a much higher level of complexity. Takes an age to start off but is a hoot to play and design. |
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DonTomaso
Joined: Feb 20, 2005
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Apr 02, 2006 - 14:54 |
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Oh yeah, the car wars.... took ten hours to play, for 10 seconds of 'gametime'...
Very cool indeed! |
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albator2001
Joined: Aug 02, 2003
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Apr 02, 2006 - 15:25 |
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The name of the game was Car Wars ! It was pretty cool ! I had the french version ! Autoduel was a computer conversion very cool too !
I know that it was possible to play online Car Wars ... But not anymore ... I think because of copyrights. The site has changed ! http://www.autoassault.com/pre-order/index.html
Before this site was to play online original Car Wars ... Now site has been bought I think and it's another game ...
Here you will know all about Car Wars:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car_Wars
janosh666 wrote: | Combat Cars , anyone remeber that old MadMax -inspired tabletop game where u packed a car full of rockets mines and flamethrowers and blew ur opponents to pieces? Now that would be a cool online-javabased game dont u think, buying new weapons and modding ur cars and shooting eachother up.
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HunterX
Joined: Aug 02, 2003
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Apr 02, 2006 - 15:25 |
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STeve Jackson also published 'Battle Cattle' which is basically the same thing, except you have a cow with rocket launchers, flame throwers and machine guns mounted on it
EDIT: And it's compatible with Car Wars so you can play Auto a Cow-o... |
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Jinxed
Joined: Jul 04, 2004
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Apr 02, 2006 - 15:35 |
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Played the Cardgame and it was quite good from what I remember! |
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Furious_George
Joined: Aug 13, 2005
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Apr 02, 2006 - 16:00 |
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Speaking of boardgames/penNpaper stuff, anyone ever play Paranoia? |
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vanGorn
Joined: Feb 24, 2004
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Apr 02, 2006 - 16:30 |
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I don't know Combat Cars, but GW made such stuff witzh fighting on vehikles ,too: Dark Future and Gorkamorka. |
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DonTomaso
Joined: Feb 20, 2005
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Apr 02, 2006 - 16:49 |
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I believe that Dark Future was the original name translated into swedish as Combat Cars (yes, weird, huh!).
Or perhaps it was som other game, but Combat Cars isn't the original name.
But the link Albator provided looked interesting...
I've always liked MadMax etc... That's why I'm sad that I have never played GorkaMorka... |
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Jinxed
Joined: Jul 04, 2004
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Apr 02, 2006 - 16:57 |
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Furious_George wrote: | Speaking of boardgames/penNpaper stuff, anyone ever play Paranoia? |
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def909
Joined: Oct 25, 2005
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Apr 02, 2006 - 16:58 |
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Furious_George wrote: | Speaking of boardgames/penNpaper stuff, anyone ever play Paranoia? |
Of course! Paranoia is great. Half of the time the players are killing themselves either by testing broken equipment or in-group firefights. Loved to play it because it´s not as "serious" as other RPGs... |
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Jinxed
Joined: Jul 04, 2004
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Apr 02, 2006 - 17:17 |
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I fondly remember us all having to write a report about the mission with as the result that we were all executed for various degrees of treason. (communist/traitor/mutant etc) |
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