The king of the racers! (Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge)

Name: welshwizards

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Product:	Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge
Date:	22/02/07 (105 review reads)
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Advantages: Nostalgic Amiga/Atari ST16-bit gaming at it's very best.

Disadvantages: Old graphics from the 16-bit CPU's of the time.

I'm amazed to see the old Commodore Amiga games appearing on dooyoo. I guess they must still have some sort of following in the USA or UK. Perhaps people are using PC based emulators to run them.
I had an Atari ST first, which in 1985 was probably top notch, costing £300 back then. 512KB ram!

I bought the two Lotus games back in the late 1980's early 1990's. The Lotus challenge one was excellent as you could play two player head to head split screen. The graphics at the time were very good, although not a patch on something like GTA Vice City or the ultimate on the XBOX 360 - Test Drive Unlimited.

I guess in 20 years time the games running on computers then will make TDU look basic! We live in hope. The one thing for sure, is that games are looking more and more realistic, although graphics don't make a game good by themselves. There are some pretty old games that are brilliant because of the key missing ingredient to many a game ...instant playability!

Vibrating controllers, movement gyro's etc all add to the entertainment as do wireless headsets.

Summary: This game was excellent in the early 90's! But nostalgia won't be parting me from my Xbox 360!