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30 Years ago a small Scottish games developer created a racing game using unicycles, soon after they were sued by Pixar, the game was removed from the market, and the company would get bought by another. The next game the developers created would be titled 'Grand Theft Auto' DMA...

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Scott Manley1 year ago

It's easy to see that the unicycles in the game look a lot like the unicycle from Red's Dream. But then again, there's not exactly a huge number of ways to do anthropomorphic unicycles. Anyway, I'm sure this lawsuit is the reason why Grand Theft Auto doesn't have unicycles.

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Solarsuit.Games1 year ago

🤠 We're a small indie team making a Space Western game that mix together cRPGs like the original Fallout and top-down shooters like Ruiner. Featuring real-time combat, organic roleplay, and a deep narrative with different endings 🚀 👉 Wishlist on Steam

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Bex Cran1 year ago

One of the founders was the same person who wrote Lemmings.

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Eric H1 year ago

-- I hope Disney approaches them to make a GTA movie so they can laugh and flip them the bird.

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J1 year ago

No way. This game was GREAT! Soundtrack too from what I remember. I still have my original SNES cartridge but it doesn’t work 😔

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Scott Manley1 year ago

I played it a lot too, I didn't find out it was removed from market until recently.

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Fled Nanders1 year ago

Man this game was fun!

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Max, Batman & #WiddyFella1 year ago

I loved that game!!

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Cynic1 year ago

I spent so many hours on that game. Ridiculously playable.

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Ronnie Penhall1 year ago

It had Multiplayer!, love the DOS days... eff yeah! GTA95 also played well. Nowadays, those same games on the Big Screen is still rad. Emulation allows them to run still.

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