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Among gaming legends (Sid Meier, Jordan Mechner, Peter Molyneux, Richard Garriott, etc.), I sometimes feel that Geoff Crammond gets mentioned too little. Stunt Car Racer was a 1989 marvel. Its 3D vector graphics earned critical acclaim as unprecedented to such a high level. Geoff Crammond spent 3 years on...

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Who played this epic masterpiece of gaming history? Some games feel truly timeless. Stunt Car Racer (MicroStyle, 1989) is one of them. It was designed by Geoff Crammond, the genius behind other legendary titles such as The Sentinel and Formula One Grand Prix. The iconic “vroooooooooooom” when you rev it up, the cleverly drawn crack along the upper frame of the car to show damage, the incredible physics, and those massive jumps across insane ramps… What more is there to say? It was a near-perfect game in its time and remains a whole lot of fun 37 years later. Hopefully, it will still be talked about by future generations who haven’t even been born yet. Stunt Car Racer was available on the “big 6” platforms back in the day: Commodore 64, Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, DOS, and ZX Spectrum.
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Who played this epic masterpiece of gaming history? Some games feel truly timeless. Stunt Car Racer (MicroStyle, 1989) is one of them. It was designed by Geoff Crammond, the genius behind other legendary titles such as The Sentinel and Formula One Grand Prix. The iconic “vroooooooooooom” when you rev it up, the cleverly drawn crack along the upper frame of the car to show damage, the incredible physics, and those massive jumps across insane ramps… What more is there to say? It was a near-perfect game in its time and remains a whole lot of fun 37 years later. Hopefully, it will still be talked about by future generations who haven’t even been born yet. Stunt Car Racer was available on the “big 6” platforms back in the day: Commodore 64, Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, DOS, and ZX Spectrum.

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Hard to believe that Grand Prix 2 will turn 30 years old this year. What Geoff Crammond created back then feels nothing short of a masterpiece. His earlier works were Revs, The Sentinel, and Stunt Car Racer, so from his track record you could see “genius” written all over him. With Grand Prix 2 he took it to the next level. Never before had a racing game featured such realistic physics. The gear system, brakes, suspension, front and rear wings - everything could be adjusted and fine-tuned, including telemetry tools to analyse and refine changes. None of this existed in any racing game before, not even close. Crammond invested three years in what was essentially a solo project, with little outside help. When it was published in 1996, it flew off the shelves, with sales ultimately reaching around 1 million and ratings in the high 90% range across the board. Imagine the patience and self-belief required to lock yourself away for three years without knowing if the game would be a hit or just another forgotten, below-average title. Speaking of patience, the game demanded it from players too, with races taking 1.5 to 2.5 hours to complete. I would sometimes take turns with my brother just to get a break...
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Hard to believe that Grand Prix 2 will turn 30 years old this year. What Geoff Crammond created back then feels nothing short of a masterpiece. His earlier works were Revs, The Sentinel, and Stunt Car Racer, so from his track record you could see “genius” written all over him. With Grand Prix 2 he took it to the next level. Never before had a racing game featured such realistic physics. The gear system, brakes, suspension, front and rear wings - everything could be adjusted and fine-tuned, including telemetry tools to analyse and refine changes. None of this existed in any racing game before, not even close. Crammond invested three years in what was essentially a solo project, with little outside help. When it was published in 1996, it flew off the shelves, with sales ultimately reaching around 1 million and ratings in the high 90% range across the board. Imagine the patience and self-belief required to lock yourself away for three years without knowing if the game would be a hit or just another forgotten, below-average title. Speaking of patience, the game demanded it from players too, with races taking 1.5 to 2.5 hours to complete. I would sometimes take turns with my brother just to get a break...

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One often-forgotten legend in gaming is Geoff Crammond. Some of his games are pure genius and absolute classics, not just in terms of concept and gameplay, but especially considering what he was able to get out of systems with very limited resoruces. One of those early titles was The Sentinel (1986), a masterful 3D polygon puzzle-strategy game. You control a Synthoid robot, absorbing energy from the terrain to create new bodies and teleport uphill. The giant Sentinel scans slowly from the highest peak - if it spots you, it drains your energy. Your goal is to reach the top, absorb the Sentinel, and hyperspace to the next level. Crammond’s genius also gave us Revs, Stunt Car Racer, and the unforgettable Grand Prix franchise - the earlier ones mostly done in solo development. While many of the big blockbuster games were team efforts, Crammond would remain mostly a solo developer for most of his career. He stayed relatively quiet for many years after 2002, but in December 2025 it was announced that MicroProse had reunited with Crammond for updated rereleases of all four Grand Prix games, set for release on Steam in 2026.

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BMW 320i, E30. A small, lightweight BMW with a straight-six and a manual. That’s all it needed. Just a modest 123 hp and 170 Nm of torque. It was about how the car felt and not how fast it could go. This 320i has near perfect weight distribution. Analogue, direct and completely connected to the driver. Simple, driver-focused cockpit with supportive seats. Build quality is high for the period, though plastics and electrics can degrade after 30 to 40 years. You don’t need huge numbers to enjoy it. The driving feel does the work. That is why this car has gone up in price as well because over the years its got tougher to find one.

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Drakkhen (1989) by Infogrames. This game broke my brain back in the day. I wanted to play it so badly! It looked incredibly awesome and intriguing - yet I had no clue how to properly play it. Way ahead of its time, an absolute gem. Drakkhen stood out as one of the first RPGs with true 3D/open-world exploration, and it was also an early example of real-time tactics in RPGs. It had a wonderfully eerie soundtrack, some bizarre enemies, a cryptic story, and a strong sense of exploration. It felt more dreamlike/surreal rather than standard fantasy. On the flip side, it was notoriously difficult and unforgiving - definitely not easy to learn or master. I think in hindsight I was simply too young. Revisiting it at a later stage was a much better experience.

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Who remembers this classic shooter from 35 years ago? SWIV (or "Silkworm IV" as called by some) from 1991. Graphics and sound effects were excellent for its time. But what I liked the most was that you could toggle through the power ups by shooting at them when they dropped. It added some extra fun and complexity, it allowed you to really improve (or mess up!) your weapons path. The game was considered a spiritual successor to Tecmo's arcade game Silkworm from 1989. The game's heritage is evident from the game design whereby one player pilots a helicopter, and the other an armoured Jeep. SWIV is not an official sequel, as noted by ex-Sales Curve producer Dan Marchant: "SWIV wasn't really a sequel to Silkworm, but it was certainly inspired by it and several other shoot-'em-ups that we had played and loved." If you listen closely to the sound effects, you will definitely hear a resemblance to "Silkworm." Sometimes I would just let the intro run endlessly - the music was simply too good!

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40 Years Ago Today 26th of March 1958 - 15th of May 1986 🇮🇹 Elio de Angelis - 28 years of age ⚠️ Information about the fatal accident Elio de Angelis was a prominent Italian Formula One driver known for his elegance, musical talent, and technical skill. Often called the "last gentleman player" of F1, he was highly respected by his peers for his polite demeanor and fair racing style. Racing Career (1979–1986) De Angelis competed in 108 Grands Prix, primarily for Lotus, where he achieved his greatest successes. Death and Circumstances De Angelis died following a testing accident on May 14, 1986, at the Paul Ricard Circuit in France. The Accident During a test session, the rear wing of his Brabham BT55 detached at approximately 270 km/h. The loss of downforce caused the car to cartwheel over a barrier and land upside down, where it caught fire. This being a test day, nobody witnessed the whole incident, although two Benetton mechanics manning a speed trap caught the final stages. The car became airborne and then flipped into a series of rolls that pitched it over the guardrail, before it eventually came to rest inverted. The survival cell was intact, but the rollhoop and the fuel tank had been damaged as the car bounced over the barrier, and fuel was leaking out. De Angelis himself had suffered only a broken collarbone. Initially there was only some smoke. With little official help – Alan Jones who was the first driver on the scene said later that he was joined by two marshals wearing shorts "who just didn't have a clue" – attempts to turn the car over proved fruitless. Gradually a fire took hold. Meanwhile drivers, crew members from Brabham and other teams began to arrive from the pits. It was all too apparent that, this being a test day, there was insufficient safety cover – there was no Prof Sid Watkins, no fire vehicle and, it soon emerged, no helicopter. The main problem was not being able to turn it over. Because he was not badly injured he could have been pulled out pretty quickly, had the fire been kept down a bit. Eventually de Angelis was removed from the car. He'd been starved of oxygen by the flames, and it was discovered that he had no heartbeat. "We took his helmet off, and we really weren't sure of his condition," said Alexander. "Here was this guy with absolutely nothing wrong with him as far as we could see – there was no blood, nothing. "There was a young medical guy there with us, who didn't speak English, and in the end he got out a big syringe and stuck it in his chest. "Eventually a helicopter came, with some paramedics. They checked his pulse and stuff, and the line was moving. We carried the stretcher over to the helicopter." Having been resuscitated, de Angelis was transferred to the same hospital and seen by the same doctors who had treated Frank Williams after his road accident just a few months earlier. The rescue had come too late for de Angelis, and he died the following day in hospital, a victim of asphyxiation. Horrendous and so preventable 🥹💔 A clip of Elio de Angelis and his first win 🏆 R.I.P 💔💔 🎥 Formula 1 #italy #cars #france #accident
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40 Years Ago Today 26th of March 1958 - 15th of May 1986 🇮🇹 Elio de Angelis - 28 years of age ⚠️ Information about the fatal accident Elio de Angelis was a prominent Italian Formula One driver known for his elegance, musical talent, and technical skill. Often called the "last gentleman player" of F1, he was highly respected by his peers for his polite demeanor and fair racing style. Racing Career (1979–1986) De Angelis competed in 108 Grands Prix, primarily for Lotus, where he achieved his greatest successes. Death and Circumstances De Angelis died following a testing accident on May 14, 1986, at the Paul Ricard Circuit in France. The Accident During a test session, the rear wing of his Brabham BT55 detached at approximately 270 km/h. The loss of downforce caused the car to cartwheel over a barrier and land upside down, where it caught fire. This being a test day, nobody witnessed the whole incident, although two Benetton mechanics manning a speed trap caught the final stages. The car became airborne and then flipped into a series of rolls that pitched it over the guardrail, before it eventually came to rest inverted. The survival cell was intact, but the rollhoop and the fuel tank had been damaged as the car bounced over the barrier, and fuel was leaking out. De Angelis himself had suffered only a broken collarbone. Initially there was only some smoke. With little official help – Alan Jones who was the first driver on the scene said later that he was joined by two marshals wearing shorts "who just didn't have a clue" – attempts to turn the car over proved fruitless. Gradually a fire took hold. Meanwhile drivers, crew members from Brabham and other teams began to arrive from the pits. It was all too apparent that, this being a test day, there was insufficient safety cover – there was no Prof Sid Watkins, no fire vehicle and, it soon emerged, no helicopter. The main problem was not being able to turn it over. Because he was not badly injured he could have been pulled out pretty quickly, had the fire been kept down a bit. Eventually de Angelis was removed from the car. He'd been starved of oxygen by the flames, and it was discovered that he had no heartbeat. "We took his helmet off, and we really weren't sure of his condition," said Alexander. "Here was this guy with absolutely nothing wrong with him as far as we could see – there was no blood, nothing. "There was a young medical guy there with us, who didn't speak English, and in the end he got out a big syringe and stuck it in his chest. "Eventually a helicopter came, with some paramedics. They checked his pulse and stuff, and the line was moving. We carried the stretcher over to the helicopter." Having been resuscitated, de Angelis was transferred to the same hospital and seen by the same doctors who had treated Frank Williams after his road accident just a few months earlier. The rescue had come too late for de Angelis, and he died the following day in hospital, a victim of asphyxiation. Horrendous and so preventable 🥹💔 A clip of Elio de Angelis and his first win 🏆 R.I.P 💔💔 🎥 Formula 1 #italy #cars #france #accident

WRCPAST

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Freddy Peralta on the tough call to skip the chance to rep team DR in the WBC; (Written and translated by Master Flip) “In reality, I prepared for this all offseason and was fully ready to go. But there are circumstances and situations that are completely out of your control. In this case, I had to make a tough decision, and I truly believe it was the right one. I talked it through with my family and a few people I’m really close with. In the end, it came down to what was best overall. It hurts a lot, more than a lot of people realize. Passing up the chance to represent your country, especially with the incredible team we have, isn’t easy. You never know if you’ll get another shot in the coming years, or if we’ll even win it all. Opportunities like that don’t come around often, and turning one down weighs heavy on you. But sometimes you have to make hard choices for your future and your family’s well being.” 🎥 John Sang - Tu Sabor Deportivo
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Freddy Peralta on the tough call to skip the chance to rep team DR in the WBC; (Written and translated by Master Flip) “In reality, I prepared for this all offseason and was fully ready to go. But there are circumstances and situations that are completely out of your control. In this case, I had to make a tough decision, and I truly believe it was the right one. I talked it through with my family and a few people I’m really close with. In the end, it came down to what was best overall. It hurts a lot, more than a lot of people realize. Passing up the chance to represent your country, especially with the incredible team we have, isn’t easy. You never know if you’ll get another shot in the coming years, or if we’ll even win it all. Opportunities like that don’t come around often, and turning one down weighs heavy on you. But sometimes you have to make hard choices for your future and your family’s well being.” 🎥 John Sang - Tu Sabor Deportivo

Master Flip 🇩🇴

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I played World of Warcraft for many, many years (stopped around early Cata days). The one thing that stood out to me more than anything was its massive size. It was literally a world. And it felt huge because you had to explore everything by foot (to start with anyway). This might be a hot take but I always felt that some of the magic got lost with the flying mounts and teleports later on. The upgrade from walking to getting your first mount was nice (it felt like a real milestone) but the flying mount and teleports turned a once massive world into a set of waypoints. I know it's all under the umbrella of convenience but I felt that the world really started to shrink and lost a big chunk of its charm. It wasn't about exploring anymore, it was about getting to the next dungeon or raid as fast as possible, relegating everything else to secondary importance, including all the little details, NPCs, caves, coastlines, mountains, and everything that that was once so wonderful to explore.
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I played World of Warcraft for many, many years (stopped around early Cata days). The one thing that stood out to me more than anything was its massive size. It was literally a world. And it felt huge because you had to explore everything by foot (to start with anyway). This might be a hot take but I always felt that some of the magic got lost with the flying mounts and teleports later on. The upgrade from walking to getting your first mount was nice (it felt like a real milestone) but the flying mount and teleports turned a once massive world into a set of waypoints. I know it's all under the umbrella of convenience but I felt that the world really started to shrink and lost a big chunk of its charm. It wasn't about exploring anymore, it was about getting to the next dungeon or raid as fast as possible, relegating everything else to secondary importance, including all the little details, NPCs, caves, coastlines, mountains, and everything that that was once so wonderful to explore.

exQUIZitely 🕹️

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I had never seen the Soviet Krechet spacesuit, developed for the Soviet Moon expedition, this close up and in such detail. Holy shit, the dieselpunk level is unreal. I mean, if the Americans flew and landed their spacecraft with a full-fledged computer on board, the Soviets were supposed to fly basically on mechanics and automation. In other words, straight-up Newtonian: everything as lever-and-vacuum-tube as possible — and the spacesuit is from exactly the same universe. And yes, in theory, they could have landed the spacecraft, but there was a high chance it would have been a “landing” with no return. Since the Soviet rocket was weaker, only one person was supposed to land on the Moon, not two as in the U.S. program. That’s why, in the tests, you can see them practicing ways for a cosmonaut to get back on his feet if he fell. Because there would be no one there to help you. It really does break your brain when you imagine a person in this “canvas-pump-and-dial” suit — alone, on the Moon. But it has to be admitted: yes, there is a certain charm to this kind of extreme engineering minimalism turned up to full dieselpunk.
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I had never seen the Soviet Krechet spacesuit, developed for the Soviet Moon expedition, this close up and in such detail. Holy shit, the dieselpunk level is unreal. I mean, if the Americans flew and landed their spacecraft with a full-fledged computer on board, the Soviets were supposed to fly basically on mechanics and automation. In other words, straight-up Newtonian: everything as lever-and-vacuum-tube as possible — and the spacesuit is from exactly the same universe. And yes, in theory, they could have landed the spacecraft, but there was a high chance it would have been a “landing” with no return. Since the Soviet rocket was weaker, only one person was supposed to land on the Moon, not two as in the U.S. program. That’s why, in the tests, you can see them practicing ways for a cosmonaut to get back on his feet if he fell. Because there would be no one there to help you. It really does break your brain when you imagine a person in this “canvas-pump-and-dial” suit — alone, on the Moon. But it has to be admitted: yes, there is a certain charm to this kind of extreme engineering minimalism turned up to full dieselpunk.

Yigal Levin

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Intel had its own answer to Nvidia, and it was killed a week after he walked out the door. This is Pat Gelsinger, 34 years at Intel, on the project nobody remembers. At the height of Intel's strength on CPUs, they laughed at what Jensen was building. "When we were at the height of our strength on CPUs at Intel, we sort of scoffed at his machines. Right? Like, oh, it's a graphic machine. There's some gamers who want to use that kind of stuff. It was always the big CPU and those little GPUs." Nvidia did the unglamorous thing instead. They put a real software stack under it and made it slightly better every release, for years, while nobody scored them. "But when they started to build a real software stack with it... this CUDA thing and SIMT as a technology... And it just sort of kept getting a little bit better and a little bit better. And it was a little bit Jobs-like in that way. 'We're just making it better every release and it's becoming more robust.'" Nvidia did not see the payoff coming either. Somebody else found it for them. "And all of a sudden, the crazy Japanese HPC guys said, hey, we could take those graphics cards and maybe start using them in HPC. And that was defining moment where it wasn't just about doing graphics anymore..." Intel was not blind to any of it. Gelsinger had a project to do exactly the same thing with x86. "I had a project at Intel, Larrabee, where we were trying to take the x86 and essentially do the same thing." Then he left the company. "In my first departure from Intel, the project was killed a week after I left. And the world would have been so much different." He returned as CEO more than a decade later, to a company that had spent the interval handing money back to shareholders instead of building. "In the five years, five, six years before I came back, Intel gave $100 billion to shareholders. It hadn't built a new factory in a decade when I got there." Bookmark & watch:
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Intel had its own answer to Nvidia, and it was killed a week after he walked out the door. This is Pat Gelsinger, 34 years at Intel, on the project nobody remembers. At the height of Intel's strength on CPUs, they laughed at what Jensen was building. "When we were at the height of our strength on CPUs at Intel, we sort of scoffed at his machines. Right? Like, oh, it's a graphic machine. There's some gamers who want to use that kind of stuff. It was always the big CPU and those little GPUs." Nvidia did the unglamorous thing instead. They put a real software stack under it and made it slightly better every release, for years, while nobody scored them. "But when they started to build a real software stack with it... this CUDA thing and SIMT as a technology... And it just sort of kept getting a little bit better and a little bit better. And it was a little bit Jobs-like in that way. 'We're just making it better every release and it's becoming more robust.'" Nvidia did not see the payoff coming either. Somebody else found it for them. "And all of a sudden, the crazy Japanese HPC guys said, hey, we could take those graphics cards and maybe start using them in HPC. And that was defining moment where it wasn't just about doing graphics anymore..." Intel was not blind to any of it. Gelsinger had a project to do exactly the same thing with x86. "I had a project at Intel, Larrabee, where we were trying to take the x86 and essentially do the same thing." Then he left the company. "In my first departure from Intel, the project was killed a week after I left. And the world would have been so much different." He returned as CEO more than a decade later, to a company that had spent the interval handing money back to shareholders instead of building. "In the five years, five, six years before I came back, Intel gave $100 billion to shareholders. It hadn't built a new factory in a decade when I got there." Bookmark & watch:

Fireside Alpha

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40 years ago today, Ace of Aces was released. It's probably a bit too old for some of the people who follow my account but it was certainly way ahead of its time back in 1986. Superb graphics, excellent sound effects and a story/gameplay that felt highly immersive - those are the things that I remember when first playing this as a kid. Not an easy game by any means but it got you hooked fast. I am not enough of a history buff to know whether the missions were somewhat realistic but I would like to believe so. The mission briefings and the "interactive" map during the game added to that feeling of authenticity. We used to turn up the volume for this one, especially for the intro and cutscene when the mission starts and the black and white picture slide show started, with the overlapping sound effects at the 0:30 mark - it still fascinates me to this day. That cutscene uses a total of six colours and it still looks absolutely incredible.
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40 years ago today, Ace of Aces was released. It's probably a bit too old for some of the people who follow my account but it was certainly way ahead of its time back in 1986. Superb graphics, excellent sound effects and a story/gameplay that felt highly immersive - those are the things that I remember when first playing this as a kid. Not an easy game by any means but it got you hooked fast. I am not enough of a history buff to know whether the missions were somewhat realistic but I would like to believe so. The mission briefings and the "interactive" map during the game added to that feeling of authenticity. We used to turn up the volume for this one, especially for the intro and cutscene when the mission starts and the black and white picture slide show started, with the overlapping sound effects at the 0:30 mark - it still fascinates me to this day. That cutscene uses a total of six colours and it still looks absolutely incredible.

exQUIZitely 🕹️

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