I remember the original Test Drive games pretty well as I played them religiously back in the day, and part of me feels like a new Test Drive game doesn’t even really need any sort of narrative or story. Test Drive - for myself, having grew up on them - always reminded me of the Cannonball and Gumball films. You were…

ANY criticism is not valid criticism to a Tesla-phile. Teslas are the most perfect vehicles ever made.

We have an interstate like this in my hometown, I-630 in Little Rock. Prior to it being built there wasn’t an efficient interstate that went directly through Little Rock. There were interstates that circulated the circumference of the city but if you needed to get to the other side of town you either went the entire…

I’m around Corvettes a lot and it always seems like everyone wants a -sub 50K 20+ year old Corvette, yet because they were mostly owned by older individuals there is a very large pool of cars (which is why cars like the C4 and C5 haven’t really appreciated; if you ‘saved’ them, so did 12 other people around you that…

Sad thing is you’re not far off from typical Corvette ownership. Every person with a sub 50K mile Torch Red Z51 car believes they have the rarest thing on the planet.

The issue with most older sports titles is licensing, which is why they typically have not and do not appear on official storefronts.

The Viper was twenty-five years old. That might as well be an eternity for modern cars. Any fuel or similar rubber or plastic line is going to be very old and highly susceptible to cracking or breaking. This would have also been the final year for the Viper’s side exhaust, which was pretty cool but not practical for…

I owned a 94 and 99 Eclipse at the same time for a while. The 94 1G was surprisingly robust and I drove it everywhere. The 99 not so much, but 2G Eclipses were always super popular, especially my Spyder.

The issue I see with Genshin Impact playing it the little bit that I have is that out of similar gacha games it’s the sort of game that can really appeal to the anime-waifu types and really keep them hooked. We’ve had anime -themed games, we’ve had plenty of JRPGs, there’s currently a sea of gacha titles. Not many can…

While the kit car market in the US is nowhere near it’s heydays from the 70s and 80s, the replica market flourished in the UK and continues to. Part of the issue in the US is how it can really be a gray area registration-wise in many places to own a kit car. For something like a Factory Five replica you have to obtain…

One of my favorite FPS games from the later 90s when it seemed like every publisher was trying to jump on the craze. Shogo MAD released around the same time Half-Life did and was largely overshadowed & subsequently forgotten. Shogo had an intriguing story that had branching paths due to your actions (bit of a rarity…

It seems like it would be smart considering that Sony has sunk money into the market front end, the cards/pages for each game, and each game’s synopsis/info, that they would simply work to try and migrate that somehow to the current PSN store. Sure not every PSOne Classic is going to be purchased every single day, but…

That will be an exceptional blow to people looking to play really popular PS1 games. People possibly forget that the PS1 is now +25 years old and that similarly means while you can more easily play PS1 games on say a PS2 or PS3 physically that doesn’t solve the issue of those discs going on three decades of age with…

Traffic lights are HUGE. Those double-up’ed ones with like a stack of five lights with shielding can be ~5 feet tall. Like they don’t look all that big suspended in the air, but up close and sitting on the ground they’re fairly massive. I’d imagine gutted there’s a chunk of metal that could be recycled, although worst…

You should have and went ahead and went into detail about Japan in your PS1 and Saturn point as they were an interesting instance for video game demos, no doubt helped by games starting to be pushed to CD and move away from cartridges which brought with it much cheaper production costs (ex: it was much easier to…

I work as an archivist by trade in the audio/visual field, and video game companies - primarily software publishers in particular - tend to be very “in the moment”; it’s part of what contributes to the issues video game preservation has and it’s a hurdle I don’t see being cleared anytime soon.

I really hope that anime fandom can get to a point where it can constructively talk about how terrible Evangelion actually is. I was in my later teens when it released in the US originally through ADV Films, and while I did watch it all I left the series not really knowing what to make of it. Death & Rebirth and The…

I attempted to pick up a few JRPGs I never fully completed and just seemingly let slide a few years back prior to COVID, and it was rough.

Not to mention that in addition to many European teams Indycar in particular uses Sebring as a test venue for their suspension setups. The reason being is that in Indycar the only component that teams can develop are the shocks themselves, and while a shock dyno can give you some feedback you really need on-track…

I own an older C5, and what I’ve learned is the best way to enjoy a Corvette is basically to never associate with the typical Corvette owners. The model is great. It’s owners? Well... If you like sitting in folding lawn chairs, spending an entire afternoon detailing your car with diapers, hiding the car when there’s a…