Carmageddon was one of the games I played to death back in the late 90′s. I was working for a gaming company back then and every Friday night after work, we would all get together and play a game over our LAN. Most weekends it was Blizzard’s Warcraft or StarCraft, Dungeon Keeper, Master of Orion, Command & Conquer, Worms and Civ III, but then Carmageddon came out.
Carmageddon was one of the few games back then that received an “M” for mature rating. It was a very violent game in the sense that even thought the premise of the game was to finish a race first, there were many distractions to achieving that goal. The races took place in cities with pedestrians, rural areas with cows, and other locations with other distractions. If you managed to take out a few of those “distractions” on your way to winning a race, you could gain a few extra points. It sold over 2 million copies total. Not bad for the precursor to games like Twisted Metal and Grand Theft Auto. 
For it’s time, Carmageddon had some amazing physics that controlled the cars so you really felt like you were driving. Remember, this was the late 90′s we are talking about now. Not 2008. There were not that many games that had real world physics.
Here are a few screen grabs from Carmageddon:
Ah, those were the days… Jump now to 2012 and that great web site that is used to attract money for projects: Kickstarter.
Carmageddon: Reincarnation is a Kickstarter project that has only recently been started. The original developers of Carmageddon are looking to bring back the game. They are looking to acquire $400,000 to develop the new game. It’s only been 3 days and they have reached half of that goal at just over $200,000.
I don’t normally contribute to these Kickstarter projects, mostly because I’m afraid that they won’t actually come out, or I just don’t need what the project creator is selling. The Pebble Watch for example, an e-paper watch. With only 3 days to go, they wanted $100,000 and are at just over $10,000,000. Just 100 times what they were looking for.
Thanks to the folks at Double Fine Adventure, the idea of funding video game development through Kickstarter has really taken off. They recently started looking for funds for a new game they wanted to develop. They started with a goal of $400,000 and received a grand total of $3,336,371!
There are a couple of other games looking for funding: Wasteland 2 looking for $900,000 got $2,933,252 and Shadowrun Returns was looking for $400,000 and received $1,836,447.
Carmageddon: Reincarnation is the exception for myself. I kicked in a $15 pledge for the game. It’s not much, but with that pledge, I get a copy of the game on Steam and my name will appear in the credits page as a Kickstarter contributor. The game is scheduled to be released February 2013.
I’m really looking forward to being able to play this game once again. It was such a blast back then. I’ve even considered trying to track down the original and play it again!
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What is this fascination with Tech Pundits over an Apple Television? Why do they want one so much?
I’m calling out to the folks that read this blog or find it by searching for these problems.
Am I the only one watching scripted television shows that show actors answering their iPhones or Android phones with the home screens showing? Or with the iPhone screen glowing in the actor’s ear? Not to mention the phone “beeping” when they answer it or hang up?
First off, I am not going to over detail by detail about The new iPad. Every other Apple blog on the planet has done so ad nauseam. I don’t need to add to that noise.
I just learned that 
Nine days ago, 
Dave M.
