a single disk labeled "NINTENDO: HOT ROD TAXI, FINAL."
June 4, 2020 12:34 PM   Subscribe

30 years later, a lost Days of Thunder NES game has been recovered from 21 floppy disks [Ars Technica] “In one of the most unreal data-recovery projects we've ever heard of, a seemingly lost NES game has been unearthed—as archived on a single hard drive backup, spread across 21 5.25-inch floppy disks. A joint effort led in part by the Video Game History Foundation began earlier this year with a pile of leftover CD-Rs, floppies, computers, and other errata donated by the family of late programmer/designer Chris Oberth. The results, thus far, are one fully functioning game whose code had to be recovered, then compiled, to run on original NES hardware.” [Days of Thunder NES Gameplay]
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For sale: NINTENDO: HOT ROD TAXI, never used.
posted by tobascodagama at 12:55 PM on June 4, 2020 [4 favorites]


Impressions: Rad music “da na na, da na na, da na na na na nah”. I like the sneaky 6/4 measure they threw in there. Creepy copy/pasted faces below the winners platform. Skid Magurski.
posted by klausman at 1:11 PM on June 4, 2020 [1 favorite]


> Skid Magurski.

Truly the Bobson Dugnutt of NASCAR.
posted by tonycpsu at 1:38 PM on June 4, 2020 [6 favorites]


Pretty cool, as I know of no commercial NES games with original source code available besides Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, and Pesterminator: The Western Exterminator.
posted by RobotVoodooPower at 1:53 PM on June 4, 2020 [1 favorite]


A 32-second pit stop? Two tires and gas should be 10 seconds, at the worst. Fire that crew.
posted by hanov3r at 3:20 PM on June 4, 2020


I would like to play as neurosurgeon Nicole Kidman
posted by roger ackroyd at 4:42 PM on June 4, 2020


A 32-second pit stop? Two tires and gas should be 10 seconds, at the worst. Fire that crew.


Or how about 4 tires in 1.91 seconds?

I kid, I know it's not fair to compare F1 to NASCAR.
posted by sideshow at 7:15 PM on June 4, 2020 [4 favorites]


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