Freeware Game: Maximum Racer (happousyu)
Maximum Racer is a simple, yet surprisingly fun little racing game which actually convinced me to give it a few tries.
Controls are: use the arrow keys to steer your ship, and the space key to accelerate. I still haven't managed to clear the first checkpoint, so you'll need to really ride the edge of the envelope to do well with this game.
Name: Maximum Racer
Developer: happousyu
Category: Racer
Type: Freeware
Size: 768KB
Direct download link: Click here
Comments
I get an error. Something about Internet Explorer 4.0. Do I really have to install IE4 to run this?
Posted by: Anonymous | June 27, 2008 3:33 PM
Got the same error...
Posted by: slang | June 27, 2008 3:35 PM
Me too...
Posted by: cactus | June 27, 2008 3:50 PM
You shouldn't, it ran out of the box on my PC, and I'm running XP SP3 with IE7.
If somebody could post the actual error I might be able to figure out what is going on, as I can't duplicate the problem on my box.
Posted by: oranda | June 27, 2008 5:49 PM
I doubt this will help, but:
http://i26.tinypic.com/2nhdjea.png
Posted by: cactus | June 27, 2008 6:31 PM
Bugger, I should have thought that it would show up as gibberish. You're right, cactus, it doesn't help much :(.
Sorry guys, I hope it works for some people at least.
Posted by: oranda | June 27, 2008 7:45 PM
it works for me.
its hard as hell though...
Posted by: Kloi | June 28, 2008 1:31 AM
also, is there any way to un-invert the y axis?
Posted by: Kloi | June 28, 2008 1:35 AM
No, I'm afraid there isn't anything in the readme file about any settings.
Posted by: oranda | June 28, 2008 4:35 AM
I was able to play by looking for "d3drm.dll" in google and copying it in the app's folder.
Vista told me to do that after the giberish dialog ;)
Posted by: Jean-Sebastien | June 28, 2008 5:26 AM
update : Turns out to be a rather boring/buggy game
Posted by: Jean-Sebastien | June 28, 2008 5:28 AM
Bugginess is probably due to mixing d3drm.dll into the folder manually :P. That dll might not be in Vista because it's not compatible with Vista.
Posted by: oranda | June 28, 2008 2:37 PM
No, the buginess is due to shoddy coding. Stupid controls, stupider collision detection, no defined goal, no score table.
The game looks like a 3D Flash proof of concept. As a standalone app, it's very basic and it's lack of depth makes feel like you are playing a game intended to be a screen saver.
And an "incompatible" dll (which I find funny that you mention, seeing as I was able to run the game where most couldn't) doesn't explain why the game is boring
Posted by: Jean-Sebastien | June 28, 2008 3:50 PM
I don't think I implied that the dll had anything to do with the game being boring or not. I had no reason to doubt you found the game boring. It's only tagged "Freeware Game" instead of "Freeware Game Pick" and described as "simple" for a reason.
Posted by: oranda | June 28, 2008 8:43 PM