So basically nothing came along that quite replicated the formula and fun of Carmageddon. The gameplay type kind of died with it – sure you had pretty good car combat with Twisted Metal, Burnout has its ultra clean crash modes and “takedowns”, Split/Second came along and did a few things, Watch_Dogs had that bonus minigame and as minigames are now being discussed you can see how little there was. It was followed by some DLC an expansion pack called Splat Pack which added quite a bit, a sequel called Carmageddon 2: Carpocalypse now, and then the publisher yanked it from their hands to give us TDR 2000. The moral guardians were however right and the desire for all that blood and carnage made me the man I am today trying to get IPX networking working on Windows 98, and later playing with 3dfx emulators, was a large part of what saw me learn how computers work.

I did not know it at the time but it was inspired by films like Death Race 2000. In this case you play as a driver in a near future world where you can do laps, if you are boring, waste all your opponents, or find and kill all the pedestrians. It joined Mortal Kombat in being one of things various moral guardian types got worked up about at the time. Many years ago there was a little game franchise called Carmageddon.

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