Follow TV Tropes

Following

YMMV / Hard Drivin'

Go To

  • Genius Programming: There was a Game Boy port of Race Drivin. No, it wasn't a Reformulated Game - it was still an entirely 3D game, and ran at quite a smooth (if slow) framerate. On the Game Boy. Worth noting it was ported by Argonaut Software, who would go on to create the famous Super FX chip for the SNES that was used in games like Star Fox and Yoshi's Island.
  • Once Original, Now Common: It was quite impressive when it was first released because at the time, racing games that weren't top-down relied on rapid scaling of sprites to achieve that three-dimensional look (as can be seen in OutRun), as opposed to polygons like what this game uses. It would be easily one-upped by Virtua Racing three years later, with still-textureless, but now 30 FPS polygons, and especially Daytona USA in 1993 with fully-textured polygons and 60 FPS, quickly turning Hard Drivin' into the status of "just some blocky low-FPS racing game."
  • Porting Disaster: The Sega Genesis port is technically impressive, but the single digit framerate and laggy controls make it clear the console was biting off more than it could chew with it, and it's almost unplayable as a result. The SNES port is even worse, thanks to the system having a significantly slower CPU than the Genesis; on the SNES, the game practically becomes a slideshow.

Top