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37 points by olucurious · 21 comments · 1 min read

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Road Rash was one of my favourite PC games growing up. I wanted to play it again, but the browser emulators I tried felt sluggish, so I decided to build a browser version using Three.js.

This started mostly out of nostalgia. I wanted to be able to open a link and get back to racing and knocking people off their bikes.

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bsenftner

As a person that worked on the game at EA, I want to see credits. I recognize people in the artwork, they are caricatures of EA staff. It would be nice to see everyone's names, and then include the names of who ported this too.

  • olucuriousOP

    Oh wow, thank you for working on RoadRash, it was a big part of my childhood. You’re right, I should have included the credits from the start. I’ve now added the full original game credits, including the art, cast and music teams. Thanks for pointing this out.

  • mistersquid

    Apropos of nothing, you were quoted by Fireship. [0]

    [0] https://youtu.be/zv6B6PQOuHE?t=293

wiserpivotsolut

Road Rash was a big part of my childhood. I am from India, and I used to play this in cyber cafes and on a friends' PCs. Surprised how smoothly it runs in the browser. Kicking a rival off the bike still feels just as satisfying :)

nickphx

Nice! I remember spending many hours playing Road Rash 3 on the SEGA Genesis. The stun baton was always fun.

amits97

Wow super impressive. It works so well from mobile as well! Bookmarking this :)

BElluu

My god. Memories... And this works so smooth <3

ajsdev

This is incredible! Nice work

grugg

Really cool project. What version is this ported from because no offense, it's a great technical feat, but the dos/win95 version is far superior as someone who runs it on the vintage hardware. I will admit your chase camera and tracking feels better. Just giving some constructive criticism.

dongjoo

With cars on, even level 1 is hard for me haha

cjimesh

So many memories! Thank you for this :)

tremarley

Incredibly impressive!

insiderprint

Thank you for this!

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