another Holy Grail: Namco's Rave Racer for PC

In 1996, Namco pledged support for the first-generation PowerVR 3D accelerator cards. Through press releases from NEC and Videologic, 3 Namco arcade games were announced for PowerVR: Rave Racer, Air Combat 22 and Tekken

none of them ever came out.


here is Rave Racer on PowerVR, running at 30 FPS (half the framerate of the arcade)






PowerVR Rave Racer was either an Alpha game, or just a demo. It was shown off at various industry trade shows in 1996. It was seen on television. but it was probably never completed (AFAIK) and definitally never got released....

This is the 'SuperGrafx Strider' of unreleased 3D arcade games for the home.

 

cool motherfucking shit :-D well i got an old power VR card in my pc as a graphics card

 

you know i belive that version was actually release but in limited quanities, as ive heard some people talk about this version before, but this is the first time seeing it, great find.

 

the anyone play the emulator version

 

Hmm, is that scan from the old' Next Generation magazine?

 

Its doesnt looks SO spectacular.......................until you go and see what was the best at that time (Quake) :smt043

Too bad it never came out :-(

 

it was never released, not even in limited quantities, because it was never even finished.


yes, the scans are from Next Generation magazine. Number 19 - August 1996.

 

Pics not showing up for me. Anyways, i remember watching the demo of it running on the PC on that tv show CyberNet.

I look forward to play this game in an emulator, since i never saw it on arcades.

 

Funny to see this because I just read this particular issue over the long holiday weekend.

 

i think i have this issue.. i also have a gamepro from 1992 with them talking about how cool the 3do will be.

 

Its an shame that it was never released, it is such an nice game. The psp version is supurb but I would like to play an arcade perfect version on an big screen

 

Now the pics show up. Next try, host it at imageshack, so you can put it using thumbnails.

On Wombat's comment:
That's why i like arcade emulation. I think it's already playable with Vivanono emulator.

 

thumbnail versions for those of you having trouble seeing the full sized scans

 

there's something special about the breakthrough arcade games back when 3D was still young and novel. I miss those days.

 

I definitely have that issue. I finally picked up all my old vg mags from my parents house. I love browsing old NextGen's seeing all the 'NEW' games and the amazing still shots of upcoming games. :smt043

I would love to get even an unfinished beta of the PC Rave Racer. The RR series is one of my fav's, Rage Racer being my top pick.


^_^_^

 

lol, I remember when Pentium 133's were "high spec" PCs ^_^

Kinda reminds me of playing Virtua Fighter on my cousin's P75 many moons ago - that was one of the first 3D PC games I remember that wasn't a simulator or FPS to actually run at a decent speed.

 

A Pentium 133 ? I remember being made up with a 486 that had a turbo button

Yakumo

 

Yeah! Now i remember when i got my first computer, a 386 DX 40. The 486 DX2 66 was the dream computer those days. Turbo button included :-D

 

I had a 286 that had a turbo button that made it go at a whooping 16 mhz.

1988?

Nope, more like 1996. That was my computer/typewriter all through High-School.

 

You're starting to make me feel "old", and that's not good .

I still have the ol' P166 in my closet, although it's in pieces. We would have the Pentium 60, but the thing fucking died a year after we bought it!