Test Drive II: the Duel

Hi all.

I've been reading PA since jokes about SIN loading times were things I actually understood. I still read, though my gaming time is way down. As a job, I write about cars for a few newspapers, the BBC, and elsewhere.

When I was a kid, there was a game called Test Drive II: the Duel, and it figured hugely in my adolescence. Not long ago, I started idly researching it, and figured out that it was coded in my hometown (Vancouver), and after a bit of sleuthing via screenshots of abandonware, I managed to track down most of the original programming team.

Here's the story - nothing groundbreaking, just a few guys out there on the edge of the coming gaming explosion, working in a small dedicated team. They've all taken very different paths after the fact, but it was just cool to remember what it was like to play these games for the first time, and to hear what a lasting experience it was for many of the coders.

Thanks!
-b

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