carnival73: Yeah, after this thread last night I watched the vid for the Kickstarter. Also remembered my partner's little nephew telling me he got the first one online for free.
But now looking back at everything I was looking through last night - This game has been moded up and down a long with with all of the abandoneware museum sites like HotU and Abandonia there's probably several different complete and fully-functional end-user made copies of this game out there.
I could've sworn the first two Carmas were once on GOG but when I first found GOG it was through HotU and Abandonia so I may have just been confusing the lists that I was looking through at that time.
jimbob0i0: Sounds quite likely - reading back my previous comment quoting you I realise I sound pretty harsh there - damn text! No offense was intended and just corrections to the factual side of things... I hope you don't take it otherwise....
I've got a full 3dfx/dosbox setup of carmageddon here on my Win7 laptop ... but I'd pay for a GOG version easily....
There's a pretty decent community over at www.carmageddon.com that's included all sorts of modding (including bringing the C1/splat cars to C2) but it assumes that you'll get hold of the game from somewhere generally speaking...
I wonder marketing wise if it'd be best to get the C1/C2 games on GOG soon or if it'd be better to leave it till say 7-10 days left of the kickstarter campaign for C:R to 'optimise' for buzz to get the maximum possible pledges.... my instinct is pretty much telling me the latter - plus no doubt GOG has a lot of testing to do before they can support/sell the games plus there'd be contracts to draw up and so on.....
No offense taken - And I'd toss the games up soon while the Kickstarter has put it fresh in everyone's memory. I'm pretty sure there were a lot like me that ran looking to try the first two games once the saw the kickstarter.
I avoided the first releases back in the day because I thought they were trying to captalize on negative press like Manhunt and Postal did.
Recently playing Clutch and getting FlatOut from the Gala I realized how much depth those two games had and they were racers for people, like myself, who don't normally play racers - This got me to thinking that there may have been more depth to Carmageddon then what I had expected back in the nineties.
The first Carmageddon game can be found, with expansion, multiplayer modded in and polished up but it's not totally legitimate. I think it's still semi-easy to find in Google searches however as it appears to be tolerated (locations that still have it don't keep stuff up for very long if not tolerated - They're heavily monitored by EULA) - Most likely for promotional purposes for the minority that happen upon it.
C2 appears to be somewhat of an official no-no naughty still because any existence of abandoneware copies have been replaced with a small ripped version that serves, more or less, like a demo.
It's hard nowadays to determine what's warez, demo, freeware, MOD, Fan Remake or freely given away with consent. =/
