At the time the scale (and RAM usage) was revolutionary, along with the multiplayer.

I was heavy into the multiplayer when it was new. Having a bad or even mediorce computer pretty much got you blacklisted from playing with people. Since it showed everyone your RAM in the lobby, you'd be rejected from games where they wanted to play big maps. Also when a multiplayer game was launched, it showed how fast everyone is loading the map, if someone was always taking too long that was another way to get kicked.

I think it was one of the first games that let people easily show off how awesome their computer was to people online, which of course made people (me) feel bad and get upgrades.

Lol reminds me of the only other game that I've seen that does that, i.e., shows you how fast everyone's loading the map with a small progress bar. It was the first Homeworld which we used to play all the time in the good ol highschool days. It was also one of the first games I played multiplayer after I had upgraded my entire PC. It was a lot of fun to see how my PC was done loading the map before anyone elses :) Of course it wouldn't last. PC tech was advancing too fast for me at the time, and I quickly found myself with a woefully under powered rig again :P

No idea, although there were all kinds of rumors starting from 12th grade seniors installing it to our teacher installing it herself to play when idle. I only got to play it once though, I wasn't good at running.

When you have a semi clueless teacher it is beyond easy. In 12th grade a friend installed Quake on his PC and I Tzar on mine.

My favorite game was back on one of the PCs in my primary school's computer lab: Skyroads!

i thought most teachers were clueless in regards to computers

I would expect so yes.

I've always wanted to try the Midtown Madness series. I've only tried the Monster Truck Madness series in the '90s. When will GOG finally sign up with Microsoft?

probably never
and midtown madness seems to be quite dead the last entry was on the xbox in 2003


and the irony fairy had a coronary because right now i cant actually play the game
it wont work on windows 7
it crashes in vmware player 12

and my retro laptop makes it look like a ps1 title on a bender

Are you sure?
Because it does work on win 7 after you apply few patches.

well so far i found this http://www.play-old-pc-games.com/2014/12/11/midtown-madness/
but thats for 1 not 2

can you point me in the right direction ?

http://cliparts.co/cliparts/Lcd/o9n/Lcdo9nAgi.jpg

http://www.moddb.com/games/midtown-madness-2/downloads

I will try it and then tell you about it.

Well I hope it won't be never because there are still so many great Microsoft games that need to be on GOG: Age of Empires, , [url=http://www.gog.com/wishlist/games/outwars]Outwars, Urban Assault... the list goes on! :P

I got my Chicago Edition CD working great on an old Windows Vista machine last weekend without even having to tweak it. But on any newish computer with modern drivers and/or Windows 10 it's basically fucked, it either crashes or it plays like a bad slideshow.

I can't get it working properly in any Wine version on Linux either which is a real downer. Extremely picky game.