Screamer (video game)

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Screamer

Developer(s) Graffiti
Publisher(s) Virgin Interactive
Interplay (Win, Mac)
Platform(s) MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows, Macintosh
Release date(s) MS-DOS
  • NA October 31, 1995
  • EU 1995
Microsoft Windows
  • WW February 13, 2009
Macintosh
  • WW 2012
Genre(s) Racing
Mode(s) Single-player
Distribution CD-ROM

Screamer is an arcade style racing game for MS-DOS. The game shares some graphical and gameplay style with Namco's popular Ridge Racer. The game featured texture mapped polygon-modelled tracks and cars. Software rendering was used in the game, due to the game's release before the widespread adoption of 3D graphics cards, unlike Screamer's three sequels Screamer 2, Screamer Rally and Screamer 4x4, that all utilized 3D hardware. As a result Screamer was one of the early games to really require a Pentium processor to run at full speed, particularly in SVGA mode.

EA's racing title The Need for Speed was released on the PC around the same time as Screamer.

The game's music was composed by Allister Brimble.[1]

Cars

All 6 of the cars in screamer are based on real life cars.

  • Shadow (Lamborghini Diablo)
  • Tiger (Ferrari F40)
  • Hammer (Bugatti EB110)
  • Rising Sun (Mitsubishi 3000GT)
  • Panther (Porsche 911 turbo)
  • Yankee (Chevrolet Corvette C4).

References

  1. ↑ "Orchestral Media Portfolio" (PDF). Archived from the original on February 5, 2006. Retrieved 2008-08-02. 
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