adam73bgt
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Who didn't get the 2.2 Prelude at the start? I think I always went for the AE86 to start with (if my memory serves me correctly), its funny to think that I didn't discover/realise the link between that car and Tsuchiya and Initial D etc. until much much later and after they'd all rocketed in price! By the time I came to buy my first car in real life, it didn't even cross my mind to look for one! Fond memories of 1 & 2, I also owned the others but they were never quite as good in my opinion. Yes the graphics were better but there was to much concentration on more moden and super cars in the later games. I enjoyed trawling the used car market and tuning the life out of 20 year old Starlets and Preludes in the first couple. I stopped at a friends house one night and we each spent all night doing one of the stupidly long endurance races in career mode using a tv each instead of split screen. Mind numbing boring once we had lapped the cpu cars about ten times over but I even remember the car I used, a canary yellow ‘98 Lancer Evo, one of the only “new” cars I ever bought on the game. Those endurance races were a true test of patience I think it was GT4 or GT5?, that brought in the B-Spec mode where you could have an AI do the race for you. Pretty sure I effectively killed my first PS3 by leaving it on overnight/day doing 24hr Le Mans endurance races while I was at uni haha I was thinking about this the other night, two cars that stuck in my mind from GT1/GT2 were the Toyota Supra Mk3 Turbo A, and the Efini RX-7 Savanna (FC), I tried to buy a Mk3 for quite a while, and then ended up with an FC. Probably wouldn't have happened if not for GT
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vanpeebles
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I was exactly the same as you with the AE86. It was always my starter car in a lot of racing games. I think my main cars on GT1 was the race spec Mitsu GTO and the race spec Mazda Demio I liked how on some of the cars, the turbo lag was fierce
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My starter car was usually the AE86, I remember buying the mk2 crx as a starter once and trying to get enough money back together to get the AE86 as the crx was pants lol
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mk2cossie
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Aug 29, 2018 12:28:10 GMT
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I was exactly the same as you with the AE86. It was always my starter car in a lot of racing games. I think my main cars on GT1 was the race spec Mitsu GTO and the race spec Mazda Demio I liked how on some of the cars, the turbo lag was fierce Glad it wasn't just me that noticed that then Also, on one of the early ones you could not only get the bigger turbo kits, but actually adjust what psi the boost ran at
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autojumbled
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Aug 29, 2018 14:40:28 GMT
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I was exactly the same as you with the AE86. It was always my starter car in a lot of racing games. I think my main cars on GT1 was the race spec Mitsu GTO and the race spec Mazda Demio I liked how on some of the cars, the turbo lag was fierce I recall a race-spec 350Z was an early prize car in GT3 (or 4?) that had horrendous turbo lag. You also struggled to slow it down as well becuase the turbo was still pushing it along even after you'd lifted. This one!
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Aug 29, 2018 18:53:31 GMT
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I think I always went for the AE86 to start with (if my memory serves me correctly), its funny to think that I didn't discover/realise the link between that car and Tsuchiya and Initial D etc. until much much later and after they'd all rocketed in price! By the time I came to buy my first car in real life, it didn't even cross my mind to look for one! i didnt even join the dots and a friend of mine owned a uk corolla gt coupe!
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snipes
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Aug 30, 2018 13:24:12 GMT
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I wasnt happy to find the Corolla '86 was missing in GT2....
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mgmrw
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Aug 31, 2018 20:08:41 GMT
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i blooming loved it I was a petrolhead kid anyway and understood the factors camber, castor, ride height, and tyre compound played as well as making stuff go faster so it was right on my level, I feel i must give a big shout out to the slowest star of gran turismo, the Mazda demio Agreed. I lost years of my life to GT over the years. Singlehandedly responsible for my understanding of car dynamics
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