Yet again welcome to my 'new' series of blogs where I talk about those old games I used to play back in the day. the games that gave me "The Feeling". So what's the feeling? Well... I won't go into detail here since that would make this blog post way longer than it probably should be, but you're more than welcome to check out the introduction to get a ... feeling (joke alarm!) of what it's all about and eventually check out the previous entries in the series. For now however....? Enjoy ofcourse!

Hmm... so where shall we start? I think that were, this time around, are gonna take a jump back in time, back to the happy 90's.. or should I say 1998. So what happened in 98? Well besides being the year where 'Clinton did not have sex with that woman' and France won their own hosted World cup (best Wc ever by the way) was it also a, safe to say, quite remarkable year for gaming. Metal Gear Solid, Tekken 3, Ocarina of time you name it were/is all amazing, but were actually not gonna focus on one of those today, nope, instead we're gonna take a look on a game that gave me everything I could ask for from a video game at the time: Cars... Weapons.. Lightning speed.. and last, but not least, one of the, in my opinion, most amazing soundtracks to ever praise a video game to this date.

In my introduction did I blabled about how "the feeling" could be way more than just an awesome gameplay experience, or to quote myself: "May it be a story, music, character or whatever you might fall for, is one thing true, they're all potential ingredients in "the feeling"... Now that's poetic and also true, cause one of the key things that made me fall for this game in the first place was indeed it's flat out awesome soundtrack by none other than Fatboy Slim who released he's album 'You've come along way, baby' in the amazing year of 1998. A album that I picked up when I was 10 years old and a album that's still among my favourites to this very day, 10 years later... Soul Surfin' on the Love Island baby!

Ahem! anyways... awesome sound, but hey, that doesn't make a game alone! Hmm.. you're right. So hows cars? You like cars? Cars are cool, but how about double-sided cars!! Double...sided? Yea, you know cars with tires larger than the body... Cars that's able to drive on walls and ceilings.... with 4-500 miles per hour! That sure sounds fantastic doesn't it? Ofcourse it does, cause Rollcage is fantastic!

There you have it... if you haven't already guessed it by then... Rollcage for the original Playstation, released in 1999 (Yeah I know I said 1998 up there, don't ask), developed by the now dead studio 'Attention To Detail' (only remarkable game) and published by Psygnosis. I personally got the game from my dad who brought it home with him after a trip to town. The funny thing is that my dad is one big question mark when it comes to games and electronics, but on the other hand does he somehow loves to spend money on it so I suppose he went with whatever looked the coolest, and that must have been Rollcage.

And boy was I in for one awesome ride. Without really knowing what I was about to experience did I smack the disc into my old grey, half broken Playstation. Hmm... What do we have here? A futuristic arcade driving game?...with weapons? Sure looks interesting... And it was! It was actually a blast to play. Besides giving you a awesome sense of speed did the game really offer a good variety of cars and weapons. 6 different drivers each with their own car and one unlockable character competed on four different maps which each represented a different setting/landscape. From a Icy setting to a huge city and a mining place in the desert.

But wasn't it just another racing game for the PS1? It's not like it lacked those at the time with Gran Turismo and Ridge Racer around... Well Rollcage had a twist that none of the others had. A twist that made you able to drive on walls and ceilings while blasting your enemies with all sorts of weapons, from your standard homing misiles to Ice beams and the Continuum Warper, a weapon that slowed down all the other racers. Mix all this together and you have a game that's sure to give you a good experience. Rollcage didn't reinvent the racing genre, but it sure gave it a kick in one of the cooler directions and remains one of my, as with every other game on this 'list', favourite and most memorable games of all time.

- mnbskydoll