![]() ![]() ![]() I particularly loved the Midtown Madness games, and it didn’t take long before I discovered the thriving enthusiast community developing add-on maps, vehicles and other mods for them. Titles that come to mind…Viper Racing, NFS III Hot Pursuit, NFS IV High Stakes, Half-Life, Redline Racer, and yes…Midtown Madness 1 and 2. ![]() Paul, we haven’t spoken in a long time now, but I do hope you know how much I appreciate those years. He went above and beyond in that role exposing me to technology and experiences that I may not have had access to otherwise, which played a major role in developing hobbies and interests I’ll have for life. I had been introduced to gaming-capable computers, and the games themselves, by my then-Big Brother (the mentoring program, not a sibling). That computer is the first one I ever “worked on”, in the form of adding hard drives harvested from discarded computers at the roadside. I was 12 at the time.Īt the time I was rocking a more-than-second-hand white box PC with a 150MHz Pentium Pro, 64MB of RAM, a 2.5GB Quantum Bigfoot, ATI Rage + 3DFX Voodoo2, and Netzero’s monthly 10 free hours of dial-up. Based on ‘date created’ metadata for some files I’ve dug up, around the year 2002 I was first introduced to two PC games: Microsoft Midtown Madness, and Midtown Madness 2. ![]()
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