As an addon to this months Death Rally Retrospective 1UPGamers spoke to Markus Mäki one of the founders of Remedy Entertainment and a key player in the development and production of the game.
It was 1996 when I first heard of Death Rally a game developed by Remedy Games a then smallish development studio based out of Espoo, Finland. The distributor was Apogee, a heavy weight publisher of its time and one that was an expert at using the shareware model of game distribution.
If you grew up in the mid 90’s playing the extremely addictive top down racing game known as Death Rally then you’re in for a pleasant surprise. Remedy Games who developed the game back in 1996 (then for DOS only) have kindly reworked and re-released it to work on modern PC computers (XP, Vista, Windows 7).
This months retro feature gives tribute to Tetris the amazingly addictive puzzle game which believe it or not has been in production for almost 25 years. Not only is it still being played by millions of gamers today but it’s been updated, reworked and featured on so many different platforms that tracking its current version borders on impossible.
Back in the year 1961, the mere thought of a person contemplating the idea of creating videogames would be enough to put that person into the category of crazy. Why ? I hear you ask, well that answer is simple! Back then videogames were barely around. Let’s take a look at how it all developed to what we have today.
