Street Rod

In November we played STREET ROD, a quirky little racing game that's all about 1960s hot rods, released in 1989 by California Dreams. Sounds pretty American, right? Turns out, this game was actually developed in Soviet-controlled Poland, behind the iron curtain! Learn all about what makes this game interesting in this episode of the DOS […]

In November we played STREET ROD, a quirky little racing game that's all about 1960s hot rods, released in 1989 by California Dreams.

Sounds pretty American, right? Turns out, this game was actually developed in Soviet-controlled Poland, behind the iron curtain!

Learn all about what makes this game interesting in this episode of the DOS Game Club podcast.

Joining hosts Martijn ("Tijn") and Florian ("rnlf") for this episode are Oddvar ("dollarone"), Rob ("Spoonboy") and Jonas ("bitblt"). Also contributing is Jozef ("yozy") who sent a voice message.

Enjoy!

https://www.dosgameclub.com/podcast/2021/01/ep50.mp3

[ download mp3 ] (121 mins, 97 MB)

RELEVANT LINKS:

* Street Rod manual (PDF)

* Forum thread by "rasz_pl" explaining some of the interesting background on how this game was developed in 1980s Poland

* More background on Lucjan Daniel Wencel and his business endeavours (in Polish)

* Street Rod Online offering downloads of the original games for free, among other things

* Street Rod 3 development blog, which seems a bit inactive now