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Somewhere a forgotten IIS 3.0 server has caught fire, burned to a crisp, and is now in Windows NT heaven.

These two are still available in all their glory, at least:

http://www.microsoft.com/games/motocross2/

http://www.microsoft.com/games/midtown/

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If you guys get a chance, this is the greatest thing of all time. Get Motocross Madness 2, start a race, and forget about it. Drive straight until you reach the huge wall that marks the edge of the area. Some places it's lower than others, and with a good run-up, you can actually scale the wall. Up top it's clearly not a place for players, but if you drive towards the non-existent horizon you will be fired as if from a cannon (there is literally a cannon noise) into the course again and your guy will curl up and die horribly in the crash before getting back on his bike. My friend and I used to do this for hours, it was the best "open world" we could find!

I remember this too, lots of fun with this! I was never really racing the races, just fooling around in the game and occasinally do the canon trick :D!

Holy shit I just downloaded the trial of Midtown madness (!!) This used to be my jam!

The first website I ever built was dedicated to that game and I got tens of hundreds of thousands of visitors. How I managed to do that when I was like 14 or something I'm not sure.

I had every cheat, trick and hack under the sun, fully documented with photos.

My favorite was also the Motocross Madness throttle bug. If you went to buy a specific joystick and used the throttle hat, it would instantly gas the bike up to like 50,000cc's and you could do jumps so high that it would glitch, like a mile in the air.

> tens of hundreds of thousands of visitors?

So, you mean millions of visitors? That is impressive!

Lol, not multiplied. I know it was a huge amount (for being a kid). I don't want to exaggerate though if it wasnt 300,000

Also one of the most underrated game of those glorious times, Urban Assault : http://www.microsoft.com/games/urbanassault/

Amen to that.. :-)

I came across with a forum where a fan-made remake is being orchestrated:

http://forums.metropolisdawn.com/viewforum.php?f=29

I love how websites in the 90s were designed like magazine ad layouts with clickable maps.

Feeling nostalgic.

Midtown Madness, thanks for reminding me. Loved that game! (more then Driver :))

randomly driving SF <3 awesome game.

oh no, the hackernews hugs-O-death will doom these sites as well....

I've submitted them to the wayback machine just in case.

Oh my, Midtown Madness! The VW Bug was such bullshit, it had the acceleration of a Ferrari. Loved bombing around town fishtailing in the cadillac though!

I love the "Photosensitive Seizure Warning" on the motocross2 site... I think there were a lot of seizures induced in the mid-late 90s...

Was it the interlaced monitors?

...or marketing!

I loved MCM2 (motocross madness 2) - I played that game on MSN Gaming Zone for over a year. Now that I think about it, I built my first website and had my first experience programming because I wanted to make a site for my team, named SOAR - MCM2 got me into programming and also prompted my first use of Photoshop to make custom rider skins for my mates!

Wow, XBox has been unveiled!

If anyone needs me, I'll be over here catching serious phat air.

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