Pretty proud of this.

A Quick Praise on Need For Speed: High Stakes.

Got pretty bored on Gran Turismo Sport so I used their excellent scapes mode and created this. Pretty proud of this effort, so I am going to create the rest pretty soon.

Remember back when the Need for Speed series was about sports cars and police chases? Those were the days. And then Fast and Furious happened and now they are all about urban street racing. Not exactly complaining, I guess, as they will never be able to compete against the race simulators like GT or Forza.

Back when I was still in elementary school though, the game was mind-blowing. The cars were great. You can see into the interior. There's traffic and police. The music was rad too. My particular favourite was, of course, Need for Speed: High Stakes. You can even play as a cop and chase the racers down -- with regional police vehicles and radio communication in their respective languages. There was even a damage model for vehicles -- for a PC game from 1999! The level of detail was quite mind blowing.

The graphics may not be great by today's standards, but they did look great to my eye as a 10-year-old, playing on my sister's Windows 98 desktop.

The game also featured one of the coolest opening intro for a car racing game.

A Porsche 993 Turbo racing against a Honda Civic, which embarrassingly stalls at the light. Also features a Diablo and a C5 Corvette. Man, the 90s had great sports cars.