Rad Mobile is an arcade Sega racing game from 1991. It was the first appearance of Sonic the Hedgehog… as a windshield ornament! The cars were sprites. Later they released the game retitled Gale Racer for the Sega Saturn with polygon cars.

I recently played the game and found it really challenge to rank high. The game has 20 levels starting in Los Angeles and ending in New York.

  • umbraroze@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    I remember seeing this in an amusement park arcade!

    I was a giant Nintendo fan and my sister was a Sega fan. She was like “oh, wow, look, Sonic!” and I was like “why did they hang him?” …and that was last time this game was discussed in the household.

  • duckCityComplex@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    Yeah this game was great… I must have played it after other Sonic games had come out. I never knew this was his first appearance. Such a cool piece of history!

    Did the car have windshield wipers that you had to turn on when you got mud on the windshield or am I mixing this up with a different game?

    • olutukko@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      I would imagine so considering the fact that the picture posted has muddy windshield and windahield wipers on action

      edit: yeah does have that feature! I tried the game on archive.org it’s pretty fun

  • aubertlone@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    2 years ago

    I was born in 1993…

    So no I don’t remember playing it. But I might check it out though thanks for the recommendation