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Stunt Driver

DOS - 1990

Stunt Driver is an oldie stunt car simulation by Spectrum Holobyte featuring a 1966 Shelby Mustang ready for you to drive to perfection. The game is very similar to Distinctive Software's Stunts both in game design and premise, although not nearly as popular.

There are various tracks to race on, ranging from a oval training course to more tricky stunt courses with loopings, bridge jumps and so on. As in Stunts, the game also offers a course editor that allows you to design your own challenges. On every course you will have to qualify by beating a set time in training mode, enabling you then to enter a race with up to 3 computer-controlled opponents. But then there's also the option to link-up another computer to play against a friend (modem, cable, or network), something not found in the more popular Stunts. The graphics are okay for its time as are the controls, but one of the best things in technical terms is the excellent sound even through the good old PC speaker. During the race, there are various views to quickly look what's going on behind or left of you and the VCR-like recorder enables you to review your race later on.

Overall, Stunt Driver is a fun game that definitely deserves as much attention as better-known and better-sold Stunts (although it is admittedly inferior). Unfortunately, the game has a lot of problems on modern computers. A slow-down util is a must for anything faster than a 486, as the in-game clock and the computer opponents won't work if your computer is too fast. Highly recommended, especially in multiplayer mode.

Review By HOTUD

Comments and reviews

Shawdawg 01 Apr. 2019

Personally, I liked this one over Stunts. You could race more than one car at a time (even though you could only drive one yourself, it was a badass car). And you could ram and interact with the other cars and take them out of the race. I remember always getting behind the cars as they waited for the draw bridge...ramming them, and sending them crashing over the bridge or into the water.

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JRD 29 Oct. 2018
Top comment

This is the first game that my friends and I played over modem as kids. The two houses were across the street from each other, so I would run back and forth between houses to try to troubleshoot the connection problems (since we couldn't use the phone because, you know, the modem was using it). We had to ask our moms not to use the phone so we could get it working. When it finally connected, we thought we broke the computer because it started making a bunch of loud, obnoxious noises! So we shut the computer off. Then our friend came back over and informed us that modems are supposed to make those loud noises. lol. Oh, good times. Great game, btw. I loved the track editor.

7
Prithvi 27 Oct. 2017

Nice

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BENNY 02 Oct. 2017

NICE

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dave 20 Jul. 2017

it is good to be alive

4
ishan 13 Mar. 2017

woww .......its cool........:-)

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diego 23 Nov. 2015

es fantastico

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shepard80 11 Nov. 2015

yes, i have the game, but how can I play it, you need the booklet to put in a code to continue and i do not find it anywhere online...

2
Kosal1122 19 Sep. 2015

whats the excutable? i dont know which exe or bat is right

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Ytsejammer 28 Mar. 2015

...just look at that Shelby GT350 on the title screen .... bloody beautiful isn't it :)

3
Larson Lima 18 Feb. 2014

Muito Obrigado por compartilhar!

tks 4 sharing!!!

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Amaury 19 Mar. 2013

a few megabytes tons of fun! :)

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Danaman 09 Sep. 2012

No way is this game here! This use to be my favorite game of all time!!!! Simple but awesome! 20 years later and I still think about this game

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harshit kumar 30 Aug. 2012

my life my rule my attitude

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ramon 15 Aug. 2011

best game of its time!. spent hours playing it. i still admire the sensation of speed it caused back then . some games out there now lack that .

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Downloads

DOS version
Game file
United Kingdom English
645 KB

Extras

Manual Manual 1
Extra file
DOS 7 MB English English

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