Black Market Goods: The black market cyborg will only appear (at random)
and offer things that your character can afford to buy.
Stealth Generator ($11,000) Makes your car somewhat invisible, but the other drivers will
still shoot your vehicle. When the car takes enough damage it
wears off.
Polarity Inverter ($10,000) Blocks projectiles most of the time.
Targeting Computer ($9,000) Helps in targeting enemy drivers faster and more accurately.
Doomsday Missile ($19,000) Does awesome damage, but only one is given per reload. It
will not blow up an undamaged driver, but will seriously hurt
him or her.
120mm Gauss Gun ($16,000) Does heavy damage like the Vulcan cannon, but shoots much
slower; 5 sec. reload, ammo 1000.
Dragon Laser ($25,000) Blows everything away with relative ease. If it does not blow
everybody away on the first lap, stop, wait and let the other
racers lap your car (or catch up if your car is ahead) and let
them know who is boss.
Grim Reaper ($20,000) A great car. Speed: 305 / Acc: Awesome / Armor: Fair
Backlash ($25,000) The closest thing to the batmobile. Speed: 330 / Acc: Fair
/ Armor: Great
Dragon Car ($30,000) Watch out track records. This cars really moves. This car
is featured in the Crash 'n' Burn intro getting blown off
the track by Drugger. Speed: 355 / Acc: Good / Armor: Awesome
$2,000: If a track is finished, but not with record time, your
character may still get $2,000 if the next track's record time
is higher than the time just completed. Reset the game and your
character will receive the record time bonus. Example: on track
3 the record time is 1:04, and your car finishes in 1:10. No record.
But track 4's record time is 1:21, and your car's track 3 time
of 1:10 was below that. Reset and the game will enter the money
screen after track 3, but your character will receive the $2,000
record time bonus. Note that this trick can work the other way,
taking away your legitimate record time bonus if you reset on
a track with a lower time.
Unlimited continues: This is simple; never continue. The game saves after
every race automatically, so just reset the machine (or hit pause
and choose quit) whenever your car explodes. Just load the saved
game and keep racing.
Hint: Deathdrome message: The message in the sideline of Deathdrome track 4 reads:
Once upon a time a genius, a spiritual overlord and a visionary
racing criminal became "sotally tober" and decided they
would create a legend. Mark said, "Future shock on wheels.
Sex, drugs, and rock'n roll at 100MPH! And with more guns than
the LAPD. It's what America's all about!" Madeline raised
the toast, "And make sure it is done before September or
we'll swing by our heels." And thus it was decided But they
needed some help. Little did they know that a hedgehog trainer
named Bill would arrive in a few weeks all set to kick some asphalt.
"Don't tell me the odds," said Bill, "and I won't
tell you to get the h#ll out of my office. "Bill put the
'I' in Artificial Intelligence, and a little A, too, just to keep
me from going insane (again). Cyrus created a killer two million
dollar demo, and then put together the best art teams ever legally
assembled. "Programming doesn't have to be ugly," he
said. "Programmers, maybe, but this thing will shine when
me and Steve get done with it." Steve shrugged. "Say
what you like, 'cause I'm not listening." Steve listens to
only Rocker, Twix, Druger and Klaw (NOT!). "This thing will
shine when me and Cyrus get done with it," says Steve. And
so it began, at first a train wreck waiting to happen. But later
the prize of the show was winning the blue bundle ribbon. Another
Bill joined (you can never have to many Bills) and glued the whole
thing together with Steve after setting all the cars on fire.
The other Bill says mysteriously, "And wait until you see
the other tunnels, too." As always, a few stunt programmers
were needed. Troy, feeling like Godot as he waited for OS (should
have been called the SOS) tried to make the Fat Lady sing, but
when asked to play a tune, Troy sez "Bite me!" and stumbles
home to bed at 130MPH. In the end, both the ground and the grunge
behaved, and much sleep was had by all. A final thank-you to Frankie
Goes to Hollywood (just like 3DO) for their musical inspiration!
"The Ballad of Crash 'N Burn" was written by Jon "nakasete
miyou" Horseley
