Carmageddon

June 30, 1997

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Carmageddon

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Interplay Entertainment SCi Games Stainless Games Ltd.

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Racing

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Carmageddon was the subject of a major backlash from the British tabloid press for its violent content, with one issue of The Daily Mail running a large headline reading "BAN DEATH GAME NOW: POPE". If one was to read the smaller text below the headline, they would find out that the "Pope" in question was Greg Pope, Member of Parliament for Hyndburn, Lancs (1992 to 2010), and not Pope John Paul II as the headline would imply.

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person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month September 4, 2023

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Carmageddon backlash article:
https://www.stainlessgames.com/news/carmageddon-reincarnation-full-release-day

The Daily Mail headline:
https://www.eurogamer.net/carmageddon-cant-match-e3-levels-of-violence-stainless

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On the MagnaChem Ice Station level during the "Icing on the Quake" mission, there are various frozen blocks of ice with bodies inside them. The bodies are actually the player model (Ranger) from the game Quake.

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person KidDivinegon calendar_month June 12, 2014

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Once you get a Game Over, you get a cut scene of your vehicle exploding, and your license plate spins and falls where the car once was. This is a reference to a scene in "Back to the Future," where Doc is testing out the DeLorean. The license plate even references the scene from the movie by saying "OUTTALIFE" instead of "OUTATIME."

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person gamemaster1991 calendar_month August 11, 2013

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The game started out as a Mad Max game, but was later dropped when no one could find out who owned the rights to Mad Max. It was later turned into an adaptation of Dethrace 2020, the (than planned) sequel to Deathrace 2000, which introduced the running over of pedestrians. Right up until the game shipped, the .exe file was called Deathrace.

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person gamemaster1991 calendar_month June 24, 2013

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