Cyber Sled

Namco's Cyber Sled was a pretty impressive polygon game for its time.

I read the home ports weren't very good so I never bothered buying one. Anyone played them?

http://www.namco.co.jp/home/cs/ps/cy...ybersled01.gif

Wow, this takes me back.

I used to play the arcade version, it was okay I guess.

I also have it for PSX, still in it's big jewel case.

I think it cost something like $10 dollars, and this was at least a year or so after the game came out, so this really says alot about it.


I really can't think of anything positive to say.


I really need to stop starting sentences with the word "I".

I'd rather play I ROBOT

I wish I was exposed to I Robot.

I have only played it on emulator and it ran so slow that it wasn't playable.

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Originally posted by NeoZeedeater
I wish I was exposed to I Robot.

I have only played it on emulator and it ran so slow that it wasn't playable.

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Heh, I just got it the other day, it seemed to run fine.
Pretty impressive game, way ahead of it's time.

It was probably a couple years ago when I tried it now that I think about it so they have probably improved the emulation by now.

You never played the I ROBOT in it's original coin-op form - - that's ashame. The game was quite rare -something like 1000 or less were made- so I guess it stands to reason. In Vegas there were only two, one at Circus Circus and the other was at the #1 (off strip) arcade in town.

Being the first polygon game on the block was its main draw. But it really seemed to flop and only a few people in town tried to master it.

I wonder if there was even was an I Robot machine in my city. I was only around 8 or 9 years old when it came out so I couldn't exactly search every arcade in town.

Still, I must play it some day.

http://www.classicgaming.com/rotw/irobot.shtml

Apparantly, this game is as old as I am.

Cyber Sled was indeed a great game for its time.

I really enjoyed playing it when it came out in arcades. I never played the PSone port, however.

I Robot was also innovative, but it was damn weird. I could never quite figure out how to play it. I mostly messed around with the "doodle mode."

A while back I found the home page of the UK company that programmed the Saturn conversion. Was that Euro-only? I know it didn't hit the States...

I'm pretty sure Saturn Cyber Sled did come out here.

I'm pretty sure it didn't. ;)

If it did, I need to update my Saturn Master List in Cart Commander.

It is possible I was fooled by the Saturn packages the PS used back then.

Hmm, meditate on this, I will.

I used to play Cyber Sled in our arcade all the time....



...of course, that was more because the machine gave free games a lot. It was still a cool game, though.

A Saturn port DID get released!?!?!?

I thought there was no such thing... Time to start searching.

I have been looking around the 'net for evidence of the existence of a domestic Saturn Cyber Sled so I can confirm to myself that my memory isn't totally messed up.

All I found was this list that says it did come out.

http://www.digitpress.com/archives/arc00112.htm

Can anyone confirm that the Saturn version of Cyber Sled did come out in North America?

Since that is the only reference to it that can be found so far, it is likely it is wrong. Remember that Namco was totally in Sony's pocket in the early US PSX days, even going so far as to include a brochure with Tekken (and probably other games) titled "In the war of the 32-bit systems, PlayStation has an unfair advantage." The advantage? Namco titles. One of the featured games in the pamphlet was Cyber Sled.

FWIW there is another games list here (which excludes Cyber Sled), but I noticed some errors in it when I was compiling my CC master list.

Edit: Oh, and GameFAQs completely neglects to list a Saturn version of Cyber Sled. They are generally pretty complete with their game listings for US titles.

It's funny, I just bought Cyber Sled brand new today for $2.99, mainly because I needed one of those big old jewel cases the PSX games used to come in for a copy of D I just picked up (the discs and booklet were perfect, the case was cracked and had EB stickers all over it). I'll give Cyber Sled a whirl tonight after I swap the case with D's...though, from what I hear, CS ain't the greatest game in the world...D is a cool little horror game, though, if you can handle slow-paced games.