# Can you name this game? **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [September 16, 2011, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-name-this-game/596524 "2011-09-16T15:10:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2011, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-name-this-game/596524/1 "2011-09-16T15:10:43Z")
I’ve got very little information but since Dopers are experts at naming movies and books with hardly any info, I’m hoping you can do the same with video games. This was a game my kids rented for our Nintendo system perhaps 10 years ago. It may even have been longer ago than that. It was a driving game. It may have been post-apocalyptic because the only drivers in the game are the characters. You pick a character to drive and the others are against you. I remember vividly driving through and around Las Vegas-- both desert and a hotel (including a pool). I also remember driving around an old airplane junkyard. For some reason I’m thinking '70s themed. Also the name was something like, but not quite, Super 8. This was the only driving game until Grand Theft Auto that I ever liked. ---
**Author:** ![Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a8b319/32.png) [@Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spatial_Rift_47)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2011, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-name-this-game/596524/2 "2011-09-16T18:09:32Z")
Can you describe the graphics? In particular, 2D or 3D? By Nintendo system, do you mean the Gamecube? ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2011, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-name-this-game/596524/3 "2011-09-16T18:19:03Z")
First thing that came to mind for some reason was _Twisted Metal_, except that was a Playstation game and there was never a Vegas level. Could it have been [Rush 2:Extreme Racing USA](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_2:_Extreme_Racing_USA)? ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2011, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-name-this-game/596524/4 "2011-09-16T18:32:06Z")
[Here](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41-3O2go53w)’s a video of the Vegas track from Rush 2 if it helps. ---
**Author:** ![kjckjc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e36b37/32.png) [@kjckjc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kjckjc)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2011, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-name-this-game/596524/5 "2011-09-16T18:40:50Z")
Was it [Interstate '76](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_%2776)? I loved that game, but it was a PC game, not Nintendo. It’s spin-off was [Vigilante 8](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigilante_8) which was for N64, so that was probably it. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2011, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-name-this-game/596524/6 "2011-09-16T18:43:55Z")
> [@kjckjc](#): > > It’s spin-off was [Vigilante 8](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigilante_8) which was for N64, so that was probably it. Good call! I had that game but totally forgot about it. It was essentially a rip-off of _Twisted Metal_, but I remember enjoying it. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2011, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-name-this-game/596524/7 "2011-09-16T19:13:33Z")
Vigilante 8 is it! Thanks sooo much!