# San Francisco Rush 2049 (and Hydro Thunder) **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [November 22, 2010, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/san-francisco-rush-2049-and-hydro-thunder/561525 "2010-11-22T07:03:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2010, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/san-francisco-rush-2049-and-hydro-thunder/561525/1 "2010-11-22T07:03:33Z")
I was playing **Need For Speed: Undercover** again on my iPhone, when I realized that something I really missed was shortcuts. There aren’t any in the game. Then I realized that the game that had a bunch of badass shortcuts wasn’t a NFS title at all it was [San Francisco Rush 2049](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Rush_2049), so that led to me searching and discovering that the reason I haven’t seen a new game in the franchise is that the franchise is (apparently) dead. WTF? I played it in the arcade, where it was decent, but kind of expensive. But when it came out on the Dreamcast, along with Hydro Thunder, I played both maniacally. I knew every shortcut, knew how to hit every ramp with wings out to do fancy tricks, and just generally had a great time playing it over and over and over. So why doesn’t some smart gaming company resurrect this franchise? Also, why didn’t [Demolition Racer: No Exit](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demolition_Racer:_No_Exit) get another entry? That game was freaking fantastic! ---
**Author:** ![Covered\_In\_Bees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ab992/32.png) [@Covered\_In\_Bees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covered_In_Bees)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2010, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/san-francisco-rush-2049-and-hydro-thunder/561525/2 "2010-11-22T07:28:32Z")
For the record, I love all of those games. Lots of good times have been had with them. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2010, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/san-francisco-rush-2049-and-hydro-thunder/561525/3 "2010-11-22T17:19:27Z")
San Francisco Rush 2049 was the game where you could extend wings and control your car during a jump to a certain extent, right? That was fun. [This article](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_(video_game_series)) may be of interest to you. Apparently there were other games in the series for PS2, N64, XBox, and PC. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2010, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/san-francisco-rush-2049-and-hydro-thunder/561525/4 "2010-11-22T18:56:25Z")
Aye, the other games were decent racing games, and had the shortcuts, but it was only the SF Rush 2049 home versions that featured wings. I like my NFS games a lot; I get lots of replay out of them, and the minigames are terrific, but I miss the pure adrenalin of SF Rush 2049 (and FFX Racer, for that matter). And I miss the thrill of finding the shortcuts in SF Rush 2049. Some of them were long enough to be a valid part of the course, not just a cut-through to another part of the track. ---
**Author:** ![Bootis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e8c25b/32.png) [@Bootis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bootis)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2010, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/san-francisco-rush-2049-and-hydro-thunder/561525/5 "2010-11-22T20:31:23Z")
I loved Rush on the Dreamcast. The multiplayer battle mode was just awesome. Hydro Thunder on DC was also great, but with 1 horrible flaw which made it worthless for multi players: if one player had a poor race, it would hand-of-god them along to make it a photo finish every time. It was such a shame they made it do that.