Namco's RAVE RACER for PowerVR cards. 1996. canceled
some of you that were sold on the excitement of the first generation of
PowerVR 3D accelerator cards back in 1996 might remember some announcements
of Japanese game developer support from NAMCO.
Namco was going to port some of their arcade games to the PC using the
then-new PowerVR technology.
Rave Racer, Air Combat 22 and Tekken (or Tekken 2) were all to be released
for the PowerVR card.
here's Rave Racer
from Next Generation & EDGE magazines
http://www.photodump.com/direct/edgemagazine/1PVRRave.1.jpg
http://www.photodump.com/direct/edgemagazine/1PVRRave.2818.jpg
even though the PowerVR PC version of Rave Racer was only 30 FPS, half the
framerate of the arcade, this was an incredible leap for home 3D technology
for gaming. It's a bloody shame it was never completed and released!
according to that article, PowerVR Rave Racer for PCs (1996) was pushing 4
times the graphics workload
of the Playstation Ridge Racer (1994)
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