That’s too much for what looks like shareware from the 80’s. Even worse are the outrageous prices they are charging ($80 for the complete product). I was concerned by the fact that when I jockeyed a horse it seemed to do substantially better than with the AI jockeying. I downloaded the demo last night and indeed I had fun with it, even though the graphics are badly out of date. Then I stumbled into Horse Racing Fantasy, a Fun Computer Game! (well, that’s what the web site says).
Is that how they do it in the Southern hemisphere?
I’m a little alarmed by the screenshots from this game, though, showing the horses racing clockwise around the track. There appear to be a couple of demos of this one kicking around out there. Perhaps more tantalyzing is this new (French?) product, Horse Racing Manager, which looks a bit like Baseball Mogul for the horsey set.
#Horse racing sims online plus
I did run across this British site that sells Quarter Pole Plus (mentioned here by someone else), Hooves of Thunder and some older things like that. When I searched on Google I got buried with a bunch of results for online “games” that are really some weird form of gambling real money on fake horses (sounds like a bad idea to me right from the get-go.) I bet this thread is now the definitive receptacle of knowledge about horse racing sims.
#Horse racing sims online ps2
“Gallop Racer” for PS2 seems to get decent reviews in general, though: Metacritic Ohmy, and I just noticed that that fanpage is talking about selling the cards on Ebay:Īs far as other horse racing games, there’s “Stakes Winner” and its sequel on the Neo Geo, though they’re kinda basic - the MVS cart goes super-cheap though.
#Horse racing sims online full
Some of the hardcore players at the Great Mall had card books full of their, uhh, stable. steady runner), and deciding when to whip the horse on during the race. Here’s a fan-site for Derby Owner’s Club (!):įor what it’s worth, I watched it for a while, and it seemed rather cool - you buy an (actual physical) smartcard for each horse, which gets saved out with details of how well it’s doing, and the gameplay is in deciding how/when to train and feed the horses, deciding default types (late finisher vs. The more sim-like arcade game is Sega’s “Derby Owner’s Club”, and they actually had one (complete with massive screen and 8 sit-down terminals) last time I went to Dave and Buster’s in the Great Mall, Milpitas, CA (Silicon Valley-ish).
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