I'd still rather play this than Daikatana.

Atleast Daikatana had loftier goals than "racing trucks," so its failures were a touch more understandable. This...they f'ed up a game about driving trucks around a closed course. They couldn't make a bridge work.

It seems miraculous that the developers even released a game, given "Big Rigs" quality, I'd have imagined the design team (3 guys in a basement?) would have died in a wearing clothes accident.

Hint: The neck tie did them in.

I imagine that the three starving Ukrainians who built this had never taken on such a project before and missed their deadline, and somehow the pressing of discs and printing of boxes and their distribution HAD TO GO AHEAD OR ELSE THE FORTUNE WOULD BE LOST. So they shipped an unfinished product.

Maybe the three guys working by gaslight lied and shipped their 'finished' product straight to the disc plant without its funders ever seeing the awesome mess they were about to unleash on bargain bins and gas station bargain racks the world over.

hard driving was good.

Not for the SNES it was. It`s hard to play a racing game with single digit framerates.

The SNES didn't have blast-processing.

The hard drivin' arcade machine was awesome and the engine was used in piles of late 80s -early 90s Namco games.

Hard drivin' had INSTANT REPLAY. The funnest thing to do in that game was fly off of the loop about halfway through and enjoy watching your death with their dramatic music.

There used to a whole industry of Soviet spies stealing western technology, and an according whole industry of western spies feeding them disinformation.

Long story short, somebody left a disc with SCADA SOFTWARE FOR GAS LINE MANAGEMENT in front of some dude with a suspiciously large vodka consumption and a massive two way radio in his wardrobe, and some years later THE SECRET BUG IMPLANTED INTO THE CODE blew up a shit-ton of pipes somewhere behind the Iron Curtain.

The Russians were not amused.

OK is there some bizarre stereotype about Slavic game design with which I'm entirely unacquainted? Because there's this, and there's Tetris, which remains awesome decades later.

There's no middle ground there, only the frozen tundra of harsh reality.

oh. clever

...making this the worst possible game on the Ulillillia scale.

According to Sergey Titov, the person credited as a lead programmer, he licensed his proprietary 3D engine by TS Group Entertainment to Stellar Stone, "in exchange for a large chunk of the company". The game was developed in the Ukraine (for around the budget range of "-30K" developed under "[a] couple [of] months") and the programmers had no input on the gameplay or design. He also claims the game was released as "pre alpha stage"

Don't you mean Myth II? The initial PC version had a bug where uninstalling it erased your entire HD.

But then, why would you ever want to uninstall Myth II?

Best RTS ever made. Fuck starcraft. Fuck warcraft. Fuck AOE. Fuck all those bland resource-based building-dependant oil-drilling gold-mining wood-chopping clunky formationless pieces of fuck. Fuck.

Fuck you, it's all about Majesty.