Solar system with moon scaled to single pixel would still take 665 monitors (pcgamer.com)

Funny, I've loaded it in the browser, played it, was happy like kid. Then I just entered 'extremtuxracer' in my terminal and tada, played it locally without browser. Not to blame tuxracer.js, this is great. But sometimes you forget "normal" software.

Bondi_Blue · 18m ago

If you want to play locally on macOS, here is a build. Looks like this guy also compiled for Android...and Blackberry?

https://drodin.com/extremetuxracer/ https://github.com/drodin/extremetuxracer

jml7c5 · 37m ago

I wonder if the commercial version of this (from Sunspire Studios) is floating around anywhere. I recall it being even more satisfying to play.

Looks like the author has gone on to have a successful career in game rendering, working on (among other things) Infamous and Ghost of Tsushima.

boricj · 2h ago

Impressive work.

Maybe it's my memory from 20 years ago playing tricks on me, but to quote Civvie 11: "It's like playing a version of [Extreme Tux Racer] where everything was moved two inches or so to the left."

pierrec · 47m ago

I also played it back in the day and it seems perfectly accurate to me, at least in terms of control and physics. After a few goes I'm quickly approaching my old personal best on Who Says Penguins Can't Fly. One thing I'll note is that the "best score" display seems to be only based on time, not herrings (which I actually prefer, but I know that's not how you're supposed to play it).

rezmason · 2h ago

Oh, fantastic! I've tried rebuilding this for macOS half a dozen times, and never quite managed for one reason or another. And now you've brought it to the browser.

I might try adding reflections and translucency to ice someday.

Bondi_Blue · 9m ago

If you want to play locally on macOS: https://drodin.com/extremetuxracer/ https://github.com/drodin/extremetuxracer

wavemode · 1h ago

Hearing that song again after almost 20 years made my day

lelanthran · 2h ago

Their used to be a racing game, around 2005 - 2008, in the Ubuntu repositories called Torque (or similar)?

Anyone knows what happened to it?

homebrewer · 1h ago

There aren't many FOSS games from that era, are you sure about the name?

Might it be ManiaDrive?

http://maniadrive.raydium.org/index.php?downloads=yes

Or vDrift?

https://vdrift.net

jadamson · 2h ago

TORCS?

https://sourceforge.net/projects/torcs/

lelanthran · 2h ago

Not the same one; I remember it only had one car (red one, Mitsubishi maybe) and one track. Very much a WIP.

protonbob · 1h ago

Was it this one? https://sourceforge.net/projects/trigger-rally/

lelanthran · 45m ago

Yup :-) Still in the repo. Got a lot more tracks now too.

protonbob · 1h ago

I remember this game as well. I wish I could remember the exact name.

LevelNetDot · 1h ago

What type of racing? Drifting, simulation?

lamer3 · 1h ago

Reminds me the Adobe Shockwave games

elaus · 2h ago

That music is stuck in my ears for so many years...

Animats · 1h ago

But you have to install Node.js to run this "in the browser"? Why isn't this just a web page?

halter73 · 1h ago

There's a link at the top of the README to https://0x00eb.itch.io/tux-racer where you can play it without needing to host it yourself.

supersparrow · 1h ago

It could be a webpage but the developer would have to host it on a server somewhere (which would cost something). With the instructions to run it on the GitHub page, you are effectively running a server which is hosting the game.