
I’ve played Dirt Track Racing 2 as recently as 2014. Gamespy drove the final nail in the Dirt Track Racing 2 coffin when they took their multiplayer matchmaking/browser server offline. It seems ten slots is about all that’s needed, as that is about how many were still playing the game at that time.
Ratbag was dead.ĭirt Track Racing 2 continued to be used in online multiplayer league racing despite its quirky bugs and ten player limit until at least 2014, however the community is tiny. Krome Studios never attempted to create any type of racing game or simulation.
Krome Studios hired many of the Ratbag Games staff and established Krome Studios Adelaide. Midway games acquired Ratbag in August of 2005, then promptly closed the Ratbag operation in December, putting about 75 people out of work with little notice.
The Dukes of Hazzard: Return of the General Lee – PS2, Xbox. World of Outlaws: Sprint Cars 2002 – PS2. Holden Dirt Track Racing Australia – Windows. Dirt Track Racing: Sprint Cars – Windows. Their first title, released in 1996, was a futuristic arcade racing game called Powerslide. They utilized their own highly advanced rendering system (for its time) called the Difference Engine, that allowed up to 300,000 polygons on the screen at once.īefore Ratbag was acquired by Midway Games , the company released a total of nine racing games, and became type cast as a racing game and simulation developer. Ratbag Games, initially known as Emergent Games, was founded in Adelaide, Australia in 1993. If you have been around the sim racing community for at least ten years, you are most likely familiar with Ratbag Games , an Australian company that released several dirt track racing simulations and games for the PC, PlayStation 2, and Xbox.