We definitely played this and a whole bunch of variations of things like this. Simpler, pre-handheld devices times.
What other games (like this) do you remember
All you needed was a squared (or graph) notebook and two pens in different colors.
We would draw a race track with a starting line and a finish line, then take turns flicking our pens across the paper. However far the pen left a visible ink trail, that was how far you were allowed to draw your racing line and move forward.
You kept taking turns flicking the pens and extending your lines until someone reached the finish line.
Such a simple idea, but we had so much fun with it. 😊 Does anyone else remember playing this?
We definitely played this and a whole bunch of variations of things like this. Simpler, pre-handheld devices times.
What other games (like this) do you remember
No but i played a lot on something where you had a track with lots of turns on a squared paper like this and you could only increase and decrease speed 1 square at a time. So you'd want to get up to 5 but then when a turn comes you need to slow down in due time!
Yes, we also played this a lot (Germany in the 90s and early 2000s). You would mark your next possible move: take your last move, do it again and then chose either the same or one adjacent square. When you crashed, i.e. left the track, you had to pause a turn and start with speed 1. We used to draw fancy race tracks with lots of obstacles and sometimes used special rules.
Bolide is a car racing game played on a grid. You have two pawns, one representing your car and one representing your inertia. Where your inertia pawn is effects where you can move your car. You move your car pawn within a certain number of spaces of the inertia pawn and then you move the inertia pawn based on your car's movement.
Never played it as a racing game. In elementary school my friends and I would draw tanks and planes on paper and then use the pencil push technique to fire bullets at each other.
I didn’t know the tank and plane version.
Yes, we did that. We went overboard. Tanks, jeeps, trucks, fighters, bombers, various types ofships, infantry
Yes! We used oil puddles as well (you had to continue your course).
Oil puddles😄
I did this same game, but it was pod racing from Star wars. I even drew out a recreation of the Mos Espa racetrack
😄
No, but there's an old grid-based paper and pencil Formula One game using deterministic rules instead strategy; which (like other PnP games such as _Battleship_) got a fancier board game implementation. The board game's title is *Bolide.*
The version I played was with an oval track of varying width as you went around and a velocity vector. Each player started out with (dx,dy) = (0,0) and you could increase or decrease either dx or dy by 1 every turn, and the trick was to get enough speed to pass your opponent on the straightaways without going so fast that you couldn't make the turns.
I remember that one, too. But it's a different game
I spotted the game on BGG before, but haven't played it. https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/18481/racetrack
nice! a fun online version https://harmmade.com/vectorracer/
I don't think I understand how it works. What do you mean "flicking" the pen?
It worked like this: we held the pen perpendicular to the paper and gave it a quick flick forward. The length of the ink streak it left determined how far you were allowed to move on that turn.
We played it just like in your pics. I believe we learned how to make the line very long by leaning the pencil hard forward, having you snap it really hard deep in the paper. The trick was then to find the balance point to not get stuck when tilting too steep. Good times... But we also played a different version as battle tanks. You were driving but also shooting like that. We drew symbols on the map for some kind of mines or powerups. I don't remember those ones exactly.
We were so creative. 😊 Everyone had a favorite pen that they never let out of their hands.
There’s a game called pocket golf that’s pretty similar to this. The pencil is a hexagon and has 1-6 written on it to replace a die.
I don’t know that one. If you have the time, could you draw a quick sketch of what it looked like here?
I actually made a game which started with this as its premise 😅 https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/472250/duck-duck-loose
Haha; cute!😄
As most others here I played a similar game, but more of strategy than flicking. Was pretty fun and easy
I used to play this. Why do you need graph paper though?
Because you were only allowed to move to the grid intersection closest to the end of the pen’s ink mark. On plain paper we would have cheated a lot… and probably argued even more. 😄
yes I remember this game! and it reminds me of this similar game here. give it a try! https://harmmade.com/vectorracer/