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''Carmageddon'' is the first of a series of graphically violent driving-oriented Video Game s produced by Stainless Software , published by Interplay and SCi . It was originally released on the PC (for DOS ) in 1997 , but has since been ported to Macintosh ( 1997 ), PlayStation ( 1999 ), Nintendo 64 ( 2000 ) and Game Boy Color ( 2001 ). The PlayStation & N64 versions of Carmageddon are more like Carmageddon II. In ''Carmageddon'', the player races a vehicle against a number of other competitors in a (usually) suburban setting. The player has a certain amount of time to complete a specified number of laps of a course, but more time may be gained by going through checkpoints, collecting bonuses, damaging the competitors' cars or by running over pedestrians. In many countries (including the UK and Germany ), the game when released contained Zombie s or Robot s instead of people, as running over the Undead was considered more acceptable by their respective ratings boards. Unofficial "blood patches" were rapidly released by members of the community to replace the zombie graphics and sound with the more gory versions, followed by official patches from the developers of the game that uncensors the game. The game featured a music only version of Fear Factory 's album Demanufacture . The tag-line for the American release was "The racing game for the chemically imbalanced". Later on in 1997 an expansion pack entitled the ''Carmageddon Splat Pack'' was released. This added a lot of extra tracks and cars, and added support for Glide API , the API used by the dominant line of 3D accelerators of the day, 3Dfx 's Voodoo range. It is possible to run the Windows version of Carmageddon in 640x480 resolution, which is normally only available for the 3DFX version, by adding -hires to the commandline. Example: carma.exe -hires. It's possible to play Carmageddon in resolutions up to 1600x1200 using a Glide wrapper such as dgVoodoo and playing the game in 3dfx Glide mode. Running in Glide mode improves both quality and performance. Another tweak is opening up the Data\Options.txt and increase the yon value to extend the draw distance. The other games in the series are:
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