AliMar 24, 2023 - Day 83 - NewPlay Review
Total NewPlays: 88
Game: Toybox Turbos
Platform: Steam PC
Release Date: Nov 12, 2014
Library Date: Dec 27, 2021
Unplayed: 452d (1y2m25d)
Playtime: 17m
The first PC racing game I played was Test Drive, some time in the late 1980's, on a PC clone, and was incredibly frustrating to steer with the keyboard.
It was still more fun than Toybox Turbos.
Toybox Turbos was released in 2014, and is still for sale on Steam in 2023, at the price of AUD$21.50.
If you have the misfortune of mistakenly buying Toybox Turbos and installing it, it will crash immediately. Turns out that if your screen is running at any resolution higher than 1280x720, it crashes.
To fix this crash, you need to change your screen resolution to 1280x720, restart the game, and in the options, set the game to the resolution you want to run it at (my screen is 2560x1440).
At this point, the game will crash. Again.
However, you can now reset your desktop resolution to your preferred resolution, and then run the game, at which point you can start playing.
This was more entertaining than the actual game.
On paper, it seems like a fun game, but for reasons probably rooted in a boozy lunch with a PM who really liked handheld camera shots in movies, instead of the camera being behind the car, it follows you around in near-isometric view like a drunken one-legged sailor in a storm.
Toybox Turbos:
1: Nope