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Ivan "Ironman" Stewart's Super Off Road - Episode 156

Podouken · February 11, 2026

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00:41:39 - 00:42:17

And then every time you finish the race, you get the finishing time recorded with each specific color of the off-road race driver. So, you know, red, yellow, blue, and then you got like the trophy shots that are holding the gold trophy cup. And of course you got the woman standing by them, a la any of the great movie posters, Star Wars, Army of Darkness, you know, any of those type of things. And then that's where you also get the national anthem, depending on which country you select playing there. And then afterwards, of course, you can go back to the speed shop, purchase whatever items, and then repeat that ad infinum. This is actually a game that loops.

In Context

... boost, get your nitro fix on the track too, if those are there. Yeah. And then with the nitros, they will vary in the number of nitros you get. So you can first one that appears, you get one, And then every time you finish the race, you get the finishing time recorded with each specific color of the off-road race driver. So, you know, red, yellow, blue, and then you got like the trophy shots that are holding the gold trophy cup. And of course you got the woman standing by them, a la any of the great movie posters, Star Wars, Army of Darkness, you know, any of those type of things. And then that's where you also get the national anthem, depending on which country you select playing there. And then afterwards, of course, you can go back to the speed shop, purchase whatever items, and then repeat that ad infinum. This is actually a game that loops. you are the king of rally truck drivers, etc. You just keep playing. And this is something that a lot of people, not on the arcade, unless you bought the arcade and put on free play like ...

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team. You had Steven Steve high. He was a graphic artist and you had hot rod, John row. And he was the co-director. And then you had people like Hartano Titro, who was a diagnostics programmer who didn't receive a driver representing him in the game. So I guess you couldn't fit everybody, but they did your best to fit quite a few in. So again, a really cool way to integrate yourself in the game and not a way that anybody who was playing that was like, well, that's a weird name. ...

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... Now I have seen, I have seen this cabinet in two player because one of the wheels was ripped off. Yeah, legitimate. Yeah. So that's a two player, but it was still a dedicated three player cabinet. We talk a lot about driver games and there's a couple of driving games in this kind of perspective. Yeah, certainly. But this is often an overlooked version of that. Oh yeah. But this game does it so well. This game is such a fun game. Yeah, this game is fantastic. It's so good. And I'm happy that we've been able to…

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... Check out these hard driving heavy duty features that will leave the others in dust. So on the inside of this flyer, it describes Ironman's a speed shop where winning drivers can convert prize money into equipment like shocks, tires, supercharged engines in nitro packs. All that plus look at quote, gorgeous long leg trophy girls who snuggle up and encourage prospective drivers to get in a race. Yeah, that was in researching the cutting room floor. I'm not sure if you guys had seen this. That's like one of the…

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a yellow truck and a blue truck. The red truck is madman, Sam Powell. The yellow is hurricane, Earl Stratton. And the blue truck is jam and John Morgan. And you're like, okay, these are these other like rally truck drivers are these other famous people that maybe I would know if I was involved in the sport, or are they just generic people who sound like they're truck racers because they have names that all sound like truck racer names. It's not a, we're going to call, you know, rash, uh, George Hey as a, as a…

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