Overview
There is no princess to save or kingdom to conquer—just you, a garage full of high-performance cars (including the Porsche 962, Audi Quattro, and classic Lancia Delta), and the most absurd race tracks ever conceived. Stunts drops players into a fully 3D world where physics are merely a suggestion.
You can race against the clock or challenge a colorful cast of AI opponents (like the infamous Skid Vicious or Bernie Rubber). Tracks feature massive elevated highways, vertical corkscrews, 360-degree loops, and gaps over open water. Crashing spectacularly shatters your windshield and forces you to watch an instant replay of your fiery demise from multiple camera angles.
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Behind The Scenes
The Infinite Replayability of the Track Editor
What made Stunts immortal wasn't just the driving; it was the built-in track editor. It was incredibly intuitive, allowing players to snap together loops, jumps, and banked corners like a digital Hot Wheels set. Because track files were just a few kilobytes in size, players traded custom tracks on floppy disks in schoolyards and on early dial-up Bulletin Board Systems (BBS) all over the world.
The Roots of Need for Speed
The development studio, Distinctive Software Inc. (DSI), pioneered early 3D flat-shaded polygon graphics with this game. They proved that a PC could render a fast, smooth 3D driving environment without relying on fake, pre-drawn 2D sprites.
- Shortly after the release of Stunts, DSI was acquired by Electronic Arts (EA) and rebranded as EA Canada.
- The 3D polygon technology and physics foundations they built for Stunts were evolved directly into their next massive project: 1994's blockbuster The Need for Speed.