Around 1995 or 1996, a friend said he'd played a speederbike graphics/game demo running on an SGI system at some kind of touring SGI promotional event.
I've never been able to find screenshots or video of it, and was hoping it might be included here. No such luck. I don't suppose anyone remembers it?
Was it vroom by any chance? A slot car racing game in space: https://nixdoc.net/man-pages/irix/man6/vroom.6.html
Video:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/imguo4oUd-c?app=desktop
I don't think so. His description was that it was speeder bikes in a forest, like Return of the Jedi, but it was mostly a demo of the graphics capabilities, not a complete game.
e.g. I remember he specifically said you could fly in any direction you wanted, but there was a wall at the edge of the forest, as opposed to it wrapping around or having a non-inmersion-breaking reason for being constrained to the one area.
A networked multiplayer version of that seems like it could be quite entertaining.
Years ago I was invovled in getting something similar built for Google IO and Chrome - https://youtu.be/KOCM9_qGccY
This is really cool. The soundtrack is especially fitting:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YT0k99hCY5I
Did you actually provide a shorts link? What's the world coming to? At first, I thought maybe it makes sense since it could be updated for mobile. Nope. It immediately changed aspect ratio so it is portrait oriented piece with letter boxing. :face-palm: yet another square peg/round hole example
otherwise, looks like it might be fun to play for a few minutes
YouTube changed 1:1 aspect ratio videos to be shorts a while back :(
GLTron or Armagetron Advanced?