turboskanker 2022-07-20 01:05:29 ET i've lived in san francisco for over 8 years now, and in my current apartment building for over 2 years, and yet i just now realized that the front cover photo / promo image for "san francisco rush" (a game and series that i've always been rather obsessed with) was shot basically around the corner and 2 blocks up the hill from where i currently live - an intersection i've walked through many times but never realized this until i just went on an internet dive relating to the entire rush series this evening and put 2 and 2 together. here's the cover: in real life there's no cable car on this street, and both of those cars are about to smash straight into a wall / stairway that basically goes up part of one of the cliffs of telegraph hill. there's no more street in front of them. here's a photo i took on the 4th of july about halfway up said stairway (that building in the right foreground is blue these days as opposed to the tan it was then) congratulations: you've now been unnecessarily educated on this bit of pointless trivia.

VoL 2022-07-20 09:12:32 ET Themoreyouknowstar.gif I enjoy these little tidbits of information. There is also that famous set of rolling hills that every fruit merchant sets up on so the movie chase scenes can hit their displays. I guess that was more of a 70s and 80s movie trope though.

turboskanker 2022-07-20 16:59:16 ET oh there are a bunch of areas like that and i think multiples were used in the films, but yes i know the general spots you're talking about. if there's fruit merchants and they were trying to mimic reality, it was probably either chinatown or little italy. the mission district has a bunch of merchants too, but less hills.

turboskanker 2022-07-20 17:01:44 ET also what's kind of odd is that the original san francisco rush's actual tracks really bastardized the city and only a couple of them are even remotely accurate. rush 2049 on the other hand, despite being set in the future and having fantastical architecture everywhere as a result, actually does a much better job of sticking to SF's actual street layout than the first game does. go figure. though both games certainly take a lot of liberties, and for some reason a lot of modern games seem to do the same. the only 1:1 accurate recreation of SF that i've ever seen in a video game is in metropolis street racer on the dreamcast. since that was technically the first game in the project gotham series before it moved to the xbox, i guess i should actually check out the project gotham games sometime to see if any of those also included SF, cause the first one actually got everything in it completely accurate, right down to the restaurant my ex wife used to work at. d-:

VoL 2022-07-20 18:58:20 ET I had a demo of 2049 for my Dreamcast. I played the heck out of that one track I had access to. Never actually got to play much of the actual game though. Occasionally I would see an arcade cabinet and pump a fre dollars into it but 2042 was exceedingly rare to find. It's neat to see developers make such an effort to reproduce the environment the game is based on.

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