AU Deals: Discounted Bangers That Aged Well and Are Finally Priced Accordingly

Sales usually flatten everything into the same beige promise of value. This one does the opposite. It exposes which games were always quietly confident and which ones needed a price correction before they made sense. I only identify and highlight the actually buyable, my friends. Scroll downwards to reap the benefits of a glorious life spent video gaming (and not much else). No regrets.

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This Day in Gaming 🎂

In retro news, I’m using the explosion of a faux Camaro to light 27 candles on a cake baked for Rush 2: Extreme Racing USA. This N64 cult classic expanded on its predecessor, San Francisco Rush, with more tracks, wild shortcuts, and exaggerated physics that typically turned me or my split-screen multiplaying pal into a twisted, burning wreck.

I remember this fondly for its stunt-heavy, exploratory courses and some fully sick unlockables (think: an F1 race car, a Mountain Dew dragster, and a fricken Rocket on Wheels). Oh, and a gaming mag once taught me a button combo to change the colour of the horizon fog. That’s gotta be the most N64 cheat code ever.

Aussie birthdays for notable games.

– Rush 2: Extreme Racing USA