Epic crashes

[joefish]

AvP on the PS3 completely locked up on me at one point. I only paid a few quid for it in GAME's fire sale, so I though 'fusk this' and it went straight in the bin.

Sonic & SEGA All-Stars Racing Transformed on the 3DS keeps momentarily freezing - more than enough to throw you off completely. Fortunately I was only playing the demo.

You could get some quite pretty crashes on the ZX Spectrum when programming machine code. If you had a lot of small numbers on the stack and accidentally jumped into the ROM, it would keep popping in and out of ROM routines and you could get multi-coloured garbage all over the screen and then funny-coloured border stripes as if it was loading or saving in all the wrong colours.

There was a ROM sort-of bug in telling it to draw an arc (in BASIC) or more than 360° - so long as it was small enough to stay within the screen boundaries, it would go off on some crazy Spirograph-style swirly pattern drawing.

Don't think I've ever crashed an arcade game. I did come across an invincibility bug once in Bubble Bobble, but once you get both players stuck in narrow pits in the scenery, you're screwed.

[Kaptain_Von]

Mine was a double crash. An actual crash in the PC version of Carmageddon sent my car spinning over a drop only for it to plummet through the ground on landing and into a formless grey ether. It was actually quite relaxing watching the car slowly tumble through the nothingness raising all kinds of questions on the meaning of existence

[Antiriad2097]

Mine was a double crash. An actual crash in the PC version of Carmageddon sent my car spinning over a drop only for it to plummet through the ground on landing and into a formless grey ether. It was actually quite relaxing watching the car slowly tumble through the nothingness raising all kinds of questions on the meaning of existence

Welcome back, good to see you still drop by.

[kelp7]

Awesome replies, thanks all

Just had another Sonic & All Stars Racing Transformed the other day where I hit my boat on another player and then on the side of the wall in such a way that it flipped me over and so high into the air that I missed the 'transform' hoop you usually pass through just as I came to the next bit of road, so my boat didn't actually transform to a car and I was stuck as a boat on the road moving at approx. a few pixels forward every few seconds. It kept thinking I'd come off the track and kept putting me back there as a boat, on the road.... weirdness...