History of Free Rider HD: Part 4 the Silver Era

I’ll give you 3 fu.cking guesses.

 

the anti gravity area

 

yeah about what

 

Wow, this is impressive, everything is sharp and clean. I would like to see more. Wow... Just wow.

 

I just signed up and tried to play Free Rider 3 the site looks like a kid made it, and the adobe flash player is outdated and it won't work. Disappointing and sad. I need to bleach my eyes and restrain myself from seeing that.

 

i have only been here like 3 or 4 years but when i left for like a year the website got a new layout,the teleport was only for official authors, the removed dislike,they added dislike back back. those are in no order and im tired i cant remember more things
nice work pssst

 

tf i still haven't wrote part 5?

e; if i ever get around to writing part 5 i need to pass it to someone else for part 6, because i was banned or inactive for about a year after rc4 ended

 

I can't help up until 2-3 years ago. Wish I could, though, reading these is honestly one of my favorite pastimes. Thanks man

 

surely part 5 coming soon

 

Been writing essays for school, essay for free rider might kill me

 

if my memory was better I would try and write this haha. I remember all these old school players/authors/threads reading about em but trying to come up with it on my own would be a lost cause. especially because I only took ghosting seriously for the longest time. really nice work so far I wish I could help more

 

i'd like to see archivist Ness give his rendition of free rider history

 

awesome thread and a great read, thanks for that pssst - appreciate all the effort you've put into this!!

 

Thank you for bumping this. Ness write something

 

before FRHD - 2006 through 2008

2006 - Pete (Pete Shadbolt of Parroe Games) begins work on the original Free Rider. the game is being developed for OneMoreLevel.com, a flash-game website created by Ira Willey.

2007.02.10 - OneMoreLevel Forums are opened, and user "slackor" (Ira Willey) posts topic “Sneak peek of my new game, just for forum members!” with a link to the Free Rider Trailer.


2007.02.17 - Ira announces Free Rider will be released the upcoming Monday, and Pete posts a link to a gameplay video and shares the code for the first ever Free Rider track.


2007.02.19 - Free Rider is released on OneMoreLevel.com.


2007.02.28 - user PolishNorbi posts topic “Map Preview Flash & Geometric Map Creator”. in the thread, Maxime (Maxime Simon, who later creates the FRDB, FR2DB, and Canvas Rider) asks PolishNorbi to answer his private message, presumably about using the previewer on his upcoming track DB.

2007.06.17 - trackmaker moose_man joins OMLF, posts first tracks.

2007.06.24 - the Free Rider Tracks Database is created by Maxime. this is the first database for tracks, where the trackcode is automatically loaded into the game.


2007.07.05 - Freerider Community (FRC) is created by TheFunkyMonkie, moderated by Maximorpheus and Judgeman2021. early members include moose_man, Cataclism, westo, Neo39925, Relyt, and Maxime.

2007.09.25 (estimated) - a Free Rider page is created for Radio F Software Headquarters. RFSHQ, co-created by Dan Gusak (goose), is the website that will eventually become TrackMill.

2007.10.16 - RFSHQ has a working DB with playable tracks.

2007.10.21 - on OMLF, Pete posts topic "Free Rider 2 Game Footage" with a link to a gameplay video for Free Rider 2. in the thread, Maxime and Pete interact about FR2 being DB-friendly.


2007.12.03 - Free Rider becomes the most played game on OneMoreLevel.com, with nearly 6.5 million plays.

2007.12.07 - Free Rider 2 is released on OneMoreLevel.com.


2007.12.10 - Maxime posts topic “The Free Rider Map Previewer”. in the thread, Maxime links to the Free Rider 2 DB with a track previewer, but he says there won't be a FR2 database until he hears from Pete, and questions why his topics got deleted and he didn't get answers for months. FR2DB tracks are playable by the end of the year.

2008.03.06 (estimate) - OneMoreLevel forum goes down until March 11, Judgeman2021 is removed as moderator.

2008.03.12 (estimate) - FR2DB becomes too big for free hosting, website is under maintenance until May.

2008.03.18 - OML forum goes down again, this time until September 20. OMLF later closes indefinitely at the end of October.

2008.05.24 - on the new FR2DB forum, Maxime posts topic “The FR2 DB is back online!”, marking the return of the DB and the beginning of the forum.


2008.08.10 - moose_man wins the first FR2DB contest on FR2DB with his contest entry, which becomes FR2DB track #1.

2008.08.19 - on RFSHQ, goose uploads youtube video Free Rider 2 skateboard vehicle


2008.08.22 - skateboard is added to RFSHQ version of Free Rider 2.

2008.11.30 - RFSHQ is now TrackMill, forums are opened to all members. user moyyom posts topic “First Trackmill Contest”.

2008.12.21 - RichhIBuildJumps posts the winning entry of the first TrackMill contest, Stage Finite, which becomes TrackMill track #1.

will get to the next years soon! shoutout to the legend pssst

 

when i read this i feel like i'm learning the secret truth of the beginning of the universe

also someone add back in the rotating star from fr1 it's cool lol