RACER(6)

📦 version 1.1, in nixos 26.05, nixpkgs unstable

🏎️✨ RACER(6) ✨🏎️

okay bestie, so this one's racer — a 2D car racing game, and it lives in the User Contributed Perl Documentation section of the manual (iykyk, the icon Behavior of man pages 💅). Buckle up, we're going for a ride 🎀

🌈 SYNOPSIS

racer [-w]

that's it. that's the whole invocation. no cap. 🫶

💖 DESCRIPTION

so Racer is a computer game where 1 or two players on the same computer race with cars. yes, same screen, same keyboard, chaos ensues, it's giving sleepover energy 😭

there is a wide selection of cars — and by wide she means more than 30 🚗✨ — plus 8 different tracks. eight. whole. tracks. obsESSED.

and if that wasn't already iconic: it is also possible to play career where the player is buying cars and upgrading them. main character behavior fr fr 👑

🌸 OPTIONS

  • -w — run in windowed mode rather than fullscreen. tiny car window, big vibes 🪟💜

🎮 CONTOLS

yes, the heading is spelled "CONTOLS" in the original. we're not fixing it. it's part of the lore now 💀

🕹️ The car is controlled by 1st player

  • arrow up, f — move accelerate forward (break if going backward)
  • arrow down, v — break (accelerate if going backward)
  • arrow left, arrow left — steering
  • space — hand break
  • enter — unstuck/put back on the road

🎀 The car is controlled by 2nd player

  • w — move accelerate forward (break if going backward)
  • s — break (accelerate if going backward)
  • a, d — steering
  • lShift — hand break
  • lCtrl — unstuck/put back on the road

literally screenshot this. you WILL forget which key unsticks you. you always do. 🙈

👑 Career

Career mode takes player from the lowest category to the top racing category — glow up arc, no notes ✨

In every category the player must WIN all cups. not some cups. ALL of them. 🏆🏆🏆

Note that the game also remembers what difficulty player played while winning. So the next challenge is to win all the cups at very difficult level ;-) 😭🔥 (the winky face is load-bearing, it's in the original, respect it)

💀 BUGS

The Windows version of this game has sound but it is not available on Linux yet. 😔 so linux girlies are racing in silence. cinematic, honestly. ngl kinda a mood. 🎧❌

🦋 SEE ALSO

Homepage of the game is http://hippo.nipax.cz/download.en.php — but do not expect much. 🙈 (their words, not mine, and honestly? iconic levels of self-awareness fr)

💜 AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Bernard Lidicky <bernard@alderan.cz> — thank you bernard, king behavior 👑🫶

🌸 so yeah!! that's the whole page!! go race, win all the cups, then win them again on very difficult because the game remembers 🎀🏁

signing off with the receipts, mwah 💋 — this page shipped with perl v5.10.0, dated 2009-12-22, and yes she's been slaying in this form ever since ⭐ periodt 🌈

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