Horse race tracks rent out to different groups for conventions and such when not racing horses - I wouldn’t be surprised if that happened in ancient Rome too.
excuse me! we had both chariot races and slave chariot races. that’s TWO games
joke aside, the Hippodrome was your common low key football game, with betting and people going crazy. The Colloseum on the other side was a special occasion where you better looked your best and behaved, as a spectator. Hollywood never got the memo.
Okay but a lot of those Colosseum games are just the same cookiecutter format with different branding.
“Gladiator combat” “Barbarian Battle” “Martyrs” it’s the same shit with different characters.
“Man vs. Beast” “Hunting Simulator” YAWN
At least the later gen hippodromes added a variety of jousting tournaments…
The last time I went to the colosseum they dragged a rapist out of retirement for a big bout and he only lasted 69 seconds after talking so much shit.
I paid 15,000 asses for a ticket to that fight
uh, what’s with the fake asses?
stfu! Glorious hippodrome gaming chariot race
Doesn’t even have a hippo. SMH my head.
Um… acshelly! Hippo in Greek means horse.
* Pushes glasses up nose bridge.
Hippopotamus means river horse, I don’t think whoever named these things has ever seen a horse.
In danish a hippo is called a “flodhest”, also meaning river horse.
Rødgrød med flodhest
By this logic, the greatest modern console is the smartphone.
Another game for the Colosseum: Overwatch.
I got no use for a console with no racing games. I’ll be over here playing my hippodrome.
Hippodrome also looks like a fairly decent Jousting Pitch
Must be a supporter of the Blues
One of them had hooligans with real influence on politics in the Byzantine empire.
Plus chariot racing wasn’t even hippodrome exclusive
