Did you know Burnout was inspired by a Japanese arcade racer from the late 90s, and its subsequent sequels. However these games are not as innocent as they look.. むしろ面白かった.
I have played all three games in the series. Thrill Drive 3 has a haptic seatbelt feature that you wear before playing that literally strangles you when you get into a crash.
@@l3wismoreman9227 exactly as I described it, it tightens up around your chest when you crash. Simulating the feeling of getting thrown forward in a head on collision.
@@l3wismoreman9227 nah it doesnt pull that hard, just a moderate tug at best. Although they did have stickers on the seat that said if you are under 160cm (5'2feet) they advise you not to use the seatbelt in risk of strangulation.
Fun fact : Burnout 1 actually has a canceled Japanese version under the name "Heaven's drive", which goes even more to show its inspiration. It was canned after the deal didn't went through with Sega (not Konami oddly). The Japanese build was actually found last year and it can be downloaded from The Hidden Palace. Also Thrill Drive 3 actually ran on a retail PS2, Konami only gave it a custom BIOS and a few tweaks to support dongle protection and JVS.
As far as I can see, the original series is pretty much one whole PSA on driver safety. Hell, even the third game has something about how much damage you would've caused as well as how long your license would've been suspended in the real world.
Thrill drive: *you crashed, you killed people...* Burnout: WOW YOU TOTALLY CRASHED, YOU KILLED PEOPLE, KEEP IT UP, ALSO HERE'S THE BEST POP PUNK MUSIC MONEY CAN LICENSE!
Oh my god, you just unlocked a memory i've forgotten about for years, I remember playing Thrill Drive 3 in the arcades and my god that game was loud, the speakers were at the headrest of your seat and they were always at full volume, so everytime I crash, the screams go directly into my ears, still haunts me today
For nearly 20 years I've been trying to remember what this game was called. I knew as soon as I saw that little red corsa I finally come across it again. I remember playing it in arcades back in the day and being unsettled by it. With it's music and the faces and screams that would appear after crashing. Would love to play it again.
This game might be the perfect example of "horror thriller racing game". This game looks outdated and even cringe now, but if we look at this game through the eyes of a gamer in 1998, maybe this is a game with the scariest visual effects in a racing game.
I played this in the UK when I was a kid in about 2002/2003 and it was weird how unsettling a racing game could be. Been trying to remember what it was called for years until I came across it again just tonight. Would love to play it again.
makes sense that they were inspired by this if you go back and play the first burnout it is basically a polished version of this with a toned down brutality the panic music kiccking in after a certain amount of crashes on a track creeped me out as a kid
Tbh this is how i see racing games in anyway, the realistic graphics gives me a PTSD of Battlefield 3 & 4 instead i just really wish racing games had horror vibes, deep story line and eventually not to be very realistic cuz idk why triple A games nowadays kept pursuing having real life graphics
I played this on an arcade machine for a couple minutes when I was a little kid on vacation and it totally stuck with me. It was unlike anything I had seen at that time at home on the PS1, until Burnout came out years later on the PS2. It bugged me for more than 20 years until I found a random comment on RU-vid that referenced this game, it was like a life long mystery was finally solved. I'm glad more people are talking about this, the crash physics and graphics definitely seem like they were ahead of their time and the influence this had on Burnout is undoubtable.
Can't believe you found my childhood at first I thought this just normal arcade racing than BAM suffice to say I never get close to the machine of this game ever again
This is an excellent case of deconstruction of the street racing genre so common in games because it shows the very real consequences of street racing in a busy environment of the city.
Never heard of this, thanks for the video. Your voice is WAY too quiet though. Even just rebalancing the audio in editing would go a long way but I'd also recommend editing the audio separately
The drastic change in tone would explain why Burnout 1's music turns a LOT more dramatic after you crash... three times, if I remember correctly. I always found the OST shift to be a bit unsettling, as a kid. Now I know why they did that.
I always found interesting the apparently random car selection, I mean, a Fiat Barchetta, Opel Corsa Swing and Ford Mustang to name a few, it's like the developer used RNG or something. Not to mention the bus, the truck and everything else.
Funnily enough Thrill Drive started how it did and eventually turned into Burnout 3 with checkpoints by the 3rd game, except you could also drive as a Rubby Ducky being called Ducky by the cops. Hey TD4 even has powerups and absolutely NOTHING unsettling about it.
Now that you mention it, this is the game that is most similar to the first burnout, the happy music at the beginning and the dramatic one after the crash was something great, I don't know why they removed it when burnout 2 arrived.
The game tells a message. That driver always say "oh i got this or im good driver on the road". Having a car is like having a loaded gun. Once you crash with someone you will die or the person in the crash will die as well
don't know if it was mentioned in the comments but the location test version before release actually had the ability to run over civilians to somewhat gruesome effects. the feature was removed as a konami developer at the time when asked about it, said "we didn't want any controversy" or something along those lines.
I got to know this game through some really obscure reference made in another Konami game lol It's from Busou Shinki Battle Masters - One of the character specific special move is called "Thrill Drive" and it involves ramming the opponent in vehicle form
Welp, this definitely isn't unsettling with the videos that I keep seeing of young people driving cars real fast, and the apparent news of that phenomenon having the outcome of crashes. No, not at all.
Being an arcade enthusiast it's probably obvious I'd mention this but, emulating this series won't do it justice since sitting in a real cabinet really is a special experience with this game. I shall never forget those screams.. If anyone wants to see more gameplay I recommend the channel CrazyUniform88. I love watching his arcade gameplay videos and he loves to play the Thrill Drive games regularly.
OMG I've been searching for this racing series for years. I played it on arcade in early 2000s during holidays in Italy. It was always a hidden gem for me. For years I was searching for this as some game similar to Burnout. Well done RU-vid algorithm
I remember magazines at the time said Burnout 1’s original title was “Shiny red car”, and that outrun was a big influence. But for sure this looks VERY similar to the first game.
I used to play 2 of the titles (Thrill Drive 2 and 3) since my local arcade used to have the machines. These arcades were mostly infamous here with patrons often leaving the machine when the 'scream' SFX plays upon getting into an accident.
I vaguely remember playing this on breaks while working at a service station for a brief period of time. It was 20 years ago but i do recall there being 2 machines & either a 2 player option or me & one or two colleagues would race at the same time to see who could get further. I was also fairly competent on PS1 racing games at the time & remember this feeling simultaneousy janky & brutally unforgiving with it's physics.
I've just come across it again after about 20 years of trying to remember what it was called. Used to love playing it in the arcades because it stood out from the rest with how unsettling it was.
I remember when I was in Japan, I'm pretty sure I saw Thrill Drive 3 in an arcade I went to. Since I can't read Japanese though I couldn't read the name, but it looked interesting
Not quite. I've seen footage of it. Though it seems more like a generic arcade racer with powerups. Someone allegedly got a board for it and is working on trying to dump it.
Man, this (and HOTD2) was my shit back when arcades are the top. I still remember completing all race courses and I hated the night level because it's kinda tight and there are cliffs that you can fall to. What I don't like in this game is when you got into an accident it will show a cutscene of how you crashed your car and it takes a lot of your time and wasted because of it. To be honest, I never knew the name of the arcade game because it was in Japanese until now. Great video man! Keep up the good work!
I think damage model was ahead of its time before grid in 2008 and of course burnout games especially burnout paradise with over the top slow mo deformation and today beamng drive
For this game I believe, After you finish the race and the race time is ranked on the leaderboard, it will show up as "Congratulations. You are a Thrill Driver" when entering your name. Running out of time or finishing 4th and the cost of state will be ranked on the bad driver leaderboard. While in Burnout, both the race time and cost of state will be added after the race. Other features in 2 and 3: 2 shows up the cost of state on the hud while 3 features the infraction system, meaning that how long your driver's license will get suspended, or you'll pass without making infractions.
Any chance this was a retooling of a driver's Ed training simulation? I know those were popular back in the 90s. We even had one that would simulate drunk driving and "how had it was" in our science museum as children
Well, I must say that a while back I didn't know this existed until recently. I would consider this arcade racer to be so bad, it's actually good. I just wish we had this at the D&B's in the States though.
I lowkey want to play the first game. When I was a kid I used to be a scaredy-cat, but I loved cars. So I'm curious how traumatic my experience would have been if I played Thrill Drive without context as a 9-year-old 😂
@@eurikadude Regarding Thrill Drive on MAME, the reason you can't select the other courses is that MAME's analog controls with this game is pretty messy and it is way too slow to even select where you are selecting. It's recommended to turn the speed of the analog controls to the highest level (255) in order to select the other courses and play properly: m.ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Ll9bgevVeXE.html
@@eurikadude Yeah, maybe. I had Runabout 3 Neo Age when I was a kid. Pretty fun game tbh, but the graphics were really dated. Almost looked like a PS1 game.
