Todd Powers had wanted Club Drive to be driving game all about driving a miniature toy car, and the physics showed that. Atari kept pushing Todd to make it more of a "serious" racing game, and that really hurt it.
I love games where you're small in a big world so I'm partial to this one. There was a game on the PS3 called Toy Home that I loved and it was like a good version of Club Drive
To be fair, only 1 of the levels is like that. Re-Volt on the PS1/N64/Dreamcast would be more up your alley. I've never heard of Toy Home before. Is that still available in the Playstation store to purchase or was the PS3 store taken offline?
The storyline is silly on the face of it, but gets worse the more you think about it. If the ban on driving got lifted... Why would people go to a theme park just to drive? Maybe that's why you're the only one there. The park *used* to be super popular as this island retreat where you could still drive round... And then driving was legalised, rendering it obsolete overnight.
At least it doesn't say where did you learn to fly where did you learn to fly where did you learn to fly where did you learn to fly where did you learn to fly
This game reminds me of Hard Drivin’ on the Genesis, bad frame rate and everything. I haven’t heard of this game until I found it on Atari 50th anniversary. I question some of Ataris game choice at times. Give us AvP over this garbage.
I'm not sure if it made it to the final script but I think I said it looked worse than the OG Hard Drivin' release in arcades in 1989 to further demonstrate how UGLY this game is lmao. The Genesis port was released in 1991 I think.
Oh. My. Goodness. Truly the most horrible "race car" game of all time. This is absolutely the reason why the Jaguar failed. And yet the Jag-CD was capable of running many PlayStation launch games, rendering and shading up to 10,000 polygons/sec. What an absolute waste.
I wouldn't say that this is the sole reason the Jag failed but having this in the library certainly didn't help. What PS1 launch games was the Jag CD capable of running? I'm curious.
@@PvtHudsonAbsolutely none? All the CD did was offer 790 MB of DUMB storage. Great for more varied textures in titles like Hoverstrike U. L but the frame rate increase, all 3-5 FPS of it, came as a result of code moving from the 68000 to the GPU. Highlander was a long way behind Resident Evil, more on par with 3DO Alone In The Dark. World Tour Racing fell behind 3DO NFS, never mind PlayStation Ridge Racer. Iron Solider 2 was a fantastic Mech Title, but graphically way behind the awful 32X Metal Head and PlayStation Krazy Ivan. I say this as a Jaguar, 32X and PlayStation owner.
@@thefurthestmanfromhome1148 honestly I'd love to have a Jag CD to play Highlander. I know it's not a well regarded game, but it's super appealing to me.
Atari was 100% trash by the time they released the Jaguar. They weren't super ethical already when they were in their peak and after they destroyed the market with the irredeemable garbage ET The Extraterrestrial they didn't learn any lesson.
I remember hearing a story in another video discussing this, maybe on the Retropals Jag stream but I think I heard it before that too. The story is that when they showed this game to the public at some kind of game show the audience just erupted into laughter and one of the execs at Atari got really upset about it. I seem to remember the game having some sort of awful clown music in one of the menus or the intro too and I figured that might have had something to do with it. The worst part is the original "The Need For Speed" on the 3DO released only ONE MONTH after this game. If you put them side by side it literally looks like there is an entire console generation between them. Hell, crash and burn came out a year earlier and while the players car is 2d in that game its hard to believe that its a year older.
I read that "crowd laughing" story on Wikipedia. Not sure how true that is, but if I was in the audience back then, I'm 100% certain I would laugh too. And yes, about the clown music, I believe that plays during Jerome's Pad level.
I love the game. Been playing it for a few years. I actually like the clunkyness of it, I've had ton of fun with friends who see it as a weird retro game that plays bad. The fun part is to manage getting through anyway! So yea it's for sure fun :)
