Evolution of Top Gear Games [1992-2004] 

And a ROM hack-like version of the first Top Gear, Top Racer Crossroads

It is not portrayed in the video but Top Gear Overdrive had a banging Soundtrack and the cars development was exceptional. Loved that game as did all my friends way into adulthood

A dubious and uninformed response! The first Top Gear was often constrained to narrow roads and it was split screen even in single player. Most impressive was the music, and the pit stops! TG2 dropped fuel stops and car types, so 2 player games gave an advantage to the player that got the most $$ on course and could upgrade sooner. In TG, some cars were better depending on track. Choosing the same car offered no advantage. Single player in TG2 was full screen and quite beautiful, despite the footage here. TG 3000 doubled tracks to 64 and returned refuelling, this time with strips on the course. It also offered a 4 player split screen limited mode. Each of the three offered something distinctive so a personal favourite could vary. For me, TG 3000 was best by miles. TG2 would be second best if refuelling remained to help compensate when one player gained an upgrade advantage. So I'll call it a draw even though the single player was superior. As to the rest, I regard the series over with TG 3000. The rest were branches. I only ever played Top Gear Rally on N64, which was really good.

I would argue and say the top gear rally games were equally a blast to play on N64.

@hardkoregamer1981 I loved Top Gear Rally! Controls were so deft. I really appreciated creating personal decals for the cars too. I never got Rally 2, and I think I hated Overdrive due to the horrendous rock/metal music, and sold it.

well, what i liked about 2 and 3000 was that you didn't need to race on split screen anymore, plus car customizations could give you an edge for the tougher levels, and i did like playing TGR on the N64 too. those PS2 games, though, look kind of bland. i don't know why Kemco and Gremlin decided to part ways following the 16 bit era, but the series sure suffered for it.

Thanks for the idea! I will definitely make a video on Ninja Jajamaru

@@EryxChannel2160 Quite a number of 80s series people haven't done evolution videos on actually. Might as well mention some more here: BurgerTime Arkanoid Daisenryaku A-Train Reader Rabbit Carmen Sandiego Family Stadium Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing Momotaro Dentetsu Blaster Learning System Jake Hunter

Obviously never played TG2 or TG 3000! :P

@@halbailman Have and agree with him/her. And most do. Top Gear 1 was top notch. Top Gear 2 was good but not great. 3000 fun. First one for me is great. and Brazil itself loved that one the most too

@DannyP-dm1pw You could be right, actually. Top Gear 1 had the pit stops, which added so much extra fun and strategy. Top Gear 3000 had the split tracks for variety, and low fuel recharge for anxiety!

@@halbailman I picked this up yesterday or Sunday on Steam but returned it. The music was glitching out bad and was delayed on the tracks. Not sure if it's on my end but no other games I play on Steam on my laptop have this issue and this is not a technical modern spec game. I may try and grab it on Switch now and see. I checked around but no comments online about this. I never got to really play 3000 so I'm looking forward to that (what you said)

@@DannyP-dm1pw I own it on Switch. No problems with it at all.

And Horizon Chase series. A spiritual successor to those. All three even share Barry Leitch as composer.

Because they aren't. Only the trilogy on SNES are sequels by the same developer, Gremlin Graphics. The others are racing games not related to the original trilogy and each one made by different developers. Kemco just took the games and labeled them with its "Top Gear" brand.

I think BBC & Amazon Are Watching me playing Top Gear RPM Tuning on pc windows.

It is inspired by that saga, but does not belong to it