LEGO Racers: Build, Customize, Race and Win! 

Lego Racers was my childhood. My brother and I played this game to death, to this day I still know every shortcut, every power up level, everything this game had. such a fun game.

Legit anyone of my era's Childhood was spent playing this game.

Lego Racers was my childhood! Tt should bring it back with some good graphics! (it'd also be refreshing to see a new styled lego game.)

Lego Racers was one of my favorite PC games growing up.

There was just something so charming about that era of early 3d graphics. I think it had something to do with the ambiguity of what you were seeing, but I remember projecting a lot more onto those games than what was actually there. Games now are so well explained and well animated that I think it ruins a lot of the mystery.

Maaan, you took me waaaay back. Thank you for this awesome video and the nostalgia trip. You rock.

OMG, that blue portal too me back!

The old days of Lego.

You now have the Build Mode music stuck in your head. Or maybe that's just me. But it's probably you now, too.

God I played this and Rock Raiders so much.

Please make a lego Rock Raiders PC video!!!!!! It is the best Lego game so please! Lego Racers 2 and Legoland were also nice.

Lego had a knack of making everything and anything fun. I used to play Lego chess for hours

After so many years he's still funny

Sweet! Lego racers. We're getting closer to Rock Raiders!

As a long time player of Lego Racers I have a few points to add (I've done well enough testing and playthroughs to confirm these) 1. You don't need to get 1st place to progress. 2nd place lets you continue to the next circuit, while 1st gives you the racing car of the boss you won against. 2. The Warp powerup doesn't teleport you, it zips you through the level very quickly. And it's buggy, especially in the Frost level you showed it in (Using it near the loop will make you stop at a fixed location). 3. The "Ruthless AI" is actually predictable: Redbeard and Johnny use red bricks (Johnny is hesitant to use them as he is an honorable hero), King Kahuka and The Baron use blue bricks, Batlord and Gypsy both use a variety and Rocket Racer uses Warp only. On another note, the bosses are always the fastest out of all racers (Just slightly but enough to beat the competition) 4. The fact you can't restart a specific race during a circuit only encourage players to be more strategic during the game. 5. You forgot to mention the Time Race mode, where you have to compete against the ghost of Veronica Volt. When you beat all the highscores, you get her racing car as well.

Did you know that you can still play it at Lego-land (At least the one in Windsor) Shockingly it's still very popular with us waiting to use for at least 20 minutes. (This was 2 years ago but for the game to still be regularly played in 2015 is still remarkable)

I may still have this game. Time to go look! I know I have #2, but #1 may have gone off to yard sale land a decade ago.

2:53 "If you can play with yourself and no one is stopping you, then go for it" *oof*

If you beat the ghost on all the tracks you will unlock "a secret" lego set

This game was the shit back then

I did not remember ever having played this game... up until you showed your own car racing at around 3:30, and then that sting of nostalgia hit. Ah, I used to have a car looking just like that!

YES! yes, more pre-Star Wars LEGO game reviews PLEASE! Thank you so much!

I have enjoyed this game a lot back in 2000. I've played it again a few years ago.

I got the game in a collection. It came with Lego island and the rock raiders. I very much enjoyed Lego racing and Lego island, but I have to say, Lego rock raiders was the best of the bunch. It was so awesome, the only downside to the game was that it didn't feature a free mode where you could just mine with out any objective.

Man, I loved the first Lego Racers! It was pretty much our Mario Kart during the 32/64-Bit generation. (That, and Diddy Kong Racing, another fantastic 3D kart racer) In fact, I would love a new Lego Racers, with online multiplayer, Steam Workshop support for your own creations and maybe even without the different base plates in favor of complete customizability (within certain restrictions), Nuts and Bolts style!

I can't believe it, I played this game throught just yesterday! I love it so much! Thanks for the awesome Video. Your videos are simply awesome.

Lego rock raiders next? :) That was one of my favorite games in my childhood, pretty unique as well imo.

This and Lego racers 2 were on my first laptop back in 2006-7 haha, played for hours!

wow the nostalgia hit hard with this one, thank you LGR!

Fantastic video, Clint! I absolutely love this game and it's one of my personal favorite racers, you certainly did it justice! I don't think it's all nostalgia but it truly is a game that I can't help but go back to from time to time.

You should try cashing in those Voodoo rebates.

This and Lego Racers 2 were my favourite racing games in my childhood! Along with LegoLand, which sparked my love for simulation genre... I wish they would remaster all of them someday!

one of my favorites. Can you do Lego Stunt Rally?

me and my dad both had so much fun with this game. we'd constantly race against eachother, and sometimes i'd come home from school and find my dad hogging the n64 to play it. annoyingly, the game required a controller pak to save our progress. and we didn't have one. so because every time we wanted to race eachother, one of us had to beat the first three championship thingies to unlock all the important tracks everytime we were about to play. so we completely mastered this game from all the times we'd played through it. finishing all 7 championships without taking a single second or third place? could do it blindfolded. nearly.

The "power up power up" mechanic is also in Crash Team Racing, you collect 10x Wumpa fruit to power up most of the power ups.

this was the game me and the family would play at my grandmother's house when we were kids. thanks for sharing!

This game was my life-blood for several year. I would dream about it, 'pretend' play it while outside. I miss that feeling dearly, and I must revisit this game for the nostalgia hit when I get the chance.

YES, my very first game!!!

I LOVED this game when I was 11. I loved designing my own cars and then making themed racers and giving them puns for names, and I took the time to learn​ all the tracks and powerups

Wow the nostalgia is strong with this one. I appreciate your vids man. Brings back my childhood. You earned another subscriber!

Theres a release custom installer that allows the game to run fine on windows 10, x64. Its a great game, I remember wanting to buy at BJs in 1999, bought it and my system couldnt run it properly because my Ati rage only had 4mb lol. Years later I bought and made it a mission to beat it. I am surprised LGR didnt talk about Veronica Voltage. I beat her, and shes the true final boss. Rocket Racer was nothing to her lol. I recall basically having to run perfect races to beat her with all lvl 3s. Great memories still have my original copy :)

Rock Raiders, PLEASE!

Man the memories I have playing this as a kid are priceless!!! I still remember it like it was yesterday! I even think this was my first kart racers game! and you’re right, this game is challenging for kids. I just remembered dumping a ridiculous amount of time into this game and beating all the bosses. Your video really took me back! Thx 🙏🏻 ☺️ 🎮

I loved this game so much I took it upon myself to build all the boss cars in real bricks last year, it's a shame there were never any sets released for this game like there were for LEGO Racers 2. Also for those curious you can find a launcher for LEGO Racers online that allows you to play in whatever resolution your monitor is in, it doesn't like scaling above the native resolution so there is that issue but playing a game originally intended for 640 x 480 in 1920 x 1080 is fantastic.

1:09 Wait, they had Lego Friends in the 90s?

You should considering reviewing LEGO Racers 2!

Did you know this game was turned into a Theme Park ride at Legoland Windsor! The ride only used a few tracks but you had a physical car to drive. You could even customise your car, think EPCOT's Test Track. Sadly it was replaced several years ago.

Yay! Been asking for this one for a while. Good on you LGR, keep up the great work.

the best days. still have it laying right gere

Yes! Yes! YES! My whole freaking family played this game, and with a joystick for some reason, lol.

Oh the nostalgia. Had hours of fun on split screen. Thx for the video!

Oh man this was one of my favorite games growing up glad to see LGR doing a review of it

7:42 Something I do want to add to that, even if I'm a bit late... Do NOT play the PS1 version. For your life. It suffers from a lot more than a drop in frame rate and graphics, it actually suffers from INPUT LAG which renders nearly the entire game completely unplayable. I haven't checked the N64 version but my experience with emulating it was at least much better than my experience with the PS1 version, though N64 emulators are also horribly inaccurate to the real thing so I couldn't tell you for sure. As for SafeDisc, it's present on the original 1999 version, but it was axed from all releases from 2001 and beyond. From what I know, basically any version that doesn't have that green disc design seen in the video doesn't have SafeDisc.

Hell yeah. Loved this game! You should give Lego Rock Raiders (PC) a go if you haven't - it's a non-combat focused RTS and it's something I wanna try to recreate myself someday.

This one is super nostalgic for me, I went back a couple months ago and was also surprised and the difficulty. This and the early hot wheels games really encouraged long play sessions and having friends come over to help beat the game. Very good times

I freaking loved this game as a kid! Glad to see you coming around to it Clint :-) Great review!

Really adore this game, still one of my favorite Kart racers. 1. Diddy kong racing 2. Mario kart: Double dash 3. Lego racers

alternate title "LGR- Your entire childhood."

Yes! This was the first game I ever played on PC! So glad you are covering it! Also absolutely loved the catchy menu music haha

when this game was new, at the time it had one of the best car's visual customization options in a game. That's why it'll always be one of my most favorite games growing up.

i accidentally dropped my N64 Copy out my window when i was a kid. i foud it in a bush 12 years later and it works fine

what up! Fav youtuber :)

It was in my recommended in 2019 and oh my god! Thanks you so much for doing this! It bring back so much memories playing demo of this yearly in 2000 when i was little over and over again on my WinME, Celeron 633Mhz, 32MB of RAM and godly Riva TNT2.. Such good times back then. :)

I had this on N64 and enjoyed it. It was different enough to offer a nice alternative, and the customization was pretty cool.

My fastest LGR click to date. This game neeeds to come back, somehow. I know WB has exclusivity right now, but High Voltage Studios is still around and a rerelease is easy money. I still remember every sound, that awesome portal effect, every car I built, every song... it was just perfect in every way. Any plans on looking at Loco (babby's first Factorio) or Creator (Garry's Mod before it was cool)?

anyone coming from Lego 2K Drive?

I like that Clint ended up with the Ice Planet body for his avatar. My brother had a bunch of the Ice Planet Lego sets when we were kids. They were awesome.

I gotta say those load up and menu screens took me back. I didn't grow up with a lot of games as a kid and this was one of the games I happen to have and boy did I play it a lot. I'd even start new games and "speed run" the game to see how long it took for me to finish. I went as far as to try and make the cars I made in game in real life.

Lego Racers 2 next.

What was up with the brief rhyming session at the start? xD

One of the first games I played as a kid, besides Lego Island 2. Thanks for the video, brought back so many memories!

Funny for such a short game that can be completed in about an hour and a half I spent so much playing this over and over and over as a kid and never got tired of it. This game was my childhood. It made me want to get the older Lego system sets too. When I did I was so fascinated with the mini figs like king Kahuku, basil the bat lord, and gypsy moth. 😂

I saw that Driver box at the start, please do a video on it! It's one of my favourite driving games.

Very happy to see you review this. Got a lot of mileage out of this on the N64 back in the day.

I loved that old LEGO: Racers arcade attraction at LEGOLAND, it was in Windsor at least

Ah so nostalgic, I love this game, one of my first game ever. Thank you for making this video.

As someone who first encountered Lego Racers 2, I wholly anticipate a review of that too! That was my jam when I was a kid and it iterated so much on the first game it's incredible.

I love this game so much. The disc got so much use that it eventually shattered and took the drive with it after 10 years or so. Still got a digital backup, though. Thank you so much for covering this, LGR! Gonna revisit it again right now.

One of those childhood games that introduced you to depth and difficulty, and how those things can keep you hooked.

Aw yeah! I played that game to death as a kid. Back then I had only just realized that they had lego outside of Denmark.

Thanks for the trip down memory lane. Soccer Mania was another favourite of mine.

I envied my best friend in elementary school for having a copy of LEGO Racers right around 2000. We crowded around his Compaq frequently after school to sit down and play. Glad to see this game get some love, Clint.

This was one of my favorite games growing up! It was the beginning of my obsession with cars and building stuff. Now I'm a development engineer for General Motors!

I remember the sequel to this being amazing since you could explore fairly large maps when you werent racing

Loved that game back then. Thanks for this vid!

I used to watch the ads for other lego games included on the disc all the time. Fond memories, Lego Racers and Lego Creator: Knights kingdom. The latter one even came in a lego jewel case!

man I played this game so much! thanks Clint for bringing me back!

This game was my childhood, they seriously need to remaster this game! They’ve done Spyro & Crash Bandicoot, they now need to do Lego Racers

a classic that I remember fondly nice to see you can still get ways to play it

I grew up with lego racer 1 and 2, Lego island and lego rock Raiders, all of them were great

I absolutely loved racing my friends and the computer in this. My only exposure to cart racers prior to Lego Racers was Wacky Wheels, so this was quite an upgrade!

lazy game review - your da best!!! you reminded me of all my childhood video games memories, love your reviews!!

I cannot believe you finally reviewed one of the most iconic games of my childhood! I knew the day would come! Clint never disappoints!! You might have earned yourself a patron

loved this game as a kid. the final race is insane, and as I remember it basically required that you get the wormhole powerup as many times as you could to get first place, and if you missed even one you had to start the race over.

0:58 Whoah, that "SAVE" logo is screwing with my eyes! Awesome artwork.

oh man thank you for making this video. I personally played Racers 2 a LOT more than the first one. I enjoyed your Lego Island video, glad to see you do one for Racers!

This brings back so many memories from my childhood. I played this along with Lego Rock Raiders, Creator, and Loco. Good times.

Great video, I played this game a lot as a kid. The Lego Racers game i have, and other Lego games, has Lego studs on the side of the CD cover, so they stick together. I would have thought all them had that

Been waiting for this for a long time! Great PC game!

One of the greatest games of all time. I hope you savored the smell of that brand new box interior.