+Lazy Game Reviews You ever going to review the second one? What about shogo, the anime themed fps with mech suit combat, overshadowed by the release of half life?
Ah nostalgia, I used to go over to my friend's house and take turns playing this with him. I agree, the FMV video looked amazing back then. For the longest time I thought it was actual real time 3D graphics instead of just a video (probably because of the monitors at the time). Kind of a let down now, but I least I fell for it when I was little, and that made the experience even greater.
Ya a crt will give you the best experience here lol but I guess it was the fact that pre rendered graphics were ahead of real time by far at the time, at least in realism, it was like nothing I'd ever seen.
No effing way, my mind was blown after just realizing there was a hidden bonus track by right clicking the Mattel sign... I had no idea, huh... after all these years
There was actually a demo of this game included in some Hot Wheels sets that contains it's own original level not found in the main game! It's called the Hot Wheels World Adventure Sampler, and contains a number of the "city" types of sets.
Sure I was born later, but I grew up with all sorts of old hand-me-down hardware. First new computer I actually had was a 486DX/2-66, but I also had an 8088-based machine and was very much into older DOS games. Also got to work on really old stuff in a computer class at school (talking like 8" floppy drives and such) so I've always been around older things due to lack of wealth :)
It's so crazy you've done literally almost every obscure racing and tycoon game I obsessed about when I was younger, I remember the boxes, the music everything was so killer then. I remember owning this game for months before we finally got our own PC for my house, I was so pumped to be able finally play all the killer abstract games at home. I begged my parents for something that could run this. Before that I'd have my mom take me to her work when she worked over time as an accountant so I could play Motocross Madness on her work computer hahaha. Can't believe they did that for me. Thanks for all the great videos, I watch them In our van on tour for hours hahaha - Tony
When I was a kid, I once took a look at the game's files and realized that the textures for the cars were all bitmap graphic files. Had a bit of fun customizing my cars using MS Paint. :)
I used to love this game as a kid, the visuals were so fascinating to me as a kid, especially that outdoor level in the backyard, or going through the house.
This was the very first video game I EVER remember playing, on my granddad's windows 98 computer. When I was done with it though, I myself couldn't find that door as the 4 year old I was, and ejected the disc mid game to screw up all my saved data. Go me!
Good god this is so 90's I coulda sworn I heard Rocko's Modern Life hit my TV as I pumped up my Air Jordans, playing my GameBoy, and eating my Dunkaroos
I feel it. When i was younger, i kept failing at that one part. the last turn than the final straight foward finish. in the turn. it would glitch and my car crashes. making me lose time every playthrough. I went around it by not trying to steer there. and boom. I binged this game so much as a kid. i still have it. And i have the original discs. but i ended up pirating it just so i could run it on my PC. Runs on windows 10 thru cracked version. I just cant install it from my discs because of their requirements being so old.
This game used to be my absolute all-time 100,000% shit. I would play this game until my soul bled. They need to remake this game with like 40 new levels and a full featured create-a-track. I'd play it until Al Gore shut off the internet.
I second this. Definitely need a new stunt track driver game. The Hot Wheels expansion for Forza Horizons 3 is pretty similar to what I want, but it's only a little expansion pack.
@@rameynoodles152 the physics weren't the best either for the HW expansion in Horizon. Actually the physics have been a little wonky since the second game tho.
The only thing I remember about this game is being jealous at my cousins for having this to play forever while I was stuck with the same copy of LEGO Racers I'd had for years. Good times.
This game was the one of the highlights of my small library of games when I was, like, 3 years old. I remember all of the cool stuff you could do with the tricks, how I would time the green room level so the music would be cool as I passed a specific area, and that I made it a mission to collect all of my favorite cars from that game, which I only partially completed (I only ever got the two blue cars). I could go on and on about the nostalgia this game brings me.
I grew up with Hot Wheels: Turbo Racing myself. Not the first game I ever owned by far, but it was the first one that was technically mine. It was on the PS1, but it also had a PC version. I think you'd like it, and it would be nice to see an LGR video for a childhood favorite. Seeing the videos for this and it's sequel reminded me of it. I still have that game, still fun too. It helps that the game's them song is "Fuel" by Metallica.
That game looks like a lot of fun. I remember playing with hot wheels when I was a kid. Played them up until Toy story and Small soldiers arrived in theaters. Never played with toy cars ever again but I would have played with this game had I owned it at the time.
+Lazy Game Reviews This was one of my favorite games as a kid, my parents got the Hot Wheels computer as a kind of first computer for my brother and I, and we used to play this all the time.
I'm 28 and I grew up with Theme Hospital, Doom, Sim City 2000, Duke 3D, Blood, Shadow Warrior, ... But also Maupiti Island, Populous, Syndicate, Rodland ... ( -> lots of Amiga / Atari ST games too) so LGR's videos are filled with nostalgia. Thank you LGR !
A friend of mine had this at his place so I would get up early, eat my breakfast, get ready for school, and walk down to his house just to play it for a bit before we leave for the bus. It was SO much fun! It was very tough, but you gotta line the car up with the track and remember EVERY detail of every track! The best way to get points was pressing down left or down right and try to land backwards. I saw this at a thrift store and I didn't hesitate, brought back memories!
I played this so much as a kid I haven’t thought about it in over 20 years and it just popped into my head today thank for for RU-vid and the internet for having videos and info on anything and everything you can think of at a whim
I'm happy I came across this, I had different Hot Wheel cars as a kid. Moved on to LEGO though since I could put "people" (minifigs) inside those vehicles.
No, there was no floppy release. Probably thinking of the yellow Hot Wheels floppies that were part of the "Computer Cars" series in the mid-90's, which is very different from HWSTD here.
I love the graphical style of this! It reminds me of the Theme Hospital cutscenes - that soft and distinctly computer game style that you don't really see anymore now that realistic graphics are possible. All those worlds (heh, levels...you know you're an old school gamer when: ) look so inviting, I miss the element of fantasy and escapism in videogames.
holy ... ok, I had this game. I 100% forgot about it until seeing this video, but it all came rushing back (along with other memories from the same time period) that was a particular flavor of nostalgia i haven't tasted in a while. haha thanks man!
I can't believe nobody can create a game like this but uses REAL PHYSICS and multiple camera angles, allowing you to WATCH the cars go. Kids these days don't get it I guess. Everyone wants to be in CONTROL, i.e be the DRIVER. Playing with Hotwheels, to me, was and still is all about making tracks, and watching and figuring out which cars work the best on your tracks. Every stupid Hotwheel game I've seen is all about you being the driver. NOT ONE single Hotwheels game captures the REALISTIC way of playing with these things.
+supercommando440 Isn't this basically just an endless runner game? I feel like it's basically a more trial-and-error Temple Run, since the courses are predetermined and you have thousands more actions ( even if they're mostly just twisting the car in various angles ) that aren't always intuitive to figure out.
I'm 17 now, but I used to play this game all the time when I was little (something like that), along with "The Incredible Toon Machine" and "Hercules Action Game" 😂 I still go back to them every so often.
God this is so nostalgic it hurts. Somewhere, in a parallel universe, five-year-old me is having the time of his life playing this. I hope he never has to grow up.
This game reminds me of being a kid summer in the early 2000s when life was much more peaceful. As an adult, I look back on those times with true delight
I used to love this game when i was little but I was bad with game discs and I scratched it along with my std2 copy :(.But the nostalgia always comes back to me when I play it,I even used to try and recreate them in my house,my parents were not pleased with the mess I had made.
For some reason I absolutely LOVED this game when I was little. It also was a time where After Dark screensavers were a huge hit in my household. I loved how many of them were interactive. I think an episode dedicated to old screensavers would be terrific!
I was a kid of the early seventies and I played with these things, and sometimes fought my brothers with the track pieces. They worked great as swords or whips. We didn't have commercial TV in Sweden back then so we only knew them as "looping tracks" and "looping cars". Back then the only place you saw commercials was when you went to the cinema. You absolutely didn't want to miss them, otherwise the whole movie experience was ruined. Ahh, the good ol'e days.
Man I played this so much when I was a kid, in fact everyone in my class was playing it because we were all sharing burned copies, I never knew who had the original. I tried playing again a few weeks ago and had forgotten just how challenging it was to finish a track within the time limit, now I remember why it felt like such an accomplishment to beat all the tracks.
I remember Hot Wheels Velocity X on my pc...... it was the first pc game I played as a kid. I can always go back to that game today and still have fun..... if LGR did a review on that game that would be the best
There was a sequel to this called "Hot Wheels Stunt Track Racing 2: Gen'N Dirty", which was basically the same game, pre-rendered track videos and all, but with an off-roading theme. Weird thing about that game's track editor was that the custom tracks were played in full 3D, meaning that you could roam around them however you wanted.
Man I remember getting this for christmas in 1998. I actually got in trouble because I knew it was there and what it was and I opened it the night before to get the car out. This was the first game I was ever "good" at on pc.
Not sure if someone else brought this up, but the hidden track actually *was* left incomplete. The track was intended to be the last in the game, as an outdoor level. It was decided they would leave it out of the final build, as it didn't match the household theme. It seems they put it in as an easter egg, because they already got as far as making a *mostly* complete track.
I have no idea if it was my favourite, the entry level or the most maneuverable; I seem to think I remember picking the gold coupe, and orange double engine hot rod the most. Also driving backwards all the way from the first jump for max stunt points. Oh what, secret track? Ha! Oh the nostalgia of all just six tracks.
There must have been a second Hot Wheels game out there because I remember playing one a lot like this. It had a dirt track, car wash in one of the tracks, and a few other things that are different than this one. I never knew there were more than one.
Oh man, I remember requesting you to make a review of this a while back, thanks Clint you're the man! This game really is epically nostalgic and you nailed that description of it perfectly. I remember, this game WAS really hard, I remember dreading that basement disco level so many times until I finally beat championship mode. Does this game work on Windows 8?
