Playing The ORIGINAL NASCAR Racing. 

Man, when I was a kid I used to cause a caution to catch up, bump and run my opponents until I get the lead and win every race. hilarious stuff

The only Nascar Game to Feature North Wilkesboro 😢

This was great to watch. Takes me back to memory 'card' lane. When I got my playstation in 96, this was my first game I bought. I hated using the D pad because the inaccuracy of driving in the turns and how you scrub off speed from moving side to side. So I ended up buying a Mad Catz steering wheel set up with foot pedals. It did come with a shifter but you can only shift up or down. No clutch. But it was as pretty darn close to sim racing Nascar in one perspective. I spent countless hours of track testing at all them. I created my own binder for setups on both qualifying and race day for each track. I was able to calculate fuel mileage (which I was able to do pretty good at Michigan) when to pit and how to dial in the air pressure adjustments during a race. Set the camber, wedge, wheel lock, shock stiffness, etc. In the garage during practice. I was my own crew chief, car chief, and suspension tech on top of being the driver. I have always had full damage and set the competition to be at 100% or greater. My best tracks were Atlanta, Talladega, Michigan, & Richmond. Tracks I hated were Sonoma, Pocono, North Wilksboro, and Phoenix. I like Charlotte but I always felt that track was moody. You had to drive a tight race car and then it would become loose when the fuel load started becoming less enabling you to get out of turn 4 better. I always drove cockpit mode. Those gauge on the dash indeed operate! You can cause the engine light to flash when oil pressure gets to great. You can overheat the car and blow smoke causing a mechanical failure (unfortunately you can't blow the engine in '96 like you can in '94) Man I'm telling ya this was the be all end all in racing games and even though EA took over by '98, they couldn't do the realism like Papyrus did. EA was more about the visuals. The only 2 gripe I had about this game is the frame rate slow down (but what can you expect with limited hardware from the PS) And then those damn cautions almost never came out and if it did you best watch yourself where the accident is coming from! You got no spotter!

Ha this is a blast from the past! I remember playing this on Pc in 94' using the directional tabs on the keyboard to turn the car, used the up tab for gas, the space bar for break. It took some getting used to but man I loved running Phoenix on that one!

I loved this game on PC back in the day. Spent lots of time working on setups and looking in line back in the early days of internet. Please do a season

You seriously need to play the PC versions of NR1 an 2 in Dosbox, they blow the PS1 version out of the water though

Thissss is gonna bring back some memories right here!

Before Nascar Racing Papyrus did Indianapolis 500 the Siulation back in 1989 and Indycar Racing in 1993. Both used earlier versions of the engine that was used for Nascar Racing.

*papyrus made an indycar game in 1988 or '89 before this but it is their first stock-car racing foray

Yoooooooo great video man, love your content, keep it up.

This is going to be epic!!!! I had this game on PS1. If you set the damage to none, the racers still have damage.

I spent hours playing the PC version when I was a kid. I used the bump & run all the time.

Cautions only come out when they lose tires or you lose one. U can wreck and spin them out all race long n not get a caution till a tire comes off the car

On 1996 Nascar on PC launched Nascar Racing 2 which was even better, I remember playing it with a steering wheel, you could do a championship on that one

Absolutely love this!! The ole games are great for there time!!

Cool video dude!! I only ever played the pc version of the sequel to this and it’s seriously goated…as is this.Long Live Papyrus iRacing!

The soundtrack of this game is pure grunge. It sounds like Soundgarden or Pearl Jam.

Before i did IRacing years ago this is how i got introduced to simulations, great game

A couple times the head board behind you made it appear as if you're rocking a mullet which made me respect you more.

The game on pc was awesome as a kid played it daily back in the day controlled amazing for being a dos game back in the day would hook up a joystick and play.

With the pits, you gotta get it just right or it won't register it

There is a championship mode!! You gotta select arcade or sim then when your scrolling through tracks one of the track options is the whole championship season

Now that you've opened the door to early Papyrus games, you have to play NASCAR Legends!

There wasnt analog sticks in 1996 lol. Dualshock came out in 1997 or 1998 i think.

The roster is from 1996. The pc version was 1994.

First Papyrus game was Indianapolis 500: The Simulation in 1989

When you were going through the settings you were at damage and your camera cut off part of the “arcade” option so it just said “ARCA” 😂

The best PS1 NASCAR game along with Rumble and 2001

The back of the box says it uses the analog joystick. I tried and its not compatible with the Dualshock thumbstick controller, it needs the old school ps1 analog joystick "that no one has" to do slight turns. But maybe emulation has an option for it.

wow first nascar for PS/XBOX . iconic game :)

Curious to see how much this differed from the PC

Any word on nascar heat 5 update cause I have Xbox and that’s all I can play

Standing start in iracing would be sweet. 😂 You an Bill Elliott😂

It might be in like twenty five percent race to like a hundred percent race

I had the demo for either this one or the second one on PC back in the day god it was fun

PC version, you could have custom paint schemes...i believe online multiplayer, but don't quote me on that, the pit road was a janky mess, you'd have to park in the perfect spot for pitting to work, was a total pain in the ass, yellow flags were a super hard thing to actually bring out

Papyrus' first game was released in 1989 and it was Indianapolis 500 The Simulator. Ironically enough it was published by EA.

I remember playing this game when it came out on pc

A classic Nascar game I played it on pc not on PlayStation

Thanks for bringing back the memories. I played this game up till 2010 roughly. Back when times were simple

I actually had 3 championships on this game and nascar 98 i had 12

I think the PC version let you choose between hoosier snd goodyear tires which was cool

We have to get this video to 4,000 likes

So this is nascar racing 2 on the pc, why it has the 96 roster.

Best game ever played as a kid

I thought iRacing updated the fuel mileage gauge this last time and it changes in real time now. I could be wrong.

I remember playing this in 2003 and throwing it away because it was crap

I think the PC was better but definitely some great nostalgia here

i think if you pause and hit pit radio you may be able to pit then

This game got jr to beg his sister to get her to put a new computer on her cc and he would spend most of his time playing it when he wasn’t working at his father’s dealership and sr thought computers weren’t going to matter in a couple years he was way wrong

I've played this...man I feel ancient.

Man, this was my first nascar game 😂

Let's goooooo

Kyle Pettys No Fear racing SNES next please!!!!

No Daytona 😢

What’s a nascar game without Daytona

Nope, Papyrus made Indy 500 : The Simulation in 1989 for Electronic Arts, then made Indycar Racing 1 in 1992 or 1993, then NASCAR Racing in 94 for PC. and the track packs or both Indycar/NASCAR Racing, and the tools to convert ICR1 Indy to work in NR1 aswell They also made quite a few other games in the 90s like the PC version of Road rash around this time too in the mid 90s, and Nomad, a fun if quirky space adventure type game. Any time you saw that Papyrus log logo on the box, 9/10 times you were in or a good time, with Road Rash being the 1/10 that wasn't as good as Papy's other titles, to clear up the question of did Papyrus make NASCAR Racing as their irst game EDIT: Whoa that PS1 version got majorly gutted like a fish. PC versions of both Indycar/NASCAR Racing had full season championships with all the tracks, you could edit the drivers, you could save/resume races. It saddens me to see how bare bones the PS1 version is Okay what. Since when do you sneak championship season in among track select? That's just thrown me or a giant, giant loop

Why was Daytona not in these older games

NASCAR Racing. The best NASCAR game on the PS1. Apart from NASCAR 98 and NASCAR 2000. NASCAR Rumble too.

Hi

You're welcome for that suggestion 😉 lol

Do nascar rumble

you already did this exact same video 5 years ago

This game has rear view mirror yet somehow ignition a full priced racing game that just came out two years ago doesn’t . Gaming has dropped so far

Seems Nascar lost the yellow flag...

Pc version is very much better

I wanna see him try nascar rumble