Thrill Drive! The Best Arcade Racing Game You've Never Played! Konami Arcade

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I have been trying to find a copy of Thrill Drive to add to my arcade PCB collection for over a year...and I've yet to find one! But apparently ONE VERSION of MAME supports Thrill Drive and if you have a beefy enough processor to handle it...it plays perfectly! And considering it is one of my favorite arcade racing games of all time...total win! Retrogaming gold Jerry!
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I own a Konami Viper board that can play Thrill Drive 2...but I have always wanted to play the original Thrill Drive! And now I (and you) can! It's an arcade racing game that has some very high stakes...crash your car and you may just well die in game! It's an action packed retro gaming arcade racer you are basically guaranteed to love...or your non-existent money back.
Note: Use "MAMEUI64_0.147_17-09-2012" for Thrill Drive!
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@vptknrn5939 2 года назад

This game blends two genres of games together-Horror and Racing,and somehow,the devs pulled it off quite nicely.

@VideoGameEsoterica 2 года назад

Haha kind of yeah. It’s a bit grim but damn it’s fun

@n3onf0x Год назад

Imagine if we had a horror racing game inspired by Burnout and Thrill Drive which also mixes in road safety PSAs and dashcam crashes

@ripchaingaming5133 Год назад

@@n3onf0x well burnout is fully inspired by this but definitely yeah

@VideoGameEsoterica Год назад

100%

@paperclip9558 Год назад

This is basically a darker burnout. The soundtrack also more fitting for a horror game than racing. What a unique piece of art. Thank you for the video! I will definitely try this soon.

@VideoGameEsoterica Год назад

Happy to make the video. Game is a total hidden gem

@versthappening603 Год назад

the original burnout 3 (burnout 3: see you in hell/crash + burn) seemed like an HD thrill drive. there's a trailer for crash + burn on youtube and i highly recommend you watch it and realize the drastic changes from the original idea to the final product, going from "we are the lazy generation" to "we are the killing generation"

@VideoGameEsoterica Год назад

Then Konami made Thrill Drive 4 in HD lol. Still haven’t found one to dump yet but always looking

@Fangos72 Год назад

@@versthappening603 Bruhhh... The first burnout is the most similar to thrill drive in HD.

@VideoGameEsoterica Год назад

The first Burnout def shares the most similarities IMO

@rootintootin-j3576 Год назад

I heard someone say that you die after first crash and the rest of the race is just an afterlife and hence the background and music becomes ominous. Knowing this makes it really terrifying.

@VideoGameEsoterica Год назад

Wow I never thought about it that way lol. Extra layer of creepy

@rootintootin-j3576 Год назад

@@VideoGameEsoterica Yeah. It kind of makes sense. Why else there would be this ominous music and background. It feels like the driver has entered hell and is forced to complete race. Creepy stuff for real!

@JTrocks9 2 года назад

I remember this game being an inspiration for the Burnout games by Criterion.

@VideoGameEsoterica 2 года назад

Yeah they are V similar for sure

@n3onf0x Год назад

I also heard the devs used to have an arcade machine of TD1 when developing Burnout

@VideoGameEsoterica Год назад

I’ve heard the same. Makes sense. Such a bummer no TD had gotten a home port

@cool3865 Год назад

@@VideoGameEsoterica at that time no home console could handle this game

@VideoGameEsoterica Год назад

No you’d have to wait for Dreamcast to be able to pull it off

@chiefthunderhorse4430 2 года назад

This is why I love this channel, honestly you have great taste in games and always manage to introduce games like this that I've never heard of before

@VideoGameEsoterica 2 года назад

Super appreciate that :) means a lot...for real

@arashiwashere 2 года назад

This arcade looks like Burnout's unknown brother. I did played it once with those horror scream on the background... It's just... utterly agonizing, but extremely fun!

@VideoGameEsoterica 2 года назад

Haha Burnout’s older brother too

@Multibrawlr 2 года назад

Wished I played this when I saw it once at the California Extreme convention. I heard that the game originally let you run over pedestrians and knock people off their motorcycles, but it was (understandably) removed after the location test.

@VideoGameEsoterica 2 года назад

Yes that’s what I read as well. Probably felt too close to Carmageddon

@legoferrari14 Год назад

I remember seeing a machine of Thrill Drive 2 at an arcade near a campsite I went to several years ago, though I never played it due to how intimidating the, ironically-named in this case, "Attract" mode was.

@VideoGameEsoterica Год назад

Haha it def is an intense attract mode

@GTChucker86 Год назад

I actually played all 4 games in our arcades within the philippines, the first and second game was in another town and played both years ago. Thrill drive 3 is still up and running in my mall to this day and has a haptic seatbelt feature still working. The game encourages you to wear the belt and keep ringing a seatbelt alarm till you do and if you get into an accident the belt will automatically tighten against you. For obvious reasons the game cabinet also warns you not to wear the belt if you’re under 5’2 foot due to risk of strangulation. I would gladly send you a photo of the game cabinet still running here if you want, the whole cabinet ergonomics seem to be based on a bus

@VideoGameEsoterica Год назад

Sadly I’ve never played 4 (Crazy Streets) as it never really came to the US it seems. Been trying to buy one for awhile to dump but no luck

@GTChucker86 Год назад

@@VideoGameEsoterica Crazy Streets has aspects taken from the Burnout games of the time and the Wangan Midnight series of arcade games. The entire game has a dramatic shift in tone from the more atmospheric predecessors indeed, I last played one a year ago and never saw the cabinet again since

@VideoGameEsoterica Год назад

Thanks for the detail. Barely anything is known about it. One day I’ll find it and dump it

@clxbsport 2 года назад

i have a core memory of this game from back when i was a kid and has stuck with me all these years, and i've been looking for what the name of the game was for years! it was me at an arcade and basically someone veering/crashing a red car off the road and a scream accompanying it. i was on a Discord call recently with some friends and i told them that memory, and they told me that Thrill Drive was the name and i looked it up and found this video. and THAT EXACT SAME SCREAM IS WHAT WAS ECHOING IN MY MEMORIES ALL THESE YEARS!! i'm glad to have found this video and i'm happy that you guys are preserving these games to be played in this day and age. y'all are legends! also that boxy-style car you're referring to is actually a Volvo 850 - those are really good cars and won some touring car races in its heyday!

@VideoGameEsoterica 2 года назад

haha happy to have helped you relive that memory!

@VideoGameEsoterica 2 года назад

and yes I OWN a VW so I said that. I know its a Volvo...I love old boxy Volvos :)

@therealsnowwhite1937 2 года назад

I vaguely remember seeing something like this at a local arcade when I was little. Like, there’s this appeal about being able to race in an ordinary sedan unlike most games where you mostly drive sports cars and such.

@VideoGameEsoterica 2 года назад

Nice. Where was it that you saw it?

@therealsnowwhite1937 2 года назад

@@VideoGameEsoterica I don’t remember exactly unfortunately.

@VideoGameEsoterica 2 года назад

Which country? That’s all I am really looking for

@therealsnowwhite1937 2 года назад

@@VideoGameEsoterica I was in the Philippines when I last saw such a cabinet.

@VideoGameEsoterica 2 года назад

Thanks for the info!

@sneakingelephant 2 года назад

This looks like hilarious fun. Thanks for highlighting it. Seeing those crashes reminds me of burnout to a degree

@VideoGameEsoterica 2 года назад

Yes very similar to Burnout and Wreckless. Maybe 10% Super Runabout too

@n3onf0x Год назад

Well, TD pretty much inspired the Burnout series

@VideoGameEsoterica Год назад

100% so

@fungi6612 2 года назад

The hardware that this game runs off of is similar to Konami’s Hornet system. I think it uses a combination of 3DFX voodoo chips and some other custom 3D maths chips. Basically, there’s a lot going on to make this game run. Konami really liked using funky hardware for their arcade games.

@VideoGameEsoterica 2 года назад

Pretty much. A PowerPC and 3DFX chips. Konami loved PowerPC for a long time

@KalYoshiKa 2 года назад

Thanks for reminding me of Thrill Drive, the local arcade here in Sydney did have this one, I don't think I ever sat down to play it but it freaked me out a bit. Never saw an arcade racer that straight up killed you and the soundtrack. Going to grab the mame and hope it runs.

@VideoGameEsoterica 2 года назад

You need a specific version of MAME. Check the video description. I listed the exact version I used. It won’t work on anything else I’ve tried

@johnsundberg7697 2 года назад

Always wanted to play one of these, never seen one in the wild sadly. It seems an awful lot like Burnout but came out years before, and the actual racing action looks more intense than at least the first couple Burnout games. Love the fact you're racing in a grocery getter too.

@VideoGameEsoterica 2 года назад

The grocery getter is my favorite part. Just gunning a Volvo wagon down the highway haha

@DSMTheEditor 2 года назад

The Burnout team cited this game as one of the inspirations

@VideoGameEsoterica 2 года назад

Yeah you can 100% feel the Burnout here

@MarioNintendoh 2 года назад

Thanks for the share, first time I hear about this game! Looks really cool. I hope the one version of mame that runs it is easy to setup.

@VideoGameEsoterica 2 года назад

Very easy to setup!

@ShapeyFiend 2 года назад

Don't tell me what games I haven't played! This was still on location in a couple of places in Ireland well in to the 00's. The speed is great and there's something especially fun about blasting around in a Nissan Micra or whatever the little red car is. I think I tried Thrill Drive 2 in the 90's but my memory of that ones fuzzy.

@VideoGameEsoterica 2 года назад

Haha YOU HAVENT PLAYED IT! False memory! (nice. You are the first person I've ever heard say they even saw a machine)

@sennacorps 2 года назад

The red car is Opel Corsa anyway

@VideoGameEsoterica 2 года назад

Good to know

@lee_2302 2 года назад

another irish here, i still have a vivid memory of seeing this game in an arcade specifically in dublin around 2009-ish although i think it was Thrill drive 2 comparing the cabients , scared the shite out of me seeing the attract mode as a kid

@VideoGameEsoterica 2 года назад

So far I’ve yet to have anyone comment that they saw it in the US. Which is odd because it released here!

@NFS4LFE Год назад

The original Burnout and an utter shame it’s not anywhere near as popular. I would’ve loved this as a kid.

@VideoGameEsoterica Год назад

Yes this game should have been ported home and should be loved and enjoyed by a much bigger audience

@crack4184 Год назад

I remember playing the second Thrill Drive 2 in France. I was way too young to play this 😭

@VideoGameEsoterica Год назад

It’s a bit grim for kids lol

@joekopel 2 года назад

Love this!!! And love you mentioned Racing Jam which is also a fantastic game. I need to try to emulate this series and find Racing Jam

@VideoGameEsoterica 2 года назад

I need to play Racing Jam too. Still haven’t been able to find a PCB

@joekopel 2 года назад

@@VideoGameEsoterica my old mall arcade had one in the way back, I use to always walk past everything else and hop in and play at least a race or 2 before hitting up MK 4 or Time Crisis 2

@VideoGameEsoterica 2 года назад

Nice. They are incredibly rare now. Like maybe none left in the US rare

@TimmiTimmiT 2 года назад

This looks absolutely glorious.

@VideoGameEsoterica 2 года назад

It genuinely is. Just a perfect game IMO

@AlexanderAgungWirabumi 9 месяцев назад

I remember play this arcade game when i was at elementary school. Even though i'm play always time out 😅, but i'm really enjoy play this arcade

@VideoGameEsoterica 9 месяцев назад

It’s a classic for sure

@lb5491 2 года назад

They had this game and I *believe* the second one at the Nickel Arcade here in Portland Oregon! Always really enjoyed the vibe of this game, horror and racing. Sorta reminds me of final destination 2 as well :)

@VideoGameEsoterica 2 года назад

Nice. Not common games to see. I wonder if they are still there

@lb5491 2 года назад

I'll check soon, it's right down the street from me!

@VideoGameEsoterica 2 года назад

Go check and tell them you know a guy who wants to buy the boards out of them ;) (kidding but not really...I’d walk in and try to buy the cabs if it was local)

@SOLiD71 2 года назад

You mean Volvo :-)

@VideoGameEsoterica 2 года назад

I do. I OWN a VW. A GTI. So I got confused

@obeseperson 2 года назад

I BELIEVE THAT WAGON IS A VOLVO 850 NOT A VOLKSWAGEN never knew this game had that car now its a must have

@VideoGameEsoterica 2 года назад

Yeah I said the wrong car lol

@aries993 Год назад

This game looks like a ton of fun and would have fit right at home on the Dreamcast, a shame Konami never ported this anywhere

@VideoGameEsoterica Год назад

It really is. Four Thrill Drive games…zero home ports

@Alexp37 2 года назад

That looks awesome! Looks like a mix of Runabout and Burnout.

@VideoGameEsoterica 2 года назад

With a bit of Wreckless thrown in for good measure

@Alexp37 2 года назад

@@VideoGameEsoterica Yes. :)

@WanderlustZero 2 месяца назад

Incredible game - I used to play the Europe course and re-enact the car chase scene from Ronin Useless Trivia: there was a low budget horror film called Octane, where vampires are stalking a mother and daughter down the motorway, through service stations, and a Thrill Drive machine makes an appearance with it's horror 'FATALITY!' screen when they kill someone

@VideoGameEsoterica 2 месяца назад

Haha that sounds like quite the movie

@Razorblade1812 Год назад

It really is one of the craziest and dramatic racing games that I have ever come across. I just made a couple of videos on the game which I played on the current version of MAME that surprisingly doesn't suffer a single crash during the play sessions I took with it. I can assume that emulation of the game on MAME has improved somewhat, even though the music now sounds different than how it did originally, which I assume that the new music in the current version of MAME matches that of how it did on original hardware albeit fast and poorly timed, and how it sounded like on when some of the music from the game was included on a Konami music compilation CD released in 1999.

@VideoGameEsoterica Год назад

Not crashing isn’t fun. The crash is all the charm of the game.

@thefirkman7400 2 года назад

I really wish a new Thrill Drive would come out, or at the very least someone would make a spiritual successor and release it on Steam or something.

@VideoGameEsoterica 2 года назад

No chance. Konami just wants to make pachislot machines. They ruined their entire legacy sadly

@Lainbowie 2 года назад

The instant I saw this game in motion I was sold on it. It reminds me a lot of the first Burnout game.

@VideoGameEsoterica 2 года назад

100% and Burnout is legit so you know this is good!

@VideoGameEsoterica Год назад

Supposedly the devs had a cab

@VideoGameEsoterica Год назад

Just bind the controls like you would for any game in MAME in the tab menu

@VideoGameEsoterica Год назад

The tab menu will list all the inputs for the game

@Spaghettaboutit 2 года назад

So Burnout, before Burnout, COOL!

@VideoGameEsoterica 2 года назад

Pretty much :)

@dbnpoldermans4120 2 года назад

Never played these games, but they seem like a load of fun Would be great if Konami just ported these games now. Better late then never, right? You have great taste in racing games. Battle Gear is my favorite racing games series. Battle Gear 3 Tuned is my favorite racing game. I think that you could like it alot. More focussed on turns, braking and drifting, but the art style is there

@VideoGameEsoterica 2 года назад

I need to do videos on Battle Gear eventually

@Kangiru_Noah 2 года назад

that game is why burnout exists, if thrill drive didnt existed, then burnout wont simply exist

@VideoGameEsoterica 2 года назад

100%. The devs even mentioned how Thrill Drive inspired Burnout

@paulg6790 7 месяцев назад

Thrill Drive is one of the very best multiplayer games, particularly after a few drinks. Things like nudging your pal into the back of a truck to steal the win leads to an instant rematch and so you'll be on there for a while

@VideoGameEsoterica 7 месяцев назад

Haha I could totally see that being a great time

@ConversusVans Год назад

I need to see how MAME runs this on my rig with i5-9400 now and my pots-based wheel connected to my A-PAC. While this doesn't seem to have as many polygons as Model 3, there's so much to see in all these courses. Essentially the Alice in Wonderland of arcade racers -- You're a driver battling high speed traffic speeding through everything from licensed fast food restaurants and then a huge thunderstorm, combined with a separate ranking table for vehicle damage or fastest time. Sega's Dirt Devils had practically the same scoring system, too.

@VideoGameEsoterica Год назад

Yes it’s pushing a lot on screen at once

@JP-dn2eb 2 года назад

Game looks amazing. Thanks for the suggestion

@VideoGameEsoterica 2 года назад

Happy to suggest it. This one is a banger

@randomtj1791 Год назад

I remember seeing this in an arcade 20 or so years ago, but I could never remember what it was called. I even started to doubt if I had really seen it. And then, this pops up on my RU-vid front page :).

@VideoGameEsoterica Год назад

Haha blast from the past came back to haunt you

@angelo95234 Год назад

We need a Thrill Drive Cars in GTI Club Rally Code D'Azur and GTI Club + Rally Code D'Azur on the PS3

@StarshipGhost 2 года назад

This looks awesome

@VideoGameEsoterica 2 года назад

It really is. 100% play it

@StefanPaunVideo 8 месяцев назад

i LOVED this game! it was a lot of fun!

@adventuretaco7140 2 года назад

This game totally gives me Burnout vibes .. wonder if the burnout dev team knew about this one ..

@VideoGameEsoterica 2 года назад

Maybe? It has Burnout vibes. Also Wreckless and a little Super Runabout

@SonicZR1 2 года назад

Criterion not just knew about Thrill Drive - they originally intended Burnout to be Thrill Drive until Konami said "meh".

@VideoGameEsoterica 2 года назад

Where did you read that? I’d be curious to read it myself

@beachlife2968 Год назад

Burnout is based on Thrill Drive.

@VideoGameEsoterica Год назад

It is

@aiden9586 2 года назад

Game looks absolutely fire bro

@VideoGameEsoterica 2 года назад

Its the most "hidden gem" IMO of all the hidden gem games Ive talked about

@angelo95234 Год назад

Thrill Drive AKA Clock Tower The First Fear & Clock Tower

@StalinBrosef 2 года назад

Consider me officially sold on this game. It looks great!

@VideoGameEsoterica 2 года назад

That was my goal...convince people to play it!

@mattisaac 2 года назад

For many many years there were 4 of these side by side in Luton cinema in Bedfordshire England. Maybe they're still there..

@VideoGameEsoterica 2 года назад

Four? thats a lot for sure

@Nadroj1999 Месяц назад

I've been trying to find this game FOR YEARS. I remeber seeing it in a local arcade when i was a kid and getting absolutely scared for the music and the screams. Completely forgot it and then it came back to my head years ago and finally found it searching japanese accident arcade or something like that 😂. Such a weird dark game but now as an adult looks kinda fun and not terrifying hahahahah

@VideoGameEsoterica Месяц назад

So many people have left this exact comment. Seems like Thrill Drive made a big impression on a lot of people back in the day!

@jtlego1 Год назад

Holy shit, Thrill Drive. This thing was at the very first arcade I ever went to in my formative years and its up there with Virtual On in terms of shaping my taste in games (even if Thrill Drive's tone basically reduced it to "That Weird Terrifying Racing Game" in my dumb baby brain). Shame that its no longer on arcade floors. More people need to know about this series.

@VideoGameEsoterica Год назад

Yes it’s very obscure now and rarely if ever gets mentioned

@samboyle25 Год назад

9:36 “You are bad driver” 😂😂😂

@VideoGameEsoterica Год назад

Haha

@groove66 2 года назад

That crash screen is INTENSE

@VideoGameEsoterica 2 года назад

Haha yeah it’s a bit grim

@M1XART 2 года назад

I played this once in Arcade 1999. It was easily best looking game on that Arcade. But that was the only time i ever found it. It just disappeared...

@VideoGameEsoterica 2 года назад

Yeah it didn’t last long on arcade floors it seems

@JapaneseModernist 2 года назад

I like it. Will definitely check it out

@VideoGameEsoterica 2 года назад

report back and lmk what you think!

@derosiflo6524 Год назад

Little correction as a carguy, the boxxy wagon is a Volvo, not a VW 😅

@VideoGameEsoterica Год назад

I know 🤣 I own a VW. Well owned. I know very well that’s a Volvo and the fact I misspoke annoys me

@derosiflo6524 Год назад

@@VideoGameEsoterica aw shoot, just a lil hiccup. Nice video tho and the game...imagine you played this as a kid in Japan at the arcades 😳

@VideoGameEsoterica Год назад

People just flying through windshields. No big deal

@stardusty 2 года назад

Wow this game has great music and sound.

@VideoGameEsoterica 2 года назад

Yeah it’s pretty legit

@TomVanDeusen 2 года назад

Oh man, I'm going to have to try to play this! Reminds me a bit of Burnout, I wish that series was still around, and I wish even more it had violence and a picture of someone screaming every time you crashed

@VideoGameEsoterica 2 года назад

Haha yeah Konami really pushed the “you died” aspect of the crashes

@chorgox Год назад

It is the game that inspired Burnout. It's old news (Criterion had a Thrill Drive cabinet in their studio right around the time Burnout began development in early 1999)

@VideoGameEsoterica Год назад

That doesn’t necessarily mean everyone is aware of the fact

@chorgox Год назад

@@VideoGameEsoterica sorry If I sounded patronising, just tried to add some info to the mix

@VideoGameEsoterica Год назад

A bit but I get it :)

@sheikah16 2 года назад

I've only got to play thrill drive 3 as my locam round 1 has a cab. It's hella fun

@VideoGameEsoterica 2 года назад

I need to get 2 and 3. I can convert my Viper to TD 2 with a little work

@TechFan-di8ds 2 года назад

There is a cracked version of Thrill Drive 3 and you can use any Python 2 arcade board for the cracked version (you can grab one from DDR Supernova series and any other game that uses the board). Don't confuse the Python 2 arcade board with the very first Python though. Despite both being based on PS2 hardware, Python 1 uses a modified PS2 board similar to Namco System 2x6 while Python 2 is basically a real PS2 with extra I/O boards. Edit: There is a 4th iteration of Thrill Drive named Crazy Streets - Thrill Drive that was released back in 2007 and it's PC-based, packing a Radeon X1600 Pro for graphics. This game is rare though, being only released in Europe and failed its location test in Japan and USA.

@VideoGameEsoterica 2 года назад

Someone sent me the files earlier. I’ll have to find a fat PS2 and an IO board to set it up

@scottysunday 2 года назад

Memory unlocked, I played this at an arcade years ago.

@VideoGameEsoterica 2 года назад

Nice! I’m curious where. So far everyone who’s commented today who’s played it in an arcade has been outside the US. I like to anecdotally track where these rarer games appeared

@scottysunday 2 года назад

@@VideoGameEsoterica It would have been at a Timezone in Melbourne, Australia. Real exciting stuff to see it running on Mame too

@VideoGameEsoterica 2 года назад

Second Australian to report seeing on!

@lehiboo Месяц назад

I just bought my arcade version few months ago

@VideoGameEsoterica Месяц назад

Nice. Welcome to the club

@kmilonfire990Garudo_Nexastus Год назад

It's the first time I heard about this game and it creeped me out the moment I saw a crash, it really got my attention instantly and I wanted to play it so bad. I would say it would be even unsettling if there's a display of the driver (us) showing a confident attitude, getting some grunts when having little crashes, but with a serious accident, we see the driver shocked, panicking and panting, with the 3 accidents, the driver pants even faster and having scars on the face. It definitely would be much creepier than it already is but yeah, that would be total trauma for many ppl.

@VideoGameEsoterica Год назад

Apparently this game scarred an entire generation!

@nbdante 2 года назад

This looks like Burnout before Burnout!

@VideoGameEsoterica 2 года назад

100%. Burnout was def inspired by Thrill Drive

@Spaghettaboutit 2 года назад

@@VideoGameEsoterica Burnout 2 is the best pure racing game that the Burnout series made.

@VideoGameEsoterica 2 года назад

I’d agree with that assessment

@Pluvillion Год назад

Also the game that inspired Wangan Midnight's gameplay. Insane.

@VideoGameEsoterica Год назад

I need to do a video on one of those at some point

@Okuraio Год назад

This game looks so awesome! and sorry for doing that but O cara quase capotou o Corsa no começo que isso. (sim era um Opel Corsa, mas era o mesmo do nosso aqui no Brasil)

@Danstevo420 2 месяца назад

Dis first ive herd of it, looks sick to play

@VideoGameEsoterica 2 месяца назад

Metric ton of fun

@PapiFed 2 года назад

I remember playing an entry of this series in the arcade, it was not an easy game !

@VideoGameEsoterica 2 года назад

Once you learn the courses it gets easier and really feels great

@jimmelton5846 2 года назад

Never even heard of it but it looks pretty good.

@VideoGameEsoterica 2 года назад

Def give it a play if you have the time

@Hwje1111 2 года назад

I used to play this every time we went to the mall in the Philippines. Back then I didn’t have a console, and the PC we had was prone to crashing and adverse to anything that couldn’t also run on a potato. But now that I own a lot more stuff now I can’t seem to find that game anymore.

@VideoGameEsoterica 2 года назад

You aren’t the first person that said they saw it in the Philippines. Must have been popular there

@Hwje1111 2 года назад

@@VideoGameEsoterica I mean we were in close proximity to Japan and they have been doing certain investments there back then so yeah.

@VideoGameEsoterica 2 года назад

Makes total sense

@hababacon 2 месяца назад

Man the music sounds like a horror movie @4:05.

@VideoGameEsoterica 2 месяца назад

Those are def the vibes Konami was going for

@who432 2 года назад

I'm impressed by the graphics

@VideoGameEsoterica 2 года назад

Yeah they are legit for the time period

@JasonALMS2010 Год назад

Wow no intro on this one huh, straight into the action

@VideoGameEsoterica Год назад

Haha sometimes I skip it

@ashleyholroyd91 2 года назад

I wonder if GTI Club 2/Driving Party Corso Italiano run on the Thrill drive 2 board?

@VideoGameEsoterica 2 года назад

Yes my Viper could run GTI Club 2 as well. But I have it on Wii so I’ve never really felt compelled to try

@pasopatiwijaya5422 2 года назад

I remember play this at the arcade. I forgot if I played the 2nd or 3rd, I remember I'm just stay relax when hear the scream lol

@VideoGameEsoterica 2 года назад

What country? So far this morning people have seen it in Ireland and the Canary Islands

@pasopatiwijaya5422 2 года назад

@@VideoGameEsoterica hmm it used to be in Indonesia but sadly the mall is renovated and the thrill drive 2 or 3 is gone, idk what happen and where the cab is. Sadly konami keep chosing wrong decision, which make that thrill drive 1, 2 and 3 kinda rare I wish I could play it again :(

@VideoGameEsoterica 2 года назад

Yes it’s becoming exceedingly rare to extinct these days

@Newdivide 2 года назад

I remembered playing this game in the arcade as a kid

@VideoGameEsoterica 2 года назад

Fun. What country?

@Newdivide 2 года назад

@@VideoGameEsoterica I can't remember. I think is the US

@VideoGameEsoterica 2 года назад

Good to know thanks :)

@jonnytenebrous1113 2 года назад

Thrill Drive looks really fun! Exactly like my experience of driving to school in my first car in the '90s - a Ford Taurus wagon!

@VideoGameEsoterica 2 года назад

Haha my first car was a SAAB wagon. 9000 era. Hence my love of old boxy Euro wagons

@jonnytenebrous1113 2 года назад

@@VideoGameEsoterica Brilliant - I LOVE SAABs! Selling my 80's Classic 900 soon, and replacing it next weekend with another... Classic 900 (with half the mileage)! :)

@VideoGameEsoterica 2 года назад

Nice. I always wanted a 900 convertible. I had the 9000 series hatch. I believe it was a 94.

@matt.random8473 Год назад

I've never heard about this game and didn't know it was the inspiration for Burnout until recently, now I'm definitely going to download it for MAME. It's a shame it never got a console port, I love the idea of a racing game with dark tones.

@VideoGameEsoterica Год назад

Give it a shot. It’s an absolute blast

@matt.random8473 Год назад

@@VideoGameEsoterica already downloaded it, thanks for putting in the description the best version of MAME to play it. Really enjoying your channel btw, you got another subscriber

@VideoGameEsoterica Год назад

Appreciate it!

@OOOAAAIII Год назад

Found a Thrill Drive 2 arcade cabinet in E-Village Roggel, Netherlands yesterday. Unfortunately very badly calibrated wheel, so was pretty impossible to play well :-S

@VideoGameEsoterica Год назад

Ugh that’s the worst; find a rare game but it’s not working

@keithlowe5512 2 года назад

Hey guys, I'm getting some issues posting a link from facebook? A local thrift store is selling Thrill Drive 3.

@VideoGameEsoterica 2 года назад

Yeah links never work. Join my discord and send me a link :) discord link is in description. Or I am on Twitter VESoterica

@keithlowe5512 2 года назад

@@VideoGameEsoterica I don't really do those unfortunately but either way I cannot for the life of me find the marketplace ad anymore :/

@VideoGameEsoterica 2 года назад

Eh it happens. Appreciate it all the same

@angelo95234 2 месяца назад

Paper Mario The Thousand Year Door For Nintendo Switch Has Been Released! But Konami Didn't Make Thrill Drive Series For Nintendo Switch!

@barry-allenthe-flash8396 2 года назад

This makes me wanna fire up Wreckless: The Yakuza Missions real badly all of a sudden, lol. It's sad because I know it looks kinda similar (thanks to the kinda gray look to both games), but doesn't play as well as this sounds. Man... why couldn't Konami port this to Dreamcast or PS2 back in the day? It looks awesome. I love the older pre-Paradise Burnout games, so I love games with good crashes, but the actual stakes here in that you could end your race by dying... that just sounds like a good wrinkle to that kind of very tense, arcadey "spectacle" racer. I am shocked no other game (I can think of, at least) has this kind of gameplay hook. At the very least, "You can die from crashes" should be, like, a MODE in Burnout Takedown/Revenge/Dominator. This seems really fresh! Glad I know about it now!

@VideoGameEsoterica 2 года назад

I love that game. I have it on GameCube. A personal fav of mine

@katasape7756 Год назад

Back when i was a child this arcade games scares the heck out of me and i just found the name of the game by now

@VideoGameEsoterica Год назад

I could 100% see it creeping kids out lol

@katasape7756 Год назад

@@VideoGameEsoterica the only thing that they would do is simply stares at the game screensaver completely almost terrified in confusion cuz i did back when i was 5 lmao and the scream was the loudest one there than house of the dead

@VideoGameEsoterica Год назад

I never seemed to get scared about that stuff as a kid. But show me a spider…absolute fear

@katasape7756 Год назад

@@VideoGameEsoterica ohh we both can agree on that

@VideoGameEsoterica Год назад

Worst creature to ever exist!

@hil1893 Год назад

If you like konami racing games you should probably try enthusia on the ps2. It still encourages nice driving but also has a uniqe carrer mode and very impreesive physics

@VideoGameEsoterica Год назад

I’ll add it to my list of things to check out

@imembridibuddha 2 года назад

Having trouble setting up the controls for my xbox controller though. Plus audio stutters.

@VideoGameEsoterica 2 года назад

Don’t use an Xbox controller. It’s not working great

@Wenjo936 Год назад

hey bud any advice on the mame emulator i need? Do you have a tutorial? real chill nice video

@VideoGameEsoterica Год назад

Look at the video description. Should be there

@Bittboy Год назад

The thought of needing a very powerful i9 and RTX 3080ti to run an arcade game from 1998 is hilarious to me 🤣

@VideoGameEsoterica Год назад

Lol you don’t need it. Just saying what I have

@Aman1984 Год назад

why am I getting too fps? (ryzen 2600 , 16gb ram, rx 580) and I can't find the 60fps slider!

@VideoGameEsoterica Год назад

Too fps? Too many fps?

@snethss 2 года назад

wtf. this was absolutely lost to time. how did we all miss this??

@VideoGameEsoterica 2 года назад

Just didn’t get remembered. Let’s get it popular again!

@alfredio Год назад

1:58 it's Volvo 850

@VideoGameEsoterica Год назад

that was my mistake...I know the car but we owned a VW GTI at the point in time that I made this...so I weirdly said VW

@mehere3013 Год назад

we need a ps5 version of this

@VideoGameEsoterica Год назад

Would be awesome

@lmttn 2 года назад

Can this MAME build also run Racing Jam? That's on the same hardware as Thrill Drive

@VideoGameEsoterica 2 года назад

No it freezes sadly

@Xegethra Год назад

At least it wasn't mean enough to be perma death. One crash and you're out.

@VideoGameEsoterica Год назад

Haha credits wouldn’t last very long if that was the case

@kucingganteng3148 Год назад

Where to download?

@davidoliveira7184 2 года назад

Feels like an expansion of the GTI Club concept

@VideoGameEsoterica 2 года назад

Haha we can only dream. I mean they just have kept the source code around for GTI Club at least since they had the Wii version

@davidoliveira7184 2 года назад

@@VideoGameEsoterica: Just house one (or 2 ✌) oem logitech usb racing wheels in a new flashy Konami convenience enclosure, have a ARM SOC board running MAME and outputting to HDMI, add a nice menu - actually not that difficult. Extra simple & straightforward for SEGA. I wonder how many units the "capcom home arcade" product has sold? Have they turned a profit? And no need for source code, just use the ROMs that can already be found online. (like CAPCOM did with their product?)

@VideoGameEsoterica 2 года назад

The emulation needs more work before it could be sold. Especially for Viper

@Pen3989 Год назад

I can't believe that this game was created by the same company who made GTI Club, holy shit

@VideoGameEsoterica Год назад

Yep. GTI Club is a banger too

@Pen3989 8 месяцев назад

@@VideoGameEsotericaindeed it was, it is a shame that the game was really underated despite the wackiness of the game. Damn youtube is broken for not giving me this comment notification lol

@VideoGameEsoterica 8 месяцев назад

It happens!

@cjfeather 2 года назад

I don't go in arcades anymore my first home computer was a spectrum, twice a year I would go to Skegness Butlins and loads of arcades, for years it was Daytona USA then one year a new machine pops up and that machine was Thrill Drive, holy crap it looked amazing..... The story is I grew up seeing how arcade games changed from pac-man, Tekken, Mortal Combat, Turtles, to Out Run, Daytona USA, to games like Thrill Drive, every year something new never seen before was waiting to entertain, growing up in the late 80s early 90s was incredible, the games were great the movies were great and the music was great, jobs paid well, items were cheap and the greedy governments taxed us little and did more.... How times have changed

@VideoGameEsoterica 2 года назад

The good old days of arcades!

@cjfeather 2 года назад

@@VideoGameEsoterica Oh yes indeed!!

@VideoGameEsoterica 2 года назад

I miss those days. Arcades just aren’t that fun in the US anymore outside of a few specialized ones

@angelicoreXX 2 года назад

legit remind me of wangan midnight racing

@VideoGameEsoterica 2 года назад

I could see that

@pop3prawnboy 2 года назад

You can also run this game on android using retroarch mame (current) core. But unfortunately my device isn't powerfull enough to run it more than 5fps.

@VideoGameEsoterica 2 года назад

Interesting it runs on Android. Could not get it to run in Windows

@pop3prawnboy 2 года назад

@@VideoGameEsoterica I was also very surprised.

@VideoGameEsoterica 2 года назад

Good to know. Thanks for the info!

@thattasone 2 года назад

MAME 241 15fps using undercook to run

@VideoGameEsoterica 2 года назад

What spec hardware are you using?

@hamper6511 2 года назад

Holy shit I've seen this before, tried finding it but I can't remember the name

@VideoGameEsoterica 2 года назад

Happy to have helped reunite you with it!

@hamper6511 2 года назад

@@VideoGameEsoterica there's so many arcade games that I want to find, like those vertical shooter planes, most that I find is psikyo but there are others of the same caliber