What Made The First Ever BTCC Game So Special?

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Can you believe it? TOCA Touring Car Championship is 25 years old this month and to celebrate we take a trip down memory lane - nailing every apex along the way.
The Super Touring era was pure sporting box office. The cars were based on normal family saloons, with manufacturers ploughing millions of pounds into their development, leading to ever-increasing speeds and spectacular action.
And with some of the best and most competitive racing drivers around, the ensuing chaos led to some of the most exciting racing ever. This was never more apparent than in the BTCC (British Touring Car Championship), where the explosive 1992 finale caught the public’s attention, pushing the BTCC up to Formula 1 levels of popularity in Britain. (who can forget John Cleland’s “the man’s an animal” outburst?!)
It took until 1997 for an official BTCC game to release - and boy, it was worth the wait. The game replicated the ‘97 BTCC season, accurately representing the cars, tracks and drivers. With twitchy handling, no-holds-barred racing and Codemasters’ typical attention to detail, the game was a critical and commercial hit.
It raised the profile of the BTCC among a new generation of fans too, helping solidify its standing with long-term enthusiasts to boot; part of the reason why the game - and Super Touring - are both so fondly remembered now.
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@JakePetrolhead Год назад

The greatest era of any motorsport in my opinion. I spent far too many hours on both ToCA 2 and the old duke reviews as a kid - Cleland and Thompson were my heroes growing up. Can relate to being a late 90's kid and missing it as it happens, but it's still stuff I show to my friends getting into motorsport to this day - the golden era of the BTCC, and sparked a lifelong love affair with the series til this day.

@TraxionGG Год назад

Amazing, thanks for the comment! Relate so much with this 🙌🏼

@seantaylor7431 Год назад

How about the AMP 1998 Bathurst 1000! Those were special 2litre touring car days. Unfortunately will never be repeated. Great game series. Me and my dad would not miss a BTCC race during those late 90’s and we lived in Australia. Well before internet was a push of the button. The races would be shown Wednesday nights on our satellite tv. Great times thanks for these special memories!

@kylewaddington1983 Год назад

,Hello my name Kyle Waddington It's close to my age to I was born 1995 I live in Australia

@kylewaddington1983 Год назад

It ever hard and it was my first ever Racing car game I live in Australia

@christhomas2644 7 месяцев назад

I couldn't agree more. Still more fun than most racing games today.

@mod7930 Год назад

The sequel to this game, released 12 months later, is still, to this day, one of the finest racing games ever made. Toca 1 started the franchise but Toca 2 improved everything that the first had to offer. Better graphics, better a.i., improved car handling, more modes. Toca 2 is still one of my favourite racing games.

@TraxionGG Год назад

I love both games, for me personally I have to say Toca 2 was the ultimate one. Every change was an improvement, built on the great foundations of this game. Can’t believe it’s 25 years old!

@simonhouel1984 Год назад

The Formula Ford, the Cerbera Speed 12, the Scorpion ... Christ my dad yelled at me countless times for the bad words I threw at the screen !

@22deadbird22 Год назад

I used to play this on PS1 just recently got it on PC and with a wheel! It's alot better on PC smoother and slightly better looking, falling in love all over again.

@samuelgarrod8327 Год назад

Toca WTCC was good too.

@mod7930 Год назад

@@samuelgarrod8327 Yeh, excellent game. Codies did some good work on PS1. The three Toca games and the two Colin McRae games are/were quality.

@GameNinja83 3 месяца назад

I still have it. When the rules changed in the BTCC to beome the 2.0l formula I was 9yrs old. Every other weekend during the season I would park myself in front of the TV on a Sunday to watch the sport that I loved and the legends of touring cars battle it out. When TOCA came out and then TOCA2.... I became one of them. It was an amazing experience. Yes it was only a game, but at the same time i'm now racing around all the same tracks in all the same cars as my idols. NOTHING will ever beat 1990s BTCC, 1991 to 1999 is the best era of racing in any category anywhere around the world.

@tacticalnuclearpingutv290 Год назад

ToCA 2 - the sequel - was the game I played to death as a kid. It was fantastic, with a huge amount of replay value from support classes to unlockable tracks. Fantastic memories!

@bunkermonkey_uk Год назад

Having attended the races during this era and recently as a marshall. It was much more entertaining! Clelland is a legend. Glad he owns his car from these classic days.

@Buzzuk2626 23 дня назад

The TOCA PS1 got me into BTCC, and i still go to events to this day. Just came back from Super Tourer Power 2 @ Brands Hatch a couple of weeks ago and got to see these classics racing again which was EPIC!

@TraxionGG 21 день назад

Mega! Would love to see that series sometime 😊

@HangmanOfficialUploads Год назад

I had this on PS1, I played it all throughout my youth. Renault Laguna was my beloved.

@caaarlos Год назад

There is a discord group for TOCA 2 Touring Cars (1998) and I ocasionally still play it from time to time. It was so amazing for it's time and still manages to have certain qualities that are missing on modern games. Maybe my first experience going into a "sim-like" experience. All the critics that one could have on the first TOCA were improved in TOCA2, with more QOL features and more game modes, fantasy tracks and support car championships.

@imsid7851 Год назад

Im 54 Years old. I was swearing at my big fat TV every weekend watching the BTCC, still have the Duke videos of all the seasons in the 90's and a VHS player lol. Cleland, absolute legend, still my favourite racing driver. Toca and Toca 2 were what got me into PC racing, well that and Fatal racing, the NFS Underground. I look back now at what we had then, compared to what we have now, played racing games on a Sidewinder joystick lol. Now I have a full Fanatec rig, but I do miss the good old days. My mate and I were discussing racing games a few weeks ago, remembering fondly lapping Interlagos in Geoff Crammonds F1 doing lap times within 0.1 of a second consistantly, with a joystick lol. Oh how things have changed.

@TraxionGG Год назад

It’s amazing how far it’s all come…. Love this comment😂 Hope you enjoyed the video!

@roymunro7058 Год назад

Cleland was fantastic value on and off the track. Toca 2 is still the only ‘game’ I’ve ever bought, blew my mind at the time ❤ Never underestimate the power or influence of such small seeds being sewn in the interests of the young 😊

@TraxionGG Год назад

Wise words father 🙏😂

@cmacdhon Год назад

I remember watching 90's BTCC here in the US. It quickly became my favorite racing series.

@markymark2819 Год назад

Me and my brother rented the game and hated the lack of progress (needing so many points to unlock tracks) and then, for Xmas, my mom had bought the game and said she purchased before we rented and disliked it. We played it, got into it, had great fun desperately trying to progress and ending up loving it! I still play it today occasionally and love the BTCC then and now. I have fond memories of Murray Walker, great drivers, iconic moments and great tracks. I attend dozens of motorsport events a year now and have done since getting bitten by the bug attending my first BTCC race in 1994 aged 16. Enjoyed this video a lot - great to see the game isnt forgotten.

@TraxionGG Год назад

Great stuff! Thanks for sharing the story😄

@Welchy-TV Месяц назад

The incredible nostalgic vibes I get with this is insane. I used to play this with my dad when I was a kid. The sounds, the visuals...the memories are amazing. The tank with the turret, the pink caddy and the volcano track you could get where fantastic 😂😂

@TraxionGG Месяц назад

Awesome, thanks for sharing those memories! It’s a game that hits hard on the nostalgia scale, probably also because of the real-world BTCC state at the time. Not only the game, but the sport as a whole was just magical!

@mikailhizal_16 Год назад

This game + TOCA 2 + TOCA World Touring Cars were amazing games and imo (one of) the best games codemasters have ever released thus far. Thank you for making a video about it!

@TraxionGG Год назад

Our pleasure! Thank you for watching!

@pspuser1991 Год назад

thanks for reminding me of my childhood and maybe the reason i now love cars so much

@robertthurman9866 Год назад

Being in the US the BTCC was almost completely unknown. It was not until a PlayStation 2 version came out that we were able to learn about the BTCC. My memory was my first venture on to Oulton Park short course. I had seen a diagram and several pictures of the track but no video footage. About the fourth lap I yell at my brother who was racing me "There is not a straight flat piece of pavement in this entire track!".

@TraxionGG Год назад

And now we have it on so many racing games!

@LeeroyMate Год назад

Every late 90s motorsport game had that same kind of music 😂 nostalgic 😍

@TraxionGG Год назад

Banger 🔥

@robertsummers753 Год назад

I loved this game when it came out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BTCC $ DTM WISH THERE WAS MORE OF IT!!!

@RossAlexanderSmith Год назад

I always remembered this as being the first game where you could have realistic collisions and aftermath. Sometimes the AI would just slide it, sometimes they would spin off. But it all felt real and expected. And sometimes, they would just shovel you out of the way. It was great fun knowing consequences were real from all vectors and you could randomize weather for a bit of spice.

@waty0usay1 Год назад

I spent hundreds of hours playing this game during my early childhood, legendary racing game.

@pierwszy_z_brzegu Год назад

This is my first racing game. I played only demo. But later a buy TOCA 2 and racing wheel and my adventure is begin :-) Great wideo👍

@TraxionGG Год назад

Many of us have a very similar story. Glad you enjoyed the video!

@daniboyo Год назад

I feel very lucky to have been a 6 year old playing this game on my PlayStation, often battling my brothers for console time. The many, many, many hours of game time I got in at such young age set me on a path of loving most Codemasters future releases and not being too shabby with a thumb stick (roll on arthritis in a few more years)

@TraxionGG Год назад

Epic!

@alexharkettsimracing Год назад

TOCA Touring Car Championship was the very reason I bought a PlayStation back in the day. I still have my original copy too. I spent many hours like you watching older reviews. Although I was around in the 90s and have clear memories of watching pretty all the races on tv, one of the joys of the internet era has meant I can now go back and enjoy some of the other European series which weren’t available to me as a kid. Without a doubt super touring is my favourite class of racing to date. It was a shame that it priced itself out of existence.

@mattsmotorsportmemories5743 7 месяцев назад

Brands Hatch held the Super Touring Power event this year for the rest time and it was also not only the static display of super tourers as well as Group A, 60s and 70s displays as well but the super touring and classic touring car races were awesome. They also had star drivers from that era like Alain Menu and Paul Radisich turn up. They also had a tent sent up for people to play TOCA 2 on PS1s can't wait to go back there for next year's event :)

@smugborgin Год назад

TOCA was my entry to motorsport- I still go to BTCC most years. Love me some ACC but please let the BTCC game upcoming be good.

@TraxionGG Год назад

We also have our fingers crossed!🤞🏼

@ChazDraycott Год назад

Another beautifully presented video, John. The "I was a BTCC fanboy - oh dear!" moment commands my respect because I know how much work must have gone into just getting that ONE BIT of audio for a laugh! As for ToCA's first game, I remember being pathetically poor at it as a kid, after first "learning to drive on a PlayStation" through Colin McRae Rally. I once cut the chicane at Donington Park GP to the hairpin and remember the joy that filled my body seeing "1" by my position and actually seeing the two Lagunas on track for the first time! My Dad got me and my brother a wheel and pedals as well as these weird force feedback vests one year, and it didn't exactly improve the experience. This is one of those games where you look back now and think "how on Earth did I ever get good at this below the age of 10?!"

@TraxionGG Год назад

It's so difficult to get the hang of! I get that feeling as well with old games.... How on earth did I ever make any progress!? But I think we forget that as kids, that was all we knew and I'm sure we were quick to adapt to the handling models of the time. This time round it took me a good couple of hours of playing before I was able to complete consecutive laps without spinning😂 Really glad you enjoyed the video Chaz, and the appreciation of the Murray clip haha! Glad this game brings back the great memories for you as well. I reckon you should do a series trying to make it through the championship mode nowadays. Avenge yourself 😎

@DavetheNord Год назад

I played this game a lot and I never knew you could drive a tank around the track! Brilliant game.

@TraxionGG Год назад

Taking the phrase "I fired them off" a little too literally😂

@DavetheNord Год назад

@@TraxionGG lol

@nashrace Год назад

Ah TOCA! The game that started a lifelong obsession! Let me explain, I raced Karts from a young age and was ok but I was never going to cut the mustard in the professional sport. TOCA got me into Touring Cars and gave me the Heroes we know to follow. Fast Forward 20 years to 2022 and the Classic Touring Car Racing Club (CTCRC) introduced the Super Touring Class for these cars. Not only the cars (the real ones) but some of the drivers came back to race their cars! So to my point, I race a Honda Civic in the said Classic Touring Car Championship, which means, last year, I got to race against John Cleland and Anthony Reid oh and a bloke called Colin Turkington, whoever he is!! They say you should never meet your heroes as you will be disappointed. I'm hear to tell you my Hero, John Cleland is an absolute Gentleman and still an animal in a car! I shared a garage at Silverstone with him and he really is engaging, interesting and interested, full of banter and a genuine nice man. So, thank you TOCA! You put me on the tracks that have shaped my life in the real world.

@JamboP26 Год назад

A great series of games tbh. The best for me was Toca World Touring Cars. Even though not officially licensed teams-wise, the amount of cars and tracks were incredible. Not to mention night-races, like the BTCC did from 1998-2001. Sad the last outing for the full BTCC license was 2002's Toca Race Driver, based on the 2001 season. I waited for the 2003 season in Race Driver 2, but to no avail. How much I wanted to race that Petronas Proton...

@TheThejpmshow Год назад

What a fantastic video Loved this game as a 12/13 year old Spent many an hour on it And yes the tank / Cadillac / Hades track were extremely bizarre!

@TraxionGG Год назад

Thank you for watching!

@Scottphoto Год назад

I thoroughly enjoyed this video and the commentary. I was an official BTCC Photographer during the Super touring era. At the time I never realised what an iconic era it would be become. It’s time I got into my attic and had a rummage! Keep up the great work. 🙂👍🏼

@TraxionGG Год назад

Mega, thanks for sharing! That must have been awesome.

@davydrav Год назад

This game, it's sequel and the original Collin McRae rally were all I wanted to play at that age! So good! Thank you for the video.

@TraxionGG Год назад

Glad you enjoyed it!

@khajiit8221 Год назад

Got this game as a gift back in the day. Hated the car handling first time I played it, then never touched the game again for years. After dusting it off my shelve more recently, having gotten better at driving and racing games, I stuck the disc in my old PS1 and started playing again and loved it. Got used to the handling and the game was brilliant, fun, challenging, and I totally get why it was popular.

@TraxionGG Год назад

All about powering through the corner, gives you way more stability and grip! Glad you are enjoying it again now :)

@TeamHorneyRacing Год назад

Yes John! Love this game, still play it on my OG PlayStation with TOCA 2, Colin McRae Rally, V Rally and GT's 1 & 2.

@TraxionGG Год назад

Such a great era for racing games. Things have come so far in such a short space of time, but it’s great that these games still hold their charm today.

@rjpm92 Год назад

TOCA2 was my very first PSOne game. Absolutely loved it, was especially fond of the lochside bonus track.

@skister82 3 месяца назад

I'm slightly older so my first love was Senna's Super Monaco GP on the Mega drive but my god Toca on the PS One blew my mind. I loved the Toca series and have wanted for another ever since. The Grid series is the closest we will ever get I suppose unless Codemasters give us a remake which would be amazing. Love your channel by the way 👍

@TeamHorneyRacing Год назад

My memories of this era are vivid, I was in my mid to late teens with me and a few friends going to a round or two each year when student funds allowed. Much as I love BTCC still I think the Aussie V8 Super cars is the best saloon tin top series these days.

@NigeyB81 Год назад

I'm old enough to remember the touring cars from the late 80's when the Cosworth was around, another golden era. The super touring era is probably the best as there was lots of great drivers and manufactures involved at that time. Probably the BTCC is the best touring car championship in the world. I am hoping the new BTCC game coming can be a match for the real life championship, hopefully with some classic touring cars in there as well as the new generation cars

@TraxionGG Год назад

The 80's cars were lions, whilst super tourers were yappy terriors. Two amazing eras, very different but both filled with awesome machinery!

@Rodney4088 Год назад

Thanks for this video this was and still is an awsome game the hours spent playing this!! Good times!!!!!😊

@yanholliday8876 Год назад

as a dtm fan, i was and will forever be *very* jealous of the btcc fans of the 90s. i had to wait until 2002 to experience that......with a revived, somewhat less exciting championship, and in the follow-up series to the btcc games, no less. *jealous* , i tell ya !

@TraxionGG Год назад

I actually knew of Laurent Aiello because of DTM, it was a big surprise to me when I was a little older and went back to watch this era of BTCC! What a driver. Early days DTM was an amazing series as well, but you are right. I think what was missing was the number of manufacturers perhaps?

@adammundell406 Год назад

Playing 2 player with my dad who loved btcc as much as I did. Loved both of these games so much

@thomasvleminckx Год назад

I started with TOCA 2 in 1998. I was to impulsive in my driving as a 9-year old child to ever progress past the "Easy" championship, but back in 2018 I installed TOCA 2 again, and finally finished what I started - won the Medium and Hard championships. I love the Accord, Laguna and Primera the most, though all the cars from that era look sexy and very distinct from each other. I look at pics from modern BTCC and I dunno... they all look the same to me.

@machonugget Год назад

great video, this is what got me into racing along with the old commodore/amiga games, truly epic times when i was young...

@fcml Год назад

I'm from Brazil and I played many ToCA and ToCA 2 when I was young. I love the vibe from 90s races. We had a lot of influence from European and American racing games in the past, and only in the early 2010s, we had the Brazilian Stock Car game. Now, these games has become Automobilista 1 and 2 and are very competitive games in the market.

@SunDodger Год назад

Used to go to Oulton for the BTCC races in the late 90's - some great memories, including being stood around ten meters from James Thompson's crash that went into the Grandstand opening titles. Made me appreciate how much energy they dissipate in a split second. Got to do a few laps in a Vectra Challenge car on a track day for Vauxhall's business customers (thanks Dad!)

@TraxionGG Год назад

The speeds are crazy, tv never does it justice! That sounds very cool😊

@memoryremains2004 Год назад

I played TOCA Touring cars and played TOCA 2 when it released on my brother's PSX. I never got to see the Super Touring Era, my family and I were supposed to see the last round at Silverstone in 1999 but my grandad fell ill on the Sunday morning as we were getting ready to go. He passed away a couple of months later and yeah never went to a Super Touring Era BTCC meeting. I absolutely adored TOCA 2 though. To this day I keep trying to replicate and find a sim that gives the same enjoyment as that game did all those years ago; the only one I've found was RACE 07.

@TraxionGG Год назад

Race 07 was absolutely mega. Can’t wait to do a video on that franchise!

@Chunkychucky Год назад

Nice one editing out the footage of Cleland going in to the side of Soper so hard he goes up on 2 wheels at Brooklands 😂

@lolilolplix Год назад

Amazing game, I got this together with a Thrustmaster Formula T2 for Christmas in 97. Also an amazing time for BTCC, and a bit partial (being a Swede) for the station wagon Volvo and Rickard Rydell.

@paulmackenzie6615 Год назад

I understand you were too young but I was there.I watched it all Live.

@jamiehazelton7525 Год назад

Thanks for the trip down memory lane! WHY IS THERE NO MODERN TOCA TOURING CAR SEQUEL????

@samhigtondotcom Год назад

This was the first game I had for PlayStation; I still remember playing it on Christmas morning. If I recall correctly, there's a turn in the last sector of Croft that's great for flipping Audis.

@slaphead90 Год назад

BTCC in the 90's - a crashing series where a race might accidently happen.

@TraxionGG Год назад

Not wrong 😂

@realgun666 Год назад

Played this to death on a gamester wheel and pedals, no force feedback but you felt so connected to the road. Amazing for the time.

@chrisjackson3750 Год назад

The best thing about this title on PC, along with a few others around this time was Hardware Accelerated graphics, my Orchid Righteous Voodoo 1 3dfx card transformed the visuals and frame rate of this game and others for ever, a true game changing golden age for gamers of all tastes

@antonsamuelsson1317 Год назад

Was not broadcasted in Sweden but it reminds me of STCC from the same era with the supertourers

@TraxionGG Год назад

Ah man! STCC racing on Race07 had a similarly epic effect on me. Amazing series 😍

@antonsamuelsson1317 Год назад

@@TraxionGG simbin made those games didn't they

@Gerryflap Год назад

Played the PC version of this game quite a lot as a kid. I have never seen the actual races (nor did I know where the tracks actually were back then), but it was a lot of fun. As a kid I was more focused on ramming other cars and shooting at them with the tank, but nevertheless it was one of the first racing games I played and enjoyed. It's a funny coincidence that this video is published now, as I actually recently found the disc again and played it again for a bit, it's still lying on a table next to me.

@TraxionGG Год назад

Great to hear it!

@AFAR2809 Год назад

whenever I look at the graphics nowadays, a cringe creeps up afterward. but back in the day, I remembered that I was totally in awe of the game. couldn't make my mind up whether I'd go for gran Turismo or this title. at the end of the day, I made a pact with my mate for each to buy separate games and exchange them afterward. win-win situation I guess

@fix0the0spade Год назад

The tank. It was the tank that made it so special.

@GridsportGaming3068 Год назад

I really starting to the super touring era of the btcc it must been very good racing and the racing game TOCA is very good If I ever get my hands on TOCA or TOCA 2 I think I may post some of the game. Thanks for sharing and liking that you are a Big BTCC fan 💯😊👌

@TraxionGG Год назад

You are very welcome! I hope you enjoy playing them, would love to see the footage!

@paulsdotman269 Год назад

As I said on your Dave cam video the other day, console players need a new dedicated touring car sim, this game was amazing, you just brought back some great memories 👌

@TraxionGG Год назад

Great to hear!

@BugWarp Год назад

TOCA 2 and Colin McRae 2.0 were my first Codemasters games, I completely fell in love with the cars because despite not even being British, they certainly fell like your regular middle class car. The gameplay was just fantastic and the circuits were really well made for that time.

@brianeast9081 Год назад

Played the PC version almost religiously. Was always so much fun

@christhomas2644 7 месяцев назад

Toca 1 was awesome but Toca 2 was perfect in my opinion. My 3 favourite racing games of all time are f1 97, Toca 2 and the original Colin McRae which I still play to this day. Still so much fun and at the time so ground breaking all 3 .

@BTNMNKI Год назад

Loved this game. Spent hours with it.

@5340robert 4 месяца назад

TOCA was about my fave game when i was younger. I had it on playstation. I also had Formular 1 which had the 1995 teams and drivers, F1 97 and 99. I had TOCA 2 on PC i remember that had support races from the ford fiesta and formular ford championships if i remember correctly. I also had i think it was called TOCA world touring cars on playstation also.

@TheRubberDuck Год назад

Would be nice if the upcoming BTCC game had a "historic" setting simular to what F1 did a few years back, would love to race around in the 1997 BTCC cars again in full HD - shame in a way that there is no current game on the market with any of the road going vehicles in e.g Forza that you could recreate the liveries on

@TraxionGG Год назад

Would be very cool!

@DanLMH Год назад

B5 A4 is such a good looking car

@TraxionGG Год назад

Still holds up well now!

@VkmSpouge 3 месяца назад

Great game, my only gripe was the lack of the independents, my favourite was Matt Neal in his red Ford Mondeo/Nissan Primera, and I would have loved to have raced as Ian Heward's bright yellow Vauxhall Cavalier.

@Ngamer834 Год назад

This brings back memories

@TraxionGG Год назад

The nostalgia is strong!

@legendarycheekymonkey 6 месяцев назад

I've been recreating BTCC races in Assetto Corsa recently and it's funny how I remember Toca being much better looking and realistic than it actually is. I suppose back then it was the pinnacle but compared to today it's actually laughable. Still fond memories. I loved all the Toca games, specifically Toca World Tour and Toca Race Driver. We are well overdue a BTCC game as the only way I can enjoy that era now is through mods. Would love to see the best era of racing brought to life with modern tech.

@melonmusk2977 Год назад

que recuerdos!!!! gran juego! el honda accord era mi preferido

@Eichward_SKV Год назад

You forgot the amazing soundtrack the first TOCA game have.

@FullContactGames Год назад

I had more affiliation with the second game, but they were both amazing and still really really fun games today!

@PikaStu666 Год назад

I was at Knockhill in 94 when Tarquini rolled his Alfa. That’s my only memory of that day, apart from it being absolutely freezing! I don’t remember playing any of the games though?

@TraxionGG Год назад

The freezing part is guaranteed at Knockhill, I know it all too well…. Amazingly, Tarquini still races competitively in touring cars at the ripe age of 136.

@Franface31 Год назад

1:40 "I'm going for first - said John Cleland". God I miss Murray Walker.

@trenty4711 Год назад

Ahhh I soooo wish we had this remade in a modern sim! (I know about AC) BUT IMAGINE!!!

@labounti Год назад

I think only TOCA 3 came out in the US with completely different bait and switch name :D. That was a great PS1 game!

@user-nj5bd8ly1y 3 месяца назад

I was a ToCA 2 addict!

@BarkeeperMoe Год назад

I only got the PC-Version by my parents in the late 90s. I didn't even know the championship's name (maybe because it's unfortunately not that popular in germany). I remember that I was impressed by the weather effects, graphics and a cockpit view. Also the sounds were cool. But I also remember that I was very, very bad in this game.. I never unlocked any track, I only had Silverstone and Donington to race at..

@TraxionGG Год назад

Awesome! It certainly isn't easy but you do get the hang of it. All about avoiding lift-off oversteer, you have to nail the throttle whilst turning through the corners, get the braking done nice and early :)

@BarkeeperMoe Год назад

@@TraxionGG well today i love front wheel drive touring cars, at first WTCC/WTCR in Raceroom, now BTCCs in rf2- it's so much fun to race on Knockhill with these cars :]

@damionlee7658 Год назад

Great game. Quick correction to the video, the Windows version released at the same time as the PlayStation version. This was November 1997 for the European market. The North American releases were in 1998, so I suspect that is where the confusion came from. Never had the PlayStation version, but have plenty of memories of repeatedly flying off the track at the Donnington Esses on the PC. TOCA 2 brought with it plenty of enhancements, but I always preferred the cars from the original.

@TraxionGG Год назад

Thanks for the info! You are so right about Donington, keeping it on circuit down the hill and through old hairpin is very challenging 😂

@deanothemanc5281 Год назад

R factors 2 BTCC content is rather good. Sure rf2 has its issues, such as optimisation but when they get it right, it's bloody good. Always loved BTCC, since going with my dad in the mid 90s. Super Stevie Soper, is a LEGEND!!!!The codie games were great for the time

@MSavageEsq 4 месяца назад

Great review, I had TOCA2 and loved it. Wish I could play it still now, as despite the graphics, it was eminently playable with the various support series too. I would be interested to get the new game that is coming, but I think it has been cancelled.

@megmax84 Год назад

I remember this game so well. When I got the ps1 for Christmas 97, this was the game I wanted the most but I ended up getting the V-rally. But a friend received the Toca and from time to time he would lend it to me. It's a pretty tough game. 😅 Good times... 🙄

@gtxforza Год назад

Interesting!

@oli_gordon Год назад

you come for the intro leave when the review actually starts

@Krautastic Год назад

One of my favorite games and racing series ever. I bought all the games, Toca,Toca 2, Jarrett and labonte stock car racing, pro race driver, etc... In the 2000s btcc started to lose my interest as the aero made the cars less recognizable and frankly, rally and speedvision's own touring car championship nicely filled the void of btcc. I've still spent the last 20 years trying to replicate those gaming moments. Building these cars in gran turismo and forza as best I could. Even today my favorite racing is in raceroom's touring cars and bootleg mods for assetto corsa and automobilista. It's a shame that no game company has gone back in and built car models for these iconic racers. I would love to see an early 90s, mid nineties, and early 2000s btcc pack in just about any modern Sim.

@TraxionGG Год назад

Totally agree, would be sensational!

@SDRACING22 Год назад

BRILLIANT video fella Like you I also fell in love with the BTCC, sadly though I’m a lot older than you so I seen it in it’s hay day when it was on I would record it on VHS .. I was 12 I started watching it 94 season then my parents got me TOCA and we’ll the rest is history! Now I’m nearly 40 with a £3000 simulator racing these very cars on AC

@Cthulhou Год назад

I temember playing Toca 2 - by going the wrong way on purpose and doing head on crashes :D There was a damage system implemented there :)

@TraxionGG Год назад

Can very much relate to those memories😂 We were just testing the damage model for them!

@MrSmurfkilla Год назад

I was working in Nissan dealership when these games were out. Coz i worked every second Sunday, i took my playstation in as there was customer tv there already....and no bosses. Customers loved it as I'd let anyone play it. Boss came in once on one his bike rides and asked me why the hell it was there. Told so customer could drive a Primera round a track. Did ask him if he was gonna stay and watch F1 with us. He let me continue to take the playstation in btw

@MrChrissk Год назад

I remember it well, great game tbf for that period of games console. Codemasters did great work with that and Colin McRae rally. If I remember you had a option to race track in reverse too, cheat wise I think. I remember doing Donington backwards. Today 2 was good, think it had some fiesta series on too. Was not a big fan at first of the handling as when breaking you could not turn.

@Mike-1000 Год назад

*This and Group B Rallying were the equivalent of motorsports violence !!!*

@TraxionGG Год назад

Throw Group C sportscars in there and you have the ultimate holy trinity

@Mike-1000 Год назад

@@TraxionGG Yeah true ..... Good days man.

@simonhouel1984 Год назад

I still remember the complete fear when hitting the brakes on the first S at Snetterton under the thunderstorm ...

@TraxionGG Год назад

😂

@kylewaddington1983 Год назад

It was my first ever play Station 1 racing car game and is it better then game Boy Colour one I got Toca 2 Trouing cars Champship as well

@rjbishop6128 Год назад

Ohh I hated the 'required finish' stuff so much :p Though it did mean I raced Donington way more, and it's now one of my favourites, so silver linings :D

@CrystalPink29 Год назад

Those races was more exciting than F1 races from now a days. FOR LONG!

@user-vm7pk1oz6j Год назад

Как всё начиналось 🔥😏

@user-rc5ej6cg6b Год назад

It''s a little unfair to directly compare the graphics of GT and ToCA. GT never had more than 6 cars in a race, had all fictional tracks (so they could hide pop-iin with strategically based bridges and tunnels) and Polyphony had access to (possibly invented? memory's fuzzy) the Playstation Performance Analyser dev tools which allowed them to super-optimse (which Codemasters wouldn;t get access to for another couple of years). ToCA had 16 cars, and real world tracks (many of which were disused airfields, and damage. The need to reflect the real-world tracks and grid imposed a set of restrictions on Codies that GT didn;t need to worry about, allowing Polyphony them to focus on graphics and physics to a far better degree.

@The_AOJ Год назад

TOCA!!

@TraxionGG Год назад

We all share this energy 🙏🏻

@benoitpeloquin1910 Год назад

Please help. I have a ps3. What is the best btcc game for the ps3 🤔

@22deadbird22 Год назад

I think in TOCA 2 if you put POSHKID as your name it gets rid of the points requirements in the championship. Also anyone recommend any more recent games with good BTCC mods? Mostly looking for the Super Touring years 1991-2000