The History of Super Off Road - Arcade console documentary
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I spent many, many hours as a “yute” playing this in the arcade!!! Hot Damn! You’ve done it again Patman!
Thanks :-)
This was by far my favorite arcade game when I was little. Someday I WILL own a full-sized cabinet of this with the expansion pack.
Vaguely remember this in the arcades
there was really something special about the way this game felt. When you got gud and could whip that infinitely spinning wheel around and stop it at just the right time to make a tight turn and come out straight, it was so satisfying.
Too bad about the microtransactions and eventual cheap AI, but playing against real people with gentlemanly rules makes for one hell of a game.
I agree the playability was off the charts
That is what I agree with. The feel of that wheel was nice control.
Best ever, hands down!
I can still remember begging my parents for quarters to play the original Super Off-Road machine that was located in the lobby of Phar Mor at the Village Shopping Center in Davenport, IA! If we were lucky enough to catch my dad on a good day he would play my sister & I in a game or to of it and let our mom go shopping. Good times!
My father loved this game, he got it for our NES when it came out, and rebought it again when it came out on snes
Wow...you just made a Phar-Mor reference. Now that's a deep cut.
have an abandoned phar mor by me not touched since closing,philly
This game was played for MANY hours by my friends and I in our youth. It was the reason a couple friends had the NES 4 Score, just so we could all play it at the same time. I was always a fan of the NES soundtrack, too.
This was my favorite game at the bowling alley. The wheel response, the rush and the money really made me feel like I was winning and not wasting quarters. It was FUN! It seemed fair once you got nitros and could blast to the finish line last lap! I love this arcade cabinet and wish I had one. Thank you sir for the awesome doc
"If money is no object, then, by all means, go crazy and mow some people down." Unexpectedly poignant social commentary. heh
I hated Hard Driving, but I love your vids!!! As a 50 year old male, I spent a lot of time and money in the arcades growing up!!!
Thanks a lot :-)
I also hated Hard Driving. I never understood the appeal.
Ha! I loved Hard Drivin, lol
Hard Drivin' was absolutely awesome. Arcade cabinet had fantastic physics and force feedback.
@@TechRyze and about 3FPS!!!
Loved this game as a kid. The steering wheel was a blast to use
Yes it was :-)
Loved Super Off Road And Hard Drivin As A Kid!! Ahh Good Times!
I agree, I loved the replays
The most underrated channel on UA-cam. Anyone ever say you sound like Robert Forster?
Nice of you to say my friend. LOL, I have had a lot of mentioned that I sound like him. That's a compliment because he's got a great voice
This channel is my weekday de-stresser. I listen and watch while cooking myself a nice meal after work! One of THE all-time favorites!❤️
Played this for the first time in an arcade when I was 10 with my dad. He said he didn't let me win, but I know better. He kicked ass at this game. What a fond memory you brought back to me because of this vid. Thanks Patman
Absolutely, thanks for sharing
This brings back some really good 7-11 memories! After school we’d rush to play this and it was worth it. Sprint Grand Prix was good too!
9:01 fun fact. The literal translation here for Huevos Grande is Big Eggs, but applying a bit of double entendre, it also translates to Big Balls. Which I'm convinced the programers were aware of this and they named it anyways, which I find kind of hilarious. If only the parents of the kids playing this knew ...
And as I turns out, I paused this video halfways and I scoured playthrough videos because this game looked familiar to me. Turns out I had played Super Off-road for SNES many years ago. Me and my brother had gotten the system back in 97 when it was already getting discontinued and afterwards we went to a local flea market where we actually picked this one up for about $5 along with a Brett Hull hockey game, Super Mario World, and a Ninja Turtles game. And I recall this being pretty entertaining, but unfortunately for it, our console came bundled with Killer Instinct, so it didn't get the attention it deserved.
The PC version is one of my all-time favourites. I spent countless hours playing it on my 486, listening to the fantastic Adlib soundtrack.
Didn't matter what kind of IBM PC you had, this game ran really good on it
This game was a bowling alley staple!
LOL, I can attest to that :-)
Omg Pole Position,Hard Drivin,Super Sprint....you took me all the way back to my childhood with those. WoW
All classic games
While I only played the arcade machine a handful of times due to limited funds, I spent many hours enjoying the NES version. Earning upgrades to my truck's performance proved quite addictive.
The NES version was pretty good especially for an eight bit system
Great job as always Pat! I've always loved racing games myself. We had an old 73 Monte Carlo in the garage, that didn't run, back in the day. I was about 11 or 12. I used to sit in it behind the wheel, and pretend I was driving lol. Good times, good times!
I LOVED this game SO MUCH! No racer was ever as fun to play as Super Off Road! (Micro Machines came close, though!)
Micro machines is fantastic as well
Thank You PatmanQC For Taking About The Racing Game I Never Play for a Long Time Call Off Road and Super Off Road Arcade and Video Game's 👍👍
I Love Racing and Racing Games What's Your Favorite Racing Games PatmanQC?
I Do Enjoy Off Road and Super Off Road Arcade Game's But Let's Not Forget Other Best Racing Games included on the List.
4:29 Badlands Arcade Racing Game From ATARI Video Game Company.
12:40 Super Off Road the Baja on Super Nintendo Entertainment System that Game is so AWESOME!!!
17:10 17:41 21:56 And Yes I Don't Want to Forgot Two Super Off Road Game's One for Nintendo Entertainment System and the Other One Also on Super Nintendo Entertainment System too that SNES Was Awesome 👍👍.
I used to play this at my local bowling alley as a kid as my parents sat at the bar . Ahh what great memories.
I'm so glad you get to relive these memories while sharing your passion. I enjoy the nostalgia. Thanks!
This is the most played driving game in my collection when we have company. Outrun, Super Sprint and Race Drivin' are second, third, and fourth most popular at home. The Track Pack is an absolute must have for this machine
This game was the only arcade at our Seven Eleven back in the day! i played this game after school for years! A school office clerk would pay me each day $5 in cash for an hours work & give me her special bus pass they handed to teachers to get a free ride home if needed & she obviously didn't need it. With my 5 bucks I'd get a 2 dollar Hot Dog & 3 dollars in quarters & play Off Road! Then use the bus pass to ride home when i was flat broke as that game took all my quarters! Good Times!
LOL that's fantastic. What a great way to spend your money
Oh hell yes one of my favorite games ever nothing beat playing this with friends on the NES thank you Patman
Always loved this series. Timeless fun 👍🏻
I agree, it's a timeless classic in my opinion
I spent so many quarters playing this game in the arcades back in my younger days. To be honest, it was a toss up between this and Super Sprint! *PatmanQC* you are a living legend
You're right, it was a tossup for me as well. I might have to give it to off road just for the simple fact that you can use the turbo :-) thank you my friend
Wow, talk about a throw back. Me and my two brothers would play this and Super Mario endlessly on the Super Nintendo. We still have a copy and a SN to this day and will sometimes throw it on for the nostalgia. last time was a couple months ago haha. The music's blaring through my head right now.
The visit was fantastic
'A bevy of buxom beauties.' I love the way you choose your words to describe these old games :)
LOL, why thank you :-)
We had this game in my high school senior commons. Class of 97. Great memories here!
That sounds like my kind of high school LOL
I remember when they brought this into the UA theater I where I worked. I had great fun playing it, and I'm not even into racing games much. I had the SNES version as well. The music was all different from the arcade and included Toyota's "I love what you do for me" tune during the shop screen. And it featured Mickey Thomas instead of Ivan Stewart, but I didn't know who either of them were anyway.
I had forgotten all about this game. I remember trying it, but I had trouble steering the car with the semi-overhead view so I didn't play it too much.
I always enjoyed it
I grew up in a bowling alley my Mom managed. Off Road and Super Sprint are two of my all time favorite arcade games. Something about how you could wheel the hell outta those cars/trucks just made sense to me. 😂
Yes, the free spinning wheel was fantastic LOL
Your comment at 29:30 made me laugh and reminded me of the disclaimer on the back of Spectrum / c64 boxes "Screenshots from Amiga and Atari ST'
Hard driving is one of my all-time favorite racing games! The sit down arcade version was the best!! Hundreds of dollars of quarters I spent on that version!! If I could afford it I'd get that for my home!! As is I still play it on my Sega Nomad
Yes the sitdown version was fantastic
played this game for so many hours on a 286 PC back in the day. So much fun
In addition to Pole Position (1&2), Super Sprint, & Outrun. Other racing games that I loved were Crusin' USA, Crusin' World, & F-ZERO
This was such a huge game for us back in the day, we had the 3-player cabinet in a local arcade and we'd play it all the time. I think Super Sprint will always be my favorite top down racer, but this comes a close second.
I think I preferred this one over super Sprint just because of the Nitro's but it's a tough choice
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries I used to play the ST versions of both of them a lot, they were amazing fun to play with friends... heck even way after the day... we'd get stoned and play 3 player super sprint on the ST while the Genesis gathered dust in the corner :D
Love and still play the hell out of this on SNES. Boulder Canyon is when the rage quit happens.
Too true
Oh man, the SNES verison. That Tim Follin soundtrack. Absolutely top tier.
This game, with three player input, is at Lowry Parcade in Tampa FL, for anyone near there.
Excellent
Yeah, this game was EVERYWHERE back in the day. For a couple of years there you couldn’t go into an arcade, pizza parlor, or bowling alley without seeing one. Never one of my top top favorites but always fun to pop a couple quarters in while you waited for the pizza to finish baking. I never bought any of the home versions but I remember renting the NES cart once when I had some friends coming over for a birthday party, since I owned a Satellite.
It’d be great to get a video on the Sprint series sometime in the future too. I played a bunch of Championship Sprint growing up because there was one very close to my house for years and it was another easy “pick up and play” game. A few years ago at one of the classic arcade expos I attended someone actually brought in a huge Sprint 8 machine from the 1970s. If you thought playing one of these overhead racers with four simultaneous players was wild, try it with eight simultaneous players sometime - that was a total blast!
PatManQC, thank you for this. This is still one of my all time favorite games. As always, your channel delivers on the goods. You definitely need to be on a major network. Belee Dat!!!!!
I really appreciate that, I would love to be in a major network LOL thanks so much
As a kid I spent countless hours playing this game at the Ca-Nv state line nickel arcade.
Not wanting to lose vehicle progress would keep you playing until your bladder threatened to burst.
Also, nothing beat saving up some Nitro and stealing a win at the end.
Oh absolutely, just jamming that Nitro button was great
Super Off Road has always been my fav racer..
Super Sprint was a close second..
It's very close for me as well. I have to give the advantage to super off-road though just because of the nitro
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries
Equally agreed..
I'd normally spend all my cash on nitro..
I'd hit that button like I was playing Galaga!
I always found the top down view of those tracks aestheticly pleasing for some reason.
I even tried to draw tracks like em for my micro machines as a kid. :D
That is very cool :-)
0:18
Yes! This is the NES set we got. Ours came with the gray blaster. Great memories of seeing and playing Super Mario Brothers, for the first time, that day. My father played it for days until he beat it.
Of course we played Duck Hunt and the Clay pigeon shooter game. However, those were kinda difficult for my 5 yo self. So it was quickly back to Mario 1 to see how far you can make it by only running at full speed through the obstacles. To this day, when i play a Mario game, it's as fast as possible
That's awesome, I love reading about family bonding over video games. When I met my wife and she knew I was into video games she told me how awesome she was at the original super Mario. So I got the NES out and play the first level in her jaw about dropped with how fast I can make it through LOL maybe that's why she's hated me all these years?
Love your videos!! Always a treat!
Pat, your commentary and information on all uploads are not only funny but spot on with my youth interaction at arcade. Your Channel is spot on. The day you photo shoped i remember on bob ross pic. With your catch tag.....perfect!
That is high praise indeed and I really do appreciate the kind words. Thanks a lot
Used to play this at a lamppost pizza every weekend when my gramps took me. Those were amazing times.
I am hooked on your videos sir! History, a touch of comedy, and thorough reviews make for engaging topics. I’m not that big of a gamer anymore but through the 80s into the early 2000s I definitely could be found in my local Arcade!
Wow, thanks!
Thanks for all the great videos! Keep 'em coming.
Thanks, will do!
the original game boy version of super off road was one of the first game boy games i bought. I loved it and played it a ton. It was slower and plain looking but it was close enough for on the go off road.
Out Run remains my fave arcade racer. I think the NES port of Off Road though is incredible.
I remember that cabinet. Super sick fun
Another great vid Patman! thank you.
freaking PatmanQC! if anyone deserves UA-cam success it's this guy! love watching content from people that love what they're doing! Thanks again and good luck Patman, never stop kicking ass!!!
I used to love this game series! Also, I love the fact that you include some of the abc commercial intros lol 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾
Glad you like them!
I like how some of the ports randomly have super-aggressive MIDI banjo music.
But... what about the other arcade sequel, Off-Road Thunder? It was on the third midway collection too!
Sooooooo glad to see this game get it's deserved love from you! Great video man!
Excellent, thank you so much
I loved this and Super Sprint. The top down view and the free spinning steering wheel are so good. Demolition Derby (I think it's called) is another great game like this.
Completely forgot about that game, and that was fun as well
22:29 : "The music and sound effects are really good, and well worth a look."
22:34 : ---Diarrhea after a day of eating at Chipotle and TacoBell.
Ah the days of playin the arcade version with my cousins, good times, also have this game on the Midway Arcade Treasures for my PS2.
It's too bad we don't have a steering wheel attachment LOL
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries Agreed, i kinda miss the days of consoles accessories.
I spent most of my weekends at the bowling alley through 1988-1990 because my dad bowled in a Sunday night league… I never saw Badlands. Interesting!
I never sought in the arcades either, I played it for the first time in the Amiga
Thanks to show me the "Cruis'n USA off road" for Nintendo 64. Now I need to finish this game!!!
Excellent, have fun
Excellent and comprehensive review as always. To be honest I guess the reason I never was a fan of Super Off Road is because I only played the console versions like NES, Super Nintendo, Genesis and haven't played the Arcade version with a steering wheel and pedals nor have I competed with other players. I should probably give it a shot with Fightcade 2 and see if there's other players online that's interested in the game. My favorites that I play quite often is the arcade version of Outrun, the NES, Genesis and Gameboy versions of R.C. Pro-Am, pretty much any version of Super Sprint, the Arcade and NES versions of Spy Hunter, and there was a neat MSDOS game called Super Speed that I loved playing in the mid 90's. Buggy Run is also a fantastic racing game for the Master System that never came out in America but I got to play it years later via emulation. It reminds me a lot of the upgrade system that Super Off Road has. But it's interesting how racing game developers kept getting inspired and bumping ideas off one another over the years lol 😇
👍👍👍 love it
Thank you
Fantastic documentary - keep it up!
I'm shocked that the c64 version looks and plays so well. and I'm gobsmacked that there's a version for the spectrum at all that's actually playable.
awww man, but in the track upgrades for the arcade version, they clothed the bikini chicks! outrageous!
Most of the ports turned out really good except for the Game Boy and Lynx versionS
Dude, your one of my favorite you tube channels.
Wipeout and Cliffhanger were very hard tracks. I remember many a time I'd unload on the boost near the finish line just to beat that little gray truck.
This was a favourite pick up and play game for me on my game gear.
this is by far my favorite arcade game and one of the best racers ever. I'd rank it second behind the original snes mario kart for best racers pre n64/ps1 era
Great video like always Patman!
Thanks again!
Man U r just pumping these out. Keep it up
Gotta love the 'Huevos Grande' track aka 'BIG BALLS' Lmao
I never knew that, LOL
Fantastic job on this one! Great stuff!
Thank you! Cheers!
I was always happy when I would go to an arcade and see this cabinet. It was also one of my favorite multiplayer games on the NES. I can hear the music in my head just thinking about it.
Love all your videos! Thank you !!!
Glad you like them! Thanks so much
I lived on the same road as Ivan Stewart. I didn't even know about it until after he moved. I would've crapped my pants if I ever met him being a huge fan of this game.
LOL, that's very cool
Ow man this game brings back memories , playing countless hours on my old 286 back in the Day with Friends .... Good times
Yes indeed :-)
I just loved how the game itself was like Ivan Stewart's own version of Super Sprint..but those vehicles founded in the game were pretty excellent..the music were also one of the things why I wanted to listening some arcade musics..and I hopefully wanting to played it only on arcade emulators and would definitely spending for about 1 hour of it..while that I could setting my food and drinks session while playing it..Great video, Mr. Patman..whenever new videos came out..I'm just always here to ready myself for some relaxing retro arcade history like most of my favorites such as Mario Bros., Popeye, Ikari Warriors, Mortal Kombat and many more
Grand Trak 10. WOW.. I was like 6 years old playing that... awesome videos my man
Thanks a ton!
The amount of hours and quarters my friends and I spent on this game is beyond count! Thanks for another great video on another Classic!
Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you
"Huevos Grande(s)" cracks me up! It's a euphemism that means "big balls" in Spanish!
I played the holy crap out of this as a kid in my local pizza parlor. Always loved it, never enough quarters.
It was so fun, especially in multiplayer mode
Maybe this is the first game with micro transaction? Great video once again 💯 loved running into this game in the wild as a kid 🤞🏽😁🤞🏽
That could be. If you are counting actually putting money in to continue a game that goes back a lot further
I remember playing this game with my brother back in '89(I believe). But I don't recall ever seeing the extra tracks arcade version, so this is new for news to me. I also remember playing the amazing, yet limited NES version at home since I had the 4 player attachment at home. I also had the MSDOS version and later on the SNES version. Even though I had a c64, I never played that version. Does anybody know if there is like a MOD version of the arcade game for MAME? I am thinking about connecting my ps5 controllers on my Android TV to challenge my kids on Sidewinder or Wipeout and show them who's the boss.
Loved Super Off Road. I've spent coins playing it at my local arcades back in the days. Thank you for the vid Patman.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Your video's are great! Keep up the good work!!!
Thanks, will do!
GOD I remember this! So far the only thing I found that comes close is on the Nintendo Switch called "Rock'N Racing Off Road DX". helps me relive my childhood.
I had the original for the super Nintendo, I love the game. The music was phenomenal
I would love to see a 3D or First Person version of this. However, they way the gaming industry is these days, they'll probably make you pay real money for the smallest things in the games.
They had a first person game that I showed in the video from 1997. It looks very similar to the arcade game cruisin USA
big red racing (if you turn 1st person view on) is kinda like what it would be.
microsofts monster truck racing might be another a bit like being a successor.
of course both of those are from 90s.
They still have this at a local arcade. It's been there for 30 plus years lol.
I loved these games as a kid, even the NES versions. I remember my dad asking why the cars farted, then we just called it car farts instead of nitro lol. Good memories man.
LOL that's hilarious
This Arcade Racer & SEGA RALLY, was My Favorite Arcade Racing Cabinets.
(ChaseH.Q. is in My Arcade Racing List as Well, Along with Lucky&Wild.)
Chase HQ is one of my favorites
was never big on racing games in the arcade, but i swear to troll jesus i saw this game everywhere.
This and Rampage were probably my favorite arcade games to play back then
One of my absolute favorites!!
One of mine as well, love it