I remember running out my house to get this game from Toy’s R Us on my 10th birthday. I remember my Aunt and Grandma giving me money to get it. They’re both passed on now, and is another nice memory of how good they were. Thanks.
2020 and this still manages to put a smile on my face. This is timeless classic, and one of Rare's best games out there. Also, the yellow car is a cheating bastard.
Imagine all the fkn anxiety we went through as kids...hearing that high pitched turbo kick in after you spent hours trying to beat a certain stage only to fkn lose at the last second hahahaha I loved it.
Connecting the pre-race menu with the starting jingle is honestly a stroke of genius. The pace of gameplay in this game took the breath away just playing it. You didn't have time to stop.
This person playing this is the best I’ve ever seen! If you haven’t played this it gets really hard around the 14th level to get it perfect is very very hard
@@TheNoisePolluter Fandom RC Pro AM "Computer AI The computer is very weak on track 1, but gets progressively harder as the player advances through the tracks. In the first 24 tracks, if the blue car is significantly behind the player, it will speed up to a speed somewhat faster than the player's current maximum speed. But if the blue car is significantly ahead of the player, it will slow down to a speed significantly slower than the player's current maximum speed. The green and yellow cars maintain a constant speed, usually slightly slower than the player's current maximum speed, but if the player shoots and destroys an opposing car, the player risks having the yellow car reach the "impossible" constant speed of 127 mph. (The players absolute maximum is 103 mph)"
Tnx alot for the video, this was my 2nd game in 1990 I was 9yrs old, my thumb was bleeding at times from playing it so much, I got emotional, makes me feel like a kid again!!!
I inherited this game... lol. i had a neighbor at an apartment complex that had this huge box of NES games, this was back in 1999 or so, the family moved out and he left half of them behind... gold dust. this game was in there. also for those that want a 2 player experience of this exact gameplay, rock n roll racing on the SNES. epic fun.
Memories!!! Yes I was a Nintendo Nerd back in middle school! Remember playing this a lot and up past midnight on a school night and hear my dad say “Boy turn that thing off and go to bed”!!! Memories.
I was born in '83, and I think my family got a NES in '87 or '88. This game came out in '87, it was likely a year or more later that I played it. It was one of the few games that I had at the time. This video brings back so many feelings of a younger time. Years later in college I got a FC Twin "8 and 16 bit console" (played most NES and SNES games), which I then combined with this game and a Game Genie (my original from as a kid), and I think that this game realistically becomes impossible at level 32 if I remember correctly. Eventually they get so fast that you literally can't win.
I spent many a days and nights after school playing this game. For me, definitely top five best NES games. I know the list is long but damn this was a good one.
Man I think the Orange car used to use Nitris or something...cause I remember being a kid and being out in front a that guy would hit a switch and it was like Doc Brown in the Delorean on me....This and Mike Tyson's Punchout were the only games that stumped me...didn't beat Punchout til I was like 28 and determined to go back and conquer my childhood nemesis...RC Proam...well 35 and counted, still no luck.
I always found a lot of symbology between life and RC Pro-Am. It's not so much about how good you are, but more about how good you are getting through obstacles and trying to do it better than the person behind you...and hoping you're lucky enough to have missiles to shoot at them if they happen to get ahead of you.
+Jason Jewell I agree with you.. Based on my experience.. I'd say you need to shoot him when you hear that turbo boost noise he makes. Granted it can happen multiple times and if you miss, your're screwed. but still fun.
Minimise your use of weapons. The yellow car's cheating is in response to your cheating of using weapons they can't. Roll cages are a safe way to cause other cars to crash without triggering his super turbo. Once the super turbo is triggered, you need to blast him to turn it off. On tracks 29 and later, every car super turbos right out of the gate, and you need to blast them immediately or you will lose.
Holy crap, never knew about the correlation between weapons use and Turbo mode. I just used to suck it up and accept that you had to let that car win that round if you couldn't blast them fast enough....... and then Not lose again. I think mid- 20's was as far as I could get that way back in the day. I played this till my eyes were sore over and over.....
Such a great game. I loved the upgrade feature on this back when I was a kid. I got this gane from a friend but I can't remember what I traded for. I know I traded a baseball card for Caslevenia.
Same. But now I'm grown up and play it for Genesis. Hehe.. it's basically the same game except your antenna blows back when you speed up. .. and 5 cars on the track instead of 3.
Amazing how my mind remembers the strategy as it is playing out. Also, I think the reved up engine sounds like the car in the movie The Wraith (another 80's gem).
The title screen suddenly popped in my head out of nowhere and for the love of me i couldn't remember the name or even the fact it was a game with RC cars, all i remember were the two cars on the screen from my childhood, and i finally found it. What a amazing rush of nostalgia
Race 5 they almost got you but the shotgun blast was perfect on the green and orange. I love seeing real plays of this game it's gets exciting cause the opportunity to lose is always there
I remember when my dad bought me the NES. After 6 months he told me "you can choose 2 games", so we went to the store and there was a lot of games, I chose Mike Tyson Punch Out and I chose (for his cover) R.C. PRO AM without knowing anything about the game. Boy, both game were awesome but tough as nails. Thanks Dad for those great gifts.
It’s September 19, 2024 and I’m up at exactly 2 in the morning watching you destroy this game! 😅 I’ve never seen these levels before. This was definitely one of my favorite games! It was just too hard for me.
Wow my favorite childhood game I haven't seen it since I was a child 😲😲😲 damn things have really changed, But I'm glad I'm getting older though....Respect✔️ Good Shit💯
I would've hate to have environment friendly, liberal parents while growing up because they wouldn't let me play this game with all that oil on the road.
The blue car speeds up when you get far enough ahead of it, and slows down when it gets the lead. so in a longer race you may wish to let it pas you when you are a lap or two away from winning so it will slow down again, and allow you to pass later.
i remember level 24 from my childhood. i was like 10 years old when i got this for christmas back in 1988 and got that far. i just dont remember if i beat it or not though. but that dont matter considering i topped the game 12 years ago.
Spent countless hours playing this game. It says 32 tracks of fun. I finally reached 32 tracks thinking I beat the game. But it continues on after that until you can no longer win. Lol in a sense I did beat the game. So much fun!
I wonder if any other UA-camr has made an RC Pro Am video that covers when most of the screen darkens and the cars and most other items are still visible. It makes the game a lot harder but is still passable. It's been so long since it has happened to me while playing. I may have a rare glitched copy since I cannot find any info on it anywhere.
Damn. Way better than I was at this game 🤦🏻♂️😂 The intro music still fires me up! 😎🤙🏽 I was hoping this would be on that little mini Nintendo with all the games stored on it but it’s not haha sucks.
This game was a cheat back when I was a kid. The CPU would pick one car out of the bunch when I was really far ahead and hit the turbo button and zoom pass everyone. Nevertheless this was and still is an enjoyable game for all ages. It definitely set the tone for Mario kart as soon as the SNES came into the picture.
The one thing I wish they'd tweaked was the camera, such that is moved further behind the car based on the direction it was driving in, and adjusted in realtime as the car turned, such that you would always see a bit more of the track ahead. Right now the car is always in the centre of the screen so quite a bit of the potential extra view ahead is wasted seeing what's behind, which is as important imo.
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I remember running out my house to get this game from Toy’s R Us on my 10th birthday. I remember my Aunt and Grandma giving me money to get it. They’re both passed on now, and is another nice memory of how good they were.
Thanks.
BEAUTIFUL!!
I’m basically the same age. Time flies by doesn’t it?
Thats a good memory. They wanted you to be happy. Did you play the game with them or did they watch you play it?
@@andrewtrushinski3848 Nah, they were pretty clueless to video games, and just played cards.
2020 and this still manages to put a smile on my face. This is timeless classic, and one of Rare's best games out there. Also, the yellow car is a cheating bastard.
omg yeah! The yellow car!
seriously F that yellow car. held a grudge for 35 years
As soon as you hear that sound if you dont blast him it's over with.
I told my parents the game cheated and they thought I was nuts
@@wdkaye 2:13 LOL
After enduring those frustrating years, just seeing the Yellow Car get put in its place feels so good
Imagine all the fkn anxiety we went through as kids...hearing that high pitched turbo kick in after you spent hours trying to beat a certain stage only to fkn lose at the last second hahahaha I loved it.
I freegin love the nostalgia. Such a big part of my childhood. Ahhh the 80’s.
90s for me. I got it used yo.
I was so bad at this game, so bad. Ah the memories.
Yep good old days 👍
Had so much fun playing RC Pro AM and Super Off Road as a kid. Late 80s, early 90s for me.
Same I played the shit outta this game..
Connecting the pre-race menu with the starting jingle is honestly a stroke of genius. The pace of gameplay in this game took the breath away just playing it. You didn't have time to stop.
1988, listening to my Public Enemy album every day after school. You took me back.
This person playing this is the best I’ve ever seen! If you haven’t played this it gets really hard around the 14th level to get it perfect is very very hard
WOW!!!!!!! What memories. It has to be at least 30 years since I played this game.
Same here.
I used to barrow it from my neighbor friend
hi Charles you look so handsome
16:08 There's nothing more satisfying than when you make the Orange car crash right as it's about to go into turbo hyper-speed.
yeah, that cheater bastard
Are you color blind? Yellow!
@@actsismmljcorrectlyobeyed6190 No, it's Orange, just look and compare the orange car to the yellow directional arrows on the course, such as 2:13
@@TheNoisePolluter SIGH 🙄
@@TheNoisePolluter Fandom RC Pro AM
"Computer AI
The computer is very weak on track 1, but gets progressively harder as the player advances through the tracks. In the first 24 tracks, if the blue car is significantly behind the player, it will speed up to a speed somewhat faster than the player's current maximum speed. But if the blue car is significantly ahead of the player, it will slow down to a speed significantly slower than the player's current maximum speed. The green and yellow cars maintain a constant speed, usually slightly slower than the player's current maximum speed, but if the player shoots and destroys an opposing car, the player risks having the yellow car reach the "impossible" constant speed of 127 mph. (The players absolute maximum is 103 mph)"
My D-pad thumb hurts just watching this. Brings me back!
Pre-Mario Kart. I loved this game so much as a kid. Easily one of my favorites of all time.
Tnx alot for the video, this was my 2nd game in 1990 I was 9yrs old, my thumb was bleeding at times from playing it so much, I got emotional, makes me feel like a kid again!!!
Dj Conejo mee2
Nintendo thumb....we lost a lot of good men out there.
I am smiling ear to ear watching the whole thing remembering how fun this was even if you lost
came up on my insta feed and had to come to youtube and check - incredible vault of memories with this game!
Me and my brothers would stay up all night playing this game when I was a kid. Good memories ^^
I always loved the sound the cars made when you got a powerup right after hitting a zipper like at 5:06. WOoOoOoOoOo!
Tom C hahahah I hear ya, very crazy addictive sounds in this game
FACTS
I inherited this game... lol. i had a neighbor at an apartment complex that had this huge box of NES games, this was back in 1999 or so, the family moved out and he left half of them behind... gold dust. this game was in there.
also for those that want a 2 player experience of this exact gameplay, rock n roll racing on the SNES. epic fun.
Still the best racing game ever made. No other can take its place
Pro-am2 ?
Sega rally?
F-Zero GX would like a word.
Mario Kart?
Rad racer
Mario Kart
I still hear the theme song from this song playing in my mind from time to time. Haven’t played it in 20 plus years
Bro that's why I'm here now 😂
@@AB1B1 ha! Thanks for replying. It gave me a reason to come back and hear these sounds again. Good memories.
I get nes songs in my head from time to time also. Some I remember right away.
This was a fun as hell game hours and hours playing this as a little kid
Memories!!! Yes I was a Nintendo Nerd back in middle school! Remember playing this a lot and up past midnight on a school night and hear my dad say “Boy turn that thing off and go to bed”!!! Memories.
Oh god this game was so addicting...
I was born in '83, and I think my family got a NES in '87 or '88. This game came out in '87, it was likely a year or more later that I played it. It was one of the few games that I had at the time. This video brings back so many feelings of a younger time. Years later in college I got a FC Twin "8 and 16 bit console" (played most NES and SNES games), which I then combined with this game and a Game Genie (my original from as a kid), and I think that this game realistically becomes impossible at level 32 if I remember correctly. Eventually they get so fast that you literally can't win.
I LOVED THIS GAME! Way beyond its time!
I spent many a days and nights after school playing this game. For me, definitely top five best NES games. I know the list is long but damn this was a good one.
I have to agree with you on that.
Super Sprint and Super Off Road are my two personal favorite NES racing games, tho I know they started in arcade first.
I just won the rc pro am for the first time...ive been playing 26 years..hard game...learned from yours...thanks for the help
I really miss this game. Definitely one of my favorite all time games!!
I forgot all about this game!! I loved it so much! I need to get it back now
Oh my ...brought back to child hood. I used to remember the feeling of going to rent a game and the game I wanted was there.
Thats because back then there wasnt as many foreigners with visas coming to saturate the job market and cause traffic
Man I think the Orange car used to use Nitris or something...cause I remember being a kid and being out in front a that guy would hit a switch and it was like Doc Brown in the Delorean on me....This and Mike Tyson's Punchout were the only games that stumped me...didn't beat Punchout til I was like 28 and determined to go back and conquer my childhood nemesis...RC Proam...well 35 and counted, still no luck.
I used to spend hours playing this game! I forgot how fun it was. Now I wish that I could play it again!
This was an excellent game at that time
I always found a lot of symbology between life and RC Pro-Am. It's not so much about how good you are, but more about how good you are getting through obstacles and trying to do it better than the person behind you...and hoping you're lucky enough to have missiles to shoot at them if they happen to get ahead of you.
The sound fx on this are amazing.
how do you keep the yellow car from going into turbo mode? always pissed me off as a kid
+Jason Jewell I agree with you.. Based on my experience.. I'd say you need to shoot him when you hear that turbo boost noise he makes. Granted it can happen multiple times and if you miss, your're screwed. but still fun.
+Jason Jewell Haven't played it but i'd recommend destroying the yellow car as soon as possible before he ever goes turbo.
Minimise your use of weapons. The yellow car's cheating is in response to your cheating of using weapons they can't. Roll cages are a safe way to cause other cars to crash without triggering his super turbo.
Once the super turbo is triggered, you need to blast him to turn it off. On tracks 29 and later, every car super turbos right out of the gate, and you need to blast them immediately or you will lose.
Holy crap, never knew about the correlation between weapons use and Turbo mode. I just used to suck it up and accept that you had to let that car win that round if you couldn't blast them fast enough....... and then Not lose again. I think mid- 20's was as far as I could get that way back in the day. I played this till my eyes were sore over and over.....
dang, low 20's.....i never got to that 9 lap race i don't think.
omg! my favorite of all time right here!! i have played this game so much my my nintendo froze.
Mine too!!!!
One of my most often played games from my childhood. I always wanted to race RC cars back then…couldn’t afford them…this had to do, haha…
loved this game! marble madness,tecmo bowl,and super off road too.
21:19 i heard that orange car bout to go into super turbo mode.. i used to get so damn annoyed when it decided to cheat 😂😂😂😂 childhood memories
This video is so therapeutic sonically. Thank you.
Such a great game. I loved the upgrade feature on this back when I was a kid. I got this gane from a friend but I can't remember what I traded for. I know I traded a baseball card for Caslevenia.
My Childhood!!!!
I dont even want to know how many hours I spent on this game lol goodtimes!
Me too from S.Korea :)
Same. But now I'm grown up and play it for Genesis.
Hehe.. it's basically the same game except your antenna blows back when you speed up. .. and 5 cars on the track instead of 3.
Amazing how my mind remembers the strategy as it is playing out. Also, I think the reved up engine sounds like the car in the movie The Wraith (another 80's gem).
I absolutely loved this game when I was younger.
The title screen suddenly popped in my head out of nowhere and for the love of me i couldn't remember the name or even the fact it was a game with RC cars, all i remember were the two cars on the screen from my childhood, and i finally found it. What a amazing rush of nostalgia
I still play this game.. it's 2019 for crying out loud 😎😎
PLATINUM me too
@@kevinc1968 ua-cam.com/video/kXfujXlFdqk/v-deo.html
I remember watching my older brother play this. It's one of my earliest memories of a video game.
The intro music is epic
Race 5 they almost got you but the shotgun blast was perfect on the green and orange. I love seeing real plays of this game it's gets exciting cause the opportunity to lose is always there
21:17 Talk about a close finish.
Now I need to play this game again.
I used to play this game when I was like 10 years old 30 years ago. I bought my Nintendo at 1989 for $109 I was 8 years old.
I remember when my dad bought me the NES. After 6 months he told me "you can choose 2 games", so we went to the store and there was a lot of games, I chose Mike Tyson Punch Out and I chose (for his cover) R.C. PRO AM without knowing anything about the game. Boy, both game were awesome but tough as nails.
Thanks Dad for those great gifts.
It’s September 19, 2024 and I’m up at exactly 2 in the morning watching you destroy this game! 😅 I’ve never seen these levels before. This was definitely one of my favorite games! It was just too hard for me.
I remember playing this with my bro alot, we arent into racing games but we love those that had power ups and weapons.
Wow my favorite childhood game I haven't seen it since I was a child 😲😲😲 damn things have really changed,
But I'm glad I'm getting older though....Respect✔️ Good Shit💯
I mean...how does that much oil end up on an RC track?
It's what happens when your gaskets have long deteriorated. :)
I always saw the oil as part of the track's obstacles...meaning the oil put there on purpose.
I would've hate to have environment friendly, liberal parents while growing up because they wouldn't let me play this game with all that oil on the road.
The first job I ever had was at Pike Nurseries in Forrest Park GA in 1989. I bought this game with one of my first paychecks. What memories....
Love...LOVED this game! This and Excitebike were mybtwo favorite games for Nintendo Console
Great gaming! man that takes me back I watched your video and I'm going to find a copy for myself on ebay. Thanks a lot.
The blue car speeds up when you get far enough ahead of it, and slows down when it gets the lead. so in a longer race you may wish to let it pas you when you are a lap or two away from winning so it will slow down again, and allow you to pass later.
This reminds my so much of of dad 🕊... thank u for posting this 👍🏾
Rock n' Roll Racing is personally my favorite retro isometric racing game, but I can see they clearly got their inspiration from this.
OG drifting game. What fun this was!!! Thanks for the vid.
I didn´t know that it was made by Rare!
the Yellow Car never cheat in your version ? ^_^
I jus had to hear the sounds.. ✨
i remember level 24 from my childhood. i was like 10 years old when i got this for christmas back in 1988 and got that far. i just dont remember if i beat it or not though. but that dont matter considering i topped the game 12 years ago.
7:02 got me to spit out my coffee in hilarity.
The theme song haunts me randomly to this day.
Also was this the blueprint for Mario Kart? So many similarities!
Too many memories this video made me smile
Legendary game🙏❤️
The first several seconds (before the race begins) sounds like the beginning of Major Tom by Peter Schilling, which is a song about space travel.
I’d forgotten about the missiles in this game 😂
Spent countless hours playing this game. It says 32 tracks of fun. I finally reached 32 tracks thinking I beat the game. But it continues on after that until you can no longer win. Lol in a sense I did beat the game. So much fun!
I wonder if any other UA-camr has made an RC Pro Am video that covers when most of the screen darkens and the cars and most other items are still visible. It makes the game a lot harder but is still passable. It's been so long since it has happened to me while playing. I may have a rare glitched copy since I cannot find any info on it anywhere.
The music in the game is 🔥
RC cars...a highlight of my childhood
I had this in the 80's one of the best experiences I had gaming. I want to go back 🙁
You, my friend are a CHAMPION!!!! SUPERB
One of my earliest goals in life i can remember was spelling NINTENDO in this game. Oh man the memories!
Damn. Way better than I was at this game 🤦🏻♂️😂 The intro music still fires me up! 😎🤙🏽 I was hoping this would be on that little mini Nintendo with all the games stored on it but it’s not haha sucks.
nostalgia ....tuve este juego en 1994 al principio mas de lo que perdia que lo qye ganaba inolvidable
when you hear that bleep blip bloop you know that car is going haywire!
This absolutely should have been on the mini NES classic
I use to rent this game a lot from the local video store on weekends. Great times
I still remember this game. Unmatchable ❤️❤️❤️
I would challenge this guy to see who is the best at RC Pro Am. I could keep going until I got tired of playing. Great game.
Dudes got mad skills with those rockets
That guitar bass is hitting hard.
Them rockets were lifesavers😂😂😂
This game was a cheat back when I was a kid. The CPU would pick one car out of the bunch when I was really far ahead and hit the turbo button and zoom pass everyone. Nevertheless this was and still is an enjoyable game for all ages. It definitely set the tone for Mario kart as soon as the SNES came into the picture.
If you shot that car back in the day which was the yellow one ALWAYS. It wouldn't do it the rest of the race
The game that got me into racing games on christmas of 95 when i was 3yrs old
The one thing I wish they'd tweaked was the camera, such that is moved further behind the car based on the direction it was driving in, and adjusted in realtime as the car turned, such that you would always see a bit more of the track ahead. Right now the car is always in the centre of the screen so quite a bit of the potential extra view ahead is wasted seeing what's behind, which is as important imo.
Fuuuck hearing the sound effects after all this time again....
One of my all time favorite games!!
Damn... right in the childhood :(
My all t8me fav game as a kid.....I absolutely loved this game....sooooo good
Legend. never gets old.
Someone needs to send this game to Arin and Danny (the game grumps). It would be comedy gold.
Why is this so satisfying to watch?