I used to always impress my friends with Indianapolis 500 on Amiga. If you had stereo speakers hooked up when you were in the pits it sounded just like you were actually sitting at the track. They even got the sound of the Buicks exactly right.
Had you gone back one more year, you could have included Chequered Flag on the Spectrum, although in all fairness, Revs was a perfectly good place to start. I had it on the Commodore 64 though, I couldn't afford a BBC. :D If I remember rightly, GP2 was the first racing sim to include single machine, multi-player hot-seat racing. The CPU would take over your car, while the other player was racing, and when it was your turn, it then took control of their car. You could do multiple swaps in a race to make sure you each got plenty of chance to control the outcome. A genius idea, that I have never seen copied.
To me, the big step on racing simulation ends on GP2. Later they improved for sure the physics model, but gameplay and depth never reach GP2 or Papyrus sim
Grand Prix games were the best games about f1. GP4 is still the best and the only game to play with keyboard (not everybody has a wheel and time to play as much as in a childhood). Modern Codemasters f1 games are good, but unplayable with keyboard and have a very strange ai (with no mistakes and enormous amount of overtakes and side by side racing) and damage model. Indy500 and Indycar Racing were very good games too. A lot of hours were spent at these ovals. :) It is sad there is no modern games about indycar. Especially with 90th seasons, with awesome cars! :))
The realism of Gp2 was so superior.. I had never really like gp3 and gp4.. I have install a lot of times those two titles but each time I was back to gp2. A kind of magic
Hi Pablo! Thanks for putting together this video, it has indeed fed my nostalgia! Although, would you mind if I shared with you some impressions? Just a few random things I've thought while watching your video, which might be helpful (or not) when making other videos. 1) Is there any possibility of having a voice narrator instead of having to chase letters up the screen? I find it difficult to read the text and look at the pictures at the same time. 2) If no voice is possible, is it possible to have the text appear before the images, for the same reason, or at least place the text on top of less interesting images? I wasn't that interested in how to select a longer or shorter race, or how to configure the level of realism in Nascar Racing, but I was interested in looking at the car riding down the lane, and that's when the letters came on. 3) And if the letters must come on top of interesting images, can they at least have some contrast against the background? Reading white letters on top of light or even white backgrounds is difficult; maybe some text shadow or something would help readability. Still, thanks once more for bringing all these memories to my brain! Have a good day.
Hi my friend, that's good but you forgot really important games. Refering to F1 for example, Grand Prix Circuit by Accolade and also Grand Prix Unilimited born as competitor against F1GP ... Earlier Pit Stop 2, Pole Position. But you have introduced also Hard Drivin that's another kind of racing game than F1, Indy or Nascar , so you cannot miss then Stunt Car Racer, Stunt Driver, Vette! , Stunts 4d Sports Driving. It's always a pleasure see old games so thumbs up for you but the word "History" in the title is a bit large :))
Grand Prix 2 they had rigged up to a Ferrari show car (front end) at the F1 shop here in Belfast. Was amazing back then.
I used to always impress my friends with Indianapolis 500 on Amiga. If you had stereo speakers hooked up when you were in the pits it sounded just like you were actually sitting at the track. They even got the sound of the Buicks exactly right.
Grand Prix 2 has amazing sound!
WOW, the sound in grand prix 2 is incredible, better than sound in newer racing games i would say. Im astounded
Geoff Crammond, pure genius!
back in the days - when 10 fps didn't stop us from playing racing games
I remember playing Hard Drivin' as a kid! I had almost forgotten about it until I saw the clip here.
Grand Prix 2 is still a great game, better than GP3 in every single way.
Only lacking wet weather :/ otherwise a great game...
Hard Drivin looks like a game years ahead of its time.
Had you gone back one more year, you could have included Chequered Flag on the Spectrum, although in all fairness, Revs was a perfectly good place to start. I had it on the Commodore 64 though, I couldn't afford a BBC. :D
If I remember rightly, GP2 was the first racing sim to include single machine, multi-player hot-seat racing. The CPU would take over your car, while the other player was racing, and when it was your turn, it then took control of their car. You could do multiple swaps in a race to make sure you each got plenty of chance to control the outcome. A genius idea, that I have never seen copied.
To me, the big step on racing simulation ends on GP2.
Later they improved for sure the physics model, but gameplay and depth never reach GP2 or Papyrus sim
Grand Prix games were the best games about f1. GP4 is still the best and the only game to play with keyboard (not everybody has a wheel and time to play as much as in a childhood). Modern Codemasters f1 games are good, but unplayable with keyboard and have a very strange ai (with no mistakes and enormous amount of overtakes and side by side racing) and damage model.
Indy500 and Indycar Racing were very good games too. A lot of hours were spent at these ovals. :)
It is sad there is no modern games about indycar. Especially with 90th seasons, with awesome cars! :))
Spot on, thx
The realism of Gp2 was so superior.. I had never really like gp3 and gp4.. I have install a lot of times those two titles but each time I was back to gp2. A kind of magic
Agree. It was a fantastic sim, way ahead of its time.
1:03 PERFECT SAFE DRIVING!!!
Have fond memories from Indy car 2.Thanks for video:)
I'm curious to know if the Anti-aliasing technology can work with these game,,,maybe since Indy car Racing.
@ 4:40 Ha! And we thought the DIRT series had started the whole interactive menu bollocks...
Hi Pablo! Thanks for putting together this video, it has indeed fed my nostalgia! Although, would you mind if I shared with you some impressions? Just a few random things I've thought while watching your video, which might be helpful (or not) when making other videos.
1) Is there any possibility of having a voice narrator instead of having to chase letters up the screen? I find it difficult to read the text and look at the pictures at the same time.
2) If no voice is possible, is it possible to have the text appear before the images, for the same reason, or at least place the text on top of less interesting images? I wasn't that interested in how to select a longer or shorter race, or how to configure the level of realism in Nascar Racing, but I was interested in looking at the car riding down the lane, and that's when the letters came on.
3) And if the letters must come on top of interesting images, can they at least have some contrast against the background? Reading white letters on top of light or even white backgrounds is difficult; maybe some text shadow or something would help readability.
Still, thanks once more for bringing all these memories to my brain! Have a good day.
3d in 1989 ?
starting by old ones, after F1 GP, which games are complatible with the wheel? i know from GTR2 and above but not older games
From GP Legends onwards, modern wheels seem to work fine. I haven't been able to make wheels work with older games though.
1:15 hard driving really was hard. On Spectrum
Hi my friend, that's good but you forgot really important games. Refering to F1 for example, Grand Prix Circuit by Accolade and also Grand Prix Unilimited born as competitor against F1GP ... Earlier Pit Stop 2, Pole Position. But you have introduced also Hard Drivin that's another kind of racing game than F1, Indy or Nascar , so you cannot miss then Stunt Car Racer, Stunt Driver, Vette! , Stunts 4d Sports Driving. It's always a pleasure see old games so thumbs up for you but the word "History" in the title is a bit large :))
I have to agree with you, the video and its title were over ambitious! lol
i think donut media used this vid for their history of sim racing
indy 500 (1990) was quite good
Hard driving really looks like a decnt simulator.
yeah.... i can't believe that game is from 1989 (3d models, physics....etc)
Where is GPL?
Frank B GPL is in part 2ua-cam.com/video/9EE6u1UrY-c/v-deo.html
Thanks, very nice
01:17 That was NOT an accident!!!
Omg por cow
Why so many nascar/indycar games? Driving around a fucking circle is ridiculous
not hating on the video or uploader, this is great otherwise