Props to the hardworking copywriter who managed to give the narrator something positive to say about the Ford Aspire. You know a car is an absolute rotbox when even the name is telling you that you can do better.
Meanwhile Europe got a perfectly serviceable Fiesta. Like it wasn't the benchmark fun small car it is today but it was a lot better than this Geo looking mess.
My 1996 PC had 48MB RAM. Windows 95 ran beautifully on it. Before anyone thinks I was stinking rich, I had this machine around eight years later, when a local school wanted to get rid of a number of old classroom PCs. I was allowed to pick what I wanted, so I combined half a dozen more or less working old PCs into one machine. The 100MHz 486 made it a fun retro machine, as DOSBox ran terribly on the PC I had at the time. No USB though, which forced me to either burn games to CD or use floppy disks. Running through the house back and forth with floppies turned out to be a good workout.
I Once got a steam game that would not run because it needs 512Mb or more RAM. I Have 16GB ram. I Tried it in a VM and it worked until i set the VM's ram to anything above 8GB, Then it would throw up that 512Mb error
The text in the Brazilian shareware catalogue says: "Try your Ford model How about driving a Ford car without leaving the computer? Interested? Then take the opportunity with Ford Test Driver II, a more recent version of Ford Simulator, already reviewed in MS. Beyond driving one of the 16 models available in the USA, you can also check out the performance of the automobiles in the shopping demo, where every car details are shown. The forte of this software is marketing the manufacturer, in the detailing and animation of the most modern technical aspects of the cars. Compatible with CGA, EGA and VGA, it uses few graphical resources from the EGA/VGA cards, which is unforgivable in a software like this. It is worth it more for the curiosity than its games." I'm not sure why I took the time to translate it, but I did anyway. Great video as always, Clint!
"I ended up with a copy of Ford Simulator..." ENDED UP. I like that. Because you clearly would not buy this, you'd have to end up with it. ;) Also, THE MEEEERC. Gosh, I miss my Grand Marquis...kind of.
Roses! i love your videos and your collaborations. gotta say i was pretty stoked to see we both once owned the same model car (Grand Marquis). i miss my Marquis too, (i still have it but it's immobile (it is a '89)). thanks for all the laughs.
My first car in high school was a 96 Cougar XR7. It had the 4.6L V8 and was incredibly comfortable. Especially considering I later had a 06 Mustang GT and while it was way more fun overall, it was nowhere near as comfortable as the old Mercury.
1sonyzz at first I misread that and thought you were watching this in 4k on your IBM ThinkPad and I thought "What monster ThinkPad do you have and where can I find one?"
I used to own a green Aerostar. Wound up selling it to a junk yard once it got to the point that it was costing more than it was worth to keep it running (they gave me more than a dealer would have if I used it as a trade-in).
I commuted every day for over a year with three other guys in a white and gold two tone Aerostar back in '05-'06. It hit 400000 miles without much trouble. I think fuel costs put it into early retirement. I've owned a few Ford products from this era and have nothing too bad to say about them.
Videos like this are why I absolutely adore this channel. A fascinating piece of technology that I've never even heard of dug up from the past and discussed in an entertaining matter. Seriously, this video was just a good time all around.
Strain42 You really nailed my thoughts. I‘m into game consoles since 1989 starting with an Atari 2600 and into PCs since 1993. Pleasant retro feelings watching this channel. I remember grabbing a free Sony demo DVD in 1998 but I couldn’t actually test it until 2002 when I bought a new PC with DVD drive. But I actually kept the DVD all the years just for that moment experiencing some free stuff.
"even at low speed you're frequently but inconsistently being pulled over from one side to the other". That seems like a very realistic simulation of how those early 90s Fords drove
I loved your comments at the end - I think you've summed up what makes so much of 80s and 90s tech development interesting; everything was a product of its time, and circumstances changed and evolved so quickly! Thanks for covering this :)
Well that shows how much I pay attention. :D Either way, I push through my seething jealousy of your PC box collection to thoroughly enjoy your videos. They are the highlight of my week. Especially when I get a Tech Tales to watch!
In 1996, I graduated from college with my Computer Science degree. The day after I graduated, I took off on a trip with a friend. We got to our destination (it was a business trip for my friend), and proceeded to the car rental counter at the airport. I remember picking up a brand new purple 1996 Ford Escort sedan that was so new it still had temporary tags on it. In the glove compartment was a VHS tape that was a new car owner's guide. My buddy absconded with the VHS video. Kudos to Ford for being up on current technology and media back then...
Your reminiscence of the past resonates so well with me. You truly nailed that final outro. What a time to be alive. Then... and now. Hopefully you will retain this passion for many years to come here or elsewhere. I'll be watching happily as long as I can. Thank you, Clint. :)
Thanks for the video, and for uploading it! My family had a few Ford vehicles of the era, and I used to have some brochures for some of the cars from the time as well. Cars were much more interesting back then. Can't wait to check this out more!
Being as cars are my first passion, followed by electronics AND I'm a Ford guy, this video was stellar. I'm weird and dig 90's cars. All of your content is superb and informative!
OMG, I laughed so hard when that excited gas attendants face popped up! Your verbal confirmation execution was perfectly timed! I must have replayed that bit like 10 times. My wife came to check on me because how loud and hysterically I was laughing.
Whenever I see 90s car video (like the clips on the disk) my mind is drawn back to "F- YOU, BALTIMORE!" :D Thanks as always, Clint :) Also, you never owned a Ford?! What young man can refuse the freedom of owning a flesh-colored '86 Ford Aerostar van?!
thedungeondelver That Big Bill's Hell memory-triggering happened to me a couple of times yesterday when I was watching the latest Caddicarus vid. The DVD's interludes had that same blue-to-black gradient.
Kids, back when we only had 1 or 2 megabytes of video memory, we often had to get by with 256 colours on the desktop. Even for full-motion video and photos, which gave results that looked like this. And we thought that it looked GOOD. Seeing that dithering now brings forward an odd blend of nostalgia and cringing; I used to wait twenty minutes to get a postage-stamp sized video (in glorious 256-colour Quicktime format) that showed a preview of the next week's episode of Star Trek: DS9 or Voyager. The video quality was nowhere near as good as this CD-ROM was, but I still thought it was wonderful and glorious!
remember the infomercials to sell multimedia PC's where they kept showing the same postage stamp sized video of the Saturn V rocket launching over and over? It comes with a video encyclopedia!
You see, 24-bit color graphics cards did exist in 1996, It's just that most people in 1996 didn't use the 24-bit color at all, also 4-megabyte graphics card did exist in 1996, so was that right?
Wow-never new that there was a version 7 either. This brings back memories-Ford Simulator 2 for Mac was the first program I got to run on my 1989 Macintosh Portable (steering with the built in trackball on that thing was pretty tricky). Awesome video as always!
"Unsafe At Any Speed" showed DEEP lack of understanding of engineering. It was yellow-dog journalism at its finest. ua-cam.com/video/NI9Hq0_Mhy0/v-deo.html It's a well-known bout of stupidity.
I'm quite aware that it was factually flawed. And yet it catalysed an important debate that might have saved some lives and left a cultural and historic impact. I don't have an opinion on the personality of the author and I think it's not so important - many good books were written by bastards and bad ones by good people.
I just wiki'd this. I don't see how it's full of crap? It lays out perfectly things we take for granted now in terms of safety, cost, quality and environmental concerns.
Hey! I just wanted to say thanks for you sticking to making videos for so long. I started watching you in 2011 at eleven years old when I first got Sims 3 for my birthday and instantly fell in love with your Sims reviews. The humour and the format resonated with me so well, and even though my english was non-existent at the time I still watched them and eventually learnt english through your videos. I have been following you ever since and every time I see a video in the subscription box I always watch it. I like that you always find ways to make mundane things such as making sandwiches (on your second channel) interesting and fun to watch. Watching you grow over the years has been a joy and I aspire to do something similar in the future (at least try hah). I really just wanted to say thanks for the awesome videos! Keep up the good work! :)
This is a great video, thanks. I really appreciate you putting programs like this in historical context; without someone documenting it this kind of knowledge will soon be gone.
CD-ROM's full of videos like this sooner or later will become a point of agonizing explanation to the younger generation born into this current world of high-speed internet video streaming and on-demand services. There should be wings set up in libraries or museums with mid-90s PCs and a selection of things to run from floppy or CD-ROM so people can sit their kids down at them and say "GO AHEAD, TRY AND DO SOMETHING." Just sit back and watch the comedy ensue.
Since I'm brazilian, I had to pause and read about...the magazine talk about shareware and the text talks about "What's about to drive a Ford without get out your PC?", there's 16 cars that you could drive in USA and see details about each one. It talks about the Ford showroom, but it uses few the VGA mode and thats unforgivable. It's more about curiosity than play (drive, I guess) it. Well LGR, that's unexpected... but, well, love it too since I love cars and oldies! :D
YEEEESSSSSSS, I had a short tim in my childhood with the 386 and win3.1, but this was one of the games my dad showed us always; I got no clue where he got it, but I LOVED THIS.
"pulled from one side to the other, while the road itself is covered in molasses and snot." That sounds exactly like driving a ford, the best simulator.
Was thinking the same thing. Only, my thought process worked liked this: It's pulling to either side of the road, because that's what Ford does! They're just getting you ready to head for a shoulder and get ready to push the stinkin' car LOL!
If you like this, LGR, then try out Street Rod (old DOS games.) It is the pinnacle of the genre of faux 3d driving games from this era. You will not be disappointed, and it WILL make a good video.
At 1:05 the description translated from Pt-br for those who care: "Experience your Ford Model. What about to drive a Ford car without leaving the PC? Interested? So enjoy this opportunity with Ford Test Driver 2, an updated version of the current Ford Simulator, already analysed in MS(not sure what is MS in this case!). Beyond driving one of the 16 models available in USA. you can also observe the performance of the automobiles in the showroom, where every car detailed is showed. The highlights of this software is the marketing of the maker, in the details and the top notch animations of the technical characteristics of the cars. Compatible with CGA, EGA and VGA, it uses few graphical resources of the EGA and VGA cards, witch is unforgiven in a software like this. It is worth more for the curiosity than for the game itself." Im a native Pt-Br speaker, but not an english native speaker, so sorry for any mistakes! :P
That guy who posted on a forum in 2003 looking for this game is still looking for it to this day. I hope he comes across your video here and follows the link that allows him to download it. Imagine his gladness. 😍
Fun Fact: My 1996 Ford has a POW! Meter on the dashboard. I am up to 3 POW!s so far. Do I get to take it back to the showroom and test drive another model?
That very specific and very brief moment in time you speak of will probably go down in history as a very critical time in human society and I will be able to proudly say I was there, and because of that I know how to live on either side of that time period.
Imagine being able to simulate driving a ford owned vehicle from 1996 that would be crazy. Also I think for the game part, to select a vehicle I believe it is whatever one you were previewing on the main tab like the video tab
Ford also came out with an interactive CD ROM for the ZX2 in 1997. It was mailed to my house and it had Lovefool by the Cardigans on it. I had it for years because I liked the song.
fo' SHO. And it was 3rd gen. The car nerd in me was thinking, "a 96 SHO didn't have the option for manual," when he was selecting it, haha. 2nd gen, however. Sweet cars for their day.
Ford Simulator was a serious mans Test Drive... Loved feeling serious playing it as a kid... It came on House of Games 2 one of those shareware CD megacompilations with "over 700 games" or something insane like that... Was around 94 or 95... That was such a good time for video games
Thanks for clarifying EXACTLY what it was. I remember playing this in the late 90s. I couldn't remember WHAT it was called. I played it on 101 DOS Games on a free promotional product from Best Buy. I NEVER KNEW its history until now....
I think the X300 and X308 variants of the XJ's were the prettiest ones ever made. And it was probably thanks to Ford, rather than in spite of - since X300 was the first XJ produced entirely by Ford. I own a X308, and it's such a sweet car. Same nice red color as in the picture.
In the late 90s I owned a Ford Aspire - it was a ton of fun and hilariously unstoppable, mostly due to being so bare bones. I took appallingly poor care of it, at least at first as it was my first car and I didn't know any better. I didn't change the oil for at least a year after I bought it. It only survived because oil leaked out of it constantly, forcing me to top it off. It was so light, it never got stuck in snow and used every minor unevenness in the road as a ramp. Repairing it was easy and fun as there really wasn't much to repair. I drove the damn thing to hell and back, putting over 200k on it without any major repairs, then sold it to a friend for $300, who drove it for another year before destroying it through some more of that "this is my first car" negligence. Man... one of these days I might try to get myself another Aspire just for fun, before they are all junked.
The driving simulator portion's production value still holds up today. Just add a narrator reciting an unrelated story about someone's mother dying of cancer, and you've got a 2018 indie GOTY contender.
I've uploaded the CD-ROM to Internet Archive complete with scans of everything it came with. Enjoy the 90s FMV!
archive.org/details/FordSimulator7
Aahh 90s FMV, what's not to love about it :D
wow! tanks!
one of the many reasons to love this channel.
would you ever consider uploading wizzards n' warlords? apparently you have the only copy in existence.
Thank you so much!
Not all heroes wear capes. Thank you for sharing it!
YES YES YES
NOT A CAR
Oh HAI RCR TEAM. We've been expecting you for a while. In fact quite a while...
LGR/RCR collab Gran Turismo 2 for Bleemcast review when?
I remember LGR commenting on videos of yours YEARS ago.
And this is proof the Ford Aspire wasn't a hoax!
Props to the hardworking copywriter who managed to give the narrator something positive to say about the Ford Aspire. You know a car is an absolute rotbox when even the name is telling you that you can do better.
ass pyre
Gakk 86 yeah like my Acer Aspire it is not aspiring at all it has a faulty hard drive
Yeah, no kidding - that car was a dumpster fire.
You could say it was Aspiring to be a car.
(The preceding statement was an actual joke from my actual dad around the time of that car's manufacture.)
Meanwhile Europe got a perfectly serviceable Fiesta. Like it wasn't the benchmark fun small car it is today but it was a lot better than this Geo looking mess.
8mb of ram? do you think I work at the NASA? calm down there
My 1996 PC had 48MB RAM. Windows 95 ran beautifully on it.
Before anyone thinks I was stinking rich, I had this machine around eight years later, when a local school wanted to get rid of a number of old classroom PCs. I was allowed to pick what I wanted, so I combined half a dozen more or less working old PCs into one machine. The 100MHz 486 made it a fun retro machine, as DOSBox ran terribly on the PC I had at the time. No USB though, which forced me to either burn games to CD or use floppy disks. Running through the house back and forth with floppies turned out to be a good workout.
And a 486?! Hold your horses Mr. Gates
😂😂🤣😂😂
I Once got a steam game that would not run because it needs 512Mb or more RAM. I Have 16GB ram. I Tried it in a VM and it worked until i set the VM's ram to anything above 8GB, Then it would throw up that 512Mb error
NZZN or you could have just removed some ram for a bit
"Fewer features than previous releases." Wow. Ford was way ahead of the video game curve. Make sequels, but have less stuff!
Thought this was a Regular Car Review.
Silvermania lol you came in from Patrick George’s post didn’t you?
B R O W N
N O T A C A R
My Mustang's best Mustang because I have a toy car, that looks like my real car.
Is this LGR’s million megabyte zip drive?
The text in the Brazilian shareware catalogue says:
"Try your Ford model
How about driving a Ford car without leaving the computer? Interested? Then take the opportunity with Ford Test Driver II, a more recent version of Ford Simulator, already reviewed in MS.
Beyond driving one of the 16 models available in the USA, you can also check out the performance of the automobiles in the shopping demo, where every car details are shown.
The forte of this software is marketing the manufacturer, in the detailing and animation of the most modern technical aspects of the cars.
Compatible with CGA, EGA and VGA, it uses few graphical resources from the EGA/VGA cards, which is unforgivable in a software like this. It is worth it more for the curiosity than its games."
I'm not sure why I took the time to translate it, but I did anyway. Great video as always, Clint!
You took the time because you want to help niggas who don't understand Portuguese. I'm niggas 😂😂
"I ended up with a copy of Ford Simulator..." ENDED UP. I like that. Because you clearly would not buy this, you'd have to end up with it. ;) Also, THE MEEEERC. Gosh, I miss my Grand Marquis...kind of.
Haha, it's the truth as I have no idea where it came from. Just kind of ended up on the computer one day :D
Roses! i love your videos and your collaborations. gotta say i was pretty stoked to see we both once owned the same model car (Grand Marquis). i miss my Marquis too, (i still have it but it's immobile (it is a '89)). thanks for all the laughs.
Bought a clapped out one of them from Las Vegas for$800 and drove it to New York and back a couple years ago. Great cars
Bought a '97 Marquis in 2016 as my first car and still driving it. Mechanically held up like it just came off the lot 21 years ago.
That's not a Merc.
0:58 I really hope the forum poster 'Earl' discovers this video, it would make his week I think!
Vladdie777, sadly the Dixie Chicks got him.
And if they comment they must get pinned!
Vladdie777 especially after *15 years* poor guy just wanted a really cool advert
forums.tccoa.com/22-miscellaneous/186873-found-ford-simulator-7-0-a.html#post2026874
The Game Over screen is an explosion?! THEY KNEW ABOUT THE PINTO.
Akriloth2160 considering it was 20 years after the pinto I'd say yes.
Probably knew about the Kuga / Explorer as well.
chrwl007 or the crown vic
Fitting for their whole lineup.
@@9HighFlyer9 I wonder if having a metal pole positioned between the bumper support and the gas tank is a great idea
The Desert Bus BETA has been discovered!
eRock _ how long before it ends up on bgdq?
General Motors had their own competing software: Buick Dimensions, released for the IBM PC and Macintosh.
If you crochet a pentagram and sacrifice a VHS machine and at least 6 Readers' Digests it opens up a portal to the Buick Dimension.
Am I the only one that thought that Mercury looked luxurious?
Travis Kraft I was looking at the old fiesta.
That’s what Lincoln is for...
I had one of those it’s a very much a luxury car especially for 96
It looked grey. Just greyness all over.
My first car in high school was a 96 Cougar XR7. It had the 4.6L V8 and was incredibly comfortable. Especially considering I later had a 06 Mustang GT and while it was way more fun overall, it was nowhere near as comfortable as the old Mercury.
As someone with a listening comprehension disorder, I greatly appreciate the effort you put in your video subtitles. Thank you ♥
LoL ur deaf!!! L0ZER!
And I thought I knew about the viewer demographic of LGR...
Micro Sistemas, the Brasilian Tech Magazine ! My father was one of the writters for it :D
watching that IBM thinkpad in 4K is pleasingly nice
I disagree. I thought it was nicely pleasing.
1sonyzz at first I misread that and thought you were watching this in 4k on your IBM ThinkPad and I thought "What monster ThinkPad do you have and where can I find one?"
I'm sorry but I think you missed the aspect of the candy bar and soda pop that: they're delicious
Christ, I laughed all stupid at that.
The POW meter made me laugh far more than it should have done.
I've never seen a Ford Aerostar Wagon in really pink Iris Frost Clearcoat Metallic on the road.
Martin Kronström I once had a gray and blue two-tone Aerostar, paid $50 for it. It would run precisely twice a day.
I have but it was the mercury
Ahaha, those years when Pink turned to hue of rust.
I used to own a green Aerostar. Wound up selling it to a junk yard once it got to the point that it was costing more than it was worth to keep it running (they gave me more than a dealer would have if I used it as a trade-in).
I commuted every day for over a year with three other guys in a white and gold two tone Aerostar back in '05-'06. It hit 400000 miles without much trouble. I think fuel costs put it into early retirement. I've owned a few Ford products from this era and have nothing too bad to say about them.
Videos like this are why I absolutely adore this channel. A fascinating piece of technology that I've never even heard of dug up from the past and discussed in an entertaining matter. Seriously, this video was just a good time all around.
Strain42 You really nailed my thoughts. I‘m into game consoles since 1989 starting with an Atari 2600 and into PCs since 1993. Pleasant retro feelings watching this channel.
I remember grabbing a free Sony demo DVD in 1998 but I couldn’t actually test it until 2002 when I bought a new PC with DVD drive. But I actually kept the DVD all the years just for that moment experiencing some free stuff.
You, sir, are a digital archeologist!
This and WinTrek were my favourite games on PC in the mid 90's. Upon reflection, I should have just gone and played outside.
"Who'a, what the heck is wrong with your face" Hahaha!
“I made a video about it almost a decade ago!”
Me: UA-cam wasn’t around in 2006, at least not like it is now.
(Realizes it’s almost 2019)
Me: OH GOD.
Even then, he was part of UA-cam since 2006 anyway... He's one of the early UA-camrs.
the thumbnail got me confused, i didnt know if it was a LGR video or a Regular Car reviews video
Haha same here.
same haha! Love both channels, though.
Just finished watching the C64 Mini review by 8-bit Guy and BAM! New video by LGR pops up! This is a good day.
I agree!
i know, right?
Yep, and I think the videos were the best way to experience both products.
I see You're a man of culture
I watched that today too!
"even at low speed you're frequently but inconsistently being pulled over from one side to the other". That seems like a very realistic simulation of how those early 90s Fords drove
I loved your comments at the end - I think you've summed up what makes so much of 80s and 90s tech development interesting; everything was a product of its time, and circumstances changed and evolved so quickly! Thanks for covering this :)
6:54 Sounds like an accurate simulation of the steering on my old Ford Festiva (an Aspire in the US).
You are on a roll lately, Clint! I'm loving these frequent sub popups from you!
I've had the same schedule for many years, nothing's changed ;)
Glad you're enjoying though!
Well that shows how much I pay attention. :D
Either way, I push through my seething jealousy of your PC box collection to thoroughly enjoy your videos. They are the highlight of my week. Especially when I get a Tech Tales to watch!
In 1996, I graduated from college with my Computer Science degree. The day after I graduated, I took off on a trip with a friend. We got to our destination (it was a business trip for my friend), and proceeded to the car rental counter at the airport. I remember picking up a brand new purple 1996 Ford Escort sedan that was so new it still had temporary tags on it. In the glove compartment was a VHS tape that was a new car owner's guide. My buddy absconded with the VHS video. Kudos to Ford for being up on current technology and media back then...
Your reminiscence of the past resonates so well with me. You truly nailed that final outro. What a time to be alive. Then... and now. Hopefully you will retain this passion for many years to come here or elsewhere. I'll be watching happily as long as I can. Thank you, Clint. :)
Always look forward to new LGR!
I didn't know Ford made a car simulator of its own. This game is interesting.
Loved it! Thank you for providing LGR!
Thanks for the video, and for uploading it! My family had a few Ford vehicles of the era, and I used to have some brochures for some of the cars from the time as well. Cars were much more interesting back then. Can't wait to check this out more!
At least there were some cars available in BROWN. I'd love to hear Mr. Regular do the VO work for this.
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Being as cars are my first passion, followed by electronics AND I'm a Ford guy, this video was stellar. I'm weird and dig 90's cars. All of your content is superb and informative!
OMG, I laughed so hard when that excited gas attendants face popped up! Your verbal confirmation execution was perfectly timed! I must have replayed that bit like 10 times. My wife came to check on me because how loud and hysterically I was laughing.
Whenever I see 90s car video (like the clips on the disk) my mind is drawn back to "F- YOU, BALTIMORE!" :D Thanks as always, Clint :)
Also, you never owned a Ford?! What young man can refuse the freedom of owning a flesh-colored '86 Ford Aerostar van?!
You could have owned a white F-150, where everyone thought you were either a contractor, or driving a company/fleet truck..
thedungeondelver That Big Bill's Hell memory-triggering happened to me a couple of times yesterday when I was watching the latest Caddicarus vid. The DVD's interludes had that same blue-to-black gradient.
A Young man with the Option to drive pretty much any other car
My family, they're not Ford's biggest fans...yet they get their cars.
Good to see your IBM Thinkpad in action again :)
Great video, loved those closing thoughts!
Great bday present LGR!! Thanks a ton
I used to own a 1985 ford mustang lx 5.0. The best car I ever had.
There's a neighbor who owns one in brown. Damn it's ugly.
Michael500ca Good taste good sir.
Kids, back when we only had 1 or 2 megabytes of video memory, we often had to get by with 256 colours on the desktop. Even for full-motion video and photos, which gave results that looked like this. And we thought that it looked GOOD. Seeing that dithering now brings forward an odd blend of nostalgia and cringing; I used to wait twenty minutes to get a postage-stamp sized video (in glorious 256-colour Quicktime format) that showed a preview of the next week's episode of Star Trek: DS9 or Voyager. The video quality was nowhere near as good as this CD-ROM was, but I still thought it was wonderful and glorious!
remember the infomercials to sell multimedia PC's where they kept showing the same postage stamp sized video of the Saturn V rocket launching over and over? It comes with a video encyclopedia!
You see, 24-bit color graphics cards did exist in 1996, It's just that most people in 1996 didn't use the 24-bit color at all, also 4-megabyte graphics card did exist in 1996, so was that right?
Wow-never new that there was a version 7 either. This brings back memories-Ford Simulator 2 for Mac was the first program I got to run on my 1989 Macintosh Portable (steering with the built in trackball on that thing was pretty tricky). Awesome video as always!
just what i needed ! a video from you c:
Handling seems accurate, lots of steering wheel play back then :p
The game portion reminds me of the legendary book titled "Unsafe at any speed" by Ralph Nader.
Siana Gearz a book full of crap, just like Nader
A book full of crap just like this free Ford CD. Here, fixed this for you, evilkillerwhale.
"Unsafe At Any Speed" showed DEEP lack of understanding of engineering. It was yellow-dog journalism at its finest. ua-cam.com/video/NI9Hq0_Mhy0/v-deo.html It's a well-known bout of stupidity.
I'm quite aware that it was factually flawed. And yet it catalysed an important debate that might have saved some lives and left a cultural and historic impact. I don't have an opinion on the personality of the author and I think it's not so important - many good books were written by bastards and bad ones by good people.
I just wiki'd this. I don't see how it's full of crap? It lays out perfectly things we take for granted now in terms of safety, cost, quality and environmental concerns.
Hey! I just wanted to say thanks for you sticking to making videos for so long. I started watching you in 2011 at eleven years old when I first got Sims 3 for my birthday and instantly fell in love with your Sims reviews. The humour and the format resonated with me so well, and even though my english was non-existent at the time I still watched them and eventually learnt english through your videos. I have been following you ever since and every time I see a video in the subscription box I always watch it. I like that you always find ways to make mundane things such as making sandwiches (on your second channel) interesting and fun to watch.
Watching you grow over the years has been a joy and I aspire to do something similar in the future (at least try hah). I really just wanted to say thanks for the awesome videos! Keep up the good work! :)
This is a great video, thanks. I really appreciate you putting programs like this in historical context; without someone documenting it this kind of knowledge will soon be gone.
Nothing makes you feel more like a man than a Thunder Cougar Falcon Bird! Oh wait, that one's not available yet.
Waldimart Less than a thousand years away!
CD-ROM's full of videos like this sooner or later will become a point of agonizing explanation to the younger generation born into this current world of high-speed internet video streaming and on-demand services. There should be wings set up in libraries or museums with mid-90s PCs and a selection of things to run from floppy or CD-ROM so people can sit their kids down at them and say "GO AHEAD, TRY AND DO SOMETHING." Just sit back and watch the comedy ensue.
LGR, I live in Brazil, and I don't know why, but this version was widely distributed here, through those magazines that came with a cdrom.
Since I'm brazilian, I had to pause and read about...the magazine talk about shareware and the text talks about "What's about to drive a Ford without get out your PC?", there's 16 cars that you could drive in USA and see details about each one. It talks about the Ford showroom, but it uses few the VGA mode and thats unforgivable. It's more about curiosity than play (drive, I guess) it.
Well LGR, that's unexpected... but, well, love it too since I love cars and oldies! :D
This could totally be a Phillips CD-i game
Dim Nimrod what about legend of zelda cdi.
Since you mentioned that brief moment when things came on CD, perhaps talk about Encarta? Microsoft's foray into the digital encyclopedia world.
I just found an Encarta CD among all the junk left in the house I've bought. Haven't tried it yet, needs some cleaning...
@@MetalTrabant What year?
YEEEESSSSSSS, I had a short tim in my childhood with the 386 and win3.1, but this was one of the games my dad showed us always; I got no clue where he got it, but I LOVED THIS.
TCCoA! I was a member of that club through 8 Thunderbirds and Cougars. I even had this disc years ago. Thanks for the throwback!
POW ! POW ! POW ! POW !
KABOOM!
WHAMO!
OOFF!
Looks like the type of thing that would be on the CD-I
"pulled from one side to the other, while the road itself is covered in molasses and snot." That sounds exactly like driving a ford, the best simulator.
Nothing is too nerdy for this channel
"Molasses and snot" - love it !!!
8bitguy and LGR, it's a good day
Man, that video for the Grand Marquis. "Body on frame construction". RIP Panther platform. The last of a true, well built American sedan.
great review! thank you!
Ford Simulator 7.0 is the Citizen Kane of driving games.
I had a promotional disc from Pontiac that came out around the same year. No game included though it did have a screensaver.
Bryant Mitchell Was the screen saver a Trans Am?
Waited for this video for SO long. :-)
Need to get you the Buick version of this, too...
I just recently watched your old video of the Ford Simulator 2.0 the other day, lol
So in other words the driving experience is like driving a real ford.
I disagree, my Ford drove straight and true and was fairly reliable. Mind you, I drove a european mondeo so I might be seeing only one side
Billy H. Got em'
No crowds in this game sadly. But physics are accurate.
Was thinking the same thing. Only, my thought process worked liked this: It's pulling to either side of the road, because that's what Ford does! They're just getting you ready to head for a shoulder and get ready to push the stinkin' car LOL!
If you like this, LGR, then try out Street Rod (old DOS games.) It is the pinnacle of the genre of faux 3d driving games from this era. You will not be disappointed, and it WILL make a good video.
Been releasing a lot of content lately! Great to be spoiled by you, Clint. :D
HI.
Keep being awesome. I love your vids!
Holy crap, I had a Ford Bronco II Eddie Bauer edition lolz
At 1:05 the description translated from Pt-br for those who care: "Experience your Ford Model. What about to drive a Ford car without leaving the PC? Interested? So enjoy this opportunity with Ford Test Driver 2, an updated version of the current Ford Simulator, already analysed in MS(not sure what is MS in this case!). Beyond driving one of the 16 models available in USA. you can also observe the performance of the automobiles in the showroom, where every car detailed is showed. The highlights of this software is the marketing of the maker, in the details and the top notch animations of the technical characteristics of the cars. Compatible with CGA, EGA and VGA, it uses few graphical resources of the EGA and VGA cards, witch is unforgiven in a software like this. It is worth more for the curiosity than for the game itself."
Im a native Pt-Br speaker, but not an english native speaker, so sorry for any mistakes! :P
MS = Micro Sistemas
This is cool! It's essentially the predecessor to modern "build your car" programs that almost every car company has on their website nowadays.
That guy who posted on a forum in 2003 looking for this game is still looking for it to this day. I hope he comes across your video here and follows the link that allows him to download it. Imagine his gladness. 😍
Pulled over for driving 4 miles over the speed limit?
Must be driving in Virginia.
"Ford Simulator"
Sounds like those playable memes that have been poking up on steam since Goat simulator
Hilarious! Thanks man and keep up the good work.
LOL, I saw the thumnail and thought you bought a new car and figured you'll do a review on it, 'cause why not xD
Fun Fact: My 1996 Ford has a POW! Meter on the dashboard.
I am up to 3 POW!s so far. Do I get to take it back to the showroom and test drive another model?
PLEASE tell me you'll upload this somewhere! I love this kind of nonsense!
archive.org/details/FordSimulator7
Awesome!
Oh man its very effective sir to comedy gold I loved those 90s training simulators awesome video dude.
That very specific and very brief moment in time you speak of will probably go down in history as a very critical time in human society and I will be able to proudly say I was there, and because of that I know how to live on either side of that time period.
Imagine being able to simulate driving a ford owned vehicle from 1996 that would be crazy. Also I think for the game part, to select a vehicle I believe it is whatever one you were previewing on the main tab like the video tab
Just add a ZING! and the driving will turn into a stand up routine
Ford also came out with an interactive CD ROM for the ZX2 in 1997. It was mailed to my house and it had Lovefool by the Cardigans on it. I had it for years because I liked the song.
My Dad had a crown victoria as a kid. Seeing its name on the list brought back lots of memories.
5:47 - SHO sighting!!!
acvieluf if only it wasn't SHO slow
fo' SHO. And it was 3rd gen. The car nerd in me was thinking, "a 96 SHO didn't have the option for manual," when he was selecting it, haha.
2nd gen, however. Sweet cars for their day.
Why do I have the screaming impression that this was made with Macromedia Director - probably on a PowerMac?
Ford Simulator was a serious mans Test Drive... Loved feeling serious playing it as a kid... It came on House of Games 2 one of those shareware CD megacompilations with "over 700 games" or something insane like that... Was around 94 or 95... That was such a good time for video games
Thanks for clarifying EXACTLY what it was. I remember playing this in the late 90s. I couldn't remember WHAT it was called. I played it on 101 DOS Games on a free promotional product from Best Buy. I NEVER KNEW its history until now....
Jaguar xj
I think the X300 and X308 variants of the XJ's were the prettiest ones ever made. And it was probably thanks to Ford, rather than in spite of - since X300 was the first XJ produced entirely by Ford. I own a X308, and it's such a sweet car. Same nice red color as in the picture.
I own a X308 it is one of the prettiest Jags ever built
so the simulator acts just like a Ford
In the late 90s I owned a Ford Aspire - it was a ton of fun and hilariously unstoppable, mostly due to being so bare bones. I took appallingly poor care of it, at least at first as it was my first car and I didn't know any better. I didn't change the oil for at least a year after I bought it. It only survived because oil leaked out of it constantly, forcing me to top it off.
It was so light, it never got stuck in snow and used every minor unevenness in the road as a ramp. Repairing it was easy and fun as there really wasn't much to repair.
I drove the damn thing to hell and back, putting over 200k on it without any major repairs, then sold it to a friend for $300, who drove it for another year before destroying it through some more of that "this is my first car" negligence.
Man... one of these days I might try to get myself another Aspire just for fun, before they are all junked.
The driving simulator portion's production value still holds up today. Just add a narrator reciting an unrelated story about someone's mother dying of cancer, and you've got a 2018 indie GOTY contender.