The riff starting at 0:07 has been bouncing around in my head for decades, surfacing on rare occasions when least expected. I've forgotten a fair bit of it. Thank you for posting!
We've come a long way. I remember playing this on a 15 inch monitor. Now I race Indycars on iRacing with my Oculus Rift and OSW Mige wheel. Incredible.
I remember the graphics at the time just blowing me away. This was probably the first widespread use of texture mapping that I ever saw until Doom came along at the end of the same year. In my opinion, Indycar was at its peak in the early 90s and this sim had all the cars, teams, and tracks in it. I was a big road course fan, so Laguna Seca and Long Beach were my favorite tracks. I poured many hours in to car setups and testing, and though I tried many races, I don’t ever remember winning one.
DOOM doesn't have a real 3d engine, it's more 2.5D. But IndyCar Racing (1993) is definitely one of the first games to make use of texture mapping, along with Frontier: Elite II (October 1993) and F-15 Strike Eagle 3 (December 1992).
I think this was the first game I bought for myself. When I got my first decent computer, I mean. Played it for countless hours too. I mean, right after I did my homework from school :)
I bought the game when it was released. The problem I had with this game were two things: 1. My computer, a 486DX 33 MHz with ISA ET4000/W32 graphics card, was too slow to play the game smoothly with all details turned on. The computer didn't have VLB, only ISA. 2. The resolution of 320x200 pixels was actually far too low to drive the vehicle safely at these speeds. Curves were therefore actually recognized much too late because the low resolution did not allow earlier recognition. So you had to use other expedients to remember when to slow down. You also had to memorize the route in your head, so you could practically play it blind. And the time required for that was too great for me. In principle, I could have saved myself this game and the Thrustmaster steering wheel that I bought with it. It has also aged poorly for these two reasons. The second game IndyCar Racing 2 had an SVGA resolution and was therefore certainly much more suitable, but I really didn't have the right computer for it. So I skipped the second game. Once I had a suitable computer, this genre no longer interested me. But the first game was really nice to take a quick look at it. Because of these two disadvantages, I didn't play it intensively.
Shouldn't be to hard. You can download it on several site's. I got indianapolis 500, icr2 and gp2 for free. You need dosbox offcourse to run them but It's worth a try!
Great game. I played for countless hours. I remember overlapping the 2nd in some track where I had an incredible setup (I don´t remember which one was it now). But I always wondered what are those "F" "R" "B" levers on the left. They affect the steering and ability to corner somehow. Just don´t know exactly how. They should mean "front", "rear", "balance" ? The keys next to the "enter" enable the adjustment. What´s it suppose to really do ?
Those are the Front and Rear Roll-Bars, and the Brake Bias. The front and rear bars will allow minute handling adjustments while inside the cockpit.. One such reason could be when you burn fuel the car gets lighter and the center of gravity might change slightly as well as the handling, you can move one or both bars around to counter the changes in the car.
@@ScottOmatic meanwhile I figured out. Thanks so much. So you have a good setup for indianapolis? I use keyboard. Hard to do better than 212mph average.
@@HF1600ie I think I typically modified Ace.. but used a wheel. It really pays to have an analog controller over stabbing the keyboard. Indy is a lot harder than Michigan because the corners are more abrupt and tighter, it's a less fluid track so it is a lot harder using keys. I would probably lower the steering lock a bit so each stab of the key impacts the car less, run a stiff enough setup so the car does not get too loose when you are stabbing the keys in the corners as well... and maybe run with the Buick in the back for the extra horsepower. :)
The like you got on this video was 43 seconds in, and it's purely because you just hit all the nostalgia buttons. I remember cutting that music off, though lol
Correct, had to do with the licensing and the separate sanctioning bodies of the Indianapolis 500 race and the Indycar series. If I remember correctly there was a way to get the Indianapolis track files from the Indy 500 game released previously which was also developed by Papyrus to work with one or both of the "Indycar Racing" series of games.
Man I loved the playing this game, and the second one... Going to Michigan and watching them race then being able to play it was awesome.. I did a full 500 mile race and blew a tire on the last lap when I was in P1 .. I was so upset lol... What are you using to play it now?
Yes. IndyCar Racing was using VGA at a resolution of 320x200 pixels and 256 colors. As far as i can remember, that game also does not offer EGA graphics mode, thus no 16 colors you needed a VGA card and this does use 256 colors.
@@warrax111 Now I understand what you mean. Well, in this case 256 color means that a 256 color mode is used in which each pixel is assigned 1 byte for the color information. This means 2^8 bits = 256 colors are possible. However, this does not necessarily mean that all of these possible colors are actually used. Gouraud shading also costs performance and I don't think Gouraud shading was used in this game. If there are color gradients, then they were manually incorporated into the textures. The game also doesn't use texture filtering, as was later common with 3D accelerators. That would have cost far too much performance back then. The game does only use software rendering. Everything has to be calculated by the CPU, the graphics card doesn't do anything.
@@OpenGL4everI know, I already animated in Animator program under DOS during 1996. Yeah, there was 256 colors palette, obviously, you can have 256 colors available , but use just one. :)
@@OpenGL4ever by shading, I've mean manually shaded it. You don't need any more CPU power for that, just better animators, that know to draw nicer (use more grades of grey for shading, etc...) I saw some good animated and shaded 16 color pictures, and they looked better than poorly animated 256-color pictures, that's why I've asked. It was mastery to draw in 16 colors, and some animators were really good in it.
DOS stands for Disc Operating System. An operating system used on x86 Personal Computers. At that time a PC with DOS was the best gaming system you could afford. Consoles were cheap and inferior gaming systems. They still are. The PC is still unbeaten to this day. Real gamers therefore play on a high-quality gaming system, i.e. a PC. Only casual gamers play on consoles.
I remember owning this when I was little 6 or 7 and going backwards and wrecking all the cars on the track. Lol good times!
And the noises they made? What a pleasant feeling
i did the same. and than i watched the video. but i was 12😂
i used to do the same shit also in nascar and nascar 2
haha i did the same, then after i crashed them all i would drive the right way and win the race
@@ronimatos90 And it felt and sounded fast.
IT WAS INSANE FOR 1993, really fond memories of being 6 or 7, playing it on my dad's first PC, i think we installed it using 3 or 4 floppy discs.
The riff starting at 0:07 has been bouncing around in my head for decades, surfacing on rare occasions when least expected. I've forgotten a fair bit of it. Thank you for posting!
We've come a long way. I remember playing this on a 15 inch monitor. Now I race Indycars on iRacing with my Oculus Rift and OSW Mige wheel. Incredible.
It makes it more incredible knowing that iRacing and the company behind Indy Car Racing have a common co-founder
Excuse a question in this game and the indycar racing 2 does not include the 500 circuit of indianapolis I saw it in another video
Even more impressive feat would be to play this game using Oculus Rift
My ACC looks like this in Rift S in order to have some decent fps 😅
I was 8 years old when I played this new, dam what an experience. Way advanced for its time
ahhh, 1993. mom's like "why are there angry bee's in your room son"
mom, I'm playing that indy car game we got last week
"oh okay, weird..."
Excuse a question in this game and the indycar racing 2 does not include the 500 circuit of indianapolis I saw it in another video
Toni Ianone indy 500 come in a dlc
LMAO angry bees hahaha this comment made my day
I remember the graphics at the time just blowing me away. This was probably the first widespread use of texture mapping that I ever saw until Doom came along at the end of the same year. In my opinion, Indycar was at its peak in the early 90s and this sim had all the cars, teams, and tracks in it. I was a big road course fan, so Laguna Seca and Long Beach were my favorite tracks. I poured many hours in to car setups and testing, and though I tried many races, I don’t ever remember winning one.
DOOM doesn't have a real 3d engine, it's more 2.5D.
But IndyCar Racing (1993) is definitely one of the first games to make use of texture mapping, along with Frontier: Elite II (October 1993) and F-15 Strike Eagle 3 (December 1992).
I remember being amazing at these state of the art graphics.
If you rammed the safety car you could hear them shout - "What the hell was that". Great times.
Papyrus really great developers
Excuse a question in this game and the indycar racing 2 does not include the 500 circuit of indianapolis I saw it in another video
I remember I'd found a way to edit drivers names and strength and it was superfun. I turned Emmerson into basically a racing god. LOL.
man, that´s where I got my tinnitus.
Remember getting this game for christmas... OH BOY, I was so excited!
I still have this CD Disc, this game came with my first PC in 1995, i was 7 years old, best time ever..
I have this one still! And still play it! with 4 MB Ram runs so smooth:)
I had some problems staying on track with joystick i wish i had Racing wheel & Pedals, i play mostly with DOSBox
Excuse a question in this game and the indycar racing 2 does not include the 500 circuit of indianapolis I saw it in another video
I remember playing this back int he day. I love living in the future and having access to modern sims.
I think this was the first game I bought for myself. When I got my first decent computer, I mean. Played it for countless hours too. I mean, right after I did my homework from school :)
I miss this so much. I used to place Indycar II with lots of mods too.
I've broke a forward arrow key on my keyboard as a result of this racing)
and i broke my index finger :D pushing hard
nostalgia trip, thanks
Memories, spent hour after hour ... sensationally good for back then. Should also have the disk somewhere
This was such a good racing game... Damagemodel good ai players wrecked so many joysticks when i was 5
I bought the game when it was released. The problem I had with this game were two things:
1. My computer, a 486DX 33 MHz with ISA ET4000/W32 graphics card, was too slow to play the game smoothly with all details turned on. The computer didn't have VLB, only ISA.
2. The resolution of 320x200 pixels was actually far too low to drive the vehicle safely at these speeds. Curves were therefore actually recognized much too late because the low resolution did not allow earlier recognition. So you had to use other expedients to remember when to slow down. You also had to memorize the route in your head, so you could practically play it blind. And the time required for that was too great for me. In principle, I could have saved myself this game and the Thrustmaster steering wheel that I bought with it. It has also aged poorly for these two reasons.
The second game IndyCar Racing 2 had an SVGA resolution and was therefore certainly much more suitable, but I really didn't have the right computer for it. So I skipped the second game. Once I had a suitable computer, this genre no longer interested me.
But the first game was really nice to take a quick look at it. Because of these two disadvantages, I didn't play it intensively.
Was it indy 1 or 2 that supported modems? I remember my mom freaking out when my friend tried to dial my PC
Back when I played this, the buick engine would always blow in 10 seconds. Anyone know how to prevent this?
Jon Howard you probably have to adjust the gear ratio to lower the revs.
Thomas Golombeck thanks. I'll have to track down a copy of the game
Shouldn't be to hard. You can download it on several site's.
I got indianapolis 500, icr2 and gp2 for free. You need dosbox offcourse to run them but It's worth a try!
Lmao I remember that buick engine blowing all the time. From then as a kid I always thought Buick made crappy cars
Excuse a question in this game and the indycar racing 2 does not include the 500 circuit of indianapolis I saw it in another video
I'd like to request a menu music soundtrack video ... something I have yet to see from this game
Excuse a question in this game and the indycar racing 2 does not include the 500 circuit of indianapolis I saw it in another video
Great game. I played for countless hours. I remember overlapping the 2nd in some track where I had an incredible setup (I don´t remember which one was it now). But I always wondered what are those "F" "R" "B" levers on the left. They affect the steering and ability to corner somehow. Just don´t know exactly how. They should mean "front", "rear", "balance" ? The keys next to the "enter" enable the adjustment. What´s it suppose to really do ?
Those are the Front and Rear Roll-Bars, and the Brake Bias. The front and rear bars will allow minute handling adjustments while inside the cockpit.. One such reason could be when you burn fuel the car gets lighter and the center of gravity might change slightly as well as the handling, you can move one or both bars around to counter the changes in the car.
HF1600ie this game was not good
@@ScottOmatic meanwhile I figured out. Thanks so much. So you have a good setup for indianapolis? I use keyboard. Hard to do better than 212mph average.
@@HF1600ie I think I typically modified Ace.. but used a wheel. It really pays to have an analog controller over stabbing the keyboard. Indy is a lot harder than Michigan because the corners are more abrupt and tighter, it's a less fluid track so it is a lot harder using keys. I would probably lower the steering lock a bit so each stab of the key impacts the car less, run a stiff enough setup so the car does not get too loose when you are stabbing the keys in the corners as well... and maybe run with the Buick in the back for the extra horsepower. :)
Excuse a question in this game and the indycar racing 2 does not include the 500 circuit of indianapolis I saw it in another video
Dang, used to play this for hours and hours. Brings back memories. Great game but doesn't hold a candle to my kids Nintendo Switch.
Had a lot of run with this one. Set a track record :)
How do you do that please tell me cause I'm playing the same game as you are so please tell me I need instruction so I can be better ok
Excuse a question in this game and the indycar racing 2 does not include the 500 circuit of indianapolis I saw it in another video
The like you got on this video was 43 seconds in, and it's purely because you just hit all the nostalgia buttons. I remember cutting that music off, though lol
Excuse a question in this game and the indycar racing 2 does not include the 500 circuit of indianapolis I saw it in another video
Correct, had to do with the licensing and the separate sanctioning bodies of the Indianapolis 500 race and the Indycar series. If I remember correctly there was a way to get the Indianapolis track files from the Indy 500 game released previously which was also developed by Papyrus to work with one or both of the "Indycar Racing" series of games.
@@shanehrt ok i understand maybe i look for the circuit file thanks
Nothing like racing your pixels around a screen!
Man I loved the playing this game, and the second one... Going to Michigan and watching them race then being able to play it was awesome.. I did a full 500 mile race and blew a tire on the last lap when I was in P1 .. I was so upset lol... What are you using to play it now?
This is 256 color, not 16, right?
Yes. IndyCar Racing was using VGA at a resolution of 320x200 pixels and 256 colors. As far as i can remember, that game also does not offer EGA graphics mode, thus no 16 colors you needed a VGA card and this does use 256 colors.
@@OpenGL4ever well, it isnt very good shaded, so I wasn't sure. It looks like, 200 colors out of those 256 are unused.
@@warrax111 Now I understand what you mean. Well, in this case 256 color means that a 256 color mode is used in which each pixel is assigned 1 byte for the color information. This means 2^8 bits = 256 colors are possible. However, this does not necessarily mean that all of these possible colors are actually used.
Gouraud shading also costs performance and I don't think Gouraud shading was used in this game. If there are color gradients, then they were manually incorporated into the textures. The game also doesn't use texture filtering, as was later common with 3D accelerators. That would have cost far too much performance back then. The game does only use software rendering. Everything has to be calculated by the CPU, the graphics card doesn't do anything.
@@OpenGL4everI know, I already animated in Animator program under DOS during 1996.
Yeah, there was 256 colors palette, obviously, you can have 256 colors available , but use just one. :)
@@OpenGL4ever by shading, I've mean manually shaded it. You don't need any more CPU power for that, just better animators, that know to draw nicer (use more grades of grey for shading, etc...)
I saw some good animated and shaded 16 color pictures, and they looked better than poorly animated 256-color pictures, that's why I've asked.
It was mastery to draw in 16 colors, and some animators were really good in it.
this title really kicked off graphics development in the racing/sim-genre 👍
Iracing is based on this
Sweet!
As Seen On ABC.
Excuse a question in this game and the indycar racing 2 does not include the 500 circuit of indianapolis I saw it in another video
I'm sorry, but which console is called DOS?
EDUARDOLEGENDXNatal 2 lol!
DOS stands for Disc Operating System. An operating system used on x86 Personal Computers. At that time a PC with DOS was the best gaming system you could afford. Consoles were cheap and inferior gaming systems. They still are. The PC is still unbeaten to this day. Real gamers therefore play on a high-quality gaming system, i.e. a PC. Only casual gamers play on consoles.
i game it and doom, ever