Intolerable nostalgia. All these sounds... those images... bring up even smells of those days... I'm fifteen, my dad is alive... future seems like it holds some of this for real. Friends of back then feltlike they would be friends forever.
Agreed but the in game play was still fairly primitive even for its time. Good news is hard driving came out 2 years later which would elevate the driving sim to new heights.
That's a blast from the past. Thanks for posting this. I loved this game, the music for the car selection and pit stops have been burned into my memory for 20yrs... wicked. Anyone remember the first level you didn't have to steer... just hammer it and go dead straight; you wouldn't crash. Nice trick on the programmers part.
Крутой обрыв с бескрайним небом дарят неописуемое впечатление. Этот примитивный трюк сильнее большинства живописных полотен, правда ! Почему - загадка. Может, это ощущение детства, с его чистыми перспективами будущего.
I remember playing this game on the first computer I ever laid hands on, I couldn't have been older than 7. I remember my dad telling me "you have to drive nicely, that way you wont crash the car". I ended up doing this for a while... lol Thanks for uploding the vid!! Great memories:D
Was It Amigo ? ( It's Not a Lucasfilm Games Disk / Item ... But I know for sure it wasn't Quartex , Vision Factory & Beyonders , RED SECTOR , E C A , or Dr. Mabuse Orgasm Crackings )
This came with my Amiga 500 and was the only game I had for two whole months. Let's just say I knew those five tracks very well. I'm sure I could remember them even today! :-)
Memories, brilliant memories. Watching the game play reminded me of who I used to lean over in my seat when close the the wall going flat out trying not to smash before getting the the gas station. I remember there being a Corvette and Lotus esprit to choose from as well.
Memories, brilliant memories. To me these are the lyrics of one of the best songs ever sung - Somewhere someone in Summertime (Live in the city of light, by Simple Minds - link below) Is that a usual English saying ? ruclips.net/video/5aB8eBp6TrE/видео.html
It was so hard because it was so choppy, you usually would control the car with a digital joystick and there was no way of gaging the bends. Don't get me wrong - I loved this game. It had barely anything to do with driving a real car, but it was the only thing we got. Geoff Crammond's Grand Prix then probably pushed it as far as you could go with the hardware at that time.
Back then I was craving for an Amiga 500. Graphics and performance was sooo good and superior. When I see how these games perform today, I wonder why I ever wanted an Amiga 😂 how fast times changed... mind blowing
@@bjornna7767 by my harshness?? 😂🤣 He was the one being really harsh by a PC that millions of others still think hold up today! With your full name-you got to be Swedish right?
@@bjornna7767 Ummm when he said-When I see how these games perform today, I wonder why I ever wanted an Amiga 😂 how fast times changed... mind blowing Millions of people disagree with him, ah so your from Germany-I love Germany been goingt here since a small kid in 80's for a holiday! last time I was there was way back in summer of 2018 in Stuttgart and wnnt to one of my fav Theme Parks-Europa Park! You been to the UK??
though not the first 3D driving game, (which this isnt actually 3d) Test Drive is the first, First person Driving game with a serious intent behind it. Unlike other above view or parallax scrolling arcade racers of its day Test Drive is actually the longest running Racing title period. It could be consider the great great grandfather of modern day Test Drive unlimited 2. not to mention was the inspiration for later Road and Track Presents: The Need For Speed. which in itself spawned GT5
daaamn! that was my first racing game ever :D I ran it on Amiga 600, great memories... BTW - it's a shame that '87 test drive has cockpit view and GT5's standard cars dont :/
Brings back memories.. hehe i guess i was about 6 when i played this.. dont even remember the computer very well.. just the game because it had cars in it hehe,, thanks for the post :)
I was 6 and remembered the computer very well with this game among others, Why wouldn't you remember the computer very well?? What do you remember about it then?
I played this game as a 14 year old, badly. When I started driving for real, I never quite got the hang of changing gears smoothly on a manual transmission.
This, prince of persia and an ms-dos game called 'mission' (spanish title i believe) were my first contact with a computer (philips 8086 12 Mhz) in 1989-90
A mio parere ...Sarà stata la giovane età,sarà stato il più bel periodo della mia vita..ma questo gioco a rivederlo mi da un brivido di forte nostalgia..ha qualche cosa di ipnotizzante.Anche adesso mi viene voglia di giocarci.
vi giuro che guardare ste cose fa male sul serio😢😢😢 quanto godevo davanti a sto gioco... l amiga , un monitor del membro, una giornata uggiosa e la voglia in me di stupurmi... e test drive ci riusciva di brutto.
This game provided untold hours of fun gaming. Even though ti had limited amount of tracks and cars. You always tried for the best time possible and it was a great ride. I played it mostly on my then Atari ST and finished it eventually without any crashes and with good times. I continued playing it lol. My favourite was the Porsche with second favourite the Corvette. Great game, too bad most sequels turned out to be POS and not much to do with the gameplay of this one.
@@bjornna7767 I completely agree with you. The first NFS in particular felt like the proper sequel to the first TD game. Still among my top favorite racing games. :)
@@Trusteft Yes, it's awesome. I even played the demo for days. Could enjoy it on the 3do for one week nearly 2 years before the demo on PC. Felt like Test Drive with modern gfx. Played NFS on Dos via modem link on a 2nd 486 of a friend of mine back then. Was the tme when LAN was becoming a thing. Was also blown away by Road Rash. Unfortunately NFS2 was a real bummer.
@@bjornna7767 I played NFS all the way till about when Windows XP came out, then I had issues which didn't let me play the game properly. Thankfully eventually DOSBox arrived and solved that issue. Never played NFS multiplayer, in fact to this day the only racing games I remember playing multiplayer (online or offline) were Super Cars 2, the Lotus series, plus a couple more from the 16bit era on the Atari ST, Amiga and PC. The only relatively recent racing game I played multiplayer were Project Gotham Racing 3 on the Xbox 360 (another racing game I adore) and Split Second Velocity on the PC/PS3/PSP (again I love it). As for NFS2, I remember the huge disappointment I felt when I played it as it did not have that open road Test Drive feel to it and it was all about closed tracks. It ruined the game for me.
@@Trusteft Hey mate! Yeah, Dosbox is a life saver, true. It's nice that nearly every old game can be properly played on every modern machine. Oh man, Supercars 2 and Lotus was so amazing via Link. I also played PGR3 on Xbox360, was amazing back then and I also still play Split Second sometimes with my 9-year-old son. Yes, NFS2 lacked this feeling and felt artificial. Do you happen to play Assetto Corsa? I
I had this for my 500. Did you know you could "copy" the cars from the game and put them in the paint program? I used to stick them on pictures of mountains!
The sound between 3:05 and 4:25 is similiar to emitted by heavier diesel vehicles, like that time produced city bus Mercedes-Benz O405. The technology was not as primitive in comparison with the hardware possibilities, now it couldn't be naturally sold. Humorous steering wheel's centre with the abbreviation suggesting Turbo Diesel, not the game's title. ;-)
As a child when I played this, i liked the car selection the most exiting part of the game. Driving was too hard.. I prefer Stunts(video game) for my car simulation needs ::)
Yes, but while Stunts had better handling, they are diiferent games. ... here you are closer to real drive... stunts has easier handling, but the fun fact is building tracks and thge cameras
The only tires I stick to for Lamborghini's are GoodYear or Michelin Tires instead of Pirelli Tires are that they are my alternative preferences, even if they are real race like tires.
Oh man, this is cool, I had this on my Atari 520 ST. :D And I had another racaing game the name of which I don't recall. IIRC, the graphics of that game were better (which is hard to imagine, right?).
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Intolerable nostalgia. All these sounds... those images... bring up even smells of those days... I'm fifteen, my dad is alive... future seems like it holds some of this for real. Friends of back then feltlike they would be friends forever.
+Bono Sapiens Rising I feel exactly the same What you wrote is just one of the most moving thing I've ever read
Oh wow thanks. I'm like an ugly duckling of a writer so I truly take this to heart, friend.
Ah mais t'es Français :)
Well said, I couldn't agree more :)
Wow dude. You just slapped my inner child!
What amazes me is over 25 years later the Amiga graphics still look good. That computer was something else. Way ahead of its time.
Agreed but the in game play was still fairly primitive even for its time. Good news is hard driving came out 2 years later which would elevate the driving sim to new heights.
I wish to God we could go back to those days. I didn't have an Amiga. Mine was an Atari St 520. But the games, like this one, were bloody ADDICTIVE!!!
I am 46 years old now, but I never forget this game, my First Amiga Game and Lotus
I am the same age as you, and I remember playing this on my C64 and later Amiga 500 (the latter which I worked my butt off to be able to afford, haha)
@@Ama-hi5kn 😂 😂 me too, in these times was too much expensive , but LEGEND MACHINES STILL
And the suddenly you hear your mom screaming "Dinner is ready!"
"I can´t!!!"
@@cuntinakia8122 What did your mum say when dinner or pudding was ready?????
This, so much this. :'(
Oh well. These brilliant memories we must cherish as TREASURE FOREVERMORE. Not as a longing... :)
i temenber that well
Great 80's machine, 80's were a great decade for Music, Films, TV Shows, Consoles/PCs, Theme Parks, Theatre, etc etc
That's a blast from the past. Thanks for posting this. I loved this game, the music for the car selection and pit stops have been burned into my memory for 20yrs... wicked.
Anyone remember the first level you didn't have to steer... just hammer it and go dead straight; you wouldn't crash. Nice trick on the programmers part.
It's incredible, I was about 8 when I first played this game, and I still can remember that music!! Thanks!
Крутой обрыв с бескрайним небом дарят неописуемое впечатление. Этот примитивный трюк сильнее большинства живописных полотен, правда ! Почему - загадка. Может, это ощущение детства, с его чистыми перспективами будущего.
I remember playing this game on the first computer I ever laid hands on, I couldn't have been older than 7.
I remember my dad telling me "you have to drive nicely, that way you wont crash the car". I ended up doing this for a while... lol
Thanks for uploding the vid!! Great memories:D
YES finally someone who uploaded the "accolade presents" version :D
thaaaaaaaaaaank YOU !
I was 6 years old and I had this :) GREAT GREAT Memories!!
Great Music ! And the surprise of human voice recording in a game, when games barely could do beep and boop ! :-D
I remember playing that game at my cousin's home, when I drove in the gas station they always said "You drive like my grandmother" ;-D
I spent hours on this game as an 8yo kid , was best car game in its day
This and Street Rod. I loved stuntcar racer too.
@@edstar83 Stunt car came out much later and was MUCH better than this crap. But Test Drive was one of the first games for the Amiga so... it was ok
@@thomassmith4999 Test Drive was a blast back then. Period.
"Test Drive was cracked by..." HAHAHA xD
Was It Amigo ?
( It's Not a Lucasfilm Games
Disk / Item ...
But I know for sure it wasn't
Quartex , Vision Factory &
Beyonders , RED SECTOR ,
E C A , or Dr. Mabuse
Orgasm Crackings )
Man the gear shift camera should be in every modern game. Looks so awesome. Imagine that with like DIRT/Forza graphics.
The into song hits right in feels. 😍😍. Takes me back to a much simpler time.
This, along with Defender of the Crown, were two of the first games I ever played on an Amiga. What memories.
This came with my Amiga 500 and was the only game I had for two whole months. Let's just say I knew those five tracks very well. I'm sure I could remember them even today! :-)
I still think about this game... a lot
accolade presents
That was my favourite part back then lol
A̶C̶C̶O̶L̶A̶D̶E̶ -
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oh I remember this in 4 color mode on an IBM-PC haha
@@AndrasMihalyi haha :D
it was one of the best games that I have played at Amiga when I was Child...
I remember this so well, I had it on the Atari ST.
Thanks for the nostalgic upload!!
5/5 ^^
Atari ST-Another great PC from the 1980's :-)
I played this in CGA mode on a PC for hours on end. I would've killed to get my hands on this version..
Kinda makes you wanna hit up ebay for an Amiga and this game ye know? This and maybe Neuromancer and Archon II
ah the memories. I had this game when it first came out! I still get the music stuck in my head lol
This looks better than the DOS version
God, the Amiga was years ahead of its time.
Memories, brilliant memories. Watching the game play reminded me of who I used to lean over in my seat when close the the wall going flat out trying not to smash before getting the the gas station. I remember there being a Corvette and Lotus esprit to choose from as well.
Memories, brilliant memories.
To me these are the lyrics of one of the best songs ever sung - Somewhere someone in Summertime (Live in the city of light, by Simple Minds - link below)
Is that a usual English saying ?
ruclips.net/video/5aB8eBp6TrE/видео.html
This was MUCH harder than driving games today like Gran Turismo etc.
So true, well said
It was so hard because it was so choppy, you usually would control the car with a digital joystick and there was no way of gaging the bends.
Don't get me wrong - I loved this game. It had barely anything to do with driving a real car, but it was the only thing we got. Geoff Crammond's Grand Prix then probably pushed it as far as you could go with the hardware at that time.
Thank god I was born in the age of Gran Turismo (& other sim racing games)
LOL
I had this too! True classic and that tune is SO catchy :p
Took amazing skills to drive a high performance car at 2 frames per second.
cars with no sides. i was amazed as a kid when first started seeing driving games where the cars had sides.
Back then I was craving for an Amiga 500. Graphics and performance was sooo good and superior. When I see how these games perform today, I wonder why I ever wanted an Amiga 😂 how fast times changed... mind blowing
WTF-Many many Amiga 500 games still hold up
The way your talking as if they are shit graphics + performance-Very confused by your comment
@@mikekaraoke confused by your harshness
@@bjornna7767 by my harshness?? 😂🤣
He was the one being really harsh by a PC that millions of others still think hold up today!
With your full name-you got to be Swedish right?
@@mikekaraoke I don't see where he would be rude and I'm German.
@@bjornna7767 Ummm when he said-When I see how these games perform today, I wonder why I ever wanted an Amiga 😂 how fast times changed... mind blowing
Millions of people disagree with him, ah so your from Germany-I love Germany been goingt here since a small kid in 80's for a holiday! last time I was there was way back in summer of 2018 in Stuttgart and wnnt to one of my fav Theme Parks-Europa Park!
You been to the UK??
What a game. Brings back memories!!
When I got my A500 in 1987 this was the first game that I loaded up!
lol 80s is the best... i remember that game. i thought it was soo cool for its time...
those 5 1980s Supercars Are Awesome.
I have managed to Print all of 5 Cars in Power point.
Gzuz - that title song was buried deeeeep in my memory. It didn't suck that much right now (or does it?)
the starting music...so many memories....!!thanks for video
this takes me back, great post
Started from this, and now we have a big open world map with the house and character customization
cette musique d'intro est tout simplement MYTHIQUE !! énorme souvenir ...
though not the first 3D driving game, (which this isnt actually 3d) Test Drive is the first, First person Driving game with a serious intent behind it. Unlike other above view or parallax scrolling arcade racers of its day Test Drive is actually the longest running Racing title period. It could be consider the great great grandfather of modern day Test Drive unlimited 2. not to mention was the inspiration for later Road and Track Presents: The Need For Speed. which in itself spawned GT5
i was 5 years old. i love my grandpa
NEVER forget this game
Best game ever! I spent days on it.
With the "o" key, you changed the shifter from sequential to real shifter... that was one of my favorite things :).
Never knew that
lol very cool video, to me it seems very hard to drive like that, is it?
Yesssssss!!!
Know it like it was yesterday!!
Thanks!
@KACU2 amiga had the best of everything. i was very fortunate to have access to one as a kid.
"hy the windshield cracks if you over rev it"
this is because the engine pops out and the roof changes shape.
mein erstes autorennspiel, das vergisst man nicht
Ferrari Testarossa was my favorite car in this game! 1988 must it have been, time goes.. :)
Was cracked by... this won all😂
I went bonkers when my dad's friend dubbed us a disk of this for the old Amiga...
I loved them from the first to the last one on pC.
daaamn! that was my first racing game ever :D I ran it on Amiga 600, great memories... BTW - it's a shame that '87 test drive has cockpit view and GT5's standard cars dont :/
Brings back memories.. hehe i guess i was about 6 when i played this.. dont even remember the computer very well.. just the game because it had cars in it hehe,, thanks for the post :)
I was 6 and remembered the computer very well with this game among others, Why wouldn't you remember the computer very well??
What do you remember about it then?
Testarossa's my favorite car of all time.
I played this game as a 14 year old, badly. When I started driving for real, I never quite got the hang of changing gears smoothly on a manual transmission.
This, prince of persia and an ms-dos game called 'mission' (spanish title i believe) were my first contact with a computer (philips 8086 12 Mhz) in 1989-90
A mio parere ...Sarà stata la giovane età,sarà stato il più bel periodo della mia vita..ma questo gioco a rivederlo mi da un brivido di forte nostalgia..ha qualche cosa di ipnotizzante.Anche adesso mi viene voglia di giocarci.
Must have been unbelievable to go from ZX Spectrum or Atari 2600 games to something that looks like this.
Do you have this version working on a PC now friend?
vi giuro che guardare ste cose fa male sul serio😢😢😢 quanto godevo davanti a sto gioco... l amiga , un monitor del membro, una giornata uggiosa e la voglia in me di stupurmi... e test drive ci riusciva di brutto.
aerf is the code for the Amiga yo. That will make you go faster and have better traction.
haha loved this game, still dont get why the windshield cracks if you over rev it
I loved this game!!!! Played it 1 mio times.
OMG, i soooooooooo loved this game, thanks for posting
Why did the windscreen crack from engine overspeed? The engine threw its toys out of the pram? 😄
This was so much better looking than DOS version
I had Best lap-time to drive a lotus and porsche because they are my favourite those 2.
I loved this game. had it on pc in 1990.
Only finished first level as I remember... with full speed. Usually there is always a car on the other side when you want to take over. lol
was there a game before this one ,in green and white?
Accolade Presents...
for what it was, this music really kicked ass!
This game provided untold hours of fun gaming. Even though ti had limited amount of tracks and cars. You always tried for the best time possible and it was a great ride. I played it mostly on my then Atari ST and finished it eventually without any crashes and with good times. I continued playing it lol.
My favourite was the Porsche with second favourite the Corvette.
Great game, too bad most sequels turned out to be POS and not much to do with the gameplay of this one.
The first Need for Speed was the real sequel to me.
@@bjornna7767 I completely agree with you. The first NFS in particular felt like the proper sequel to the first TD game. Still among my top favorite racing games. :)
@@Trusteft Yes, it's awesome. I even played the demo for days. Could enjoy it on the 3do for one week nearly 2 years before the demo on PC. Felt like Test Drive with modern gfx. Played NFS on Dos via modem link on a 2nd 486 of a friend of mine back then. Was the tme when LAN was becoming a thing. Was also blown away by Road Rash.
Unfortunately NFS2 was a real bummer.
@@bjornna7767 I played NFS all the way till about when Windows XP came out, then I had issues which didn't let me play the game properly. Thankfully eventually DOSBox arrived and solved that issue. Never played NFS multiplayer, in fact to this day the only racing games I remember playing multiplayer (online or offline) were Super Cars 2, the Lotus series, plus a couple more from the 16bit era on the Atari ST, Amiga and PC. The only relatively recent racing game I played multiplayer were Project Gotham Racing 3 on the Xbox 360 (another racing game I adore) and Split Second Velocity on the PC/PS3/PSP (again I love it). As for NFS2, I remember the huge disappointment I felt when I played it as it did not have that open road Test Drive feel to it and it was all about closed tracks. It ruined the game for me.
@@Trusteft Hey mate!
Yeah, Dosbox is a life saver, true. It's nice that nearly every old game can be properly played on every modern machine.
Oh man, Supercars 2 and Lotus was so amazing via Link.
I also played PGR3 on Xbox360, was amazing back then and I also still play Split Second sometimes with my 9-year-old son.
Yes, NFS2 lacked this feeling and felt artificial.
Do you happen to play Assetto Corsa? I
I had this for my 500. Did you know you could "copy" the cars from the game and put them in the paint program? I used to stick them on pictures of mountains!
Excelentes recuerdos de la niñez 👌👌👌👌
did at any point in this game the graphic ever change from driving round a moutain
The sound between 3:05 and 4:25 is similiar to emitted by heavier diesel vehicles, like that time produced city bus Mercedes-Benz O405. The technology was not as primitive in comparison with the hardware possibilities, now it couldn't be naturally sold.
Humorous steering wheel's centre with the abbreviation suggesting Turbo Diesel, not the game's title. ;-)
gotta love the soundtrack
Wait a minute, the C64 can have the Ferrari logo on the steering wheel, but the Amiga and rest don't?
As a child when I played this, i liked the car selection the most exiting part of the game. Driving was too hard..
I prefer Stunts(video game) for my car simulation needs ::)
Yes, but while Stunts had better handling, they are diiferent games. ... here you are closer to real drive... stunts has easier handling, but the fun fact is building tracks and thge cameras
Check the gas station at 5:04 - DSI? Distinctive Software Inc? The creatos of stunts
The only tires I stick to for Lamborghini's are GoodYear or Michelin Tires instead of Pirelli Tires are that they are my alternative preferences, even if they are real race like tires.
My childhood!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! omg
If you could drive this past in my time, you could drive anything else. It was hard as f...
I HAD THIS!!! LOL.. So many memories..
I hated this game, but liked the cars so much I had to play over and over 😂
Ha ha ha i played this to death back then,but it was brilliant at the time..Good Old Days
Oh man, this is cool, I had this on my Atari 520 ST. :D
And I had another racaing game the name of which I don't recall. IIRC, the graphics of that game were better (which is hard to imagine, right?).
My Childhood ☺️
Back when 5fps was making us more than happy. I'M so grateful having lived back that time and not be an ipod/pad zombie.
Which Porsche is that exactly? 😍
"pulling into gas station" what gas staion is that exactly?
Don's Gas-o-rama. Gas on the go.
First Test Drive didn't have an auto-centering wheel on keyboard XD
The car engine sounds are better than those used in GTA 5