As a kid I made a game in BASIC where there's a little guy walking towards a row of barrels, and you have to repeatedly press a key to launch the barrels out of his way one by one, you can't launch the barrels too quickly because eventually they fall back down, but this is tricky because the little guy's speed keeps changing. It was crazy simple but weirdly addictive, maybe I should have polished and distributed it somehow so LGR would make a video on it 20 years later.
Does anybody else besides me like to think of "Voice Over LGR" and "Live Action LGR" as two separate entities? Like Clint is just some normal dude trapped in a house full of old tech stuff and the LGR voice is keeping him there for his amusement... ...maybe I need to stop watching LGR when I'm sleep deprived.
I agree with you. 'Voice Over LGR' conjures up images of a big old Bear Man - complete with plaid shirt and big beard, whilst 'Live Action LGR' looks like a little cute Bear Cub - just waiting to grow up into that Bear Man! Mmmmm LOL!
Hey LGR, just want to stop by and thank you for the thoughtful & entertaining videos. I watch a lot of your videos on my lunch break at work, it really helps to get through the day. Additionally, you seem like a super laid-back mellow type of guy, which is awesome.
What started as a search for ergonomic wrist rests, somehow ended up here. Why do I stray so easily from the beaten path, I ask myself over and over again. Take me away to the farther lands ye ol' recommended videos, and distract me until my purpose have truly been forgotten.
Well done, man! This is now my favorite video of yours! And it's difficult to have a favorite on your channel when all the videos are so top notch! The intro just kills me every time, idk why it makes me laugh so much but I love it
Rockstar put this in the GTA Casino as "Race the Tracks", since they even did go with the retro look i'd dare to say it's intended as homage or easter egg
Lazy Game Reviews Yeah, stick some adverts in there and micropayment requests and you've got a modern mobile game. Although it still looks too interactive, a modern version would tell you the race ends in six hours and to come back then ;-)
Even basic cell phones would be able to run a game this simple. Heck, a TI-83+ Calculator is capable or running games that are much more complex then this. I'm not kidding. You can download and play games on a graphing calculator (gameboy games like Super Mario work well, and there are even some RPGs made for them).
Floppy disk in mashed potatoes... eek! Hope the floppy was also a potato. Man, Dick Olsen! I remember playing his Basstour as a kid! Loved it! Nostalgia... though I recently decided to play it again after probably over a decade, and I didn't like it as much as I remembered liking it. Still, very nostalgic!
In Japan they have two different horse racing games. One is plastic horses Galloping around oval track with CRT screen to animation. Second track is on a huge three screen. You sit on a comfortable chair in front of the monitor that's touch screen. You pick a jockey and horse, then you'll see an animation or watch the animation on huge three screens to watch.
I know how much you love gambling games and Casino Cop and all, so I'm convinced you'd fall in absolute love with the cheesiness that is Vegas Stakes for SNES. I absolutely adore it!!
I remember when I was stationed in Newmarket, England. I was watching Horse racing and 1 of the horses broke a leg. A van raced out and set up a barrier to the crowd and shot the horse. It was crazy but I was assured that the horse with a broken leg would never recover or something.... it was really weird and sad. Your review made me think of that day :) Awesome review as uasual :)
no joke - never seen this video before - I sat down to watch a random LGR video with bowl of mashed potatoes for supper. Funny how things seem to align themselves. It's like back in 2014 you knew I was gonna sit down with a bowl of potatoes... trippy man...just trippy..
Hilarious review! I once made a similar (but much simpler) game - on a Casio calculator! Instead of horses it had cars, which were represented by dots. I don't remember if there was any betting in the game... Please do "Dracula in London" at some point in the near future, that one sounds good.
The finest ingredients are brought together with love and care, then slow cooked to perfection. Yes, the old ways are still best at Los Pollos Hermanos. But don't take my word for it. One taste, and you'll know.
No "Greetings intro" ? i'm sad. Anyway, greetings from France and have a "Bonne année" (happy new year) dear sir. :) Nice Eric Chahi painting by the way.
I used to have a game that looked very very similar to this...it came in a compilation game disk for windows 98. I forget what it was called, but it looks like an updated version of this. The killer part of it was you could buy horses and sell them, you could have a 'stable' and you could enter them in several different kinds of races and different turf (like dirt or grass). I sunk so many hours into it. Also you could tweak your horses stamina and such so you could make a virtually invincible horse...almost invincible, there were always horses that can beat you, but I'd love to figure out what it was called and be able to play it again some day.
Something about this reminds of EGA Trek's aesthetic so I had to Google the name. Turns out Dick Olsen and Nels Anderson (of EGA Trek fame) worked on a game called "BASSTOUR" together.. so I'm guessing they shared libraries or otherwise influenced each other's work.
I remember that game, came with my parents computer, it was like this but with slightly better graphics and the ability to train your horses etc.. Much fun.
Hi just wondering if you remember the program years ago to make 3D shooters like depth dwellers 3D engine or something like that I had it and made a few games back around 92-94.. Was fairly easy to use and can quickly make a awefull game in 10mins or so...I'm sure the same engine was used for depth dwellers...
thank you for even mentioning derby owners club, dear god I loved that game more than life itself from ages 8-12. I had like 30 horses, and I still have them somewhere in a card holder. I sadly haven't played it in years after my two arcades that had it closed down. I remember I saw one at this pac-man cafe/arcade in Orlando and one dude made it to the top of the scoreboard with a horse named "FUCK YOU PAC-MAN", lawl
LGR, try "Blood and Magic" (1996), awesome 6/10 startegy. Colorful, fun and hard as hell on later levels. Great stuff. I'm returning to it every 4-5 years, magical game.
Huh...weird that you'd review this as I was playing a horse racing game. Hooves of Thunder. It's...um...way more in-depth, though. Poring over the detailed racing forms and factoring in race length and such to pick your winners, for instance. Elegantly simple, it's not. But I do like it, though I think I have to run it on an older computer, on Win 7, the auction screen doesn't work properly. Doing a multiplayer game on this could totally be fun, though. Also, I noticed it says not the horses, but the _jockeys_ go down. So this is some sort of really amateur horse race with new jockeys racing on old nags?
I was reminded of this game when playing Pocket Card Jockey... granted it was a lot less betting on the ponies and a lot more on raising them, but you don't find many horse racing games here anyways. ("Track" enthusiasts aside, it seems we just care about the Triple Crown if at all and not much else.)
This reminds me of a game I used to have called Derby Day or something. It's great-lose all your money? Ah, just restart the game and have more money appear..sadly that doesn't work on real horses..darn
Enkeria You're entitled to your opinion, but I really like the "aah"- intro. Dunno why though. It could just be that my brain gives me "soda good, me like soda"-signals, and then finds it good by association. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I don't know Lazy Game Reviews, I think it could use a better theme song. Come on and SLAM! And welcome to the NAGS! Come on and SLAM! If, you wanna race NAGS! ...I should probably start sleeping more.
I so remember buying this game at a book store that a display of various shareware games.. You need to do a review of the "Hugo" series Ie. Jungle of Doom.. Didn't Pushing up Roses do a Let's Play?
This is fantastic. Thanks for these great videos. And mashed potatoes. Mostly potatoes. I do enjoy mashed potatoes. Potatoes of the mashed variety? Yes. I should sleep more.
2:28 One horse is named "Glue Factory Refugee"... wow, pretty dark, but funny :D
As a kid I made a game in BASIC where there's a little guy walking towards a row of barrels, and you have to repeatedly press a key to launch the barrels out of his way one by one, you can't launch the barrels too quickly because eventually they fall back down, but this is tricky because the little guy's speed keeps changing. It was crazy simple but weirdly addictive, maybe I should have polished and distributed it somehow so LGR would make a video on it 20 years later.
Does anybody else besides me like to think of "Voice Over LGR" and "Live Action LGR" as two separate entities? Like Clint is just some normal dude trapped in a house full of old tech stuff and the LGR voice is keeping him there for his amusement...
...maybe I need to stop watching LGR when I'm sleep deprived.
I neither confirm nor deny the truth behind this conspiracy.
I agree with you. 'Voice Over LGR' conjures up images of a big old Bear Man - complete with plaid shirt and big beard, whilst 'Live Action LGR' looks like a little cute Bear Cub - just waiting to grow up into that Bear Man! Mmmmm LOL!
LOL
Where does Duke Nukem fit into this?
TOASTEngineer
Duke is trapped inside the network of old tech stuff, hence why he appears in all of the Sims reviews and let's play videos.
If i get a horse i want to name mine 'Glue factory refugee"
Evan knutson Animal Farm reference?
That disembodied horse head is creepily hilarious. I actually laughed aloud when I saw it on screen the first time, haha.
Hey LGR, just want to stop by and thank you for the thoughtful & entertaining videos. I watch a lot of your videos on my lunch break at work, it really helps to get through the day. Additionally, you seem like a super laid-back mellow type of guy, which is awesome.
Hey, thank you, and I'm glad you're enjoying :)
Misread it as Race The Nagas. My dreams of breaking the bank on shady underground serpent racing go woefully unfilled.
-it's time to race the nags
-the nags?
-yes the nags
-whaaaaaat?
lol
Go to sleep, or watch this...watch this.
Smart decision
Exactly what I was asking myself.
"I'm going to bed after this video."
"Oh look a playlist..."
i only have mashed potatos but this game ran fine on them...
That is the best drawing of Sarah Jessica Parker I have seen in years. Although, she is way past her racing years.
What started as a search for ergonomic wrist rests, somehow ended up here. Why do I stray so easily from the beaten path, I ask myself over and over again. Take me away to the farther lands ye ol' recommended videos, and distract me until my purpose have truly been forgotten.
I enjoy the intro to this video too much..."THE NAGS!"
Well done, man! This is now my favorite video of yours! And it's difficult to have a favorite on your channel when all the videos are so top notch! The intro just kills me every time, idk why it makes me laugh so much but I love it
Slip me some, in the pink, and call me later... What's this game again?
Rockstar put this in the GTA Casino as "Race the Tracks", since they even did go with the retro look i'd dare to say it's intended as homage or easter egg
Wow, I haven't heard (or though of) this title in 30 years!
Potatoes - 10/10 would eat again
CASINO COP REFERENCE I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS FOR A YEAR.
Two thumbs up for mentioning our favorite roller skating casino constable
This could be a horribly addictive mobile phone game (if it doesn't already exist in some form).
***** Agreed -- compulsive, simple, rewarding. It's got many of the qualities of an addictive mobile game!
So lgr can you do duke nukem duke IT ou dc and Serious Sam 1
Lazy Game Reviews Yeah, stick some adverts in there and micropayment requests and you've got a modern mobile game. Although it still looks too interactive, a modern version would tell you the race ends in six hours and to come back then ;-)
James Grimwood or you can pay $3 to see the end right now!
Even basic cell phones would be able to run a game this simple. Heck, a TI-83+ Calculator is capable or running games that are much more complex then this. I'm not kidding. You can download and play games on a graphing calculator (gameboy games like Super Mario work well, and there are even some RPGs made for them).
Boil em, mash em, stick em in a stew.
Goes for both nags and potatoes I'd say.
The introduction to this video really made me laugh. Another great review too. Thanks! :D
Floppy disk in mashed potatoes... eek! Hope the floppy was also a potato.
Man, Dick Olsen! I remember playing his Basstour as a kid! Loved it! Nostalgia... though I recently decided to play it again after probably over a decade, and I didn't like it as much as I remembered liking it. Still, very nostalgic!
The music sounds like a simplified version of the Beverly Hills Cop theme.
At 2:06 I noticed horse 6 was called "In the Pink" and was like haha what if... and then horse 6 immediately changed to "Prairie Pie" lol, almost :)
In Japan they have two different horse racing games. One is plastic horses Galloping around oval track with CRT screen to animation. Second track is on a huge three screen. You sit on a comfortable chair in front of the monitor that's touch screen. You pick a jockey and horse, then you'll see an animation or watch the animation on huge three screens to watch.
I do hope no game disks were harmed in the making of this video?
Nah, I always use dead "stunt floppies" :D
+Lazy Game Reviews I just want to say, I've used mashed potatoes to read floppies for years and it works perfectly.
Just the name alone is comedy gold.
I can hear Jack Marston shouting: "Work you damn nag!"
I know how much you love gambling games and Casino Cop and all, so I'm convinced you'd fall in absolute love with the cheesiness that is Vegas Stakes for SNES. I absolutely adore it!!
You find joy in the weirdest of things! But I like you, so it's cool. Keep up the great work, man.
I remember when I was stationed in Newmarket, England. I was watching Horse racing and 1 of the horses broke a leg. A van raced out and set up a barrier to the crowd and shot the horse. It was crazy but I was assured that the horse with a broken leg would never recover or something.... it was really weird and sad. Your review made me think of that day :) Awesome review as uasual :)
They shoot them because it's cheaper, racing horses don't matter if they can't make money.
Thats why I like sports with human's not animals involved. No head-shots required :)
Ashlee Jake If you've read "The Most Dangerous Game" then you'd know that head shots are always an option XP
That is one extremely phallic horsehead.
It's not the same without Casino Cop watching your every move.
"Glue factory refugee"? Gonna get the game to read rest of names :)
Wow that horse drawing...
0:58. I dont know, Floppies make great mashed potatoe mashers.
Race the Nads
no joke - never seen this video before - I sat down to watch a random LGR video with bowl of mashed potatoes for supper. Funny how things seem to align themselves. It's like back in 2014 you knew I was gonna sit down with a bowl of potatoes... trippy man...just trippy..
Hilarious review! I once made a similar (but much simpler) game - on a Casio calculator! Instead of horses it had cars, which were represented by dots. I don't remember if there was any betting in the game...
Please do "Dracula in London" at some point in the near future, that one sounds good.
2:28 who wouldn't bet on Glue Factory Refugee?
The finest ingredients are brought together with love and care, then slow cooked to perfection. Yes, the old ways are still best at Los Pollos Hermanos. But don't take my word for it. One taste, and you'll know.
Those boxes all stacked up neatly speaks to my inner Type A personality like you wouldn't believe.
My grandmother had this for her 386. Wonder if she'd play it again if I set up DOSBox on her iMac.
No "Greetings intro" ? i'm sad.
Anyway, greetings from France and have a "Bonne année" (happy new year) dear sir. :)
Nice Eric Chahi painting by the way.
My scripted reviews never have "greetings" intros, only my unscripted stuff like LGR Plays and Oddware!
Happy new year to you as well :)
Lazy Game Reviews We're going to have to base a DOS trivia game on you someday.
Quality video Interesting game good commentary the intro was great bait to stick on your hook. Rating 9.9/10
I used to have a game that looked very very similar to this...it came in a compilation game disk for windows 98. I forget what it was called, but it looks like an updated version of this. The killer part of it was you could buy horses and sell them, you could have a 'stable' and you could enter them in several different kinds of races and different turf (like dirt or grass). I sunk so many hours into it. Also you could tweak your horses stamina and such so you could make a virtually invincible horse...almost invincible, there were always horses that can beat you, but I'd love to figure out what it was called and be able to play it again some day.
Something about this reminds of EGA Trek's aesthetic so I had to Google the name. Turns out Dick Olsen and Nels Anderson (of EGA Trek fame) worked on a game called "BASSTOUR" together.. so I'm guessing they shared libraries or otherwise influenced each other's work.
1982 wants it's game back.
Do you have a game called Good To Firm? Was a horse training/betting DOS game. I absolutely loved it, but can't find a version of it these days.
I remember that game, came with my parents computer, it was like this but with slightly better graphics and the ability to train your horses etc.. Much fun.
someone did a ytp of this video
Hi just wondering if you remember the program years ago to make 3D shooters like depth dwellers 3D engine or something like that I had it and made a few games back around 92-94.. Was fairly easy to use and can quickly make a awefull game in 10mins or so...I'm sure the same engine was used for depth dwellers...
"Drive Away" by MK2 sounds a lot like "25 Or Six To Four" by Chicago
And that alone is awesome
Lotta horses with song names. Whoever made this game had a good taste in music.
thank you for even mentioning derby owners club, dear god I loved that game more than life itself from ages 8-12. I had like 30 horses, and I still have them somewhere in a card holder. I sadly haven't played it in years after my two arcades that had it closed down. I remember I saw one at this pac-man cafe/arcade in Orlando and one dude made it to the top of the scoreboard with a horse named "FUCK YOU PAC-MAN", lawl
LGR, try "Blood and Magic" (1996), awesome 6/10 startegy. Colorful, fun and hard as hell on later levels. Great stuff. I'm returning to it every 4-5 years, magical game.
You always have amazing shirts. But today... Was just great.
Any chance of a might and magic 2 review...spent months playing that game years ago !
Was the "In the Pink" named horse the number 2 horse?
Dont tell me it was the number two horse, lol.
Huh...weird that you'd review this as I was playing a horse racing game. Hooves of Thunder. It's...um...way more in-depth, though. Poring over the detailed racing forms and factoring in race length and such to pick your winners, for instance. Elegantly simple, it's not. But I do like it, though I think I have to run it on an older computer, on Win 7, the auction screen doesn't work properly.
Doing a multiplayer game on this could totally be fun, though. Also, I noticed it says not the horses, but the _jockeys_ go down. So this is some sort of really amateur horse race with new jockeys racing on old nags?
I was reminded of this game when playing Pocket Card Jockey... granted it was a lot less betting on the ponies and a lot more on raising them, but you don't find many horse racing games here anyways. ("Track" enthusiasts aside, it seems we just care about the Triple Crown if at all and not much else.)
It looks like there racing on a track and field course . :) . Didn't pcs release the hugo games ? .
They certainly did! Though many other companies did as well, it wasn't exclusively theirs.
Lgr how come you haven't done an lgr thrifts in a while? Will you do another one soon?
I would pay you for Duke Nukem impression tutorials.
Should I buy the sims4 or buy one or two expansions for 3?
Sir, could you review Midtown Madness 2? , the first review you reviewed in midtown madness is pretty cool !
one question:
WHY do the horses asses leave brown marks on the track?
=P
I love your videos!!!
My dad and I used bet on the horses in the old Atari 2600 Steeplechase cart. :)
Remember playing games like this back in the day. Although horrible, they kept you playing ;)
Holy crap. I played this so much in high school. For whatever reason it was on the computer in a math teacher's room. I'm old.
Is it me or does that opening ditty sound a bit like the Beverly Hills Cop theme?
Hey, you don't know what I can run on my Mashed Potatoes. My recipe's a classic.
"In The Pink" Definitely the best name.
This was originally called Race the Ex-Wives.
I should totally make a compilation of all the funny jokes in LGR history.
what if you have a floppy disk drive AND mashed potatoes?
Are you planning to review games such as Far Cry 4 or Assasins Creed Unity anytime soon?
"Glue Factory Refugee"! Oh my god. The names in this game... lol! Did anyone else catch that? XD
This intro never gets old haha
Elegantly simple, horribly addictive
How many takes did it require to shoot that beginning part? I'm just curious.
Two!
Lazy Game Reviews
I kind of figured it would either be one or twenty.
this game made our it lessons, the whole curse made bets and the teacher didn't seem to notice
Once again my insecurities of having no floppy drive and only mashed potatoes is reopened.
Kaiji's favorite DOS game... probably.
plz review stroker for the c64
This reminds me of a game I used to have called Derby Day or something. It's great-lose all your money? Ah, just restart the game and have more money appear..sadly that doesn't work on real horses..darn
Breaking Bad fan? Love the shirt!
Only me finding the drinking soda, and seeing the closeup of his "aaah!" a bit awkward?
Er, there is no such thing in this video, so I think you may be commenting in the wrong place.
yeah I notice it while waiting on it hehe, will keep on watching anways, very fun videos man. Thank you! Lazy Game Reviews
Enkeria You're entitled to your opinion, but I really like the "aah"- intro. Dunno why though. It could just be that my brain gives me "soda good, me like soda"-signals, and then finds it good by association. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
MultiMelodia Yeah, soda is good. :) I can agree with that.
Holy shit, it's almost 2017! Where are my flying cars now?
I don't know Lazy Game Reviews, I think it could use a better theme song.
Come on and SLAM! And welcome to the NAGS! Come on and SLAM! If, you wanna race NAGS!
...I should probably start sleeping more.
This reminds me of some of the horse racing games on my BBS. This one has a smiggin better graphics.
Am I the only one that noticed there's a Glue Factory Refugee in the race?!
this game looks very good. i am going to play it!
Dat Out of This World poster..
I so remember buying this game at a book store that a display of various shareware games.. You need to do a review of the "Hugo" series Ie. Jungle of Doom.. Didn't Pushing up Roses do a Let's Play?
200 horse names? Is "Gluestick" one of them?
No, but "Glue Factory Refugee" is.
This is fantastic. Thanks for these great videos. And mashed potatoes. Mostly potatoes. I do enjoy mashed potatoes. Potatoes of the mashed variety? Yes. I should sleep more.
I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse