I was so naive as a child that I thought that the purpose of the game was driving below the limits. So I had terrible scores and I couldn’t understand what was going on.
Yo lo jugaba en una PC con un procesador Intel i486 (80486) tenía un botón de turbo!! Para cargar el juego primero tenía que meter el disco flexible del msdos para luego meter el juego y digitar el comando para ejecutarlo. Era genial, aunque el monitor era monocromático, primera vez que lo veo a color, que buenos recuerdos.
My dad saw me playing this game (a friend brought it over when I was 9) on our PC and said "Wow! You'll have no trouble getting your license after playing that! It's just like real driving!" Little did I know, lol...
who didnt always choose the countach? Now as a adult i rewatch these specs, its for the first time i actually see that the ferarri was faster on paper.
Fun fact: On C64 you were able to set the controls that way, that you had to actually move the joystick as you were hadling the gear-lever of the car while pressing the fire button actuating as a clutch. That was pretty hard on twisty situation with traffic while you were fighting against gearshifts while you handle the steering with the same controller. HAHAHA
I can't tell you how many joysticks I broke playing this on the 'ol Tandy 1000!! Ahh, good times, good times! Between this and Kings Quest, that was it!
Nice! I remember spending many hours playing this on my Commodore 64 back in the day! Seems like just a few traffic computer cars were missing compared to this version. (Of course all 5 cars were available to drive) Other than that, they seem pretty identical, minus some graphics and color. Funny thing I never used brakes or downshifted when playing. Even though I crashed a few times. I did end up beating it with every car after playing it for many hours. lol
So many games back then I was stuck some point or other. I never had the money for the magazines with the hints. Graphic adventures without hints meant months of playing!
Atari 2600 with several shoeboxes full of games, then a TRS-80 with a cassette recorder for storage a book of games to type and a single cartridge game all with a black and white television kept me well occupied from ages 6-8. Then I experienced the original NES and wasn't impressed. When I got the hand me down Tandy 1000 with this amazing game I thought that machine could do anything. I was allowed only an occasional few minutes on the walled garden of Prodigy, but by the time even the main game menu loaded I had to get offline. Then I discovered the freenet and telnetting and would read random message boards at Case Western or wherever I could find. Learning about people far away with a local phone call just blew my mind. By 12 I was running my own BBS with a Fidonet node I setup on my own. Having strangers call my computer to email people internationally was a huge accomplishment even if it took 36 hours just for a delivery receipt. The sound and graphics may have been primitive compared to today, but for it's time it was better than Augmented reality
First scenario, you could pass the firs curve without touching the wheel, just focusing on accelerating. Final scenario was a bear, but if you let yourself be passed by the cop and keep it at 40 or so (memory is fuzzy), he’d auto-drive you past the dangerous curves and complete the game without crashing.
It was a monster hit for Accolade and its developer, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada-based Distinctive Software, which also developed the sequel, Test Drive II: The Duel, two years later!
Whoa! So this is what it looks like colored, LOL! Played this game as a kid but we could only afford gray monochromatic monitors at the time, but it was still a blast.
Wow. Nostalgia. Sopwith, Test Drive, Pacman. Later- Starquake, Skychase H. I had a PC with an amber monochrome monitor and needed a cga emulator to run colored games on mono. Wow. Just Wow.
I'm sure my neighbour had this when I was about five in the early 90s and was invited over to play it a few times. Its a memory I can hardly remember, but I'm 99% sure this was it. Cool to finally know what's its called!
@@yannisgk Ahhhhh, do not be sad. Use the experience of the limitations of technology of the past to appreciate the technology we have access to today. Then remind younger generations at every available opportunity, like our forbearers did to us when we were young! 😂😂
I used to play this game all the time on my Tandy 1000 sl with joystick. Loved the scanner going mad when cops chased after you, that's when you knew you had to hit the accelerator.
The real plot: the car dealership was a coverup for a *drug* dealership. The Countach was bringing so much drug/money away from the police that its value was peanuts compared. Whish I’d known that as a kid. Or maybe not.
i wonder if somebody would one day make a live intro with all the real cars with this music. It would make me and a lot of old boy videogamers drop some tears
I remember the days when mountainside exotic car dealerships would let you test drive solo. It was also awesome they let you drive on a two lane mountain cliff road with no barrier, which I assume they did because they only let you use 2 gallons of gas to fill up. Either way - the dealer/salesman is a psychic because not only did he predict your victory and pre-write a note and stuff it in the glove box, he took the time to setup a sign and place it out front just for you since he was obviously busy preparing a note for the next exotic car test drive to give away. Its safe to assume he also predicts when folks get pulled over or hit pot holes and kill innocent buick drivers because he didn't stuff their glove box with a crumpled note.
TANDY Graphics memories (I think thats what they are called), played it in OG Vaporwave Pink+Blue dog barf graphics, All cars were madlad curations. I was a child then.❤️❤️😭😭🙏👍 Thanks for this.
But he didn't get a ticket at least once just to see it! I may have gotten a few back in the day. :-) For me, the best run was in the Lotus. It was the slowest flat out, but seemed to handle better so it carried more speed thru the twisties. Hearing it now, I'm not sure how I endured hours of those sounds though!
I remember how i played the shit out of this game back in the days, the graphics were so nice and it was a blast lol. Now watching the game again after all those years i get the feeling of cancer growing in my eye balls xD dang time flies by and graphics are so realistic today. Incredible what technology and humans are capable of.
i remember that you could switch to manual gear shifting but it was pain in the ass. hit fire button on joystick to engage the clutch, shift gear with stick.
I always had problem with keyboard conrols. Was not possible to turn and brake at the same time. I did finished it, but not without a single crash. Your drive is perfect!
The only game where rearview mirrors (Is this the proper English way to call them?) actually worked!!!! played this for hours...together with "stunt-driver"! Good times!
The Ferrari Testarossa!? Oh, dude. I’d learn how to complete the secret test drive challenge of that dealership if it means I get to keep the car that starred in Outrun.
I never played Test Drive 1, but I had Test Drive 2 and was super excited to buy Test Drive 3 finally. It was $50 back then! TD1 looks more interesting than TD2 was, although the music was better on 2. TD3 with the VGA graphics and 3d models was pretty remarkable at the time. I loved that you could just take a trip and drive wherever you wanted on it, exploring the country.
TD2 was waaaay better than TD1, particularly if you got all the scenery and car add-on disks. TD1 had far less variation in scenery and traffic cars, too. You spent the whole game driving on the edge of a cliff in TD1. The car interiors were also much more varied and detailed in TD2. You could also go off of the road a bit in TD2 in most sections and it would just slow you down unless you hit something. In TD1 it's all 'road' or 'death'. TD3 was mindblowing with its digitized photo-realistic graphics (intro and menus) along with the open 3D polygon world and 3rd-person view replays. I loved flying off of hills at 200mph and watching the replay of the crash. The only thing that I hated was that it was so hard to tell where to go sometimes. There weren't clear indications and you'd just keep driving *hoping* you were on the right path until you saw those familiar light posts and the mountain coming up indicating you got to the end.
@@philojudaeusofalexandria9556 We never had any add on disks for TD2, but I remember seeing them in magazines and for sale. You could add lots of cars and courses and that would have made it much better I'm sure. Yeah TD3 was tons of fun. We loved doing stunts and watching the reply for any angles you wanted. One time I managed to do a flying 360 off a mountain in the snow towards the end of the game. The problem was that by the time you got that far in the game you could only crash a few times and then you had to start all the way over at the start. Sometimes we would just cruise speed limit around and go park at a house and then just cruise around seeing everything without speeding. One time I had been out cruising for a while and like 10 or 15 minutes later a cop pulled up and gave me a ticket for speeding a long long time back. I was like what?! Talking about this game makes me miss the old days of playing games. Wouldn't it be cool if someone made an expansive realistic driving simulation like TD3 today with the graphics and sound capable of today's machines?
"pass any low flying planes?" - and "your tires should be smoking" - at least, that is what i remember playing it on my C64 for days - i think the sound was better and less cars to pass. But i might be wrong.
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This engine sound has been permanently engraved in my brains.
Don't forget the broken windshield...
And the police alarm..
😄
me too
First PC race car game I ever played. :)
Was the game awesome?
also mine! huahua getting old!
@@darksharkstudios15 The graphics were very limited and the controls were difficult on a keyboard, but it was still fun. :)
@@taekwondotime oh ok.
Same for me.... Played it in 1988.
I was so naive as a child that I thought that the purpose of the game was driving below the limits. So I had terrible scores and I couldn’t understand what was going on.
Ha ha, dude same!
I broke the engine so many times
Future model citizen! :D
Same ahaha !
I understood "You drive like my grandma" as him having a very cool and reckless grandmother.
Yo lo jugaba en una PC con un procesador Intel i486 (80486) tenía un botón de turbo!! Para cargar el juego primero tenía que meter el disco flexible del msdos para luego meter el juego y digitar el comando para ejecutarlo. Era genial, aunque el monitor era monocromático, primera vez que lo veo a color, que buenos recuerdos.
That car selection music is torture grade though. God I love PC Speaker!
Is it ever....
It gets me nostalgic. :)
In my childhood it was the Forza Horizon Of the 80s.
I never made it past the first few fast corners. Then I played Lemmings again.
Which let’s face it, is the better game.
Oh no!
Oh gosh I remember that game.
I remember this game thinking it was so realistic. Also tried to push it to 200mph but never happened. Test drive on Sega Dreamcast was a great game.
I remember seeing this game for the first time and I was amzed by the graphics. Shit I'm old!
no you lived in the peak of humanity...
My dearm Ferrari and Lamborghini from teen days. Great music. Used to play all nights.
My dad saw me playing this game (a friend brought it over when I was 9) on our PC and said "Wow! You'll have no trouble getting your license after playing that! It's just like real driving!"
Little did I know, lol...
😂👍
I played the hell out of this game when I was a kid on my Amstrad PC 1512 with a B&W monitor. 😊 That was long time ago 😅😅
who didnt always choose the countach? Now as a adult i rewatch these specs, its for the first time i actually see that the ferarri was faster on paper.
Fun fact: On C64 you were able to set the controls that way, that you had to actually move the joystick as you were hadling the gear-lever of the car while pressing the fire button actuating as a clutch. That was pretty hard on twisty situation with traffic while you were fighting against gearshifts while you handle the steering with the same controller. HAHAHA
Only the intro just brought me back in time!
Loved this game growing up especially dodging the speed cops.
It's amazing how effective the squiggly lines on the mountainside are.
I can't tell you how many joysticks I broke playing this on the 'ol Tandy 1000!!
Ahh, good times, good times!
Between this and Kings Quest, that was it!
Lol same. Tandy 1000SX and that red joystick button was messed up.
Nice! I remember spending many hours playing this on my Commodore 64 back in the day! Seems like just a few traffic computer cars were missing compared to this version. (Of course all 5 cars were available to drive) Other than that, they seem pretty identical, minus some graphics and color. Funny thing I never used brakes or downshifted when playing. Even though I crashed a few times. I did end up beating it with every car after playing it for many hours. lol
This is depressing now. I remember this being my only dream when I was a kid. 😃
It has been my first videogame on dos in 1988
Damn those graphics!
At first i thought it was real.
Back to when I was 13. Shivers up my spine.
Game of my childhood. Grand Prix Circuit from the same dev team too. Got me interested in cars early. :)
The era of 5" floppy disc, 3m, verbatim... love this game... LOL....
17:33 dafuq?? So that's why this game was called test drive! Its a test drive!!!
That's the first PC game I've played!! I'm about to cry....
Childhood mistery status: Solved.
My 386 and test drive ... nostalgic memory 😢
Oh man was this ever immediately recognizable when it popped in to my recommendeds. For DOS, it's aged pretty well, actually.. :D
Back old memories...I had this game on my PC with big floppy disk
I loved this sooo much when was a kid! 🤩 Especially when rain starts 🌧
So many games back then I was stuck some point or other. I never had the money for the magazines with the hints. Graphic adventures without hints meant months of playing!
I used to get this game mixed with the game 'Stunts'. They look so similar.
I played Half Live Alyx a view moments ago and I remember that I played Test Drive on my Amiga over 30 years ago.... Damn it, did I get old ...
I still have this game... along with 5 other games inside the same 3,5" disquette :-D
I remember the flies on the windscreen. Oh boy what a game
Never could finish it. Never managed to fill er up.
wait... this game had an ending?
My thoughts dude. I never made it that far.
Police always catched me or went through the cliff..
And colors other than magenta or green
@@eng3d TDCGA 😄
Yep. I beat it with every car on my Commodore 64 back in the day. lol
This was MY absolute favorite game ❤❤❤
I remember renting this for the genesis. Was blown away at with the driver pov at the time
Atari 2600 with several shoeboxes full of games, then a TRS-80 with a cassette recorder for storage a book of games to type and a single cartridge game all with a black and white television kept me well occupied from ages 6-8.
Then I experienced the original NES and wasn't impressed. When I got the hand me down Tandy 1000 with this amazing game I thought that machine could do anything.
I was allowed only an occasional few minutes on the walled garden of Prodigy, but by the time even the main game menu loaded I had to get offline.
Then I discovered the freenet and telnetting and would read random message boards at Case Western or wherever I could find. Learning about people far away with a local phone call just blew my mind.
By 12 I was running my own BBS with a Fidonet node I setup on my own. Having strangers call my computer to email people internationally was a huge accomplishment even if it took 36 hours just for a delivery receipt.
The sound and graphics may have been primitive compared to today, but for it's time it was better than Augmented reality
First scenario, you could pass the firs curve without touching the wheel, just focusing on accelerating.
Final scenario was a bear, but if you let yourself be passed by the cop and keep it at 40 or so (memory is fuzzy), he’d auto-drive you past the dangerous curves and complete the game without crashing.
Ok then
It was a monster hit for Accolade and its developer, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada-based Distinctive Software, which also developed the sequel, Test Drive II: The Duel, two years later!
"Nice job. Keep the car. Go home" 😄😄😄
Whoa! So this is what it looks like colored, LOL! Played this game as a kid but we could only afford gray monochromatic monitors at the time, but it was still a blast.
Wow. Nostalgia. Sopwith, Test Drive, Pacman. Later- Starquake, Skychase H. I had a PC with an amber monochrome monitor and needed a cga emulator to run colored games on mono. Wow. Just Wow.
Loved the Amiga version of this. Digitized speech and all.
yeah man I had that version too
I'm sure my neighbour had this when I was about five in the early 90s and was invited over to play it a few times. Its a memory I can hardly remember, but I'm 99% sure this was it. Cool to finally know what's its called!
i remember playing on a ATARI 520st :) the first stage can goal with never need steering! TDU and TDU2 still my favorite game for now.
Look at you with your EGA monitor. I had a shitty CGA back in the day.
Look at you with your CGA monitor. I had a shitty Amber/Black back in the day.
Ahem, . . . Hercules Graphics Adapter! 😎
@@Phil_KaneONite_Wood me too :(
@@yannisgk Ahhhhh, do not be sad. Use the experience of the limitations of technology of the past to appreciate the technology we have access to today.
Then remind younger generations at every available opportunity, like our forbearers did to us when we were young! 😂😂
Which one is the magenta, cyan and grey? Cuz that's where I was at. :D
I used to play this game all the time on my Tandy 1000 sl with joystick. Loved the scanner going mad when cops chased after you, that's when you knew you had to hit the accelerator.
I played this as a kid on c64,all I knew was to blew up motor in first gear.....few times I was able to move
The PC Speaker was really great at making engine sounds.
Once you fly off the track or hit something, you 'd end up with a cracked wind shield. That was all the damage dynamics in those days....
We played this game so much, memories!
THE OG of driving/racing sims.
I love playing this back in the day.
The real plot: the car dealership was a coverup for a *drug* dealership. The Countach was bringing so much drug/money away from the police that its value was peanuts compared. Whish I’d known that as a kid. Or maybe not.
i wonder if somebody would one day make a live intro with all the real cars with this music. It would make me and a lot of old boy videogamers drop some tears
Dear goodness gracious
, sounds I absolutely forgot playing at all.
Gotta love the random dog turds in the road, lol.
I remember the days when mountainside exotic car dealerships would let you test drive solo. It was also awesome they let you drive on a two lane mountain cliff road with no barrier, which I assume they did because they only let you use 2 gallons of gas to fill up. Either way - the dealer/salesman is a psychic because not only did he predict your victory and pre-write a note and stuff it in the glove box, he took the time to setup a sign and place it out front just for you since he was obviously busy preparing a note for the next exotic car test drive to give away. Its safe to assume he also predicts when folks get pulled over or hit pot holes and kill innocent buick drivers because he didn't stuff their glove box with a crumpled note.
That soundtrack should come with a seizure warning!
Don't you like dooo dooo dooo dooo dooo dooo :p
Ahh those dos game sounds taking me right back
TANDY Graphics memories (I think thats what they are called), played it in OG Vaporwave Pink+Blue dog barf graphics, All cars were madlad curations. I was a child then.❤️❤️😭😭🙏👍 Thanks for this.
Tandy or CGA? I think CGA was only 16 colors if im correct. Gosh that was so long ago.
Cga was 4 colors, ega was 16, vga was 256
But he didn't get a ticket at least once just to see it! I may have gotten a few back in the day. :-) For me, the best run was in the Lotus. It was the slowest flat out, but seemed to handle better so it carried more speed thru the twisties. Hearing it now, I'm not sure how I endured hours of those sounds though!
Man this brought back childhood memories, Awesome!
Yes but both my Volvo's are faster than the fastest car in this game :D
Wow you’re extremely good at this! I played it a lot in the days of yore but never ever this well.
First game I remember I have played on computer.
Here i can find this game now? What a memories
Wow. A VW Golf MK1 at the end. Nice!
Yeah a mint Gti is worth quite a bit now
The first car I managed to finish the game with was the Lotus, because it was so slow and easy to drive.
I remember how i played the shit out of this game back in the days, the graphics were so nice and it was a blast lol.
Now watching the game again after all those years i get the feeling of cancer growing in my eye balls xD
dang time flies by and graphics are so realistic today. Incredible what technology and humans are capable of.
I loved this game as a kid on my apple II c
Yo era experto..
Testarossa
Era mi favorito era una bala
Y en curvas muy bueno
Lambo
Solo un poco abajo....
Si salía derrapando 😅✓
i remember that you could switch to manual gear shifting but it was pain in the ass. hit fire button on joystick to engage the clutch, shift gear with stick.
childhood first pc games 😍😍😍😍😍
So funny to see these days I use to play this when I was a kid and the f1 game
I always had problem with keyboard conrols. Was not possible to turn and brake at the same time. I did finished it, but not without a single crash. Your drive is perfect!
Played this on my buddy’s commodore64. Told my parent that I learned how to drive stickshift.
Played this on an Amstrad 1640 in 1988. Even then we had ppl on a different level, aka programmers.
The only game where rearview mirrors (Is this the proper English way to call them?) actually worked!!!!
played this for hours...together with "stunt-driver"!
Good times!
man, I remember playing this when I was a kid...
The Ferrari Testarossa!? Oh, dude. I’d learn how to complete the secret test drive challenge of that dealership if it means I get to keep the car that starred in Outrun.
i was play this game when i was child. my pc spec 8088XT 4Mhz.
i love this game
I never played Test Drive 1, but I had Test Drive 2 and was super excited to buy Test Drive 3 finally. It was $50 back then! TD1 looks more interesting than TD2 was, although the music was better on 2.
TD3 with the VGA graphics and 3d models was pretty remarkable at the time. I loved that you could just take a trip and drive wherever you wanted on it, exploring the country.
TD2 was waaaay better than TD1, particularly if you got all the scenery and car add-on disks. TD1 had far less variation in scenery and traffic cars, too. You spent the whole game driving on the edge of a cliff in TD1. The car interiors were also much more varied and detailed in TD2. You could also go off of the road a bit in TD2 in most sections and it would just slow you down unless you hit something. In TD1 it's all 'road' or 'death'.
TD3 was mindblowing with its digitized photo-realistic graphics (intro and menus) along with the open 3D polygon world and 3rd-person view replays. I loved flying off of hills at 200mph and watching the replay of the crash. The only thing that I hated was that it was so hard to tell where to go sometimes. There weren't clear indications and you'd just keep driving *hoping* you were on the right path until you saw those familiar light posts and the mountain coming up indicating you got to the end.
@@philojudaeusofalexandria9556 We never had any add on disks for TD2, but I remember seeing them in magazines and for sale. You could add lots of cars and courses and that would have made it much better I'm sure. Yeah TD3 was tons of fun. We loved doing stunts and watching the reply for any angles you wanted.
One time I managed to do a flying 360 off a mountain in the snow towards the end of the game. The problem was that by the time you got that far in the game you could only crash a few times and then you had to start all the way over at the start.
Sometimes we would just cruise speed limit around and go park at a house and then just cruise around seeing everything without speeding.
One time I had been out cruising for a while and like 10 or 15 minutes later a cop pulled up and gave me a ticket for speeding a long long time back. I was like what?!
Talking about this game makes me miss the old days of playing games.
Wouldn't it be cool if someone made an expansive realistic driving simulation like TD3 today with the graphics and sound capable of today's machines?
@@digitalmagicAR Forza Horizon 3 or 4 and Test Drive Unlimited, maybe?
"pass any low flying planes?" - and "your tires should be smoking" - at least, that is what i remember playing it on my C64 for days - i think the sound was better and less cars to pass. But i might be wrong.
Amazing! I'm happy to be part of the story of this game with my remastering of Test Drive Unlimited!
I remember when I thought this had awesome graphics. Coming from Atari 2600 and then 8-bit NES it really did.
You played like a pro! congrats!
Моя первая игра про тачки))) Всегда гонял на Lambo.
The gas station with that music was a little scary ..
I remeber my PC had button turbo on my 286 PC.if you push that button game was So Fast, you can't even drive it :D
the music is utter chaos in this game :D
Just like old times.
Yo empecé con este juego ❤
Thanks for the memories...
Awwww yih. My childhood
I played td2, 959 and testarossa 😎.... On the Amiga 😉