This game was one of my childhood racers when I was really young, it just has this whimsical charm that infatuates the youthful mind, and even after I had long forgotten the name of Gadget Racers, the memories of it remained very strong. Over a decade later, I've finally got a copy of Gadget Racers on order, ready to do it all over again.
Whimsical is exactly the right word, there's a certain magic to these old ChoroQ games that's incredibly difficult to find elsewhere. Happy to hear you're about to revisit your childhood and I hope you enjoy it as much as you remember!
@@houdiniabracadabra6180 the one I ordered was a total steal compared to the typical asking price on Ebay, and the disc is completely pristine. Been having lots of fun playing it for the last week or so
Hello, thank you very much for the kind words! Taking my sweet time making the latest video as things have gotten rather busy in my life recently but comments like yours are powerful motivators! I'm really glad you enjoyed the video :)
Cant thank you enough for this video about the ChoroQ series, it was actually a long time on my radar but i finally tried it yesterday and had a blast since then! This game just proves that less can sometimes be more. Looking forward to more videos on this channel!
No worries at all, there's plenty more where that came from! I also have a video on Road Trip Adventure (ChoroQ HG 2) and I'll be covering HG3 and 4 over the next few months I imagine. I'm really glad you enjoyed the game! It's a really special series and it deserves all the attention it can get.
It's an amazing game and the whole series rules for sure. Thank you very much! I appreciate you and the time you give to watch them! You're also in luck, a new one is uploading as we speak :).
Hey, thank you very much! I'm always happy to see a familiar face pop up in my comments section too, it's definitely noticed and appreciated. I do like to mix it up a lot but I plan on getting to Gadget Racers a little faster than I did Penny Racers, I had too much fun revisiting this series to leave it on the back burner again 👍.
This isn't a series I'm too familiar with, I haven't played any of the games aside from Road Trip Adventure. Nice review, It looks like a rather nice series so far. Also Yakuza rules! 0 is my favourite so far, I'm on 5 at the moment.
Thank you very much! Yeah I've only really discovered the extent of the series myself over the last few years, it's a lot bigger than I realized! I've played a bit of the third and fourth and they're great too, looking forward to covering them. I'm happy to hear that too! Yakuza is my favourite series (alongside Dragon Quest) so I'm planning to do all of them eventually :)
Loved your Vid on RT: adventure. I also just noticed during your explanation of the region games that Seek and Destroy popped up, loved that one too, I also got that one from a random shop that had a few ps2 games on a DVD spin basket. Seek and Destroy vid when?
Thank you very much, for watching this and that one! Very well spotted, Seek and Destroy is wild. It's a very bizarre concept to take these wholesome games and stick them into a conflict-focused scenario! Needless to say, I'll definitely be covering it eventually, once I've done Gadget Racers (HG3) and ChoroQ (HG4). I'm just wrapping up the season 2 finale atm (hard at work on the Yakuza 0 video!), but for season 3 I'll be focusing a lot more on following up on the various video game series I've already started :).
@@TheUtterChrisp awesome! Yeah it was definitely an oddball. Yet it had such a wide variety of Real world tanks and rather good customisation with weapons
Really enjoyed this video and the Road Trip video. I've spent hundreds of hours between both games over the years, and Road Trip might be my favorite PS2 game of all time. Gadget Racers keeps me coming back every now and then for the Grand Prix, it has a really good feel to it. I've never played HG3 or HG4, but with how much I love these games I'm going to have to try them someday.
Thank you very much for checking them both out and I'm glad you enjoyed them! You have excellent taste, Road Trip Adventure is up there for me too, for sure. I'd definitely recommend checking out HG3 and 4 if at all possible. 3 very much feels like Road Trip again, albeit with a smaller world, and 4 is a different beast again! I'll be covering them both here at some point of course :p
@@TheUtterChrisp Sounds like I should start with HG3 then! I only discovered there were more sequels a couple of years ago and I was blown away. *How in the world did I not know this?* I'm looking forward to playing both. Definitely looking forward to the future reviews! Enjoyed your content so far
Refreshing to know I'm not the only one to pull my hair out while trying to research choro-q games. You may be interested to know that some ps1 choro-q games now have english translations, notably Choro-Q Wonderful, which is very similar to Road Trip Adventure (both being developed by the same team). I look forward to the Choro-Q HG 4 video eventually
Yeah it's a right pain in the neck, I honestly don't know what the localisation teams were thinking! Hopefully my little guide here will help others in future! I definitely want to try out ChoroQ Wonderful at some point, I suspect I'll be properly looking into that once I've covered all the PS2 entries! I'd like to have a look at ChoroQ Works as well for sure.
I learned something new from you! Holy sh*t! I always got this wierd feeling from penny racers and also payday 2. And it because of beautifull emptiness. ThANK YOU! You just resolved what i was looking for this whole time!
No problem at all! Throughout this season of Having a Mosey I've been trying to focus on the theme of nostalgia across a number of these videos, and liminal space absolutely feels like the perfect physical manifestation of that sensation to me; a feeling of simplicity and tranquility. I'm really glad that this part of the video resonated with you, I was a bit worried that I was chatting nonsense!
@@TheUtterChrispyou might have chatted nonesense. But this nonsense gives me peace of mind. And i love it. And you went straight to the point and resolved why i am in love with this game, i visit every now and then. Nefore your video i couldnt bring it to words. Btw i have the same profil picture you have as my steam background😅 it gives me the same feelings..
Love this series, you've played the best and the worst of the 4 in my opinion. I'd be interested to see what you thought if HG3 and HG4 - they're both fantastic in their own way!
It's an awesome series! I suspect we have very similar tastes. I've finished HG1 and HG2 and I'd agree that HG2 is the pinnacle and HG1 is the weakest, though I still love it for what it is, as I've said in the video. I've played but not finished HG3 and 4. I know I'll love HG3 because of just how similar it is to HG2 in a lot of ways, though I miss the full open world and My City! HG4 just seems totally wild, like a full on RPG, even moreso than Road Trip, so I'm excited to sink my teeth into that properly. It takes me a bit longer to make videos these days (full time job + wanting to go way more in-depth than I used to), but rest assured I'll get to them eventually!
I struggled with HG3 for the same reason with it not being fully open world. But like you mentioned in your vid sometimes changing perspective can transform your outlook on a game - I asked myself if I'd still love Road Trip even if it had gates between the cities and I decided yes I would. Since then I enjoy HG3 a lot more!! HG4 is wild, I actually really like it after leaving it and coming back to it a few times Look forward to seeing your vids on them in the future 👍👍
it makes me so happy that people still know about Penny Racers, My big brother had a playstation 2, with the game, he used to play it a ton with me, still have that game and the console, such an noslatic blast to the past! truely great game.
@@TheUtterChrispI totally agree with you, it’s so charming and silly, that’s why I’ve completely fallen in love with it, haven’t tried out the sequels, should I give them a go?
@@poptronicgaming7673 I couldn't recommend them more! Road Trip Adventure in particular is one of my favourite games of all time, there's a reason why it was one of the first games I ever reviewed on this channel :).
Great video, very much enjoyed it. I was just looking at this on my shelf, having bought but never gotten around to it, and this may well be the push I needed to finally give it a go!
Another great video, looks like a nightmare to research! I hadn't heard of this series of games and at the outset was thinking of how I missed these simple wacky Arcade Racers, I remember one i had call S.C.A.R.S on the PS1, but it seems as if Penn racers was quite in depth with its level of customization and upgrades, close on the heels of arguably one of the best of all time from the same Gen Gran Turismo 3 A Spec. Good job on recreating your 80s Synth art vibe for your cars! I listened to a whole podcast on Liminal spaces once, don't ask me why! Very much looking forward to that Yakuza 0 review drop!
Thanks man! Yeah I've been very fortunate to find the right wiki's and come into contact with people far more clued into ChoroQ than I. Not heard of S.C.A.R.S but I'll have to, I do love this sort of thing. Work on Yakuza 0 has already begun :P. I'm aiming to have it out around the New Year's period, it'll be a nice way to round out the anniversary of my Unreal Tournament review, but we'll see!
This game was one of my childhood racers when I was really young, it just has this whimsical charm that infatuates the youthful mind, and even after I had long forgotten the name of Gadget Racers, the memories of it remained very strong. Over a decade later, I've finally got a copy of Gadget Racers on order, ready to do it all over again.
Whimsical is exactly the right word, there's a certain magic to these old ChoroQ games that's incredibly difficult to find elsewhere.
Happy to hear you're about to revisit your childhood and I hope you enjoy it as much as you remember!
Gongrats! I myself am going to replay it fpr the 5th time. To mich nostalgia of good and simple times
@@houdiniabracadabra6180 the one I ordered was a total steal compared to the typical asking price on Ebay, and the disc is completely pristine. Been having lots of fun playing it for the last week or so
HOLY CRAP THIS SHOWED UP ON MY RECOMMENDED AND YOU ARE AWESOME MY DUDE!! RUclips needs to push your channel man you are w
awesome!
Hello, thank you very much for the kind words! Taking my sweet time making the latest video as things have gotten rather busy in my life recently but comments like yours are powerful motivators!
I'm really glad you enjoyed the video :)
Cant thank you enough for this video about the ChoroQ series, it was actually a long time on my radar but i finally tried it yesterday and had a blast since then! This game just proves that less can sometimes be more. Looking forward to more videos on this channel!
No worries at all, there's plenty more where that came from! I also have a video on Road Trip Adventure (ChoroQ HG 2) and I'll be covering HG3 and 4 over the next few months I imagine.
I'm really glad you enjoyed the game! It's a really special series and it deserves all the attention it can get.
I love road trip adventure too, really appreciate your videos!
It's an amazing game and the whole series rules for sure.
Thank you very much! I appreciate you and the time you give to watch them! You're also in luck, a new one is uploading as we speak :).
Always happy to see new videos from you, especially when it’s from a one of the sequels or prequels to road-trip! Keep up the great work Chisp!
Hey, thank you very much! I'm always happy to see a familiar face pop up in my comments section too, it's definitely noticed and appreciated.
I do like to mix it up a lot but I plan on getting to Gadget Racers a little faster than I did Penny Racers, I had too much fun revisiting this series to leave it on the back burner again 👍.
This isn't a series I'm too familiar with, I haven't played any of the games aside from Road Trip Adventure. Nice review, It looks like a rather nice series so far.
Also Yakuza rules! 0 is my favourite so far, I'm on 5 at the moment.
Thank you very much!
Yeah I've only really discovered the extent of the series myself over the last few years, it's a lot bigger than I realized! I've played a bit of the third and fourth and they're great too, looking forward to covering them.
I'm happy to hear that too! Yakuza is my favourite series (alongside Dragon Quest) so I'm planning to do all of them eventually :)
randomly got recommended this video on youtube (youtube been weird recently) but really good video💪
The algorithm works in mysterious ways!
Either way, thanks for dropping by and I'm glad you enjoyed the video :)
Loved your Vid on RT: adventure. I also just noticed during your explanation of the region games that Seek and Destroy popped up, loved that one too, I also got that one from a random shop that had a few ps2 games on a DVD spin basket. Seek and Destroy vid when?
Thank you very much, for watching this and that one!
Very well spotted, Seek and Destroy is wild. It's a very bizarre concept to take these wholesome games and stick them into a conflict-focused scenario! Needless to say, I'll definitely be covering it eventually, once I've done Gadget Racers (HG3) and ChoroQ (HG4). I'm just wrapping up the season 2 finale atm (hard at work on the Yakuza 0 video!), but for season 3 I'll be focusing a lot more on following up on the various video game series I've already started :).
@@TheUtterChrisp awesome! Yeah it was definitely an oddball. Yet it had such a wide variety of Real world tanks and rather good customisation with weapons
Really enjoyed this video and the Road Trip video. I've spent hundreds of hours between both games over the years, and Road Trip might be my favorite PS2 game of all time. Gadget Racers keeps me coming back every now and then for the Grand Prix, it has a really good feel to it. I've never played HG3 or HG4, but with how much I love these games I'm going to have to try them someday.
Thank you very much for checking them both out and I'm glad you enjoyed them! You have excellent taste, Road Trip Adventure is up there for me too, for sure.
I'd definitely recommend checking out HG3 and 4 if at all possible. 3 very much feels like Road Trip again, albeit with a smaller world, and 4 is a different beast again!
I'll be covering them both here at some point of course :p
@@TheUtterChrisp Sounds like I should start with HG3 then! I only discovered there were more sequels a couple of years ago and I was blown away. *How in the world did I not know this?* I'm looking forward to playing both.
Definitely looking forward to the future reviews! Enjoyed your content so far
Refreshing to know I'm not the only one to pull my hair out while trying to research choro-q games. You may be interested to know that some ps1 choro-q games now have english translations, notably Choro-Q Wonderful, which is very similar to Road Trip Adventure (both being developed by the same team). I look forward to the Choro-Q HG 4 video eventually
Yeah it's a right pain in the neck, I honestly don't know what the localisation teams were thinking! Hopefully my little guide here will help others in future! I definitely want to try out ChoroQ Wonderful at some point, I suspect I'll be properly looking into that once I've covered all the PS2 entries!
I'd like to have a look at ChoroQ Works as well for sure.
I learned something new from you! Holy sh*t! I always got this wierd feeling from penny racers and also payday 2. And it because of beautifull emptiness. ThANK YOU! You just resolved what i was looking for this whole time!
No problem at all!
Throughout this season of Having a Mosey I've been trying to focus on the theme of nostalgia across a number of these videos, and liminal space absolutely feels like the perfect physical manifestation of that sensation to me; a feeling of simplicity and tranquility.
I'm really glad that this part of the video resonated with you, I was a bit worried that I was chatting nonsense!
@@TheUtterChrispyou might have chatted nonesense. But this nonsense gives me peace of mind. And i love it. And you went straight to the point and resolved why i am in love with this game, i visit every now and then. Nefore your video i couldnt bring it to words. Btw i have the same profil picture you have as my steam background😅 it gives me the same feelings..
Great video! I haven't thought about Penny Racers in like 20 years!
Thank you very much!
Yeah it's a real shame for sure how much this series just up and vanished post-ps2, it deserved so much more!
Love this series, you've played the best and the worst of the 4 in my opinion. I'd be interested to see what you thought if HG3 and HG4 - they're both fantastic in their own way!
It's an awesome series!
I suspect we have very similar tastes. I've finished HG1 and HG2 and I'd agree that HG2 is the pinnacle and HG1 is the weakest, though I still love it for what it is, as I've said in the video.
I've played but not finished HG3 and 4. I know I'll love HG3 because of just how similar it is to HG2 in a lot of ways, though I miss the full open world and My City! HG4 just seems totally wild, like a full on RPG, even moreso than Road Trip, so I'm excited to sink my teeth into that properly.
It takes me a bit longer to make videos these days (full time job + wanting to go way more in-depth than I used to), but rest assured I'll get to them eventually!
I struggled with HG3 for the same reason with it not being fully open world. But like you mentioned in your vid sometimes changing perspective can transform your outlook on a game - I asked myself if I'd still love Road Trip even if it had gates between the cities and I decided yes I would. Since then I enjoy HG3 a lot more!!
HG4 is wild, I actually really like it after leaving it and coming back to it a few times
Look forward to seeing your vids on them in the future 👍👍
it makes me so happy that people still know about Penny Racers, My big brother had a playstation 2, with the game, he used to play it a ton with me, still have that game and the console, such an noslatic blast to the past! truely great game.
Honestly it's a cracking little game! Really scratches that itch if you want to a play a chiller, sillier version of Gran Turismo.
@@TheUtterChrispI totally agree with you, it’s so charming and silly, that’s why I’ve completely fallen in love with it, haven’t tried out the sequels, should I give them a go?
@@poptronicgaming7673 I couldn't recommend them more! Road Trip Adventure in particular is one of my favourite games of all time, there's a reason why it was one of the first games I ever reviewed on this channel :).
Great video, very much enjoyed it. I was just looking at this on my shelf, having bought but never gotten around to it, and this may well be the push I needed to finally give it a go!
Thank you very much, I'm glad you did!
Yeah it's a cracking little game, quite a bit shorter but definitely cuter than your average Gran Turismo!
,ou wont regret it. It took me arounf 8 hours to get near 90%. Its realy enjoyable
Sounds good, cheers! I enjoy shorter games, it helps me to navigate a diverse library without feeling like I'm missing out by DNF-ing longer titles.
Great review!! You sold it for me!
Thank you very much! :)
This was one of my favorite games as a kid, best intro song I can think of too
Probably my favorite ost too shit is fun to listen to
Absolutely agree, there's a reason I used the in-game OST for this video, it just slaps too hard not too!
Thank your for making a video of this old gem!
Another great video, looks like a nightmare to research! I hadn't heard of this series of games and at the outset was thinking of how I missed these simple wacky Arcade Racers, I remember one i had call S.C.A.R.S on the PS1, but it seems as if Penn racers was quite in depth with its level of customization and upgrades, close on the heels of arguably one of the best of all time from the same Gen Gran Turismo 3 A Spec. Good job on recreating your 80s Synth art vibe for your cars! I listened to a whole podcast on Liminal spaces once, don't ask me why! Very much looking forward to that Yakuza 0 review drop!
Thanks man! Yeah I've been very fortunate to find the right wiki's and come into contact with people far more clued into ChoroQ than I. Not heard of S.C.A.R.S but I'll have to, I do love this sort of thing.
Work on Yakuza 0 has already begun :P. I'm aiming to have it out around the New Year's period, it'll be a nice way to round out the anniversary of my Unreal Tournament review, but we'll see!