Hot Wheels: CRASH! Where Everything Explodes Excessively
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- Опубликовано: 15 сен 2024
- Review of one of the most straightforward, aptly-named PC games of the 90s: Hot Wheels Crash! It's a game where you crash Hot Wheels cars. That’s about it! It’s simple and it’s over in less than an hour, but I always have a constant grin watching the vehicular carnage unfold. Let's take a look back at it 23 years later here in this LGR retrospective!
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The Hot Wheels PC is dead _again,_ by the way. Otherwise it would've made an appearance!
Guessing powersupply kicked the bucket ?
Is it a sfx style powersupply or some proprietary shape & size ?
*edit* ah a quick google tells me its sfx-s actually.
that sucks to hear
@@Mini-z1994 The PSU was completely replaced when I first restored it: ruclips.net/video/TfhmBcBPNyc/видео.html
My bet is the motherboard, as it's frequently been problematic on each of the systems I have.
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Couldnt use at least the monitor and speakers from it?
I was a paid beta tester for this game back in early 99. I was a senior in high school at the time, my friends were jealous. There were more courses than what was in the final release. There was only a single downloadable course, if I remember right, and I think I have it archived. I was told there was never a Crash 2 due to sales and how many tech support calls we had because of DirectX issues. The company ended up buying The Learning Company, which was Softkey, Broderbund, and Parsons Technology. Yeah... that Bob Parsons of GoDaddy. I worked at the Hiawatha / Cedar Rapids Iowa office. I still have hot wheels boxed that they gave to me for being an employee at the time. If i find the level I have I'll archive it and make it available, but I only remember one, not six. Stunt Track Driver that came out around the same time was much more popular.
@Jan Steenstra The downloadable track I remember was just a single zip file that you had to manually put in a certain directory. it was kind of advanced for the time.
Hey, I've been reverse engineering this game. Finding the built-in editor windows as well as references to a console. There's some missing data though that was cut from the retail version that makes some things not work. If you do happen to come across the beta, could you archive it in some way? Maybe this version has some more secrets :)
Holy crap!
There is/were game developer studios in Iowa?!
@@RegularCupOfJoe It wasn't developed in the Hiawatha Iowa location. We just did customer service, tech support, and testing for Mattel, The Learning Company, Broderbund, and Parson's Technology.
@@MikeDest Still cool, though!
For that mousepad, 25 years under a heavy book or something should do the trick
Maybe a good rosin press or something 😂... Minus heat.
@@GreenLeefMusic That has me thinking, why not a metal forming press? Doesn't use heat
You’ve unlocked a core memory. I remember screaming and throwing a fit thinking the game was broken, because I didn’t realized you needed to click and pull back on the mouse to launch the car.
Same comment as me, man as much as i must have played this game i forgot it existed.
Dude this is creepy, I've been on a Windows 2000 era binge on RUclips and was curious if anyone has reviewed this game, wasn't expecting to find "LGR uploaded 9 minutes ago"
he's always watching you
yooo tharts whack
@@D0NU75 Works for me, anyone else who gets an adrenaline rush shopping in the electronics section of goodwill is trustworthy in my book. Someone has to document our childhood. Clint if you’re reading this I’ve got a monorail 133 I picked up a while back with matching keyboard and found a low profile ISA network card that actually fits and works in Windows 2000. Could be a fun video. I’ve got a backup of the oem image somewhere too.
@@artard451 Nice pickup on the Monorail! I've covered it on LGR :) ruclips.net/video/9_wFw1O3BR8/видео.html
@@artard451 Dude, I just got back from Goodwill like 5 min ago. You're good peeps.
I nostalgically imagine myself back at 12 years old in my room playing this game on a rainy afternoon between open TV shows before going to shower and have dinner... one of the best moments of childhood life.
You shower before dinner? That's a weird time.
Man as I kid I avoided showering at all. Lol
@@Malus1531 Tons of kids showered before dinner, what are you on about?
@@Malus1531 why is that weird? Youre weird.
@@kattihatt I dunno everyone I know showers either in the morning or at night, not in the middle of the day.
I came across this game at a goodwill a while back. It's more fun than i would expect for such a simple premise. Ended up beating the game in one night. 10/10 would play again!
I HATE goodwill, especially for gaming, fuckin scam! Their ganes are ridiculously high. They had a lose copy of Madden 94 for $40... this was a few years back. But still all their retro games are ridiculous
@ghost mall angry? Dude did you not hear the story
My goodwill has every CD for 1.99 lol not sure where this dude is going
@ghost mall so you just ignore issues like that? Not really investing much emotion in it dude. Is your life really just that much shit that you look for things to pick apart? Let me guess Gen Z huh....
@ThiccLink • nOt sUre wHeRe tHiS dUdE iS gOiNg. Pretty sure i said it was a goodwill. It was 10 years ago. But just dont see the point in going to places like this
To my memory the online maps were just rearrangements of the existing assets into new layouts, likely to save on download time. I may have them on an old drive, but if so it is quite buried and I simply have not had the time to dig through.
Please find them edventually
I honestly can't believe how a game this simple is so satisfying to play. I remember every single sound and action shot from this game (the rollercoaster car getting yeeted still kills me), I don't think I've ever been so nostalgic for a game on this channel before.
I miss the era of "The game is EXACTLY what it says on the tin" games like this. So satisfying.
We need to see some of these stop-motion VHS recordings… LGR Begins.
I agree. I think it’s a great idea.
Thank you for covering this game. I got this game for Christmas as a kid but never got a chance to play it because my computer did not meet the requirements to run it, so seeing you go through the game was a delight!
Man, wasn't that the worst? You a get new game as a kid only to have it not umeun, with no option to fix it?
@@brettvv7475 : Nah pretty standard, got holiday island... had no PC at all. Got SW galactic battlegrounds... PC not capable of playing. Got SW Jedi Knight 2 Outcast... same as before, not capable of playing because lack of PC powerful enough to run it even in post stamp resolution...
So many botched memories, ah wonderful. 🤗
@@bloeckmoep Jesus, not sure what "not umeun" means, but what I meant to say was "not run".
@@bloeckmoep Could just keep em around for the day you'd finally get a machine to play them, even if it took you years to do it
I had a demo disc of this game as a kid. I played that level with the tow truck driving into the marina hundreds of times.
That wouldn't be one of the Planet Hot Wheels Energy car discs would it?
Planet Hot Wheels moment
Did y'all play Planet Hot Wheels online? I played with my dad. We got 2 accounts to 999 and 9999 points (1 away from level up) so that they would stay at the top of the leaderboards.
That is one of, if not the best levels in the game so I don't blame ya!
I remember playing this many years ago as a kid. This game really felt like the precursor to the crash mode in the Burnout series.
did you know the first Burnout game was inspired from Thrill Drive?
I can't believe a major RUclipsr actually decided to cover this game. I'm completely awestruck. The memories that I have with this game. Some of the strongest gaming memories I have from the 90's.
Lol
Every video on LGR is awesome, but I particularly love the old school straightforward game review coming up every now and then. Feeling ALL the nostalgia.
This was not the only time Criterion Games were inspired by a game from another publisher, the whole Burnout idea was taken from a 1998 Arcade game from Konami called Thrill Drive, which had you driving through different courses(countries in this case), while avoiding crashing to achieve more points, just like in Burnout! The game was very popular and common in Japan, with its last game(Thrill Drive 3) being released in 2004 for the Arcades, however the Arcade board is just a PHAT PS2 on an Arcade cabinet, and it can be actually played on the PCSX2 emulator.
How to convert a Blerbs video into a full fledged LGR video:
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This content is the OG LGR content though and so nice to see crop up from time to time. Seems to reset the world and put things back where they belong.
The subtitles are the gift that keeps on giving. [Explosions.] [So many explosions.] [All the explosions.] [Jazz music, explosions explode.]
Oh man, I've been racking my brain trying to remember what this game was called. Thank you, LGR! I was absolutely obsessed with this game as a kid. I played the level with the giant donut over and over for hours on end.
Nice vid, LGR! I dig all of the tech focused episodes, but especially love when you look at some vintage computer games.
6:37 When you think you're safe in a tent but a rollercoaster car crashes the party 🤣. Awesome review!!
aaah good ole obscure game reviews. You should do more of that! not too work intensive, and everyone loves em!
So good to see a game review again!
I see “Hot Wheels Crash!”
I immediately click.
I crash some Hot Wheels.
My childhood is fulfilled.
GAWD, I had a lot of fun with this game, I had the entire Hot Wheels systems, bu time took its toll and eventually everything died, disappeared etc... I still have the keyboard, and most of the games, still have the steering wheel and pedals.... I really with Mattel, Hot Wheels, would come out with another themed system... These are some of my fondest memories, Thank you for reviewing this one Clint...
Oh man. We had this as a kid. Me and my brother loved this game. I remember gathering around the PC trying to figure out how to launch the car just right to get all the objects hit, so that we didnt miss anything. Also explains where we got that exact same hot wheels car haha
When the fucking carnival snack stand explodes into a violent fireball from a roller coaster cart landing on it, good lawd my sides.
i would have loved this game as a kid if i was born in the late 80s early 90s, but sadly im a 2002 genz kid that likes old pcs so much that i begged my parents last year to get me a win 98 pc, love your work LGR
That was one of the first PC games I played when I was five/six (1999-2000). I played this for for hours (sometimes all night) crashing Hotwheels into stuff. I was so happy when I saw this pop up on your channel and I still have the disk 22 years later but have not gotten around to DOS-Boxing it so I can revisit it again. Thank You LGR.
I remember getting this and some Tonka racing game together and absolutely loving it as a kid. Graphics definitely don’t look like I remember though lol
Ah, Tonka raceway was a very... Limited game. XD The space one was neat though.
Oh my god, I remember having this game as a kid! I don’t remember too much about it honestly, but seeing the back of the box, the Ferris wheel level, and donut shop level, do remind me that it existed in my life at some point. I do know that my family switched from windows to Mac at some point in my early childhood so maybe that’s why the box held more memories for me than the game itself because all I could do was look at it longingly, but still a trip none the less. Thanks LGR👍
What a crazy coincidence. When I was a kid, I played a demo of this game that contained only the downhill level, I think. I had been searching for this game to learn more about it for the past few years and could somehow never find it until now. Thanks for covering it!
Happy to see this simple masterpiece of a game getting some love. This was one of my go-tos at my grandparents' place on good old Windows 98 SE.
I hope someday the DLC levels will see the light of day; I didn't have internet back then or I definitely would've downloaded them. But I'd also like to see a modern recreation of this concept (although Burnout definitely helps to scratch that itch).
So glad you got back to PC games again! I always love your application reviews!
Seeing the B12 get thwacked and lose one of its bombs, watching it slowly roll over to the next object and explode is immensely satisfying.
I played this game as a kid and I remember the downloadable levels. When we downloaded them there were four available. Maybe they made another two at some point, but my dad only ever got four to download. This is what they were to the best of my memory.
Level 1: This one was just an intersection out in the middle of an open area. Periodically, three cars would drive up and move through the intersection just narrowly missing one another before driving away. There may have been a few smaller objects like benches or a fire hydrant around, but the main goal was to time it so you crash into all 3 cars at once.
Level 2: This one was basically a remix of the one level where you're on top of two skyscrapers. I think it also used the big satellite dish from that one level in the first group of stages. This one was probably the least memorable.
Level 3: This one was my favorite and pretty memorable since it didn't seem to reuse a lot of assets. You started on one side of a canyon. There was a rope bridge going across the canyon and on the other side was a building and a water tower. All along the canyon wall were mineshaft entrances. If you tried to go across the rope bridge it would just break, so the way I remember beating it was launching the car into one of the mineshaft entrances. Then after a few seconds, the car would come out another entrance on the other side of the rope bridge, smash into the water tower, which would then fall over destroying the building and the rope bridge.
Level 4: This one's kind of a mystery since it never loaded properly. I could still play it, but it just appeared as a few objects inside of a blue void. You seemed to start at the top of a hill with a curvy path going down it lined with railings. There were a couple cars on the path and a trolley driving by at the bottom of the hill. Based on the level thumbnail, my dad thought it was probably supposed to be based on Lombard Street in San Francisco, but it was hard to tell since most textures and objects didn't load.
8:50 Best marketing slogan ever:
“Doesn’t matter! Hot Wheels!”
Damn I had no idea this existed, that's some seriously cool tech for the late 90s.
I remember playing the hell out of the demo for this game, it was in a Hot Wheels game collection and I only vaguely remember the games in it but not their names. Unfortunately my computer could only run it at a blistering single digit FPS.
The included AOL disk is such an icing on the cake hahaha those things came with EVERYTHING back then.
I used to run a toy department at a Walmart. You just gave a few hot wheels collectors a heart attack
Why?
@@Malus1531 opened lmao
DUDE. 3:30 That is SPECTACULAR. Now whe know what Micheal Bay used to play as a kid.
Ohhh my GOODNESS!! I remember getting Hot Wheels: Velocity X when I was younger and loving it to death. So much so that I later went searching for games again and picked up Hot Wheels: Mechanix as well as Stunt Track Driver 2.
2 games at once because.. There was a "buy two get one free" deal, so I got Hot Wheels: CRASH! for free. Nice!
While none of those games really held a candle to Velocity X, they all still won a very special place in my heart. I CLEARLY remember certain elements of each game and am often sort of surprised by how little people seem to know about them. I remember CRASH! in particular being a little lackluster at the time compared to what I was used to, but I still played the heck out of it. Such a simple game!
The Stunt Track Driver games seem to be the only ones that anyone really remembers, which is honestly kind of a shame!
I had many Hot Wheels games but totally forgot about this one! I had ones like Stunt Track Driver, Bash Arena, Highway 35, Stunt Track Challenge, Velocity X and Planet: Hot Wheels. But man... This video unlocked some old, fond memories.
Yesssss, I enjoy your videos but was hoping we'd see more game reviews like this again!
Takes me back to the first LGR video I watched, of the review of Hot Wheels Stunt Track Driver. Definitely my favourite childhood game, along with Lego Racers
I loved this game growing up. Man, is it limited, though.
More Hot Wheels.... zoom! I see Demolition Racer there Clint- reckon we'll get to see that in the future? I'm only used to the PSX version so having the lowdown on the PC port would be nice! :D
I always love seeing LGR talk about old PC games, but this one feels...oddly therapeutic. Just seeing how far you can keep the chain going with cool stunts and explosions? Absolutely dig it in concept, and it made for an awesome video!
Nice one Clint! Was just looking for summat to watch. Sorted!!!
A great start to my morning when an LGR video is released
A great way to end mine. 3am in Australia
I remember playing this growing up in the late 2000s. The bit with the bomb rolling into the aircraft tower is classic.
I"m a simple man. I see LGR covering anything hot wheels related, I slap that like button
4:58 this needs a low-poly blue hedgehog running away from that truck, trying to escape the city ;]
CRASH. I unwrapped this game under the Christmas Tree in 99'! I haven't played it in 2 decades so this was a Nostalgia Blast! Some of these crashes were violent then I remember! I didn't even know this game had downloadable content, either!
Nice to see another Hot Wheels game get covered. These late 1990's/early 2000's Hot Wheels PC games were a big part of my childhood on the PC. Hot Wheels Crash is very simple in premise and game-play but it's still fun for that little breath of nostalgia. I hope other Hot Wheels games get covered at some point in the future (Hot Wheels Turbo Racing, Hot Wheels Micro Racers, Hot Wheels Mechanix, Hot Wheels World Race, etc.).
Turbo Racing and Mechanix are on my shortlist 👍
You just unlocked my memory of this game. I would always play it over my grandparents
The kind of wacky, strange game I love to see covered on this channel and it's not even Edutainment month or Christmas.
Happy to hear it, I really like doing these from time to time :)
Oh my God YES! I played this SO much as a kid. I only needed the Hot Wheels PC to play it on but sadly that never happened.
So it's basically the virtual version of what I played with my Hot Wheels all day when I was young. Only with explosions. :-D
"Consolidate my childhood why don't ya!?" - LGR 2022
I have more nostalgia for this game than any other in the entire world. Every sound effect is seared into my neurons for all time. I still have my copy! No big box any more, but the case and stuff are still kicking.
I saw a documentary about Hot Wheels vs. Matchbox. Matchbox was all about realism while Hot Wheels was all about hot rods, action and fun. Hot Wheels really knew how to market to boys and this is perfect evidence of that! I would have loved this as a kid.
I lost it when you used the mousepad as a tunnel! LMFAO...keep it up man. Love the channel!
Love the pause and realization after saying that the hand launch option is inadequate for "serious gameplay" lmao
This review is bringing back a lot of memories. My legit first-ever PC game was hot wheels stunt track driver and then my second game was this game. I swear this was hours and hours of fun back in the day. I could never beat it and I never got the additional levels but it's still a blast to play.
I used to play this ALL the time as a kid, I was fortunate enough to have some CTX EZ notebook with a K6 2 as a kid. Some laptop my sister had in college that a repair shop said was unfixable that I some how repaired as a child. :) This game, Frogger, and Tarzan I played on that little laptop ALOT. Such memories.
A pleasant surprise seeing this uploaded! I grew up with this game and always had a soft spot for it. Glad to see you cover this!
My parents got this for me when I must have been either 4 or 5. Playing this on the family PC was so much fun. I loved this game
I remember this game. The tow truck that came with it could actually tow most other Hot Wheels cars. The hook seemed like it was designed to fit in the rivets on either end of the underside that hold the body to the chassis.
I had all those 90’s hot wheels PC games. Crash was by far my favorite of the bunch! I remember playing it and just being in awe of my hot wheels car causing actual explosions!
I played this game way too much as a kid.
Make car do a crash. Car does a crash. Do it again for more points. Perfect game.
Oh man this game was really something for me back in the day. My parents bought it for me from Best Buy or something and I was SO excited for it, it looked so cool and I could NOT wait to get home and play it. Unfortunately, our PC wasn't quite up to the task, so the graphics were basically just black abstract shapes in a blue void, just totally unplayable. Took it back and got something else, can't remember what. Was a shame because I wanted nothing more than to just crash the shit outta some virtual Hot Wheels. This is a vindicating video.
Cool to see the Mattel mention and the works of other developers making content for that brand as well, you should definitely look at the Caterpillar Construction Zone series sometime if you get the chance, I played those at least as much as I played Stunt Track Driver, and they were a lot of fun. Great video as always!
0:06 greetings from Hungary! Insane is still one of my favorite game of all time.
This Hot Wheels game is sadly not as good as I hoped, but some maps of the game remind me on Carmageddon 2, what is another favorite of mine. :D
Awesome! Can't wait for the upcoming VisiCalc retrospective!!
@3:33 I CANNOT BELIEVE you didnt throw a nod to "goat simulator" by posting "Michael Bay" at the gas station explosion. 😄
Let me tell you what didn't run on my windows 98 eMachine. It was this game. Never obsolete!!
I have a family friend who's kid would love this. They're on the autism spectrum and their special interest is race cars/monster trucks/big loud splodey vehicles. Time to email this video :)
I remember playing this game all the time as a kid. It was like the crash mode in the old burnout games long before that series even existed.
I think I even remember going to the website and getting more levels. I remember I got a hotwheels screensaver that was just a program you opened up in fullscreen with a picture of a hotwheels car on it. Doing the exact opposite of what a screensaver was for.
For me, this brings back memories of Burnout 3 Takedown, in crash mode, I can't count how many hours of fun I had on this game on XBOX, sadly I can't find it anywhere for PC, and I would guess my newest PC wouldn't support it either.
Hell yeah I was hoping you'd cover this sometime I remember getting in a cereal box and playing the crap out of it
Wake up, instantly get assaulted with childhood memories.
Oh yeah, it's all coming together today.
For some reason this woke up memories of a game I used to play pretty addictively- it was this infinite runner on PC that was for the M&M’s. It hd a story, but it was so unforgiving that i never got to see a majority of the story haha
I remember playing the demo for this game. The only map you could play was the one with the black Rig Wrecker tow truck going down hill towards the ocean. I would love to see a remastered version made for Android/Iphone.
A remake of this by Avalanche Studios would be fantastic. Vehicles, explosions, and spectacular destruction are their bread and butter. Bigger maps, more opportunities for havoc, and Just Cause-style oversized explosions combined with a less rigid scoring system would make for a blast to play!
omg I can always count on you to bring back some long forgotten memories lol. that stunt game was my jam when I was like 7 lol.
i'm kind of shocked at two things in this video:
#1. I somehow didn't have this game back then, even though I was the target audience for it, would've loved the actual toy you get with the game
#2. Today is the day I learned that Mattel bought Matchbox and did so early in my childhood too. I always saw them as competitors.
I just remember one thing about this game. The horribly balanced audio sound effects! OMG hearing the ERRRRRRRRRRTTTT of the final object in a level that goes red.. That was SO much louder then everything else in the game haha
Oh man that game looks incredible, just watching the car crashing around into things causing explosions, as well as the dominoe effect achieved with further increasing crahses & explosions, would've loved this kinda game when I was younger, heck I'd love to play it now and I'm just a bit younger than you!😂👍👏
This game and its sound effects are permanently engraved into my skull. If anyone is able to provide those maps, my 3 year-old self would be unendingly grateful.
8 year old me LOVED this game on the family 955 Packard Bell. This unearthed great memories!
I remember the promotional CDs for Planet Hot Wheels (rip) had a demo for CRASH on them, with just the level where you drove down the hill street and off the dock at the end. I must've played that demo a thousand times lmao, I never had the full game growing up
Plot in Hot Wheels sounds like having a plot in Roller Coaster Tycoon. I don't need a plot. I just need a high enough hill for insanely dangerous water slides.
"consolidate my childhood or whatever" - LGR 2022
8:50 The slogan for the new generation. "Doesn't matter. HOT WHEELS"
I remember playing the demo of this game endlessly, even if it was just the one San Francisco level. I tried so desperately to get the highest score possible!
And now I really want to play Burnout Revenge again on the Xbox. . .
I sunk SO many hours in this game as a kid. The Volcano level took me forever.
This, Stunt Track Driver 1+2, Army Men II, and Re-Volt are what what my childhood consisted of.
Always loved this game. That CD brings back great memories of the old Gateway tower with our huge CRT!
This is hitting that magic balance between Streets of SimCity & what would eventually be Burnout in the best possible way.