I can’t believe Mater National was a GBA game. That’s one of the most impressive feats I’ve ever seen, and it was a licensed game. I wish I would’ve had it as a kid.
Also at the time, Nintendo was committed to a “three-pillar” business model, committing to support GBA, DS, and GameCube/Wii. Unlike how we see it now, they didn’t market the DS as a necessarily “successor” to the GBA, but an upgraded alternative. Obviously, this was not how their business model ended, because they doubled down on DS and retired the GameBoy line.
Given the Hardware limitations of the GBA - I'd say Maternational should get a 6/10, it might be easy but it handles somewhat decently for a racing game not to mention it has a decent FOV / perspective.
While the models in Mater-National are very well made, McQueen's face just looks terrifying. Also, did you know that there is a DS version of Race-O-Rama? I genuinely had no idea it even existed
@@KLEJGaming A Video about the Cars DS games would be nice because Maternational is my first played DS game ever and it's also my favorite version of Maternational tbh.
This is all quite interesting! My main takeaway from both of these games is that, Cars on DS in contrast was just a mini game collection and had barely any actual racing in it. The races themselves were just 4 really simple and similar tracks and it felt pretty dry tbh. Both of these games you featured actually had racing in it. It’s pretty funny to me that these 2 games are more like Cars than the DS game which I feel should have been better. Surprised me they released these 2 games on GBA and not DS! Really good video my man 🙂
Glad to finally see somebody else talking about this game again. Did you know you can unlock a secret track in the first cars GBA game by using a cheat code? At the start screen, enter LEFT, LEFT, RIGHT, RIGHT, B, B, A and you will be able to select Radiator Cap Secret Circuit once you continue. Also if anybody is interested in speedrunning these games feel free to reach out because they are surprisingly satisfying to get good at and sadly there are barely any people who have tried to speedrun these games.
Man this brings me waaaaaaay back when I had Maternational. We couldn’t afford a lot of DS games & I got a copy of this for my DS along with G&W Gallery 4. Thanks so much for bringing back some fond memories of playing this, I’m gon go hunt for a cartridge of this now!
Isometric Racing games aren't for everyone, but as someone who likes them, Cars 1 on the GBA had one big issue: Screen Crunch. The camera is too zoomed in that it's makes cornering a nightmare. You have a split second to look at the directions the game gives you before trying to avoid crashing into a wall. Mater-National Championship however, is a decent game. Too easy, but knowing the devs' track record on racing games, it is impressive and shows how much the GBA can pull off a chase cam pseudo 3D racer. This and V-Rally 3 are great examples of this, and it's even more impressive when you look at some of those games that are on the GB/GBC. Having 3D models in a 2D background works pretty well in these games.
I recommend playing race o rama, the handling is great and the tracks and models are pretty nice for the time and console, the difficulty can be there if you choose the harder difficulty, its a fun time and i loved playing it a long time ago
A lot of kids had parents that wouldn't buy them new systems frequently and a lot of the parents weren't gamers themselves so some probably bought the GBA even after the DS was out not knowing any better. That's why the GBA kept getting games until 2008, thats also why the PS2 was even still getting games in the early 2010's.
I decided to emulate the GBA version of Mater-National recently because I remembered playing the first one as a kid and somewhat liking it. It took me two minutes to realize that it was built on the bones of a better game. Also, the motion sickness.
Maybe make the window small, GBA games were not meant to be played on big screens and in a lot of fast paced games it really shows. I heard of some people having the same issue when Mario Kart Super Circuit was ported to Wii U.
I remember buying the first GBA Cars game with my Christmas money when I was like 6 years old since my brother rented the Xbox 360 game and I thought it looked fun, and at the time I didn't really understand the concept of different hardware and limitations so when I brought it home I was so angry and confused that it wasn't like the Xbox 360 game and was instead some weird top-down racer lol. Didn't really end up playing it much but I did get Maternational on GBA as well and remember liking it as a kid (and it being technically impressive as a GBA game) but I imagine going back to it now it wouldn't hold up very well.
Good video! I think we share exactly the same feelings about top down racers, haha. Also, I appreciated the clips of peak British tv. Your usage of the tenth doctor is both funny and heart rending at the same time 😅
I remember when moving in to our new house as a kid finding a gba sp, my dad went to our local game store and got an ac adapter, I played the Dora (found with the console) and Spongebob movie game a lot until asking for another. I assumed I'd get something like Pokemon but my dad came home with the cars game, I played it for so long, had to get him to beat the first level for me and never beat any other lol, I miss him a lot, he must have remembered how much I loved watching the movie, this is giving me some motivation to play it again, and almost definitely beat it this time haha.
Ive never actually played these, possibly because i was born at the very end of 2007 and the GBA was pretty much discontinued. I have played a decent few of the console games, with the PS2 version of the first game, and the PS3 version of Maternational. I never had Race-o-Rama on console though, but I did have it on DS, and from memory, it wasnt too bad. I even remember having that weird Mater's tall tales wii game, but it broke one day and I've never heard it mentioned since...
The big thing about MNCGBA nobody seems to talk about is that there's absolutely no saving... it uses passwords like Metroid, Kid Icarus or the millions of other shovelwares on the GBA.
Ah yes the dreaded password system - I'm not sure why I didn't talk about it
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@@KLEJGaming Especially if you're a kid... Sure... a lot of kids often just wrote down stuff like "LMQ-FLO-MTR-FLM-SRG", but other times, it's just stupid. "Hey mom, can I use my school notebook to write down passwords to this Lightning McQueen game you bought me last Christmas?"
Mater-National looks like it is essentially a reskin of Monster Truck Madness. I've always called MTM my favorite GBA racing game, largely because the NPC trucks were very competitive and the actual racing was very good. It's interesting that that obviously didn't carry over.
Got this recommended since I love Cars, it’s my favorite movie, and was how I discovered your Little Friends video. Despite being really fond of video games, I never played any Cars ones! When little I mainly focused on Super Mario, including Mario Kart, and Nintendogs. Now I play Animal Crossing too occasionally. I should probably check out the Cars games sometime, the better ones anyway. It’s still interesting seeing what the GBA ones are like for the first time! 8:04 It’s like Mario Kart on easy!
I actually really enjoyed Mater-National. I played the hell out of that and until I saw this vid…I remembered it as a fever dream that I wasn’t sure actually happened lol. I need to pick it back up
I got a GBA back in 2007 and the first 2 games I bought for it was Cars and Cars Maternational. For what they are, they’re fun but definitely not great games but I liked them as a kid so it doesn’t matter. I like the sprites and sprite models for both games but I hate how Maternational doesn’t have save data which is really really dumb. The only thing I don’t like about the OG Cars GBA port is that there’s no true OST
I played the first Cars GBA game when I was playing random GBA roms in 2010. I thought it sucked. I saw I also had the other GBA Cars game and I ignored it because I assumed it would also suck.
9 years old, I had cars on PC. Amazing game, finished it. Not long after, I got cars on gba and finished it a handful of times. Then I got mater national. Didn't really enjoy it Looking at it now, mater national is super impressive
It's a licensed movie game on the GBA It's not crash bandicoot but It's not zak and cody for gba either If you got this when you were 6 you would play It and then go back to Lego star wars
Should you do the Cars DS games next? After all you may do a video upload of the DS games considering you did review the GBA games (and yes, the first Cars game came out on the DS about the same year as the first Cars film)
@@KLEJGaming Almost forgot, there's a DS version of Cars 2, and it's different compared to the console and PC versions, so be sure to include that in your video about the Cars DS games 😉
It’s quite funny that the Xbox versions of the games are the basically the same, only with better controls in maternational and that both games are very different in gba 😂
I played the GBA version of Cars and I agree that it's not as good as the home console versions. But if you only have a few games for your GBA (and that was the case for me) than you can have fun with this game. It's also the only GBA game at that time which I played through. I never had or played the GBA version of Maternational. I only played it for PS2 and DS. And the GBA version looks very good even if it's a late game. It could be worse but I prefer the DS version more. And it's also my favorite version of Maternational.
The first game looks good but "it drives badly". The second game have a really interesting 3D graphics and "it drives fine" despite the "easy nature" of the title. P.S. I absolutly ADORE 3D games on the GBA ... so gues who's my favorite game between the two.
Race-O-Rama was on DS and PSP, also developed by tantalus but they never made a GBA port as it released in 2009, after games had already stopped being produced
I played the cars game to but it was the Xbox 360 version not the ps2 version I did get frustrated with the game as the game dosnt tell you what missions you already completed causing me to axedently replay missions I already completed but I was decant
What's hilarious about the CARS games for gba are not 3rd person actual racing games when the GBA has like 36 of them. I own most of them. they are living cars. it should have been easy. was disney interactive that lazy?
I can’t believe Mater National was a GBA game. That’s one of the most impressive feats I’ve ever seen, and it was a licensed game. I wish I would’ve had it as a kid.
Yeah it's a really cool game I have to say
A lot of people had parents that wouldn’t allow them to have multiple handhelds, so there still was still a market to get tapped into.
yeah that is very true! :D
My parents never did this 🔥🔥🔥
I was pretty much born into the 3DS era so I had never experienced this.
Also at the time, Nintendo was committed to a “three-pillar” business model, committing to support GBA, DS, and GameCube/Wii. Unlike how we see it now, they didn’t market the DS as a necessarily “successor” to the GBA, but an upgraded alternative. Obviously, this was not how their business model ended, because they doubled down on DS and retired the GameBoy line.
The sprites are actually quite impressive but the game play looks bad
Yeah that's one of the only cool parts about that game
@@KLEJGaming yeah a diamond in the ruff for sure I actually like you’re videos and I you should have more subs I’m gonna sub to you friend
@@Odelayderado thank you I really appreciate it ❤️
For me that game is super fun, I used to play the GBA Cars game when i was a child. And for me it still holds up to this day
It was bad, played the game as a kid and I could never get past the doc Hudson level 💀
Given the Hardware limitations of the GBA - I'd say Maternational should get a 6/10, it might be easy but it handles somewhat decently for a racing game not to mention it has a decent FOV / perspective.
Yeah it's really cool from a technological point of view
While the models in Mater-National are very well made, McQueen's face just looks terrifying.
Also, did you know that there is a DS version of Race-O-Rama? I genuinely had no idea it even existed
Now you've said it he does look horrific 😂
I've got a Cars DS game video planned for a couple of weeks time so I'm currently looking into that ❤️
I owned the ds version
I have both Cars Race-O-Rama and MaterNational on the DS. I kinda like MaterNational more, I've played that one a lot as a kid
I knew a DS version existed but I ended up with the Wii version
@@KLEJGaming A Video about the Cars DS games would be nice because Maternational is my first played DS game ever and it's also my favorite version of Maternational tbh.
This is all quite interesting! My main takeaway from both of these games is that, Cars on DS in contrast was just a mini game collection and had barely any actual racing in it. The races themselves were just 4 really simple and similar tracks and it felt pretty dry tbh. Both of these games you featured actually had racing in it. It’s pretty funny to me that these 2 games are more like Cars than the DS game which I feel should have been better. Surprised me they released these 2 games on GBA and not DS!
Really good video my man 🙂
I'm aiming to play through all the Cars DS games in the next couple of weeks to make a video on, I'm excited to see the differences! Thank you
You just unlocked a hidden memory, I loved the Cars GBA games
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Glad to finally see somebody else talking about this game again. Did you know you can unlock a secret track in the first cars GBA game by using a cheat code? At the start screen, enter LEFT, LEFT, RIGHT, RIGHT, B, B, A and you will be able to select Radiator Cap Secret Circuit once you continue.
Also if anybody is interested in speedrunning these games feel free to reach out because they are surprisingly satisfying to get good at and sadly there are barely any people who have tried to speedrun these games.
Oooohhh I didn't know about the secret track thank you!!!
Man this brings me waaaaaaay back when I had Maternational. We couldn’t afford a lot of DS games & I got a copy of this for my DS along with G&W Gallery 4. Thanks so much for bringing back some fond memories of playing this, I’m gon go hunt for a cartridge of this now!
You're very welcome!!! I hope you enjoy playing again!!!
Tantulus media also ported sonic mania to switch, and also made a south park racing game called south park rally.
Yes they did! ❤️
I believe they also did the Zelda Twilight Princess HD
Isometric Racing games aren't for everyone, but as someone who likes them, Cars 1 on the GBA had one big issue: Screen Crunch. The camera is too zoomed in that it's makes cornering a nightmare. You have a split second to look at the directions the game gives you before trying to avoid crashing into a wall.
Mater-National Championship however, is a decent game. Too easy, but knowing the devs' track record on racing games, it is impressive and shows how much the GBA can pull off a chase cam pseudo 3D racer. This and V-Rally 3 are great examples of this, and it's even more impressive when you look at some of those games that are on the GB/GBC. Having 3D models in a 2D background works pretty well in these games.
Yeah that is true, the first one is very zoomed in, making it quite difficult!!
The Devs for the second have some very impressive work I'm a big fan!!
Wow, the nostalgia seeing the cars advance version, bought and played trough it in one afternoon.
I recommend playing race o rama, the handling is great and the tracks and models are pretty nice for the time and console, the difficulty can be there if you choose the harder difficulty, its a fun time and i loved playing it a long time ago
I will be working on a Cars DS games video so I'll play it then!!
A lot of kids had parents that wouldn't buy them new systems frequently and a lot of the parents weren't gamers themselves so some probably bought the GBA even after the DS was out not knowing any better. That's why the GBA kept getting games until 2008, thats also why the PS2 was even still getting games in the early 2010's.
0:34 for correction: "a completely different game with the exact same name" was also on Gameboy Advance
Fair enough
For some reason in the pc version of mater national in the files there are icons for Mcqueen paint jobs from the gba version of first cars game
Oh wtf that's so random hahaha
I decided to emulate the GBA version of Mater-National recently because I remembered playing the first one as a kid and somewhat liking it. It took me two minutes to realize that it was built on the bones of a better game.
Also, the motion sickness.
Yeah the motion sickness is bad hahaha
Maybe make the window small, GBA games were not meant to be played on big screens and in a lot of fast paced games it really shows. I heard of some people having the same issue when Mario Kart Super Circuit was ported to Wii U.
I remember buying the first GBA Cars game with my Christmas money when I was like 6 years old since my brother rented the Xbox 360 game and I thought it looked fun, and at the time I didn't really understand the concept of different hardware and limitations so when I brought it home I was so angry and confused that it wasn't like the Xbox 360 game and was instead some weird top-down racer lol. Didn't really end up playing it much but I did get Maternational on GBA as well and remember liking it as a kid (and it being technically impressive as a GBA game) but I imagine going back to it now it wouldn't hold up very well.
I had that experience with a few handheld ports, I never understood why they were different!!
Good video! I think we share exactly the same feelings about top down racers, haha. Also, I appreciated the clips of peak British tv. Your usage of the tenth doctor is both funny and heart rending at the same time 😅
Yeah we do! 😂 Thank you so much
This was the very first video game I remember playing.
Oh damn that's cool!!!
Love how you used multiple 10th doctor senses in this video.
I remember when moving in to our new house as a kid finding a gba sp, my dad went to our local game store and got an ac adapter, I played the Dora (found with the console) and Spongebob movie game a lot until asking for another. I assumed I'd get something like Pokemon but my dad came home with the cars game, I played it for so long, had to get him to beat the first level for me and never beat any other lol, I miss him a lot, he must have remembered how much I loved watching the movie, this is giving me some motivation to play it again, and almost definitely beat it this time haha.
That's such a nice memory to have! ❤️
This game looks very similar to the race car game in the Chicken Little video game
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Ive never actually played these, possibly because i was born at the very end of 2007 and the GBA was pretty much discontinued. I have played a decent few of the console games, with the PS2 version of the first game, and the PS3 version of Maternational. I never had Race-o-Rama on console though, but I did have it on DS, and from memory, it wasnt too bad. I even remember having that weird Mater's tall tales wii game, but it broke one day and I've never heard it mentioned since...
That tall tales game has been on my radar for a while now, will have to check it out
The GBA was a top seller it's whole life, and the Ds plays them too so it was easy money
Yeah that does make sense
I have Mater-National for the GBA, and yeah even as a kid I thought it was easy, so I never finished.
Hah fair enough
Deadass, the MaterNational soundtrack on the DS version is updated a little, and damn, it’s a banger. Still play it today.
Its so good!
The big thing about MNCGBA nobody seems to talk about is that there's absolutely no saving... it uses passwords like Metroid, Kid Icarus or the millions of other shovelwares on the GBA.
Ah yes the dreaded password system - I'm not sure why I didn't talk about it
@@KLEJGaming Especially if you're a kid... Sure... a lot of kids often just wrote down stuff like "LMQ-FLO-MTR-FLM-SRG", but other times, it's just stupid. "Hey mom, can I use my school notebook to write down passwords to this Lightning McQueen game you bought me last Christmas?"
Mater-National looks like it is essentially a reskin of Monster Truck Madness. I've always called MTM my favorite GBA racing game, largely because the NPC trucks were very competitive and the actual racing was very good. It's interesting that that obviously didn't carry over.
Yeah the game is just too easy!
I loved the Cars game so much !!! I was so hyped for the new cars you could drive there. Also the soundtrack was so cool!!
The soundtrack went so hard
Got this recommended since I love Cars, it’s my favorite movie, and was how I discovered your Little Friends video. Despite being really fond of video games, I never played any Cars ones! When little I mainly focused on Super Mario, including Mario Kart, and Nintendogs. Now I play Animal Crossing too occasionally. I should probably check out the Cars games sometime, the better ones anyway. It’s still interesting seeing what the GBA ones are like for the first time!
8:04 It’s like Mario Kart on easy!
Thank you for checking out the other video as well!! Yeah I'd definitely recommend trying some of the Cars games if you get the chance to! ❤️
I would like to note, however, that Mater-National is password-based (though you CAN just look up the passwords on the internet).
YES OOPS I FORGOT TO MENTION THAT!!!
Thank you ❤️
I actually really enjoyed Mater-National. I played the hell out of that and until I saw this vid…I remembered it as a fever dream that I wasn’t sure actually happened lol. I need to pick it back up
Pick it back up!!!
I got a GBA back in 2007 and the first 2 games I bought for it was Cars and Cars Maternational. For what they are, they’re fun but definitely not great games but I liked them as a kid so it doesn’t matter. I like the sprites and sprite models for both games but I hate how Maternational doesn’t have save data which is really really dumb. The only thing I don’t like about the OG Cars GBA port is that there’s no true OST
Yeah the password system is very dumb for such a late game
I played the first Cars GBA game when I was playing random GBA roms in 2010. I thought it sucked. I saw I also had the other GBA Cars game and I ignored it because I assumed it would also suck.
Nah mater-national isn't too bad, especially compared to the first one
The Wall.E game on DS was one I played through over and over and over and I think was the first game I completed all the way through
Woah!!! The wall-e game was one of two games that came with my first DS!!!
@@KLEJGaming I remember the Eve flying levels being my favourites
9 years old, I had cars on PC. Amazing game, finished it. Not long after, I got cars on gba and finished it a handful of times.
Then I got mater national. Didn't really enjoy it
Looking at it now, mater national is super impressive
Yeah it's technically very impressive, it's just too easy!
In the GBA version of Mater National the Female British Rallycar Brittney I think her name was ridiculously overpowered from when I used her.
Ah okay that's cool
It's Emma.
I have the original Cars game on GameCube and Mater-national on my DS lol
It's a licensed movie game on the GBA
It's not crash bandicoot but It's not zak and cody for gba either
If you got this when you were 6 you would play It and then go back to Lego star wars
That's so true
Cars Maternational looks incredible (even if the emulator makes it look better). I want to find a cartridge and a try it on my GBA micro.
Yes get it and try it!!
Mater-National is back, its sooo good :D
Should you do the Cars DS games next? After all you may do a video upload of the DS games considering you did review the GBA games (and yes, the first Cars game came out on the DS about the same year as the first Cars film)
I am actually already working on a Cars DS video that will be out in just under two weeks!! ❤️
@@KLEJGaming Almost forgot, there's a DS version of Cars 2, and it's different compared to the console and PC versions, so be sure to include that in your video about the Cars DS games 😉
The first game of cars. I played it on the GameCube when I was 13. I still say this game is awesome
I completely agree
The trees look really bad and go through everything
Yeah sadly that was just hardware limitations
The ones they released for the PSP are weirder
Oh damn really? I'll add that to my list of things to check out 😎😎
The DS version of Matter National is so good and removes many issues the gba one has
I'm working on a DS Cars games that comes out in just under 2 weeks!!
@@KLEJGaming cool
That's it. I'm subscribing @@KLEJGaming
It’s quite funny that the Xbox versions of the games are the basically the same, only with better controls in maternational and that both games are very different in gba 😂
Yeah the contrast is funny 😂
Mater-National looks similar to top gear rally on gba, it's from the same developers...
I loved the cars gba game as a kid
I played the GBA version of Cars and I agree that it's not as good as the home console versions. But if you only have a few games for your GBA (and that was the case for me) than you can have fun with this game. It's also the only GBA game at that time which I played through. I never had or played the GBA version of Maternational. I only played it for PS2 and DS. And the GBA version looks very good even if it's a late game. It could be worse but I prefer the DS version more. And it's also my favorite version of Maternational.
I will be checking out the DS mater-national soon!
@@KLEJGaming Oh. Great 👍
Impressive graphics, nice sprites, Cars 1 is pretty hard but decent overall, Mater-National Championship is decent too.
Cars: 6/10
Cars: Mater-National Championship: 6/10
I mean yeah that's a pretty fair summary
The first game looks good but "it drives badly".
The second game have a really interesting 3D graphics and "it drives fine" despite the "easy nature" of the title.
P.S. I absolutly ADORE 3D games on the GBA ... so gues who's my favorite game between the two.
Agreed, second one way better 😎
I had the gba version and my mom never let me get the DS version because she said "we already have this game at home"
Can we get Cars?
Mum- we have cars at home
*Cars at home*
U should try cars hotshot racing
I'll look into that one ❤️
Had this on ds. Major nostalgia
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You forgot one, Race-O-Rama was on GBA as well.
Race-O-Rama was on DS and PSP, also developed by tantalus but they never made a GBA port as it released in 2009, after games had already stopped being produced
@@KLEJGamingAh, my mistake.
Why are they on the GBA?
*Insert Mr. Crabs Money meme here*
Love your videos man keep it up!
Thank you so much!!!!
I played the cars game to but it was the Xbox 360 version not the ps2 version I did get frustrated with the game as the game dosnt tell you what missions you already completed causing me to axedently replay missions I already completed but I was decant
What's hilarious about the CARS games for gba are not 3rd person actual racing games when the GBA has like 36 of them. I own most of them. they are living cars. it should have been easy. was disney interactive that lazy?
Yeah they could've done a lot more with it
You feel old?!
I was 16!
Ah... I'm sorry 😂😂
@@KLEJGaming No need to!
This was our fate!
The mater national was nauseating to watch
0:04 same 😪
Tell me about it hahaha
They are good
I Like Cars On Nintendo Gameboy Advance