I liked Stunts as well, it was heavily influenced by Hard Drivin'. In my opinion though, Hard Drivin' at the arcade was always the ultimate experience due to its awesome physics and oncoming traffic.
I imagine somebody dying in a car accident, and right before they die, they get one of those instant replays of what just happened, followed by the "game over", and then followed by an eternity of nothingness.
Back in the day the original arcade version of this was seriously mind blowing. Pity the Megadrive wasn't quite up to the task. But both were eclipsed by the humble Stunt Car Racer on the C64 - now that was a game.
omgg i used to play this game when i was 3-4 years old - non stop!,. i loved ittttttt. looking back, its really amazing how so little used to make us content back in the days. :)
Man, I remember playing this game as a kid on the genesis. I was probably blown away at the time because it was 3D. I remember the farm animal and the loop. Fast Forward like 20 years and today I go to Disc Replay where they resell old stuff, I'm browsing genesis games, and there she is. My one braincell that still remembers the game for some reason lit up and I remembered. Immediately went to RUclips to hopefully find a video and thanks to you, I was able to relive the old unnecessary memories. Man, what a crap game it was looking back. Anyway, thanks man. Good work.
I got this Christmas of 1992 along with the sega genesis sonic 2 system. This was my 2nd game for the system at the time and even till today this holds a nostalgic spot to me. That was one of the best gifts ever as it was my first game system got the genesis from my Gramma Jennie and the Hard Drivin game cartridge from my Aunt Sue. Still love my Genesis today over mostly anything else. My Dad later got me my PS2 for Christmas of 2002 that was my other best game system with GTA3 and WWE Smackdown Shut Your Mouth games.
I will always have respect for this game! Not because it was good(because it wasn't), but it taught me how to drive a manual transmission in the arcade version!
Yah, back then on the PC it was called "Stunts" and it even had competing racers with funny names related to cars or racing. It had the track builder, and you could add those same loops. I played the hell out of that game! I loved making my own tracks, they'd be so long and full of jumps, and banked turns... It also had way better music. Good guitar solo stuff .... on either the PC's beeping sound card, or Midi.
This was my favorite arcade game in the early 90's. The environmental sit down was the best cabinet. This was the only arcade game I'm aware of that had accurate clutch-brake-gas pedal interactions with the gear shifter, meaning you could do things like give it gas and slip the clutch or pop it with the gas floored and spin the tires. If you chose the automatic tranny you could put it in neutral then floor it in pop it in gear to spin the tires. Sweet!
CGR, you inspire me to go to arcades with my friends. It is simply more fun, more entertaining, and more communal than sitting at home or in the dorm playing.
I remember playing this on an arcade machine at a go kart racetrack...yes, I played this before going driving for real! the machine was obviously broke because I had unlimited plays, I loved driving up a ramp at top speed and dying just to see the replays!
This reminds me of Stunts 4D... Oh my God, I can remember what an honor it was to be allowed to use my Dad's laptop back around 1994 or 1995 when I was a little kid. That game was the shit.
I remember playing the acrade version at the airport when my dad flew in from work, then recently they had one in the main arcade at the mall here. The best part of the arcade was a H Pattern gear shifter with a clutch. When you drove a manual transmission you had to use the clutch to start the car, and if you did it wrong, it stalled out haha
The PC game you were thinking of is 'Stunts' aka '4D Sports Driving'. I remember it well because I also used to make crazy ridiculous tracks with the track editor.
This game was truly revolutionary for the time (that is, in the arcade). It's the first real polygon-based driving game, followed by the equally revolutionary and quickly progressing technologically Virtua Racing and Daytona USA in the years that followed. Maybe this game has a track editor, but I can't remember, either. Maybe it's San Francisco Rush. I seem to remember that that one does. You need to review San Francisco Rush, as that's an awesome spiritual successor to this one.
The PC game that you're thinking of is Stunts, or 4D Sports Driving as it was also known. I remember doing much of the same things you did, making the most impossible tracks possible and then giving them to friends.
I remmber this in a arcade in england it was right next to afterburner , i loved the fact it had proper gears and a three pedals just like a real car but could i do it? nope lol id love to play that game again !
I believe the name of that game you were talking about around 2:20 is called stunt driver. I also had that game and it was very much like hard drivin' it came on one white floppy disk with a level editor!
Wind Squid, for some reason that name made me laugh, lol I remember this game so well, Hard Drivin was quite hard, but I guess thats the point, since it was suppose to be a simulator. Nice review!
Race Drivin' (Hard Drivin's sequel) for the Genesis has a track editor. The SNES version doesn't. There was a PC version of Hard Drivin', I don't know whether it had a track editor. As some people have mentioned though, it could have been Stunts instead of Hard Drivin'. There was also a Hard Drivin' II for PC/Amiga/Atari ST that did have a track editor, though. It was a great arcade game, so different from anything else at the time... no one had done a real sim racer before. True classic.
The PC game you remember is most likely a game called Stunts. Was very similar to Hard Drivin' though, but with a track editor and a number of different selectable cars.
"Stunts" was on PC (the same game had many other names across the world) and it was 100% like this, except it ran smoother, didn't have that much of traffic though, and it did have an awesome track editor! Oh had so many good times with Stunts.. You might get it to work these days with dosbox. :P
At the time just having any 3D on a console was impressive. It's weird, but I think the Genesis was probably the only console to really have a number of simulators. There was an M1 Ahbrams tank sim, LHX helicopter sim, a 688 attack sub sim, and maybe F22 fighter jet sim. Maybe MS should release Flight Simulator X on 360 :P.
You might be interested in knowing the arcade version of Hard Drivin' is featured on Midway Arcade Treasures for PS2 and it is accurate minus the sit-down cabinet ofcourse.
I have Hard Drivin for the PS2. Thank god for the Midway collections volume 1 &2. I did not care for the 3rd collection. It just did not have that many good game.The PS2 version is pretty good. This game is a good challenge. Those damn loops in the road.I played this game at a Putt Putt years ago. I have not seen an arcade of this game since the mid early 90's.
You know occasionally you get that game that you love and everyone else seems to hate? This is it for me, it's one of my go to games when I want to lose 5 minutes on the android phone, it's awesome. Also it didn't have the horrific CONSTANT skidding sound the arcade version had. You could also set the game to practice and just mess about with no time limit. Now if he was reviewing the sinclair spectrum or commodore 64 versions then fair enough :)
There was a game called Stunts... it was for the PC and it had a track editor... it was generally very similar to this game but much more fluent... there you go.
i had this game for my old 385.. it was called "Stunts" on PC and had better frame rate than the Genesis version midi audio and competitive racing mode too plus the track builder but didn't had the the incoming traffic on the street
@SNESFanboy64 Seeing your comment makes me want to get my nintendo 64 back. Goldeneye, super mario 64 and F-Zero X FTW. Still need to find and buy a SNES though. I had a mega drive when I was younger so I never really played any SNES games except for Super mario world and donkey kong country.
Funniest game ever. There's no limit to how entertaining these crashes are. Oh, and one time, when I respawned, I fell through the road. And remember the review that goes PAAAAAAAUUUUUUNDAH! (PWN'D)
gah this game is a pain in the butt, its part of the midway arcade game collection for ps2 and even if you drove well you would be lucky to get 1 extension. no room for error.
MCHellshit actually. if u read the comment. Amanda didn't shay she specifically missed this game. She said she misses the days of her childhood. Dipshit. What is nostalgic for some may not be so for others. I actually do recall sitting down and spending many hours taking turns on this game with my brother when we were kids. The replays were awesome and it was one of the only 3D rendered racing games of it's time. I would like to see YOUR 3D rendered game that YOU made on a Sega Genesis. Dipshit.
Think the track editor your thinking of is 4D Sports Driving, it had similar mechanics and graphics, you could drive an IMSA sports car and even a Lamborgini 4x4 truck.
y eah i had that same game for pc. i remember it had a clitch if you hit a long enough straight away your mph would just peg and if you went up a ramp you would fly like 800 ft in the air and just kinda float there and crash down. that was a blast
I remember we were unable to do the loop, which i recall is the first level. and we returned it. My godfather went to Toys r' us with us and we pretended to cry and the let us return the opened game for cash back...they would never do that nowadays.
You might be thinking of the other 3D racing game called STUNTS! That game was fantastic and way better than Hard Drivin'
I liked Stunts as well, it was heavily influenced by Hard Drivin'. In my opinion though, Hard Drivin' at the arcade was always the ultimate experience due to its awesome physics and oncoming traffic.
I imagine somebody dying in a car accident, and right before they die, they get one of those instant replays of what just happened, followed by the "game over", and then followed by an eternity of nothingness.
What everyone who's dying hear just before they pass :"GAME OVER YEEAAAAAHHH!!", probably
The loop de loop and the replays were the only reason I came back to this game as a kid.
The music at :58 I heard that shit over a million times lol memories of being a kid with no worries
This game takes me back to my childhood. I also remember playing this at a bowling alley called McKnight Lanes.
Back in the day the original arcade version of this was seriously mind blowing. Pity the Megadrive wasn't quite up to the task.
But both were eclipsed by the humble Stunt Car Racer on the C64 - now that was a game.
Back in the day the original arcade version of this was seriously mind blowing. Pity the Megadrive wasn't quite up to the task.
omgg i used to play this game when i was 3-4 years old - non stop!,. i loved ittttttt. looking back, its really amazing how so little used to make us content back in the days. :)
Man, I remember playing this game as a kid on the genesis. I was probably blown away at the time because it was 3D. I remember the farm animal and the loop. Fast Forward like 20 years and today I go to Disc Replay where they resell old stuff, I'm browsing genesis games, and there she is. My one braincell that still remembers the game for some reason lit up and I remembered. Immediately went to RUclips to hopefully find a video and thanks to you, I was able to relive the old unnecessary memories. Man, what a crap game it was looking back. Anyway, thanks man. Good work.
When I was a kid this was the best arcade game at the local Pizza Hut. For the time the graphics were really good,
YEAH! I Remember this game in the arcade form! They had it at the roller rink. so much fun to play growing up.
I got this Christmas of 1992 along with the sega genesis sonic 2 system. This was my 2nd game for the system at the time and even till today this holds a nostalgic spot to me. That was one of the best gifts ever as it was my first game system got the genesis from my Gramma Jennie and the Hard Drivin game cartridge from my Aunt Sue. Still love my Genesis today over mostly anything else. My Dad later got me my PS2 for Christmas of 2002 that was my other best game system with GTA3 and WWE Smackdown Shut Your Mouth games.
I will always have respect for this game! Not because it was good(because it wasn't), but it taught me how to drive a manual transmission in the arcade version!
Yah, back then on the PC it was called "Stunts" and it even had competing racers with funny names related to cars or racing. It had the track builder, and you could add those same loops. I played the hell out of that game! I loved making my own tracks, they'd be so long and full of jumps, and banked turns...
It also had way better music. Good guitar solo stuff .... on either the PC's beeping sound card, or Midi.
I loved this game so much, that it filled me with blind rage due to my obsession of beating it.
Simulation games like this were awesome back in the day simply for their replay ability. I remember going for epic crashes.
I love how the loops are transparent. And maybe they should have released it on the 32X.
yeah that loop was the one, hours tring to pass that when i was 5
Oh man, this reminds me of playing pole position on the commodore 64.
The nostalgia of this review makes me just all quivery.
I love Stunts!!! I still build those lol , wow i did not think Genesis could run a pc type game , this is so nice :)
This game brings back so many memories...
This was my favorite arcade game in the early 90's. The environmental sit down was the best cabinet. This was the only arcade game I'm aware of that had accurate clutch-brake-gas pedal interactions with the gear shifter, meaning you could do things like give it gas and slip the clutch or pop it with the gas floored and spin the tires. If you chose the automatic tranny you could put it in neutral then floor it in pop it in gear to spin the tires. Sweet!
i had this game on DOS, ran very good on 486 pc.
holy shit, i remember playing this game when i was a kid at the local arcade where i grew up. Thanx for the memories, LOL!
CGR, you inspire me to go to arcades with my friends. It is simply more fun, more entertaining, and more communal than sitting at home or in the dorm playing.
I remember playing this on an arcade machine at a go kart racetrack...yes, I played this before going driving for real! the machine was obviously broke because I had unlimited plays, I loved driving up a ramp at top speed and dying just to see the replays!
Congrats! Funny review.
I remember playing this game a lot , though I had all kinds of trouble with that loop when I was young.
This reminds me of Stunts 4D... Oh my God, I can remember what an honor it was to be allowed to use my Dad's laptop back around 1994 or 1995 when I was a little kid. That game was the shit.
I remember playing the acrade version at the airport when my dad flew in from work, then recently they had one in the main arcade at the mall here. The best part of the arcade was a H Pattern gear shifter with a clutch. When you drove a manual transmission you had to use the clutch to start the car, and if you did it wrong, it stalled out haha
The PC game you were thinking of is 'Stunts' aka '4D Sports Driving'. I remember it well because I also used to make crazy ridiculous tracks with the track editor.
Gotta love that transparent road!
This game was truly revolutionary for the time (that is, in the arcade). It's the first real polygon-based driving game, followed by the equally revolutionary and quickly progressing technologically Virtua Racing and Daytona USA in the years that followed.
Maybe this game has a track editor, but I can't remember, either. Maybe it's San Francisco Rush. I seem to remember that that one does. You need to review San Francisco Rush, as that's an awesome spiritual successor to this one.
I LOVED this game on the arcade. So much fun.
The PC game that you're thinking of is Stunts, or 4D Sports Driving as it was also known. I remember doing much of the same things you did, making the most impossible tracks possible and then giving them to friends.
This game owns. I played it on Midway Arcade Treasures 3. Loved it!
I loved this game on the Genesis! Set the brake button to rapid fire and watch your lap times improve. Kinda works like ABS.
haha i remember this so damn hard like its title and the crack on the screen always sent a shiver down my spine
I remmber this in a arcade in england it was right next to afterburner , i loved the fact it had proper gears and a three pedals just like a real car but could i do it? nope lol id love to play that game again !
That game you had on the IBM pc was 4d Sports Driving (Better known as Stunts), it was an amazing game :D
I believe the name of that game you were talking about around 2:20 is called stunt driver. I also had that game and it was very much like hard drivin' it came on one white floppy disk with a level editor!
Wind Squid, for some reason that name made me laugh, lol
I remember this game so well, Hard Drivin was quite hard, but I guess thats the point, since it was suppose to be a simulator. Nice review!
I remember playing this game at the skating rink.
The only PC game I remember that looks like this which include a track editor is Stunts, a creative idea of Distinctive Software, Inc., made in 1990.
The PC game he's thinking of is Stunts. Ahh that was a game I spent hundreds of hours on!!
Race Drivin' (Hard Drivin's sequel) for the Genesis has a track editor. The SNES version doesn't.
There was a PC version of Hard Drivin', I don't know whether it had a track editor. As some people have mentioned though, it could have been Stunts instead of Hard Drivin'. There was also a Hard Drivin' II for PC/Amiga/Atari ST that did have a track editor, though.
It was a great arcade game, so different from anything else at the time... no one had done a real sim racer before. True classic.
wow i remember playing this on an arcade machine when i was young. I thought it was awesome back then.
i used to love this
I used to love this, if you run over the cow it moo's at you LOL.
It was much more fun in manual, but the arcade was truly awesome
The PC game you remember is most likely a game called Stunts. Was very similar to Hard Drivin' though, but with a track editor and a number of different selectable cars.
Oooh, I remember playing this game on my Amiga looong time ago) Memories....
I remember playing this on the Sega Channel all the time, just find new ways to crash and watch the replays lol
"Stunts" was on PC (the same game had many other names across the world) and it was 100% like this, except it ran smoother, didn't have that much of traffic though, and it did have an awesome track editor! Oh had so many good times with Stunts.. You might get it to work these days with dosbox. :P
Me and my friend used to play this in the arcade 20 years ago. Genesis version was horrible though. Great arcade game.
These graphics are... PHOTOREALISTIC!!
I had the game Stunts for PC I loved the track editor I'd make crazy loops and stuff myself xD
oh shit i remember this game! i use to just crash into stuff a lot for fun, then watch the replay.
At the time just having any 3D on a console was impressive. It's weird, but I think the Genesis was probably the only console to really have a number of simulators. There was an M1 Ahbrams tank sim, LHX helicopter sim, a 688 attack sub sim, and maybe F22 fighter jet sim. Maybe MS should release Flight Simulator X on 360 :P.
Awesome game.
Plus it's funny as hell. The crashes still make me laugh.
OMG i remember playing this and i always trying to do loop da loop :)
You might be interested in knowing the arcade version of Hard Drivin' is featured on Midway Arcade Treasures for PS2 and it is accurate minus the sit-down cabinet ofcourse.
This reminds me of that absolutely wonderful Superman game for the N64...
I have Hard Drivin for the PS2. Thank god for the Midway collections volume 1 &2. I did not care for the 3rd collection. It just did not have that many good game.The PS2 version is pretty good. This game is a good challenge. Those damn loops in the road.I played this game at a Putt Putt years ago. I have not seen an arcade of this game since the mid early 90's.
You know occasionally you get that game that you love and everyone else seems to hate? This is it for me, it's one of my go to games when I want to lose 5 minutes on the android phone, it's awesome. Also it didn't have the horrific CONSTANT skidding sound the arcade version had.
You could also set the game to practice and just mess about with no time limit. Now if he was reviewing the sinclair spectrum or commodore 64 versions then fair enough :)
There was a game called Stunts... it was for the PC and it had a track editor... it was generally very similar to this game but much more fluent... there you go.
"Midway Hits" for XBOX. Great arcade port.
Nice commentator cheesiness.
The PC version of this game also had a track editor (Have it on floppy disks - 3,5" and 2x 5,25"...).
Mark, the game that you were referring to where you make your own tracks is the sequel to this game called "race drivin"
I used to love this game, as a kid I used to fuck up on the ramp on purpose just to see the replays.
The PC game you were trying to remember was called stunts :-)
I played a game with this title on the Mac. I loved it. I bought this game thinking it was the same thing. Yeah, I wasted 5 bucks
Such an awesome title!!
The PC game like this that had a track editor was called Stunts.
haha.... so glad i found this. Im playing this on the midway arcade treasures 2 on xbox.
Yes. It reminds me of Stunts for the PC.
i had this game for my old 385.. it was called "Stunts" on PC and had better frame rate than the Genesis version midi audio and competitive racing mode too plus the track builder but didn't had the the incoming traffic on the street
@SNESFanboy64 Seeing your comment makes me want to get my nintendo 64 back. Goldeneye, super mario 64 and F-Zero X FTW. Still need to find and buy a SNES though. I had a mega drive when I was younger so I never really played any SNES games except for Super mario world and donkey kong country.
This game is awesome!
Race Drivin' had the track builder for the Genesis. That was the only difference between versions.
The version with the track editor was probably Stunts for the PC.
Funniest game ever. There's no limit to how entertaining these crashes are. Oh, and one time, when I respawned, I fell through the road.
And remember the review that goes PAAAAAAAUUUUUUNDAH! (PWN'D)
gah this game is a pain in the butt, its part of the midway arcade game collection for ps2 and even if you drove well you would be lucky to get 1 extension. no room for error.
I still have this game lol.
I played this in the arcade!
i remember this game!!
OH my childhood :) how i miss those days
You miss this shitty game? lol
MCHellshit
lol who is you nigga
Turrican4D
aww that isn't rare
amanda burnt Someone who is surprised anyone would miss this shitty game
MCHellshit actually. if u read the comment. Amanda didn't shay she specifically missed this game. She said she misses the days of her childhood. Dipshit. What is nostalgic for some may not be so for others. I actually do recall sitting down and spending many hours taking turns on this game with my brother when we were kids. The replays were awesome and it was one of the only 3D rendered racing games of it's time. I would like to see YOUR 3D rendered game that YOU made on a Sega Genesis. Dipshit.
Think the track editor your thinking of is 4D Sports Driving, it had similar mechanics and graphics, you could drive an IMSA sports car and even a Lamborgini 4x4 truck.
They had a bunch of this game in a town close by way back when
aww i actually played this game ;D AWESOME!!
Audible pain? No way! I actually enjoy the title music for this game.
I remember playing this when I was 5 lol I sucked at this game so bad -___- but I still loved playing it
y eah i had that same game for pc. i remember it had a clitch if you hit a long enough straight away your mph would just peg and if you went up a ramp you would fly like 800 ft in the air and just kinda float there and crash down. that was a blast
I think when you're talking about the PC game having a track editor, it was probably the game called Stunts for MS-DOS.
This actually looks like a pretty good game to me. REPLAYS!
Marck ... you are awesom
I remember we were unable to do the loop, which i recall is the first level. and we returned it. My godfather went to Toys r' us with us and we pretended to cry and the let us return the opened game for cash back...they would never do that nowadays.
I always wished this game would have been released on later, more powerful hardware. It had so much potential.
The had a sequel "Race Driving" It made a bunch of improvements over this one. Had 3 cars, AND a track editor
Reminds me of that MS-DOS game Stunts.
I had a good amount of fun with Hard Drivin. If you look at it as a funny simulator, it is dumb fun.