Oddball Racing Games on the Sega Dreamcast
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- Опубликовано: 8 июл 2024
- Here we look at some racing games that throw away the realism and double down on the fantastical.
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By: Jan Neves
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Episode Notes:
1. Captured on real hardware via RGB SCART and Framemeister.
2. Most of these are still affordable even in todays retro market.
3. I tried to take focus off anything that would be considered "normal".
4. To this day I still can't believe how few Model 3 games were actually ported to the DC.
5. There are even more beyond this list. There are at least a dozen more games on the DC that have racing elements.
6. Couple of corrections and clarifications. Star Wars Episode I Racer is a two player game, not four. In the Stunt GP section, Halifax was the distributer, not the developer of the game. They shared duties with Eon Digital Entertainment. Team 17 actually developed Stunt GP. I completely had it backwards. 
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Couple of corrections.
Star Wars Episode I Racer was just 2 players, not 4.
Stunt GP was developed by Team 17 and published/distributed by Halifax and Eon Digital Entertainment. I had it backwards in the segment.
Little errors like these tend to slip past me when doing larger videos. I'll work harder in the future to catch em.
Episode 1 Racer should of been 4 player....That would of really shown off the power of the Dreamcast!
Eon Digital was the publisher.
Halifax is an Italian distributor, he's the one among the distribution of many important publishers and/or developers as Virgin Interactive, Interplay, Eidos, Konami, Capcom and many others!
Don't beat yourself up too hard, although I'm the same way. Dude! you provide unique content, that's always consistent, and I can tell it's a labor of love. I bet it was exhausting playing these bargain bin games just to have something to feed to your capture card and we all appreciate the time you put in!
Your videos bring me back to a time when if you wanted to play an arcade game at home you had to get the port for whatever console you happened to have, with lots of give and take. And it was still awesome, that's the best part!
Keep kickin ass Sega Lord X!!!
I was gonna say "Ep 1 Racer was 4P?" and wondered if I just didnt try that mode despite owning it for 20+ years because I didnt have three other friends who were interested in the DC....
Dont sweat it you do amazing work
They should make a new Loony Tunes racing game. The art style is awesome.
sadly that wont happen, not only is Looney Tunes struggling for popularity right now, but characters like Pepe Le Pew have been cancelled by cancel culture, as long as we have people being like that towards something as innocent as Looney Tunes, such a thing will never take place.
@@UltimateGamerCC
And of course there's the obvious fact they do things like green light incredibly expensive/stupid projects like space jam 2 that fail miserably and flop like a dying fish.
I mean I remember people were really sick of the "cell shaded aesthetic" after the Dreamcast and yet I would say that style was one of the biggest things that has made space race hold up to this day.
@@JohnDoe-wq5eu ugh, people can be picky buggers, i personally loved cel-shaded stuff, just like i was one of the few fans of claymation back in the day. it's pretty sad considering that nowadays people are clamoring for something unique, after shooting down unique aspects for so long. such bitter irony...
So many memories with that game
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What's really sad is that they took games that had that aesthetic and took that aesthetic away for releases on say PS2 or whatever. And many times it would take away the single cool thing that it had when it was on the Dreamcast. I mean I thought cell shading was a brilliant move that really gave games much more appeal especially with consoles that didn't quite have the power to render things more realistically. Of course we've actually seen how flipping people are with something like XIII
where they took the cool art style and completely botched it in the remake. That is especially interesting considering how divisive that game was and it's look back in the day and how much people love it now. Again 20 years later and people have flip flopped completely as far as their attitude. It's like how people couldn't stand 2D games and then suddenly around halfway through the 2000s it had a huge resurgence.
If the Dreamcast version of Rush 2049 is based on the N64 version, they did an amazing job improving it. Kinda like Tony Hawk 1 and 2.
The n64 build was already stretching the n64 build with the ram expansion so i could see the route to a dreamcast game.
@@RavenShinyThings I looked at a side by side comparison on a different RUclips channel. The Dreamcast and N64 does appear to be using the exact same 3D models for tacks and cars. But the effects, textures and lighting makes a world of difference. With that said, its a fairly impressive N64 game even if it looks and runs like crap.
The arcade hardware for Rush was a lot more similar to the Dreamcast's hardware than the N64. The arcade board was the Atari Flagstaff, based around 3dfx hardware. I bet it was based off the arcade code. N64 hardware was weird.
@@mattuw82 I looked at footage of the Arcade as well. It seems like the tracks are bigger and there is more detail. At a glance though, the Dreamcast version isn't far behind.
I guess it was just less work to improve the N64 version than give Dreamcast a real arcade port.
Hydro Thunder is also an interesting game to look at because it seems like all the consoles are essentially running the same engine and similar 3D assets. But there are varying compromises, Dreamcast looking most similar to the arcade. I was surprised to see PS1 actually got a great port.
Rush 2049 on the Dreamcast was one of the most popular multiplayer games at my house. We got tired of racing, but the stunt and even battle modes are always fun to play and get crazy with.
Thank you for the video! I always love enjoying watching your videos before bed, like reading a good book just before bed.
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Boss: why are you so tired?
Me: new Sega Lord X video
Boss: ok, well let's play Wacky Races
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This channel feels like it was made for me specifically and my interests. I have been collecting DC racing games for 20 years. Keep up the great work! Thank you!
If Ep. 1 Racer seems too easy and un-loseable for anyone at first, I'd recommend you at least play until you get to the second circuit. There's a pretty big difficulty spike right off the bat and it actually turns into a real competition.
It's a great little game and it's surprisingly accessible to people new to racing games as well even if it can get tough
I wasn't aware that the Dreamcast had so many unconventional racing games. My favorite in the list was Wacky Racers, as someone who loved the show it was a good surprise, at that time classical TV series didn't have games released years after they were over.
Dude, that weed joke for the last game was absolutely hilarious! I had a good laugh, I was not expecting it
I always appreciate how open-minded you are toward other people's experiences with games while still sharing your own opinions on them, but aren't afraid to call a game garbage if it's more or less undeniably so.
What a kickass episode in the Sega Lord series.
The first game I bought for the Dreamcast was SW E1 Racer, and I absolutely loved the visuals, handling, and music! Years later, and I'm still playing this gem via emulation, and even now, I'm impressed.
I can't help but see how foggy how horrid the draw-in is, I think even more than N64 ={ Not received the Dreamcast touches
@@mistamontiel00 It was a port of the PC version of the game. It's an improvement in some areas on the N64 original and still plays surprisingly well. Think the problem was we all wanted Sega's arcade SW Pod Racing game but we got this conversion instead. I'd recommend it though
@@robsmall6466 Cheers
@@mistamontiel00 I'd also recommend SW Jedi Power Battles. Not saying it's the greatest game but it's a good example of a port from PS1 that's had a bit of work done to it
@@robsmall6466 Actually one of my last scores! That one is delicious! Also didn't know about Star Wars Demolition until Dreamcast, game spun-offa Vigilante 8 2
What kills me is there is no dialogue no victory+defeat voices, sucha crap oversight! (I know for V82 forgot if tried SW Demolition PS1 to confirm for it)
Re-Volt is still one of my favorite racing games of all time. Too bad Acclaim is no longer around. I'd love a modern sequel.
Might be an ea property so you never know
With the actual trend, we might expect some enhanced edition or remake.
I love the idea of it but I could never get used to the controls
I played Re-Volt on PC and I still do and I have the Dreamcast version of Re-Volt
@@PainterVierax Re-Volt GL is kind of a enhanced port of it
So many fun games mentioned here. South Park Rally is my favorite cart racing game, Demolition racer and Rush 2049 were stupid fun, and Trickstyle was a surprisingly great playthrough experience for me.
Thank you! I actually really enjoyed Trickstyle. I don't understand why it's looked down on so much.
I never played Trickstyle but I'm going to check it out. When I saw it in this video it looks really fun. I like that hoverboard effect. And yeah Demolition Racer is an awesome game. A lot more depth than the original Demolition Derby on PS1.
Yes! X, you've got the Genesis and Saturn pretty well covered, but there's a ton of interesting stuff on the Dreamcast you should give us a look at.
Agreed, MOAR Dreamcast !
I thought this video would make the Sega folks happy, but not many are watching it.
@@SegaLordX it's because it's racing games, not because it's Dreamcast.
when i had the Dreamcast that's when i got to play Star Wars Episode 1 Racer and i loved the hell out of it, i think where you went wrong was believing that it would've gotten a graphical overhaul being ported to a more powerful system, in reality that didnt really happen in the good old days all that often.
I never played the n64 version but i have fond memories of the game. I thought it looked great back in the day lol
@@maxpower10k yeah i didnt mind the graphics, i mean i imagine that they couldnt have made the graphics any better without sacrificing the frame rate anyway.
The stunt tracks in San Francisco Rush 2049, in multiplayer, with the largest wings, was endless amounts of fun for us. You didn't show the wings!
I miss my Dreamcast. It deserved, and was capable of so much more
DUDE! I Love your videos and I was a Day One 9/9/99 Dreamcast racing fan so THANK YOU for this trip down memory lane, and honestly SOME of the Best Oddball Racers. My #1 Favorite racing game for Dreamcast is Speed Devils! Where is the love? Great game that Nobody talks about
What I love about this channel is both the lack of ads and e-begging, but also the casual discussion of these forgotten games for what is otherwise forgotten consoles in today's modern life. It's amazing to see reviews for these types of games as if they just came out, an awesome time capsule that I love to keep coming back to with each new video!
That's such a good way to put it. I totally agree.
Wow those graphics on the Loony Tunes game have barley aged! You could tell me that was a fairly recent release and I’d nod and smile.
That the beauty of cel shading.
Just want to say Revolt on Dreamcast was one of my favourite games.
Man I loved PenPen when I was a kid, easily got the most playtime out of all my multiplayer games.
I bought Trickstyle with my Dreamcast shortly after launch. I adored that game. Going back to it now though… the years haven’t been kind to it!
I love Pen Pen Trilecelon. It’s not a great game, but it just screams “Dreamcast.” No one will ever mistake it for a cheap PlayStation port.
True enough.
One of my must have on the system
I vastly preferred Looney Tunes Space Race to any Mario Kart or Crash Bandicoot or PAC-Man Racing game available around that time. Absolutely underappreciated Dreamcast gem.
Looney Tunes Space Race and Wacky Races are awesome racing games, I especially loved trying to find all the shortcuts in Wacky Races. I spent countless hours with my friends playing these games.
Re-Volt still does feel amazing, what a great racer.
shame the N64 version had a horrendous framerate
I absolutely love Sno Cross on the Dreamcast, one of my favourite racers. It can be difficult to control at first but once you get the hang of it, there's a lot of fun to be had!
So glad to see Revolt on here. They released a phone version that sucked of course. Trying to 100% that game is rough.
Looney Tunes Space Race is definitely my favorite racer on the Sega Dreamcast.
The cel-shaded graphics were spot-on for a bouncy and cartoony kart-racer, and don't get me started on the amazing Dreamcast OST of the game cause it rocks!
These games (among many others) made the DC look like two N64s with two expansion packs taped together.
We had the Re-Volt demo installed on every PC in my school's computer lab, allowing us to have huge multiplayer sessions all the way back in the early 2000's.
2160p? New equipment? It's beautiful and the quality of the content here deserves nothing less. SLX deserves the best!!!
Trying some new things to see if I can get my video quality even higher.
I really liked Demolition Racer but the graphics on Dreamcast looked so dark and dirty that it was ridiculous, pretty much the opposite of the other racers I liked on the console.
I played the demo so much lol. I actually like the weird handling.
I'd also like to comment that Rush 2049 has an impressive amount of unlockables, tons of coins to collect in practice "exploration" modes, tons of Stunt tracks, and an impressive vs multiplayer mode, and it runs amazingly good if not better than the arcade release.
It's one of the "last good" Midway games to me from the generation that came from arcades, Cruis'n, MK, Hydro Thunder and so on.
Also, Wacky Racers is an amazing Diddy Kong Racing clone, the hubworld is pretty good.
Destruction Derby 2 on the PS1 is one of the absolute best demolition derby games ever made and it would've been awesome if they had ported that to the Dreamcast and updated it a little like they did Demolition Racer.
Did play it on win95. But last year I tried the PlayStation version and found it brutal difficult.
Don't know if it's the reason from inputlag of the emulator. I couldn't catch the opponent's on a race
Trickstyle is one of the best racing games on the Sega Dreamcast.
It's a shame, that we never saw sequels to Trickstyle and other games.
I still have a few demo discs, with some of the games you've showed.
Airblade on PS2 is basically a sequel to Trickstyle
When I got my dreamcast for Christmas the 2 games I got with it that day were Trickstyle and Sonic Adventure. I agree! The races were really good.
Huge recommendation for the movies Taxi and Taxi 2. Taxi 3 is just bad, while the next one shouldn't be named ever, but the first two movies are hilarious action comedies, probably my personal favourites in the genre.
I'm on the opposite side. The nostalgia didn't hit me as many other 90's French comedy movies. And retrospectively, Taxi is really the confirmation of Luc Besson's decades-old downhill (started with the hollywoodesque Fifth Element).
@@PainterVierax Nostalgia didn't really hit me that much either, I've wetched it in the cinema first. Then it ran on TV God knows how many times over here, I used to have the VHS, so I'm not as much nostalgic as I am a fan. Still, not a complete zealot to consider 3rd film any good (or completely brain dead to have any kind of positive sentiment towards the 4th installment).
@@youzernejm I noticed that you were critical about the franchise and I share this opinion as well. But honestly Besson's last artistically interesting work is Nikita and there were dozen of existing French comedy movies more subtly written than the first Taxi.
@@PainterVierax that's fine, I'm no movie critic, my last comment was just it's a personal favorite.
Toy racer was made in 4 months to promote online gaming, Sega asked No Cliché to produce the game as quick as possible, this is why it's simple, using the assets from Toy comander. It was sold for cheap at that time, around 10 euros, again, to promote the online. No cliché was working on Agartha at that time.
Keep up the amazing work on your videos dude. I always enjoy watching them.
Glad you like them!
This was a great summary of the wacky racing games on the Dreamcast. Even with its short life span, the Dreamcast had quite a host of games. Though, yeah, a number of games in its library were upscaled ports from the PS1 or N64. Some of these racers actually look pretty fun!
I don't know if Sega Lord X has done it already, but is there a chance of summarizing lesser known platformers on the Dreamcast? I'm not sure there were a lot of them but I remember random ones like Super Magnetic Neo, Kao the Kangaroo, and Floigan Bros. I am curious to see if any still hold up now.
Okay, can we talk about how good that Looney Tunes game fucking looks?
For a split second, when Foghorn Leghorn showed up, I thought it was 2D. It was brief before I realized it was a 3D model, but still way better looking than most games based off cartoons.
wow loony tunes is awesome. wish i knew about it when I still had my Dreamcast
Agreed. I've been telling my mates about loony tunes and Wacky races for years. Such fun games.
SW:Racer is my go to dreamcast game let alone racing,The two games that made me get a Dc was HotD 2 and SW:Racer
Great vid, didn't realise so many racing games on the Dreamcast, plus have bout 90% of them wow
This is why I will always consider the Dreamcast a 5th generation console. Great video as always.
Love the way you express yourself. You are one of the best in the business.
Nice to hear that revisiting PenPen TriIcelon with your daughter helped you to appreciate it more. It's an underrated game, in my opinion. I love how different each style of race segment feels, and that world designs are...interesting, to say the least. XD
Awesome video man, looking forward to try some of these games
Oh man, I put so much time into trickstyle. Even just goofing around in the hub area, trying out tricks. Way more forgiving than THPS, though obviously less intricate. Still, so much fun!
super intersting stuff! I love learning about new dreamcast games!
Trickstyle was one of my first 2 Dreamcast games in 1999. Fun game truly.
Alright a 30 min video about obscure racing games from Sega Lord X, you already know this is going to be good.
Thanks a ton for continuing to shout my Twitter handle at the end throughout all these years of videos. Great vid, I definitely want to try out robo chariots.
Happy to do it. :)
I really love videos like these. Since these days only the indie scene try to create different games...
Great video SLX. This is the video I've been waiting for without knowing, LOL. 😎👍
Glad you enjoyed it.
My top 3 favorite Oddball Racing Games on Dreamcast: 1- Looney Tunes Space Race. 2- Star Wars Episode 1 Racer. 3- San Francisco Rush 2049. And i did enjoy Demolition Racer: No Exit, despite its simple graphics (great music too). Come to think of it, Dreamcast had a lot of racing games and almost something for everyone. Thanks for making this vid!
“…to this day I can’t stand this in single player…” lmaooooooo
Man I have SO many of those experiences from Dreamcast. I have more positive experiences but I hear ya. Dreamcast was the first big ticket item I ever bought myself and I love your videos on it.
Great video! I really enjoy these looks at more obscure games. One correction I think I have is that Star Wars Episode I Racer only had 2 player splitscreen on the Dreamcast rather than the 4 suggested at 13:39.
No Spirit of Speed 1937, published by the GOAT LJN?
I considered it but wanted to cover these more.
Revolt was one of my favorite racers. Ever. The look. The feel. The tracks. It was NES RC Pro Am all grown up
Dreamcast games really had gorgeous visuals!!!, love that console to death
Please please, please I can not overstate how amazing rush 2049 is!! If you are with 3,or 4 players you can do a battle mode in specially made levels! This is the greatest multiplayer action in any game ever! I still play this with friends multiple times a year, now more than 20 years later! Much better than twisted metal, or vigilante because of its quick arcade action and quick kills and score system.
Great video. The Taxi movie is actually a good fun watch for an afternoon. Zusar Vasar, thank god someone else actually has this game, I loved it.
Awesome work!
Awesome video. The DC is my 2nd fav console of all time, but I haven't heard of many of these titles. Unique video. Love racers like MK 64 and F-Zero.
Fun fact about Re-Volt. It came out on the original Xbox… sort of. It was online-only, and part of the pre-release Xbox Live beta test in 2002. It was well done, and I kept playing it with other beta testers until the servers eventually were taken down. I don’t know why it never had a proper release, I would have bought it in a heartbeat!
Great work segalordx
Oh man just started this video, I'm praying to our Lord Speed Devils is in this video.
SO underrated this one Mel.
I bought pen pen when I imported my launch day dreamcast from Japan along with Virtua fighter 3tb, sonic adventure and godzilla. To this day, I think its one of the most fun multilayer games.
Great video! I really love that Whacky Racers game. I've found it difficult to unlock track's though...
I always wanted that WaveRunner port on the Saturn or the Dreamcast....
Criterion did continue with Trickstyle games but they named it Airblade.
Such an awesome video. Great idea. Not sure if there are many Saturn oddball racers....
hydro thunder, havent seen that in forever. i remember the cab at funtime had insane bass in the headrest. like u were sitting on a big block chevy, it was great.
Excellent video 👍👍👍 love the Dreamcast ❤
I loved playing my buddies in Pen Pen when my friend imported a dreamcast from Japan a year before the US version came out. I was damn near unbeatable it was so fun practicing the perfect timing on your buttons presses.
amazing video!!
Space Race was a hidden gem, in terms of non-Nintendo kart racers out and about at the time, fit the bill nicely on the DC.
The race was tight to know which racer to throw on my DREAMCAST MINI outside Crazy Taxi. 3rd Party develloppers were no good in showcasing the Sega brand in a genre they previously mastered with such arcade sensations as Super Monaco GP, Hang On or Out-Run. It was therefore granted that Yu Suzuki would secure that conveited one spot in the 20 games of the Mini. In all honesty, Ferrari F355 Challenge deserved to be crowned, over Sega's Gran Turismo and Sega Rally. Ferrari F355 Passionne Rosso keeps its promesses. This jewel was crafted with passion. It looks superb and gives you this great arcade feel all Sega fans are craving for, and don't get in the popular muddy Rally simulation. There's magic in this gorgeous Ferrari game, as there was magic in Shenmue. Yu Suzuki is simply the greatest engeneer in the industry. Nevermind the Ferrari licence THIS is the one racer for the Dreamcast Mini.
Another top video mate
demolition racer was my fav in this segment with a killer soundtrack! :)
Looking forward to emulators allowing a CPU overclock to smooth out games with jerky frame rates.. It's weird that no DC emu has done that yet.. even old computers handle Dreamcast emu with ease.. so a doubling of cpu speed to 400mhz would not be a problem for any 8th gen processor and up.
Playing almost flawless on a Raspberry Pi 4 with max overclock. I'm using the REDREAM emulator.
Dreamcast still rocks
@@greyfox020 You missed the point of my post. And there's no way the PI could emulate the dreamcast at 400mhz instead of 200. By emulators adding an overclock option, games that struggle with real hardware with choppy framerates, sega rally etc, will be smooth in the emulator.
IIRC, one of the emulators (Demul?) does either have an overclock feature, or it passively makes Sega Rally 2, etc., run at 60fps with no config required. But the emulator has other issues, so there's not really a definitive one as of yet.
@@3dmarth Hi, have only used redream and Flycast, will check into demul ASAP. Thank you.
I'll never forget Bambi Mask's lines - BAMBURIM BAMBURIM BADABOMBA
A Dreamcast version for Woody Woodpecker Racing was originally scheduled to release on April 3, 2001 but was cancelled at the last minute.
What I liked about Looney Tunes Space Race was Wile Coyote holding up signs like "OUCH!" after he fell a great height and got put back on the track.
This was great. Some games I want to try here.
Great video good info! 🤘🎮🍻
Dreamcast Rush 2049 was great. My dad , brother and I used to play the battle mode for hours. There was even a port years later to GameCube that we were able to relive those times
I think I never finished a lap in San Francisco Rush, but, my god I played those jump challenges with my friends for months in a row, always in three's or four's, that never happen again with any other game. That game is really really fun, it's a party game.
Love the content man 👍🏾👍🏾
Good to hear. Thank you.
23:06 videogame music really peaked in the late 90s whew 🥵
I didn’t even know pods sequel came out on it? The original was shipped (I’m English so I wouldn’t know about the US )with every graphics card on the pc going over here so it’s probably classed as a ‘big seller’. It was sort of released(sorry if you know all this), right on the cusp of internal to 3d cards. I mean that stage when you could select ugly old graphics or your fancy pants new toy graphics card ones ! I love your videos. Keep ‘em coming!
You put out so much content. Unbelievable. One man army.
I try and keep the channel super active for you guys. Something to take your mind off the real world.
@@SegaLordX thank you 🙏🙏😃
The thing about toy racer is it was an online game. I think it was the only online racing game in Europe. I had a good time playing it the weekend it came out and it only cost a fiver. There were a lot of people playing so it was easy to find opponents in the servers.
I spent a ton of time with San Francisco 2049. Everybody I played with loved it as well, and I think it might have been the first disc I ever "wore out" and ended up replacing it a couple of years later.
My first Dreamcast game was Loony Tunes Space Race. Not by choice, but it’s a fun multiplayer game and looks great.
I love it so much when you make Dreamcast videos. South park racing is my favorite but the PC version is just so much better. Still, really fun. Was literally playing it the other night.
Nice collection! I'll have to try some of those. I have to agree on Re/Volt. It's a classic to me. The track creator was pretty fun too, although very limited.
Looking forward to watching this. Love it when you do Dreamcast stuff. Please tell me you suffered through Spirit of Speed...🤣
That's crazy dude, I played a lot of dreamcast and I don't think I played any of these