Which SNES Top Gear Games Are Worth Playing Today? - SNESdrunk
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- Опубликовано: 17 окт 2024
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Curious what everyone thinks the toughest race is in the first Top Gear game? I have the most trouble with Rio (Brazil) and London (UK)
Haha, fuel management is crucial for Rio, but I remember having problems in the Japan season. xD
You got Tokyo, Bordeoux, Machu Picchu, London, Rio and...Yeah i guess the ENTIRE Italy circuit. And yes, here on Brazil, Top Gear is a all-time classic(TG3000 was my first game though)
I forgot about Machu Picchu, only 3 laps but those turns are god damn ridiculous, you can't even use turbos
Very happy to see you mention Brazil, this game is a fucking religion for us! Also check the homage/spiritual sucessor Horizon Chase! They even got the ORIGINAL composer on it!
Well, for me and my friends the white car was the best because was the one which we could finish Rio w/o pit stop. If a remember correctly, your fuel ran off right next the finish line, so you just had to align the car to be hit in the back and voilá 1st place w/o gas.
I wrote it in another video, but I will say it here to : some Brazilians made a spiritual successor called Horizon Chase TURBO, and the soundtrack is from the same composer and even contains all tracks from top gear, and is on every major platform. Try it out!
oh crap right is from brazil, damn dude that game is good
In 2015 Aquiris Studio launch Horizon Chase: World Tour for Android and iOS an later 2018 I think, they release Horizon Chase Turbo for major consoles and PC.
It's an amazing game with references to Initial D, Herby the Beetle, Outrun, Transformers, The Fast and The Furious and a lot more!
In addition, it has a DLC called Senna Forever, which puts the player on formula 1 tracks, much like the Sega Genesis / Mega Drive's Super Monaco GP.
@@csandrade87 they even refers to the Carro da Firma hahahaha
@@llpBR e ainda é um dos melhores carros do jogo!
They are actually coming out with a collection of all three of the SNES Top Gear games PLUS Top Gear 1 combined with the aformentioned Horizon Chase, however its called the Top Racer Collection for what I believe is copyright reasons since the Top Gear trademark is owned by the BBC.
Greetings from Brazil! We sure LOVE this game, oh! yeah! Soooooooo much. Tons of hours battling with friends, arguing which car is best and racing to prove that.
Dhin Cardoso The white one is the best huehuehue
:D
White car is always the best! O carro branco sempre foi o melhor 😂
Purple car
Top Gear 2 will always be my favourite. Played a ton of splitscreen with a friend. That soundtrack is amazing. Still find myself humming Ayer's Rock every now and then.
I love those old racing games with upgrade systems like that. One of the reasons why the R.C. Pro Am games were so fun back on the NES.
Same rank as mine: 1, 3, 2.
I'm from Brazil and that's true, Top Gear was a very strong franchise here, specially the first one. Top Gear 3000 was so damn hard to rent, your only chance was being luck to find it wednesday and keep it through the weekend. Also was very hard to find a perfectly working copy, they had a tendency to not work at first try.
Omg really? Same story here in Canada. Every time I saw a store that let me rent Top Gear 3000, as soon as I returned it, someone would declare it 'lost' next week.
I ended up buying the darn game like 8 years later off ebay. The guy shipped it and gave me a tracking number, but UPS took 2 years to deliver it. And when they finally did they charged me $50 duty. wtf.
Anyway I like tg3000 more just cuz the upgrade system. It is so rewarding on hard IMO. I like the refueling more too.
One thing I dont get though. If the series is still popular, why arent there any indie games made like them?
@@Ghalion666 actually there is a top gear copy for android and switch, Horizon Chase is the game u r looking for. Bought it on android and the game is really good.
@@Ghalion666 I feel like i'm lucky to own a copy of top gear 3000.
@@DunnOxP i tried horizon chase and while the look and music is spot on the actual racing mechanics weren't what I wanted. Top gear had tracks that had turns sharp enough that you had to ease on the gas to "make" them, maybe even brake if you were behind on tire upgrades. All of horizon's challenge was purely in dodging the AI cars that proves no challenge whatsoever as racers but rather bumpercars.
@@Ghalion666 once u start to upgrade ur car, u cant turn at max speed, specially if u r using the fastest car. I bought It on Switch and I completed the game there, now I play for the track record rank, even the first map, there is a curve that I cant turn at max speed.
The first track theme in Top Gear 1. Oh man...
Check out Horizon Chase Turbo. The song is on there too.
2:53 Yep, I'm from Brazil and we loved the Top Gear games, specially the first one. I think, for the time, there wasn't too many options for a fast pacing 2 players racing game. Out Run was fun, but single player only. Also, the vibe was very different from Super Mario Kart.
And the soundtrack, oh man, the soundtrack. There was an online radio in my time in college back in 2004 and sometimes they played some game soundtracks. When Top Gear first track music played, everybody was like "damn, Top Gear rocks!".
edit: I had the Top Gear 3000. Would you believe there is a black hole at the end of the game?
The Top Gear 1 cartridge was only 4 Mb, which was somewhat of a rarity as most SNES games were 8 Mb (I believe the first 16 Mb game was Street Fighter II); perhaps that explains the decision to use split screen in order to save some memory. The music was fantastic, though.
I longed for the moment the video would say that if you ran out of fuel, you could still have a chance of reaching the goal in 1st place if another car crashed with you from behind (oh, how many races were won that way! ^_^).
i've said it before and i'll say it again. you're a great writer with a very unique cadence that blends in perfectly with all your game footage. accolades are in order for developing your craft so well. Bravo good sir! I say!
Thanks
SNES drunk sounds like Stephen Malkmus, I keep expecting him to speak-sing the lyrics from "Range Life"
This game is so well loved here in Brazil that a brazilian development team made a spiritual sequel called Horizon Chase that has the same gameplay, but in 3D. They even hired the composer of the first game.
Brasil loves it! Every SNES owner have one copy! Every weekend have a attempt to finish Top Gear in 2 players!
My first snes game.
I must say that
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You must be missing some of the benefits stereo can provide!
Heeheeeh, that title screen music from TG2 really slaps
My wife is from Brazil and this was the 2nd game she wanted me to track down once we decided to build a classic snes collection. You're very accurate with how much the Hue's like this game.
This was the first game I ever played. I was 3yrs old. My mother wanted me to learn how to read with this game. 20 years later, I am a racing driver with a burning love for cars.
This game literally changed my life.
Loved your vids from day one man,
Glad to see you here! Top Gear SNES was the first ever game I played :)
I'm from Chile and yeah, Top Gear was very popular at the time in my city. I owned 2 and 3000
colombian here. top gear was big way back when. it still is big today. on the retro market there always someone looking for a top gear copy. ( topgear 2 been my favorite). thanks for your videos. i always look forward to them.
Top Racer Collection is set to release in March 2024 on PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and PC via Steam. Top Racer is what this series is called in Japan, and this is what the series is now called as the Top Gear name is trademarked by the unrelated TV show of the same name.
I would also vouch for Top Gear 2 on Genesis. Man... I've played it so much when I was young.
Top Gear is so popular here in Brazil I remember hearing the soundtrack on the radio (dance mix show - manaus)
Cheers from Chile dude. Love your videos.
Cheers
Good review. Man, I have fond memories of Top Gear 2. With my big brother we rented the cartridge to clear the game in 2 player mode. Good to know that you're well informed with the gamer community in South America. Greetings from Argentina!
For the Top Gear (and all the racers that resembles Outrun) lovers, try Horizon Chase for iOS and Android. That game is awesome, and it has remixed music from Top Gear ;)
Greetings from Argentina. Great memories from my snes! Top Gear and Rock and Roll Racing are the best racing games in the console.
Cheers
Pensé que todos en Argentina teníamos un Sega
Excellent. I was a massive fan of the Turbo Lotus Esprit game on Amiga. The music on the radio, all 4 tracks were class. I've just bought the first in the TG series and Chrono Trigger because of your videos! Keep up the great work.
What a great channel you have here, I stop by whenever I can, even if the video features a game I never played. That is not the case with Top Gear! Thanks for your videos!
I never played these and I am starting to realize I missed out. Lately I have been playing a lot of Horizon Chase Turbo on Switch and I'm told this series is that game's primary inspiration.
In regards of the first Top Gear game, it is very popular in my home country of Peru since it appears on the game itself. They even had a tournament some time ago and it’s a great game for everyone! Great video as well
Really glad you went back to this. This time around the video was a bit more fair. Also just makes me want to listen to all of their soundtracks again.
Hope you cover the Top Racer Collection, SNES Drunk! It'll be cool to have a quick summary of these games again. :D
I loved top gear 2, mostly because I played it with a friend, I can't really be sure but if one of us was on first place the AI of the other cars became harder to try to catch up with that player, so the other player really had to run quite well to advance. Two player mode also made nitro system quite important since it was the edge over your rival and one mistake could cost you the race. It was an amazing game I will always remember
Great vid. I feel much nostalgia for this series.
Finally after 2 years of looking I found top gear 3000 or The Planet’s Champ as it’s called here in Japan! I now have all three games (cart only, never ever seen a boxed copy anywhere of any of these three games). Really love this series.
"You may be missing some of the benefits that stereo can provide". Great soundtrack. I upgraded my home hifi system back in the day just for Top Gear 1 and 2.
Totally agree with how awesome the soundtrack was... part 1 played super fast and drove smoothly. The challenge was in the fuel management and not recovering from crashes due to hard controls. Very player friendly racer. I rented it several times back in the day.
Fond memories of playing Top Gear back in the day. Most fun playing a racing game I ever had. Didn’t realize it was so popular in Brazil! I’m from California but my parents were Brazilian.
Very interesting. 🤔
Awesome video, man!
Greetings from Brazil!
Perfect video. And I am so glad you said addictive haha. Just bought the first game and can’t wait to take it for a spin. The second game looks like it has a bit of personality with the speech bubbles and other subtle things. They really took that to the next level with the 3rd game that’s for sure haha. Keep up the good work :)
This game was my childhood. Not a lot of retro gaming reviewers touch on this classic. Glad other people feel the same way i feel about this game. I even have the tracks downloaded. Music is so good.
I said this on one of your other videos today, but man you are so right about the music. I have always loved the first one just for the sound track alone (I listen to it for fun to this day). I played the third one too, and as a kid I enjoyed its system and weird story (even though I thought the cars looked hideous). The first one is on one of my top ten most memorable and, awesomely enough, well aged (mostly) soundtracks ever. Your thoughts about SNES, NES, SEGA Mega Drive/Genesis, and all the rest are so like mine. I'm just devouring your channel. Your observations are always great and your videos bring me back to my childhood in a way my adult brain can enjoy too. Thanks for the great content and I hope you have a great rest of your day as well.
"The frogurt is also cursed" -nice reference :).
Been following your channel for a little bit, but saw you comment on a Cocteau Twins song and am now even further sold on your channel. :)
Top Gear is a classic. I haven't played it in probably 15 years, but absolutely loved it growing up
Nice, downloading these to the mini
Top Gear soundtrack is so good Muse took the intro for their song “Bliss”
Could've also been Lotus 2.
ruclips.net/video/4DWcXV1tm4s/видео.html
Ryuma King my goodness, you are right! Muse must really love racing games... 😂
I'm pretty sure Muse's Butterflies and Hurricanes was in some racing game on the ps2.
Lotus and Top Gear had a name behind their awesome music, Barry Leitch. Now there is a "future Top Gear" and he made a lot more songs for it. Search Horizon Chase World Tour and I thin it's an awesome game to play with the new generation of racing games
Top Gear sound track still is freaking amazing!
your videos are relaxing for some reason. They have a nice aesthetic.
Yeah, I'm from Brazil and this game was (still is) widly popular around here. It was like, everyone snes owner awalys had Mario World, Sreet Fighter II and Top Gear, insane lol . Badass game and soundtrack
Top Gear is very popular here in Brazil, indeed! Specially the 1st one! I've spent countless hours playing it with my sister back in the 90's.
0:19 Makes sense. Top gear's visuals always reminded me a lot of Lotus - The Ultimate Challenge for DOS, which is a port of Lotus III for the Amiga.
Both top gear 1 and 2 are very enjoyable, these games are worth playing more than the modern ones from today, awesome review!!
I dislike top gear 2 its harder. 1 and 3000 are better
I absolutely love all 3 of the games & the music blew me away when I was younger
Yessss~
First game has such a memorable soundtrack to me.
I love it.
You play Rock n' Roll Racing?
I forget if you covered that or not.
As a Chilean I agree top gear had quite the following back home
For some weird reason this game is FUCKING HUGE in Brazil, like is up there with Super Mario World and Sonic The Hedgehog
I remember the first one was very popular in my town... Until Mario Kart 64 arrived. I still played it often with my friends. That soundtrack is just timeless. But I didn't know there were two sequels. That's great!
Cheers from Nicaragua, SNES Drunk. Keep up the good work.
Cheers
Just saw your channel yesterday and I'm loving it! Keep up the great work!
Thanks for watching Ronaldo
@@SNESdrunk I meant loving it! Damn smartphone lol... Thanks for taking the time to answer the comment!
The cars in the first Top Gear just look so much better than any that followed.
I'd rank them in this order:
2-1-3
Sure, the OST and strategy is great in Top Gear 1, but the tracks are kinda boring/short, it's also a very easy game enev in the hardest difficulty, the split screen is reeeeeally annoying, and because of it, the fps suffer, it runs much choppier than 2 and 3.
Top Gear 2 might not have every single bgm as good as the first ( Ayer's Rock is a master piece though! heheh), but it fixes a lot of stuff, the split screen is gone and the fps are much higher, it just runs smother, the resolution seems higher too, also, there are crash animations that varies with the strength of the impact. The climate change is also really good, the game shows you a description of the next track before letting you upgrade your car, so if the weater is rainy, you might want to upgrade your tires, and so on. Sure, you have 6 nitros, but in the beggining, even if you use all 6 at once, the cpu sometimes goes crazy on you, specially on the first race, and the first place is impossible to get, only when you start upgrading your car is that the game get's easier. Don't use all 6 nitros at once, and you got yourself with a pretty balanced game in terms of difficulty.
Top Gear 3000 is cool, but it lacks the OST epicness of the other two. The graphics are a little better, and it runs even smoother that 2, you have a LOT more of upgrade options for you car, some of wich are basically cheat devices and weapons. That makes it sillier in my opinion. It's the hardest of the three in terms of difficulty as you gotta manage fuel, damage AND plan your car upgrades carefully. I can't enjoy it as much as the other two though, it doesn't feel (and sound) as "race-y" as the other two.
TG2 for me (one of 21 titles I hack added to my mini). While TG1 does arguably a stronger core game experience (speed, music, fuel), I simply played it into the ground as a kid renting it with friends.
TG1's split screen simply ages it out for me. TG2's course variety + nice weather effects in full screen make it the keeper for me.
Then again, my fav of this genre is probably still the first Rad Racer... no racing game makes missing a checkpoint by virtually a hair more addicting to conquer.
Love the original Top Gear! So many great memories playing that game growing up...
Top Gear 1 music is so good that I have a flash drive in my car with the songs it. I make game noises when it plays (nitrous, tire screech)
my friend got this first for his snes. I was so jealous. the soundtrack blew my mind. snesdrunk you mention the limitations I think it was the same with super Mario kart when they put the map rotation at the bottom screen
I love the first Top Gear spent hours playing this game as a kid.
the first top gear was my childhood game. Best of the series
Great review...Top Gear is one of my all-time favorite games, and I've had so many good memories staying up late with a friend or my brother and just marathoning this game. The soundtrack is one of my favorites, if not it's my favorite. In Top Gear 2, I remember being lazy as a kid and messing around in the menus and getting the game to skip me to the end of the game by just giving me the password. Not sure if it was a glitch/exploit in the menus or intentional.
Have you played Horizon Chase Turbo? It’s like they took TG2 and made it (technically almost) perfect. Also, the devs are very supportive and keep updating the game. It really needs more recognition.
i love this game my personal favorite snes game of all time not kidding such an underrated game
It isn't underrated
I felt you hadn't done Top Gear 2 justice in your first video (which I just watched), but you did a much better job now! You went over a bunch of details about Top Gear 2 and 3000 that you had left out in the first video, so this one turned out much more informative!
I completely understand why you like the 1st game the best, and I agree with you in several aspects, but I like Top Gear 2 the best, yeah it doesn't feel as fast as Top Gear 1, but it has a much longer draw-distance, perhaps the longest of any 16 bit racing game, which I find to be really impressive, and I like the upgrade system it introduced, which makes it feel like you're working towards something with your car!
I haven't played much of Top Gear 3000 but this video convinced me to give it another shot!
Hack from the first Top Gear game. On the final lap when you're about to cross the finish line, try driving really close from side poles (with me it works better on the left), as you're close enough, steer the car to hit the pole a bit on an angle. if you succeed the car will bounce backwards then drive forwards again, which will grant you the points for whatever position you're on, and the next one combined.
As a chilean i can confirm that Top Gear it's pretty popular in our retrogaming community
Thanks, so great when I get the odd chance of using one of your videos as research and not just enjoyment.
I LOVE the Top Gear trilogy.
My favorite is the original as well. White car for life!
The first top gear looks best imo, even though it's splitscreen it feels like you can see more of what's ahead. I thought this would include the n64 games (top gear rally was great!) but oh well
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I don't remember top gear being split screen,
Oh, yeah, that's right,
I do.
I guess all ya gotta do is go to the store and buy a tv that's twice as big,
And then just cover up the bottom half of the screen with PAINT.
This and your other videos have been super helpful in curating a selection for a modded SNES classic. As someone who managed to miss the entire 16-bit generation, thank you!
Thanks for taking the time to watch
I love Top Gear. From Brazil here, very important information.
I was lucky enough to find the first one for a dollar at a thrift store. Great title
I hope you also have a good rest of your day as well
the toppings contain potassium benzoate
*silence* "That's bad."
"Can I go now?"
"Whoa there's your problem. The doll is set to 'evil' instead of 'good.'"
whosaidthat84 you stole my bit.
Awesome Simpsons reference. Glad to see others got it!
Love the music in the first one!
One of the coolest moments of my indie video game career, I reviewed this and remarked how much the intro sounded like Bliss from MUSE and how the music in general was amazing as it’s the tracks from an AMIGA favourite Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge. The kid of the guy who did the sound saw my review and informed me it sounds like Bliss as MUSE contacted his father to ask if they could use his music to develop a track around it. Less cool was I then used Bliss as an outro to my reviews and on Christmas Eve Warner Music pulled down every single one of my videos.
You rock! I remember when Video Games Live went to South America and they had to include one song from the first Top Gear, they said that the song is only played in South America because nobody cares about TG in North America.
After saying Argentina I suddenly understand why one of my Argentina friends is so obsessed with cars. We actually run around with vehicles in Second LIfe of all places.
Check out Chase HQ II on Genesis. It reminded me of this, except instead of racing your goal is to chase/find and destroy (by bashing with your car) the car of a fugitive. It's a little too short and probably not as polished a driving game as this, but I got it over the summer and had a ton of fun with it. While short, it is fun and it makes it an easy pick up, play and complete in 30min or so which is nice for just a quick retro gaming fix.
How nostalgic here in the Philippines the soundtracks are much as iconic with super Mario world if you play top gear soundtracks here it would get adult attention
Here in Brazil que love the top gears series, like u said! Thanks to mention us!
Top gear 1, best top gear. Still have my copy from the 90s. ^^
The split screen really didn't bother me. I liked it.
Man I miss top gear 3000
I rented the N64 versions back in the day and they were nothing like the SNES classics
I'm Argentine myself, I dunno how you knew the South America fun fact, but yeah, the 8 bit and 16 bit consoles had a very long life span here, and still a lot of people enjoy them a lot. Brazil still manufactures a lot of stuff from that time.
I still need to dig into this series and certainty want to, it's on my Snes classic lol...
But Snesdrunk what do you think about Super Hang-On? Ever played?
The camera angle looks like trouble in the 3rd game, isn't it hard to see what's coming up?
It's quite good when you start the game. It gets weird when you get faster and you'll be insanely fast in this game.
This makes me think of 80's Overdrive on the Nintendo 3DS Network.
Wonderful game, and now I have to download these to go with it.
Me and a friend played Top Gear 3000 listening to an old disco tape. Good memories. Every time the band Tower of Power came on singing "You should be having fun" my friend would start wrecking, and cursing. One of the cool things about Top Gear 3000 that SNES Drunk didn't mention was it has a hidden bonuses. It was so cool blowing your friend away and then a whole bunch of secret bonuses popping up at the end of the match. I loved the ambient space age music kinda reminded me of F-Zero and Utopia both games I also really liked. It was so cool upgrading your vehicle. The only thing that sucked was when your car broke down you'd be stuck driving like 50 mph until you found a repair zone. Not fun! Overall though its an excellent game to play with a friend even being as old as it is.
This soundtrack is epic. It's been in my regular music rotation for quite a while now. Up there with Ninja Warriors!
What do you think of the ill fated mega cd game ~ Jaguar XJ220? ~ this was my 'top gear' game of my youth....similar strategies and graphics and gameplay (bar the boost) and no split screen unless 2 player
Edit:~ anyone can answer this if they choose. Many thanks ~ and i really enjoy your channel even tho im a Sega~Drunk lol.
Order Of Magnitude - The Paranormal & Personal so your the one kid that had a jaguar
I never knew they did a XJ220 game. Looking at it the Amiga version really looked like a Lotus clone. The Sega version looks a lot different.
@@whatsreallygoingon253 i did...... i was very fortunate - had all the segas, plus a few more.... today i have none!! - had to sell the lot. Funny how times change.
2:58 Me, a Brazilian, felt nostalgic this day and went looking for a review on this game.
I remember borrowing Top Gear 2 from someone in Middle School and I deleted his save file because he pissed me off, needless to say he wasn't too happy about it. Good times!
This serie is really popular in Brazil.
My favorite is still the Top Gear 3000.
Hey Snesdrunk!!! In Colombia Top Gear was so popular too.