LGR - Midtown Madness - PC Game Review
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- Welcome to Microsoft Midtown Madness! See all the sights of the beautiful city of Chicago, or just go airborne over drawbridges and crash into rush hour traffic in a city bus.
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Thanks Sir LGR! :)
How can I run part 1 on Win 7 ?
Do Driver 1999.
Hello sir how are you
Hello, LGR, Can I ask you a question? I'm working on a project related to Midtown Madness series and I was wondering if you could help me. I 'm asking people who are fans of the game.
I was the lead designer on Midtown. Fun to look at it again :)
Thanks for stopping by, it's an honor :) I still go back to play it rather often, it's really something special to me.
+Fred Markus Thanks for the game, i had a lot of fun playing it as a kid!
+Fred Markus wow amazed to see the lead designer comment in here.
+Fred Markus Thanks for making one of the games that defined my childhood!
Thanks for creating this gem.
I played this for hours and hours, just exploring. Trying to find every building that you could get into.
same bro it was simple and futuristic at the same time back in the time
exactly
Yeah I did that too. There was a jump at one of the drawbridges that if you did it right, you went through a building and landed in a tunnel
Yeah ! First I had MM demo, and I knew every pixel of that few sqaure meters of demo, than my friend told me, he has MM2 and since than I knew London and SF better than locals :D
same here
Swimming with the fishes ;). people who played this will know
I thought it was sleep with the fishes
O ye
Gingerbreadhoez sleep with the fishes 😂😂😂
匚яαzγ 廾ατεя 七廾 where did you get it?
More tea, vicar? (Yes, I know that's from the second one)
Who else was driving the bus around acting like a bus driver
No way you did that
I was stopping on specific locations too like a custom bus stop. Made the loop many times. Thanks for bringing this up. If I'd get bored. I'd take the mustang and play Taxi.
yeah yeah I was one of them
@@NikhilBlr facts bro 😂😂 good times, good times
Who used to put the snow in there so you would "drift" or at least lose a bit of grip.... Oh yeah and i used the mouse to steer... Shit was epic
i played this game for years... no wait... i played the demo for years...
awww dam that happened to me with MM2 😞
Same thing happened to me with the demos of the first Motocross Madness and Monster Truck Madness 2 from the Windows 98 SE CD.
Windows OS ah yes... Playing the motocross madness and monster trick madness demos while listening to the debut album of gorrilaz... Those were the days
Duuuude me too. Wasn't motocross madness demo the one with a HUGE cliff wall that you had to ride and jump off??
***** yeah and when you somehow made it up the huge level wall cliff the game would litterally catapult you off of it again
Childhood memories...
Midtown Madness was (and still is) the bomb.
Thanks for the review.
I have all three of them. This series i feel needs a reboot. Or at least an HD remake.
It was my favourite game growing up, I played a demo of it when I was a kid and my parents eventually got me the full version on christmas, it felt almost magical opening the box. The music too, was really great.
CraptasticJack Really you're right, while Microsoft don`t think to do the same they did to Zoo Tycoon.
BroilerTM yup :)
For real man , it will always be in my heart
Who tried to run over a pedestrian and never succeeded 😂
me
king kong me
🙋🏾♀️🙋🏾♀️😭
I do it all the time in gta 5. I pretend there the people that fucked me over
Now you can in midnight club 1 XD
My brother realized early on that because cars in this game were so delicate, he could just use a city bus for the checkpoint races, take some shortcuts and position the bus across the course in just the right way so that the other drivers would just crash right into his bus at high speed. Once all of the computer drivers had wrecked their cars to the point of not working anymore, he would then finish the race at his own pace in the bus. Also, because the number of points you got depended on how fast your car was in comparison to the others, he got maximum points for doing this.
I did same😂
This game was my life when I was younger I literally played the shit out of it I would pretend to be a bus driver or cop sometimes following traffic rules or else jumping draw bridges like a nut. Nothing felt better then unlocking that GTR1.
"Sleeping with the fishes"
I remember playing this on my dad's Win98 PC in like 2003.
Topias Salakka Joel?
Marcuss Tonito wut
it was a joke dude, calm down
Marcuss Tonito I'm calm. xD; You can't know It was a joke If It was on text.
it was a great racing game same as need for speed 1 at this era
First game I've ever played. The memories....
My first too :D
my first tooooo, still have it on my compaq :)
+Maarten Smits my first too, i got an xbox just to play part 3.
same applies to me
Same here.
My time as a kid with this game lasted for hours upon hours. My dad back then was incredibly strict, and the only way I was allowed to play was in the Cruise mode, obeying traffic laws and such, not being allowed to do the races figuring I'd grow up to be a reckless maniac. I felt so cheeky when he wasn't around and I could play however I wanted.
This is amazing.
I know, what a cool story, eh?
@@Dinoracha Are you from Canada? Asking because of the "eh".😂
The game looks really good, honestly. We have the fake 8 bit sprite based games, why isn't there a genre for 3D games that look straight out of the late '90s/early 2000s?
I don't think we've quite passed that threshold for those games to be super nostalgic yet. Give it another 5 years or so :)
Lazy Game Reviews
Well, I know _I'm_ not going to wait, I'm going to get on the bandwagon early.
I've actually seen some games like that. Devil Daggers comes to mind. I think what needs to happen is for the people who grew up with those kind of games (like me) to get into game development. I'd actually love to make a game with a low polygon models aesthetic.
Or look up BallisticNG.
There isn't a specific genre basked on this but you could call these Y2K era games or fifth generation console-era games.
There are people who make mods for games like these (including Midtown Madness) in the style of the game they are made for, rather than just a model conversion from a newer game.
That mannual Transmission with dashboard cam was gem!💎
I remember playing this when I was like five and six and seven and being in awe at how cool the crashes were. Especially because I live in Chicago and my dad worked for 93.1 xrt the radio station, and knew Marty lenertz (the narrator) I got to meet him numerous times and remember talking about the game with him. I lost it when I was seven and I was heartbroken, and it gradually went into the back of my mind. Nine years later, I saw it on Wikipedia and it all came back. I bought another copy and was hooked all over again. Unfortunately I was too young to appreciate the multiplayer when it was still up and running, and now I think im gonna go and add some mods to it. It's great to hear that the game had such a following and still kind of does. One of the defining racing games leading into the new millennium. Btw I live your references and understanding of Chicago. I lived there for most of my life (in the suburbs now) and was able to relate to everything you said. The Da bears and the cubs works series joke had me laughing really hard
Man that is nostalgic... I grew up playing this game along with Beetle Crazy Cup were the first 2 racing games I played on my PC and both are blast to play
Zeeshan Rafique beetle crazy cup... you just reminded me of playing that!
Yes that game is amazing! I remember competing "Jump" race with my siblings
reminds me good memories
omg you are so meee
M. IJLAL high five
once again, thanks for reviewing these games. so much nostalgia! :D
lol I love the Cubs world series joke, but now they won XD
Is it referenced from Back to the future
This game was like GTA, just focused 100% on driving! Such a fun game!
Cause it was developed by rockstar san diego
Hmm yea didnt even realize Rockstar San Diego developed this :D Someone commented that but the comment is now gone. Checked it and its true!
Another one similar to this (same developers) is the midnight club series. It's like GTA but 100% on driving.
@@Ex0rz actually angel studios was bought by take-two in 2002. so it wasn't rockstar who developed this game.
@@Abel-Alvarez yea it was a collab between angel studios and rockstar before rockstar bought acquired the former
This was my first PC game, and my favorite car was the Cadillac Eldorado.
Me too!, back in 2004 beside Jazz Jackrabbit 2
The graphics were way to advanced for it's time. Got to play it first around 2003 and it still blew me away
This game started a lifelong love affair with Chicago. Took the train there in 2006 to go to Lollapalooza and it was amazing to finally visit some of the places I had crashed a city bus into
The open world premise blew me away. I cruised around for hours exploring the city. I loved how you can change the weather and time as well.
Like, the only 3D game that worked on my computer at the time!
Freako same
O shit Freako!!!
Same Here Freako
@@w.w.7469 shut up, fatass!
This was the first open-world 3D car game I ever played. A friend of mine had it, and when he showed it to me, I went crazy about it, and played it all night at his house. I feel kinda bad about taking over his computer for hours now... but the game was so cool at the time, I couldn't help it!
I did exactly the same, and I'd ask to stay overnight at his place just to play this. He had a 32MB Diamond Stealth S3 card that could play it wonderfully and it just blew my mind.
The old days when I use to play this game for hours and use to laugh on the captions when the game is over like in the end of the video LGR can you put this and midtown madness 2 on your lgr store ?
Chicago people had the ability to super dive or stick to walls ,to avoid collision.
Same goes with San Francisco...
holy crap, this game was like, half of my childhood. totally forgot about it until I saw this video in my feed.
Shane McZane Sometimes... i wish i cud go back playing this game..... It was a quarter ofy childhood and in today's world of the ps4 and high quality gaming, such beautiful classic are no more appreciated. The nostalgia's killin' me. I wish i cud take a break from the games i play now and play MM but i lost the CD and all the data in my 10 yr old laptop sitting in my cupboard's bottom drawer.
You could just download it off the internet.
Centurion Ya but wat safe way is there for Windows 10?
No
Windows 7 still can run it tho
Would love to see a Midtown Madness 2 review! This was great
Thanks! Still planning to cover that :)
Awesome! I recently rediscovered these games and you were the first that came to mind to see if you had reviewed them ;)
Please LGR, make a video about interactive/creative installers/status bars!
hell yeah
there is a mod for midtown madness 2 where u can play chicago with all its races too
This made me miss 90s games and my childhood :(
Same here nostalgic
Such a nostalgia trip! Spent many many hours with this game back in the day.
Fantastic review LGR, this was one of my favourite games too. This game definately got me into the Midtown Madnes series. You must of done a really great job to get most of the vehicles including the Panoz GT and Freightliner.
May I ask how you recorded most of the content for this? I tried with Fraps, but the sound is mute. thanks =3
Glad you enjoyed!
And I record my gameplay using real hardware, so this was actually an old Windows 98 computer captured using a VGA capture card on my modern PC.
Lazy Game Reviews
ah I see thanks for letting me know =)
i know that a windows 98 vm and a few windows comparable mods would work as well
I can fix the mute issue for you if you want .
i figte that out it just mm 2 i have issues with the 3d
I was the lead graphics designer of Midtown Madness. Nice to see it around again! :)
That's amazing :)
Any fun insights you can share with us?
P.S. MM is still actively played (also online)
I remember playing this game back in 2005. It was the Atari re-release, though. I've always had trouble with some of the complicated races, but this game was/is still fun to play.
Great review. Yes, I remenber this old Microsoft classic. This game is still a blast.
So after the cubbies won the series did the physics get better?
Ha!
Damn you stole my joke... :)
I’m a Sox fan and getting shunned and looked at as a bad guy is fun.
i remember whenever i crashed into the canal.... the game tells me "no time to drive with the fish"... and at the time i was around 8 years and this thing cracked me up so badly that i loved falling in the canal again and again....
and the pedastrians had one single dialogue to yell at you if you tried to run them over - "what are you doing".... it was so fun to play XD
Hey guys pls help me find a game
Its kinda like car race game
I remeber it had a bridge that open and close
I used to jump through it
And a yellow car I used to take
Pls help me find it
I used to play it in my childhood 2005
Crazy Taxi I believe.
It s just pure bliss how a mass group connects with this game. I was 7 or 8 when I played this an now a grown adult watching this game here. Absolute fun to play just feeling Nostalgic.
This was always a great game. I have it still. It's a nostalgic game to me.
Is it just me that's weird, or does anybody else here like to spend time just playing older games like it was the 90's (or whatever year) again? For example, I sometimes decide that I want to spend the week only playing video or computer games from a specific year.
It's not you, I would play Driver,Duke Nukem 3d,and SimCity 2000
Graphics are so nostalgic back when I was 4 I used to play a arcade style monster truck game on pc and a normal racing game I never tried to win races I prefer to crash the cars more
I loved this game back then, this was my childhood!
Taking the opportunity and the space to thank not only LGR for reviewing a game which made my childhood, but the creator of the Archipelago Mod too. Boy, that was a heck of a add-on to the main MM1 game, a beautiful and well worked new map, even for today's standards. I remember countless hours browsing and downloading stuff from MM2 Extreme.
I can't tell you how wonderfully nostalgic it was to revisit this in the form of a quite extensive review. Thank you.
Used to play it on
Intel celeron
256mb ram.
Xp windows.
No gfx.
Can't play on i3-6th gen, 8gb ram, 2gb graphics (game lags)
WTF!
All hail to Pentium 4 and 256mb ram. 🙌
Reminds me of Midnight Club 2.
same devs.
fiattrickbox Just looked it up and you're right! This was made before they changed their studio name.
how about mid nightclub 1 for the ps2
Omg I used to play this game all the time. Thanks for bringing me back to my childhood!
First ever game I played on a Computer...looking back this is wild and epic in many ways I can't explain
This is so beautifully GTA lookalike!! I remember playing this game only to do top speed tests with the Panoz Roadster!
I think you have your dates mixed up, GTA was a topdown 2D game the year that Midtown Madness was released. Technically GTA is a Midtown Madness lookalike :)
It was just a comparison with no time reference involved between both games. I have never realized that they were so similar graphic wise speaking, hence my comment.
I have never played GTA 2D, I was referring to the newer 3D.
@Zayd Noor thank you so much for that great info!😀 Indeed the link I was missing!!!
@Zayd Noor Thanx mann
This game popped into my head today, and this is the first video I clicked 🍻 lets gooooooo memories
Haha same
A video of cool installation screens NOW!
I got the game on a very gray CD-Rom. I also played it on a very gray computer (wasn't set up for color) with no sound (wasn't set up for audio). It was like silent theater racing.
Wow. I almost forgot about this game. I used to have a steering wheel and pedal set-up for driving games and it made this game pretty fun. I would also put a small bench in front of my desk and my friend and I would drink beers smoke weed and try to drive around in traffic without crashing. That was a game in itself, lol. The bench made it feel like we were both in the car, lol. We would take turns driving. I still do that with other driving games, lol.
As someone who lives in Chicago, this is killer. Thanks for covering this.
Man... my first game. I remember when my dad came back home one day with this on disk after he let me play the demo on his computer. This game was (and still is) so cool! In fact, to this day I still have it installed on my everyday PC :)
+Stan's Tech Videos I had the demo only too! It came with a magazine or something and I just loved the game. 15 years after that with internet I could finally play the full version, because it was never avaiable in stores here.
my cousin and I would play this at my grandpa's house and fall out of our chairs laughing at the crashes we would get into.
Only game in which peds escape every time when you try to run over.
You can't run over the peds in Driver 2 (I guess it's the same thing in Driver 1).
dude!!! thanks for the memories. i remember my father buying an acer laptop (400 mhz celeron, 64 mb of ram, 2mb of vram, and 20gb hdd. this game was pre installed! i loved it. :) you are brilliant!
My first pc game on my Windows XP, back in 2008 i was just 8 years old then, pc games and NES were my childhood.
This is one of those games that should be redone on a modern game engine and modern hardware in mind. If they ever get around to it, they should expand it to cover a bit of the 'burbs as well.
The day my dad bought pc and had this installed I was so crazy abt this game reminds me of my childhood
Please make a video on creative installers! :D
Great video, dude!
That was probably one of my favorite PC games from my childhood. I want a remaster!
the menu screen music is pure nostalgia, that funky hip tune. brings me right back to end of the 90s. this was the first open world game I played and it felt so incredible back then. I miss those days! the screaming when you crash into the white bus 😆. MM2 had better textures and more "alive" feel, better game overall, but MM1 had better overall music. MM2 also had a ton of different commentators and funny quotes, and made you feel like you were playing the game in a room with tons of people watching
I had Midtown Madness 2 when I was a lot younger, I think it was the first video game I had played, and I played it a lot. It did annoy me how there was basically nothing at the end of the Golden Gate Bridge though :P
Man, this was my childhood
I never actually did a race 😂 only cruise + mods, for years!
theres no cruise on midtown 1
@@fzeroacer1836 true😂
One of the few games my grandparents had on their PC when i was a kid in the early 2000s. I vividly remember playing this on their PC in the living room for hours. Miss those days, loved this game alot
oh my god! i used to play this so much as a kid, and pretend to be the blues brothers, i had no idea about modding! your a man after my own heart!
Member Midtown Madness?
Yeah! I member!
I can still hear "what are you doing!?!?"
xD
Rockstar San Diego is responsible for the RAGE engine, basically paving the way for all modern Rockstar games and with games like Red Dead Redemption under their belt, they are doing pretty well for themselves. Not to mention their involvement in GTA V.
Totally, anytime I see they're involved in something, I'm in. It is amazing to see their beginnings :)
I found a copy of this game here in India in early 2000s. Having a PC or newer games was very rare here back then. I didn't know anything about Chicago (or America) but got hooked instantly and played it all the way until late 2005. Still one of the fondest memories of any racing game I have ever played.
thanks a lot for the video, there was this childhood friend i used to have and i completely forgot about him but know i remembered him again because i once played this game at his place.
this game looks so gorgeous back then...
Do you plan on doing a video about Midtown Madness 2? If not, could you tell me what you think of it?
It is an exceptional game. Yup, a review should happen someday!
MY CHILDHOOD.. AAAAHHHHH
My friend got Midtown Madness back in the day, and I loved it so much that I used to go over to his house after school just to play it since barely anyone had a computer at the time. I played it for 2 days straight the first time I tried it.
"DO NOT MAKE ILLEGAL COPIES OF THIS GAME". I just distributed the CD to all my friends and they returned it after installation.
MM2 is even better. I still play it to this day and mod it.
How about Midtown Madness 2? I spent way too much time playing that online
it was my generation game cause i was born in 1991
so obviously i played it
obviously i liked it
and obviously i miss it...
thanks for the video... :)
I always tried to be a good citizen and be in flow with the traffic. But then I get bored and screw up the place...
Justin Angelo Alvarez hahah me too! I remember the big jumps over the bridge, that was so cool.
My city born and raised. One of my favorite RUclipsrs talking about my favorite city.
10 years already?
That Cubs World Series joke though.
Next LGR: Motocross Madness or Monster Truck Madness. Please. :D
Yesterday I bought a hybrid car and I tried for the first time the automatic shift (i live in Europe you know), when I was driving I realised I had already seen the gear symbols somewhere, then I remembered the days when I was a kid and played this game for the first time. I spent most of the time driving in first person all over the map, seeing those symbols (P, R, D, maybe also N) in the dashboard of the car. Man, those were old good times.
This was my first experience of racing game on PC, it was simple and fun. Love it.
I freaking loved that game, played mostly for police chases. Guess what, I was stuck with the demo.. I never knew about the cop n robber mode and most cars
I miss microsoft games before the xbox
Why tf is this in my 'Recommended'?? I used to play the original Midtown Madness when I was a kid; I guess thanks for reminding about that...
Omar Asim Yes, they do...
Tbh, I don't really care. (Apple and Samsung are literally allowed to use the camera and microphone of their phones whenever they feel like it; it says so in their Privacy Policy.)
Omar Asim I wasn't.
EDIT: In the end, who gives a shit?
Literally my first PC game on my first PC that my parents bought in 2000 may be. I got goosbumps when I saw the title cuz it reminded me of my childhood. Time flies fast
Born in 97… I remember playing this game on our box PC, back in 2001 when I was In kindergarten… Good ol times lol!!
I'm sure this would be Justin Biebers kind of game too though
the same angel studios of the n64 resident evil 2?
Correct, they did some ports like that.
"Voodoo 3 AGP" - Oh, those were the days. I still have to build a PC for my old 3500 TV though :)
What I loved most about this game is the fact that, unlike in Midtown Madness 2, you could drive past police cars at 15~25mph and they wouldn't chase you.
Ahhh...the memories...got this for Christmas '99, best Christmas ever ! Played this on a P200 MMX + 4MB Diamond Monster 3D. Ran pretty good on reduced details. In my opinion, this is still the best game of the series. Great review, Clint ! Never made it to the Panoz race car, but your video really gets me in the mood to try again :)