Motocross Madness 25 Years Later: An LGR Retrospective
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Date: 2023-01-20
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George
This reminded me of that one time I was watching some kid play some motorcycle racing game on PS1, it was in an internet-cafe-like establishment, except with PS1 and SNES consoles instead of computers. So he's racing other motorcycles along a rural road, then all the sudden an on-coming car appears on the road and he drives straight into it at full speed. The car stops dead, the bike flies backwards and the rider flies half a kilometer forward, landing on the road. Just as the kid presses a button to get his rider to get up and return to his bike, a car appears and runs him over. He tries to get up again but gets run over by a fellow racer on a motorcycle. And then, another one! I was laughing my ass off, much to the kid's frustration.
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This reminded me of that one time I was watching some kid play some motorcycle racing game on PS1, it was in an internet-cafe-like establishment, except with PS1 and SNES consoles instead of computers. So he's racing other motorcycles along a rural road, then all the sudden an on-coming car appears on the road and he drives straight into it at full speed. The car stops dead, the bike flies backwards and the rider flies half a kilometer forward, landing on the road. Just as the kid presses a button to get his rider to get up and return to his bike, a car appears and runs him over. He tries to get up again but gets run over by a fellow racer on a motorcycle. And then, another one! I was laughing my ass off, much to the kid's frustration.
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Sandy
Back in the winter of 1998 I worked for a uk IT company called ICL and down in Sidcup they had the contract to do phone support for all Microsoft s multimedia stuff - this game, midtown madness, flight sim, Barney etc and the force feedback wheel, flight stick and sound system. It was my first job aged 18 and couldn t believe my luck. You got access to everything and had to play it all to support it. It seems amazing we did all the support blind (No such thing as TeamViewer and the like. Also after work I was first exposed to LAN quake deathmatch.
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Back in the winter of 1998 I worked for a uk IT company called ICL and down in Sidcup they had the contract to do phone support for all Microsoft s multimedia stuff - this game, midtown madness, flight sim, Barney etc and the force feedback wheel, flight stick and sound system. It was my first job aged 18 and couldn t believe my luck. You got access to everything and had to play it all to support it. It seems amazing we did all the support blind (No such thing as TeamViewer and the like. Also after work I was first exposed to LAN quake deathmatch.
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Prizm
Ahh, I played this for hours and figured out how to glitch through the world while at the top of the cliff If I remember right, it had something to do with getting cannon-shot just after going around a cliff corner (the cliff is a big square, and getting shot INTO the out of bounds area.
I also edited the fall sound effects and combined them with bone crunching noises and Quake bad guy screams for some more amusing crashes. I made a little DOS batch file installer to install/uninstall the sounds and still have it all these years later.
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Ahh, I played this for hours and figured out how to glitch through the world while at the top of the cliff If I remember right, it had something to do with getting cannon-shot just after going around a cliff corner (the cliff is a big square, and getting shot INTO the out of bounds area.
I also edited the fall sound effects and combined them with bone crunching noises and Quake bad guy screams for some more amusing crashes. I made a little DOS batch file installer to install/uninstall the sounds and still have it all these years later.
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Tarukeys
I've played the crap out of MM2 when I bought my first PC, a Pentium III 800, 128 mb (upgraded to 256 soon after) and a ATI Rage 128. I built it myself, buying parts one by one. Drivers were crazy sometimes but games were soooo smooth compared to my Playstation and even most Dreamcast games I had. I've played the first Medal of honor with it. My jaws hit the floor when I saw the first level on D Day. Return to Castle Wolfenstein was pretty cool too back then. I was so impressed.
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I've played the crap out of MM2 when I bought my first PC, a Pentium III 800, 128 mb (upgraded to 256 soon after) and a ATI Rage 128. I built it myself, buying parts one by one. Drivers were crazy sometimes but games were soooo smooth compared to my Playstation and even most Dreamcast games I had. I've played the first Medal of honor with it. My jaws hit the floor when I saw the first level on D Day. Return to Castle Wolfenstein was pretty cool too back then. I was so impressed.
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fattomandeibu
Those videos you showed reminded me of them football videos with names like Football's Nastiest Moments (not a real title, at least I think not) which were just 60 minute compilations of folks like Vinny Jones and Roy Keane attempting to break peoples' legs during real football matches and getting red cards. Usually hosted by Jones himself, sneering at the camera like a wrestling bad guy between the violence. When I was 12, I thought it was so edgy and awesome.
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Those videos you showed reminded me of them football videos with names like Football's Nastiest Moments (not a real title, at least I think not) which were just 60 minute compilations of folks like Vinny Jones and Roy Keane attempting to break peoples' legs during real football matches and getting red cards. Usually hosted by Jones himself, sneering at the camera like a wrestling bad guy between the violence. When I was 12, I thought it was so edgy and awesome.
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Peck
I may be sitting in a gold mine since I know I played Monster Truck Madness and Motocross Madness. I do remember Motorcross but I wasn't sure about the Monstertruck one. Also, kinda creepy, last week I was looking for videos of this game because I felt nostalgic regarding the motorcycle loop that always plays and the easter egg of you being bombed into the map again (which is really huge for some reason) and now I see this video in my sub feed. Weird but cool!
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I may be sitting in a gold mine since I know I played Monster Truck Madness and Motocross Madness. I do remember Motorcross but I wasn't sure about the Monstertruck one. Also, kinda creepy, last week I was looking for videos of this game because I felt nostalgic regarding the motorcycle loop that always plays and the easter egg of you being bombed into the map again (which is really huge for some reason) and now I see this video in my sub feed. Weird but cool!
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Bad
I had a similar kind of childhood enjoyment of lumpy terrain, but my game of choice was Battlezone from 1998. The combination of the low draw distance my PC afforded me plus the game's eerie music made for a distinct feeling of exploration.
It was the first game I ever modded myself, when I learned that I could change the fog distance on individual map files. Now it's just really neat being able to fully view maps that I had only seen piecemeal as a kid.
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I had a similar kind of childhood enjoyment of lumpy terrain, but my game of choice was Battlezone from 1998. The combination of the low draw distance my PC afforded me plus the game's eerie music made for a distinct feeling of exploration.
It was the first game I ever modded myself, when I learned that I could change the fog distance on individual map files. Now it's just really neat being able to fully view maps that I had only seen piecemeal as a kid.
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The
Ah! A game I played when I was VERY young and barely knew what a video game was. Before I watch the video, so it might be mentioned later, but what was the one where you drove a Subaru? I always remember it being Motocross Madness 2, but I have no idea if it's even a Motocross Madness game. I remember the cover, it was of a Blue and Yellow Subaru with one of the Motocross Madness bikes next to it, with a photo of a dirt road on a white background.
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Ah! A game I played when I was VERY young and barely knew what a video game was. Before I watch the video, so it might be mentioned later, but what was the one where you drove a Subaru? I always remember it being Motocross Madness 2, but I have no idea if it's even a Motocross Madness game. I remember the cover, it was of a Blue and Yellow Subaru with one of the Motocross Madness bikes next to it, with a photo of a dirt road on a white background.
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Kent
I got this with Midtown Madness bundled with the weird gyroscope powered VTG VR PRO 2000 Detachable USB Joystick I got at a computer show. It took so much concentration and effort to keep my hand steady enough to keep the rider on his bike that it became a kind of zen experience for me. xD Also managing to use that joystick to get to the out of bounds canon was a lesson in near futility, so of course I spent hours mastering it.
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I got this with Midtown Madness bundled with the weird gyroscope powered VTG VR PRO 2000 Detachable USB Joystick I got at a computer show. It took so much concentration and effort to keep my hand steady enough to keep the rider on his bike that it became a kind of zen experience for me. xD Also managing to use that joystick to get to the out of bounds canon was a lesson in near futility, so of course I spent hours mastering it.
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Sudz
I LOVED this game. I was one of the first people in my town to get Highspeed internet through 'Excite Home which was bought out by rogers eventually. and our entire city of then 300, 000 people was on the same LAN, so i'd play over IPX with my buddy who lived 5 miles away, Tying up the phone lines.
When you drive off the edge of a map and get smacked back in we'd call it the hand of God
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I LOVED this game. I was one of the first people in my town to get Highspeed internet through 'Excite Home which was bought out by rogers eventually. and our entire city of then 300, 000 people was on the same LAN, so i'd play over IPX with my buddy who lived 5 miles away, Tying up the phone lines.
When you drive off the edge of a map and get smacked back in we'd call it the hand of God
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Marlon94
Talking about nostalgia with this game, being fired away when going out of bounds makes this game the most memorable of the late '90s.
I once try it's trial version via a Windows 98 SE CD sampler, and boy, so much fun doing that.
As much as I always wanted to have the full version of this game, I preffer the sequel, as the ai oponents were more fair than this game.
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Talking about nostalgia with this game, being fired away when going out of bounds makes this game the most memorable of the late '90s.
I once try it's trial version via a Windows 98 SE CD sampler, and boy, so much fun doing that.
As much as I always wanted to have the full version of this game, I preffer the sequel, as the ai oponents were more fair than this game.
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Tim
I remember years ago when I was little, my sister had braces on her teeth and at the orthodontist office they had these custom arcade boxes that were basically a shell around a PS2 (I once pried one open to press the reset button on the PS2 because the game froze. But one of the games running on it was MX Unleashed I believe. Very similar game. This reminded me of it!
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I remember years ago when I was little, my sister had braces on her teeth and at the orthodontist office they had these custom arcade boxes that were basically a shell around a PS2 (I once pried one open to press the reset button on the PS2 because the game froze. But one of the games running on it was MX Unleashed I believe. Very similar game. This reminded me of it!
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Tantfarbror
I remember playing this for hours at a time, almost exclusively doing massive jumps in the quarry. It had some sort of serene tranquility to it and it was almost meditative to play at times. It didn t have much, but it had that one thing that really stuck with me. Loved the video Clint, you always have me remember the good old days with a rose tinted view.
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I remember playing this for hours at a time, almost exclusively doing massive jumps in the quarry. It had some sort of serene tranquility to it and it was almost meditative to play at times. It didn t have much, but it had that one thing that really stuck with me. Loved the video Clint, you always have me remember the good old days with a rose tinted view.
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