The Forgotten World of Manufacturer Racing Games

Small correction, there is a Mustang game aswell made by Eutechnyx as some of you pointed out in the comments 👍
- I've covered NFS Porsche Unleashed in my Rise of NFS video so that's why it's not here

How could you forget the legendary NFS Porshe?

if that viper game is the oldest sim you ever played, man, I'd love to see finally Grand Prix 2 on this channel. And you won't regret to have played Crammond's masterpiece

Thanks to this video, I'm gonna enjoy Lotus Challenge. I knew about the games existence thatnks to IGCD but I didn't think it had such variety of content. Nice job Dove!

There WAS a ford mustang racing game on ps2. I had it. It's was pretty decent, better than Corvette, which i also had.

Maluch racer still the best

I remember there being a Corvet racing game, but it had one bar that wasn't even a corvet

Forgot ford bold moves street racing

This reminded me of a game made after an advert for Citroen C4. You have one track, and you switch between a car form and a robot form. I remembered it was short, but quite enjoyable.

you forgot Citroën C4 Robot

I love how you pronounce the brand names. And i love the bmV m3 challange

Ford racing 2 was the best manufacturer racing game on the PS2. Had the best soundtrack. It was a vibe. All my FR2 peeps will gleam when I bring up the song “nothing left to lose”

Out Run. The 1st racing game to have an official car on it was Out Run. And by official I really mean it. Not "we use this car that looks...so we don't pay licenses" but a real official car on it: the Ferrari Testarossa.

I need that Lamborghini game..

Why bmv instead of bmw?

About Chrysler Classic Racing, the reason why the starter cars costs in the $3000 range is because they were the base price of their irl counterparts during the 50's.
By taking the inflation into account, a $3250 1954 Plymouth Belvedere would costs $35584,72 in 2023.
Which means these prices are very exact.

i have a ducati racing game for the ds. it feels god awful to drive and there's like five bikes. it was worth the like $7 i spent for it lol pretty entertaining

NFS: Porsche?

I had one of the Ford Racing games on the PS2, such a classic.

Technically you should include NFS Porsche and Test Drive Ferrari here :D

They still more fun than Forza..

I remember getting Ford Racing 2 from a cereal box as a gift and enjoyed the hell out of it as kid

Great video!

There was another Ferrari game called Test Drive: Ferrari Racing Legends, developed by Slightly Mad Studios, so I think it was a bit better, but I haven't played it as my laptop wouldn't be powerfull enough to run it at the time.

Also, there was Volvo The Game, which I never played myself for the same reason, but if I remember correctly it was some kind of a weird game focused on safe driving (for obvious resons). Although I'm a fan of Volvo cars and their brend philosophy, I still think it's weird to try and make a game about safe driving. I think reviews at the time reflected that.

In any case, as I said, great video and a lot of effort went into making it. Thank you!

lotus eespritt. love the way you pronounce it so incredibly wrong.

You forgot overdriving skyline memorial,its an exclusive nfs game from japan

I think have wild Tangent Dodge games on a CD somewhere. Also the Volvo games if I remember well. If you want them I can send it to you. I was thinking of sending it to MyAbandonware. But I really do need to search for it.

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Real talk, that first lotus game? Having a game or gamemode where you work as a stunt driver nowadays would be awesome...

I know it was made my NFS but Porsche Unleashed is the best car brand game.

what about NFS porsche unleash??

Is that...lily of steel playing in the bsckground..?

GTI Racing from Techland is LITERALLY a bad and poorly made copy of other game of their own called "Xpand Rally". The menu sounds are the same, damn, even some textures on the game race trackd

Some advice about pronunciation….
Eutechnyx is You-Tech-Nix (I know people that worked there, and I was offered a job there once). It was studio based in Newcastle U.K. which specialised in racing games.
Esprit has a silent T
So Ess-Spree
Chevrolet also has a silent T

Ford Racing 2 and 3 were both developed in the U.K. by Razorworks, a studio of Empire Interactive. They were NOT developed by Gotham Games. I worked on both of these games as a car modeller, and personally rendered and designed the box art. We worked really hard on the handling and physics - benchmarking Gran Turismo, and I think we did a decent job given the size of our team and the time frame.

Porsche unleashed?

Funny enough, the only Ford Racing game I've ever played is the oft-forgotten 4th entry, Ford Racing Off Road. Don't blame you for missing it, in Europe it's just called "Off Road" for whatever reason.

There was also that one game called Yaris, and Asphalt Audi RS6. Try them out

Ferrari the race experience wasn't the only Ferrari game!
Yes, there's Test Drive Ferrari Legends.. but there is a more obscure one.
Avaliable only on Java phones (iOS and Symbian too in the case of the first game), there was Ferrari GT by Gameloft, which derivates from the Asphalt series, a nice selection of cars and an interesting career mode, though repetitive.
It had 2 sequels which featured even more Ferrari cars (some unique ones too), very lovely and varied track locations and a bunch of gamemodes, i could say they're far better than Ferrari T.R.E. definetely should check it out 😅

please tell me where are you from 🤣?

You forgot a single Ford game
Ford fucking Street Racing

I had a lot of fun with Jeep Thrills on the Wii. It didn't make me want a Jeep, but the off road racing was pretty decent for a Wii game.
Project Cars -Pagani Edition is a pretty interesting free demo of Project Cars 1 that only includes Paganis.
While not exactly cars, Milestone also made DUCATI - 90th Anniversary in 2016, the same year their annual MotoGP game was Valentino Rossi The Game.

there's also Test Drive: Ferrari Racing Legends.... which is pretty much NFS Shift with Ferraris... and you should have at least mentioned NFS Porsche Unleashed, easily the best of these manufacturer games

I've played the World Racing, and Ford Racing 2 before~ and an older Lotus only game on the MegaDrive so I've been pretty lucky with the one brand games I've played, liked all of em.

I was just watching the video as always but when i saw the BMW M3 challenge i just stopped the video, went on the web and installed it myself, i knew i wasn't tripping when i first saw it, it brought me back to my childhood because i remember everything about the game to an exact, from the Nurburgring, the handling model and everything. Also the game has damage model, you just have to enable it with F5, it's more of a soft body type of dsmage rather than every piece of body in particular.

There was a GBA Porsche game which due to a glitch with (I think) the Moby Dick, where if you set it to manual transmission, it doesnt have a top speed.

Carlton is anything but obscure, lad.

I had Automobili Lamborghini (N64), Ferrari F355 (Dreamcast), and NFS Porsche Unleashed. Porsche Unleashed and the Viper Racing demo were the only manufacturer racers I had any fun with.