same thing here, except I never managed to beat The King - neither did my older brother, who played it more enthusiastically than I did for that matter!
Same here, my 286 even had no HDD, game was run from floppy disk. I remember having multiple copies of the game because floppy was notoriously unreliable. And now, 30 years later, my 7 y.o. son plays almost photorealistic games on PS5, PC with zillion MHz and tons od RAM, huge screen etc... I miss those old days...
I bet it was! I never played games back then - I'm a late bloomer to video games. I had just graduated high school in '91 & soon to join the Navy. I'm surprised at how complex some of the game mechanics are in this - and modelled after real cars... I bet this was freaking mind blowing!!! 😀👍👍👍
Exactly ! With realistic modeling of the cars with growling sounds and graphical updates. The gameplay should stay the same. Perhaps with more tuning options ? 😉
@@MrL4t3 Street Rod 2 had diferential, Exhaust and more admision options like injection and supercharger... Nevertheless the Races were a bit odd and kind of unplayable, so i liked more Street Rod 1 since i was able to win a lot more than with SR2 A Remake should take the graphics and some of the mechanics from SR2 but keeping the easy going playability of SR1
@ Well, the game was released in 1989. There are no records of its exact date of release, but given that the oldest available review is from February 1990, it was probably very late in the year, the vast majority of people didn't get around to playing it until it was the 90s.
There were better racing games around at that time. Test Drive II, for example. The mix of racing, buying & selling, and tuning your car was kinda unique, though.
For a long time I had a vague memory of a game with pixely, right-facing cars standing outside a diner, in bright colours on a black background. I really remembered the nice aesthetic more than any gameplay, which made it hard to search for ... Finally remembered they must have been *vintage* cars, and that was apparently the key to finding it! So nostalgic to see it again, still looks cool.
I loved that game. I was a little boy when I played that. Petrolhead since the very beginning. Today i work on my classics but would love to play that again
@Stimpy&Ren Cat Would've been night and day if they would have supported Tandy sound, at least. By 1989 you had Adlib, too, so there's really no excuse. 1987 though is especially egregious as "The Year of the Shitty DOS Port"
In the late 1990s, my younger brother got an old computer from a garage sale for free-the owner just wanted to get rid of it. It had Windows 3.1 with Street Rod installed. I was never any good at racing (and I honestly think it could have been implemented better), but I loved fixing up/selling the cars. I acquired this game and Street Rod 2 years later, and run them in DOSBox from time to time. Even installed them in old Windows 3/1 virtual machines as well. It was pretty cool to play a hot rod game that romanticized that "golden age" of hot rods. And by late 80s - early 90s, that was peak time to dip in to that nostalgia.
OMFG, i played this so much back in the day ! Wish there was a similar game nowadays ! Never used this tactic, always went for - get car, tune, improve then race for pink slips and win !
In the mid 90’s my Dad picked up an Apple IIC from a garage sale and this game was included. I played this for hours and loved it. Thank you for uploading this trip down memory lane!
Played this on Amiga 500 but needed extra memory brick to run it, was an extra whole 1 megabit lol. Part 2 of this game had fuel injection and supercharges, but the streets and halfpipe water causeways with logs to dodge was damn hard!!. This was a great great game ahead of it's time.
I love how the cop can't get you if you cross the finish line before they pull you over or murder you. COP: "Son, that was one hell of a run. I will just let you go since you finished before me."
that road race from 18:39... pure adrenaline. Especially in the last race I would get crazy adrenaline kicks - still got it from your video - going through the red line trying to catch up with the other guy, not being sure if the wheels are squaling or if it is the cops...
At my first manufacturing job I was promoted to a line supply position. I could finish all my work, what work was left for me, all of it in half my shift. I had this old 386 to print shit and get shipping info from but all access. I played the shit out of Street Rod and Xcom
Spent countless hours playing this game on my Commodore Amiga 500, it was on a 3.5 in floppy disk.. On the underside was a slot and you could buy a 50$ circuit board that boosted the internal memory of the computer from 512K to 1 megabyte.😀
This game is so special for me. It allowed not only to race in a type of Test Drive racing game, which I loved, but also to learn basic mechanics by tunning the timming belt of a motor and changing manifolds, buy/sell parts...even learn some english expressions and american slang! but the best of all it was damn fun! Another fun fact is that I always wondered why if its brand "California Dreams" sounded quite american the credits showed only polish authoring. I can imagine that sourcing and documenting that 60s USA hotrod atmosphere so fantastically on 1989 comunist Poland woulnd't have been easy. Quite an incredible mix!
Damn... I can only imagine how amazing this game must have been in the past... It still looks awesome and there's so much to do by the quick look at it/
I still beat this game every like 5-6 years ever since it came out when I was a kid. It is still a fun game to beat even now that Rocket League is the best game ever made, and I spend 90% of my gaming time playing that. Street Rod will always live on for me, though. Actually, I think its about time for another playthrough, thanks :D
Many hours on the commodore on this, brings back good memories. It seemed so advanced back then. Seem to recall the commodore version graphics were lower?
What an amazing game. I was born 1990 so I was a bit too you for this but I know many games from the 80s through older cousins and my general interest in older games but I didn't know this one. It has such a deep gameplay that many of the todays games look very poor. This one proofs that a good game isn't about graphics.
@@spaaggetii That car was generally a bit of a 'cheat' anyway (or, at least, made life a lot easier). Since it came with a V8, you only needed a decent manual transmission to make it do around 120mph, which could easily be afforded with the money you start with. With a 120mph car, you can win pink slips against all but the very fastest cars including, most importantly, some slower ones worth a lot of money. It doesn't take long from this point to buy or win the 'Car of your dreams' Corvette. This is probably why Street Rod SE has no 'starter cars' with a V6!
Actual motor tuning - listening to the sound and vibrations of motor. Price haggling. Mechanic AND Racing simulator. Pink slip racing. Cops rating the cars. Burger drive-ins. Why doesn't this still has no remake?
i played this games hours and hours and hours... I loved the V6 Engine w/3x2brl carb + 4 spd transmission. It was crappy as hell as it was very hard to compete with small V8 w/1x4brl carb + 4 spd transmission... but it was a challenge! The other setup i loved was the Small V8 + 2x4brl carb + 4spd transmission... i used that setup to race against cars with Big engine but just 1 carb... it was really really close.
I also remember picking the less desirable stuff and trying to win... I must have spent a good year or two playing this every afternoon after school. Lol
I remember there was a car you could buy at the beginning that you could strip everything out of and get a few thousand dollars for. I assume it was an Easter egg.
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Man I remember playing this for hours as a kid.
dude, me too :O
same thing here, except I never managed to beat The King - neither did my older brother, who played it more enthusiastically than I did for that matter!
I had this on cga graphics Amstrad pc-20,and it was really good.
I aswell:)
those were the days
Hearing those first notes just threw me right into the past, what a great game
yea, rather joyful flashback
I played this game even before I started learning English in school. Playing games as a child was a fun way of learning English.
I've played when was kid. In a poor 286 and monocromatic screen. Marvelous days
Same here, my 286 even had no HDD, game was run from floppy disk. I remember having multiple copies of the game because floppy was notoriously unreliable. And now, 30 years later, my 7 y.o. son plays almost photorealistic games on PS5, PC with zillion MHz and tons od RAM, huge screen etc... I miss those old days...
Just passing through on my nostalgia trip...
CharlesFBronson reminding you to do it again
Wanna try again?
@@MrVigotje Wheeee :)
Man, can't believe I found this. Pure Nostalgia!!
I played this game every friday night when I was 10 years old on my uncle's computer
used to go to my friends house every friday to play this game for hours when i was 10
I used to play this game in 1991... It was like having something from NASA in my bedroom.
I bet it was! I never played games back then - I'm a late bloomer to video games. I had just graduated high school in '91 & soon to join the Navy. I'm surprised at how complex some of the game mechanics are in this - and modelled after real cars... I bet this was freaking mind blowing!!! 😀👍👍👍
We installed this on every computer in my high school back in 99 😅 great days
In 02 and 03 they were on all the computers in wood shop class. We always loved free day in that class.
Needs a remake :)
My Summer Car?
Thanks Gshama didn't know about that game.
Motor City Online tried. Too bad its an online game which servers died a long time ago.
Exactly ! With realistic modeling of the cars with growling sounds and graphical updates. The gameplay should stay the same. Perhaps with more tuning options ? 😉
@@MrL4t3 Street Rod 2 had diferential, Exhaust and more admision options like injection and supercharger... Nevertheless the Races were a bit odd and kind of unplayable, so i liked more Street Rod 1 since i was able to win a lot more than with SR2
A Remake should take the graphics and some of the mechanics from SR2 but keeping the easy going playability of SR1
What a great game. Better than alot of today’s games, of course not in terms of graphics but definitely better game play
Omg the memories, 11 year old me played this for ever! Smile from ear to ear right now thanks for uploading this
Loved this game as a kid. Good to see it on here, Aahhh the memories...
this could be a cool game today. i remeber playing this in the late 1990s on our families first computer we bought used cheap.
Man, found it in TH-cam time machine, bring back memories when a whole family play the game in turn.
played this on hercules adapter. when I tried to do paintjob, the game said my graphic card cannot do that
The memories. Loved this game. Still love it. I need to play again.
I have the game. I ran it when I had Win XP I think. I could try DOSBox under Linux.
Man, the nostalgia hits me hard. I was a little kid when I played this game.my main car in this game was always Chevrolet Corvette
Hell yeah! The Chevrolet Corvette!
How cool is this? I was almost forgot this game 🥺. Back in the days? This was my favorite game. Wonderful to see this video. Many thanks 😊
I played this game for the first time now in 2019 and I liked a lot. I can imagine how incredible it was back in the 90's.
@ Well, the game was released in 1989. There are no records of its exact date of release, but given that the oldest available review is from February 1990, it was probably very late in the year, the vast majority of people didn't get around to playing it until it was the 90s.
There were better racing games around at that time. Test Drive II, for example.
The mix of racing, buying & selling, and tuning your car was kinda unique, though.
@@arthur_p_dent getting the racing parts was the best
For a long time I had a vague memory of a game with pixely, right-facing cars standing outside a diner, in bright colours on a black background. I really remembered the nice aesthetic more than any gameplay, which made it hard to search for ... Finally remembered they must have been *vintage* cars, and that was apparently the key to finding it! So nostalgic to see it again, still looks cool.
You just won a helluva car
You just brought me back to a better time, thank you.
I loved that game. I was a little boy when I played that. Petrolhead since the very beginning. Today i work on my classics but would love to play that again
I played it on Commodore 64 with 5,25'" disk drive. I could never beat the final guy, though, even with the best available car and all upgrades.
the music from this sounds like someone is having a stroke and trying to play a boogie woogie at the same time
Dont know why they bothered with the music! And to think the amiga had been out for years at this point.
I can still hear the computer case rattle...
😂
@Stimpy&Ren Cat yep, because of 16 bit
@Stimpy&Ren Cat Would've been night and day if they would have supported Tandy sound, at least. By 1989 you had Adlib, too, so there's really no excuse. 1987 though is especially egregious as "The Year of the Shitty DOS Port"
Played the crap out of this game as a kid. Amazing times!
In the late 1990s, my younger brother got an old computer from a garage sale for free-the owner just wanted to get rid of it. It had Windows 3.1 with Street Rod installed. I was never any good at racing (and I honestly think it could have been implemented better), but I loved fixing up/selling the cars.
I acquired this game and Street Rod 2 years later, and run them in DOSBox from time to time. Even installed them in old Windows 3/1 virtual machines as well. It was pretty cool to play a hot rod game that romanticized that "golden age" of hot rods. And by late 80s - early 90s, that was peak time to dip in to that nostalgia.
OMFG, i played this so much back in the day ! Wish there was a similar game nowadays !
Never used this tactic, always went for - get car, tune, improve then race for pink slips and win !
My Summer Car
theres a game called revhead on steam thats in development.. getting better
In the mid 90’s my Dad picked up an Apple IIC from a garage sale and this game was included. I played this for hours and loved it. Thank you for uploading this trip down memory lane!
Played this on Amiga 500 but needed extra memory brick to run it, was an extra whole 1 megabit lol. Part 2 of this game had fuel injection and supercharges, but the streets and halfpipe water causeways with logs to dodge was damn hard!!. This was a great great game ahead of it's time.
Still play from time to time. First played this on a 286 Zenith PC...
Wow I can't believe I found this, there's literally EVERYTHING on TH-cam lol , brings back some great memories
I love how the cop can't get you if you cross the finish line before they pull you over or murder you.
COP: "Son, that was one hell of a run. I will just let you go since you finished before me."
Also another secret, if you just hit enter instead of actually typing a name, you would never get chased. Same thing happened in the second game.
They need to bring this to the App Store!!!
This game brings back memories. I remember playing as a kid. I couldnt for the life of me remember what it was called lol.
Good vid, dude!
That was one of my favorite games i never thought it would pop up on TH-cam 👀
"Your car's not running, speedy!"
that road race from 18:39... pure adrenaline. Especially in the last race I would get crazy adrenaline kicks - still got it from your video - going through the red line trying to catch up with the other guy, not being sure if the wheels are squaling or if it is the cops...
Rockstar should have thought of implementing this in GTA V
I totally forgot about this game. What a gem.
Childhood dreamspot! Based on "American Graffity" movie plot.
I wonder what this crew from Poland is doing today
At my first manufacturing job I was promoted to a line supply position. I could finish all my work, what work was left for me, all of it in half my shift. I had this old 386 to print shit and get shipping info from but all access.
I played the shit out of Street Rod and Xcom
Spent countless hours playing this game on my Commodore Amiga 500, it was on a 3.5 in floppy disk.. On the underside was a slot and you could buy a 50$ circuit board that boosted the internal memory of the computer from 512K to 1 megabyte.😀
a real classic! Used to play or at least try to on my grandfather's computer almost 32 years ago!
Never heard of this one, looks like the instiration for Car Mechanic Simulator, pretty cool actually!
Came here right after seeing a video with "Ski or Die". Loved the old dos games.
My god, its melting my heart :) Thx !
Totally forgot about this game, I played it a lot growing up.
30 years I have been searching for the name of this game! 30 freaking years!
still used to play in 2018... :)
So do i also have the second game ☺
I'd kill to have a modern version of this
I used to love this. Especially Amiga version, which had so much nicer graphics and music. Though it ran really slow.
This game is so special for me. It allowed not only to race in a type of Test Drive racing game, which I loved, but also to learn basic mechanics by tunning the timming belt of a motor and changing manifolds, buy/sell parts...even learn some english expressions and american slang! but the best of all it was damn fun! Another fun fact is that I always wondered why if its brand "California Dreams" sounded quite american the credits showed only polish authoring. I can imagine that sourcing and documenting that 60s USA hotrod atmosphere so fantastically on 1989 comunist Poland woulnd't have been easy. Quite an incredible mix!
i like the idea of setting the timing
Damn... I can only imagine how amazing this game must have been in the past... It still looks awesome and there's so much to do by the quick look at it/
I remember playing it as a kid without understanding shit. Years later I managed to learn English and now I get it.. It's pure fun 😅
I still beat this game every like 5-6 years ever since it came out when I was a kid. It is still a fun game to beat even now that Rocket League is the best game ever made, and I spend 90% of my gaming time playing that. Street Rod will always live on for me, though. Actually, I think its about time for another playthrough, thanks :D
This game was part of my infancy.
I know nothing about cars and when I was a kid knew even less. I sucked so bad at this game but I kept playing for those pink slips!
Many hours on the commodore on this, brings back good memories. It seemed so advanced back then. Seem to recall the commodore version graphics were lower?
I used to play this all day with my 286 PC and black and white monitor. Good old memories..
I just unlocked a hidden door in my childhood. Holy cow.
It's refreshing to only see 35+ year olds in the comments for a change
90`s born here, cool game like NFS Underground! First game ever played on pc was Prince of Persia, and Lamborghini American challenge!
David frieburger needs to see this.
Played it allot as a kid (in 2001) and again as adult...whatever that is. Would love to see a remake.
I was playn this both parts as a teenager many slepless hours ❣❤
Woow I used the first PC in my life back when i was 11 at school... and i loved this game... it was Gran Turismo 6 for that time hahaha.
Flopy disk 5.25 .... so many memories.
What an amazing game. I was born 1990 so I was a bit too you for this but I know many games from the 80s through older cousins and my general interest in older games but I didn't know this one. It has such a deep gameplay that many of the todays games look very poor. This one proofs that a good game isn't about graphics.
this really brings back memories. I enjoyed watching this.
That brings lots of memories... And why the hell is this recommended to me?
Google has been gathering data from the past...
I LOVED this game as a kid! Any tips on where to get this game and get it to run on windows 7?
abandonia and DosBox and you're good to go! Enjoy!
@@mousetreat ?????
Nights playing this game, never could beat the king! 🤣
"GM, Ford Laugh at Cars from Japan."
Then the oil crisis came and who's laughing now
Such a great game .. sorry to miss playing it on it's time.
Your channel is god's work. Keep it up!
Omg... never thought anyone would remember this! I remember playing this MS DOS on my shitty computer.
I used to play that a lot!! Nice game!
I played this on school computers back in the day. Good times.
HOLY COW THIS GAME!!
There was a specific car you could buy and chop down to sell for heaps of money.
That's right. Buy a Chevrolet 2dr Syleline ($475) and remove the engine and transmission and you can sell it for as much as you like!
@@1983englishman Yeah I used to do that when I was a kid. Was the best.
@@spaaggetii That car was generally a bit of a 'cheat' anyway (or, at least, made life a lot easier). Since it came with a V8, you only needed a decent manual transmission to make it do around 120mph, which could easily be afforded with the money you start with. With a 120mph car, you can win pink slips against all but the very fastest cars including, most importantly, some slower ones worth a lot of money. It doesn't take long from this point to buy or win the 'Car of your dreams' Corvette. This is probably why Street Rod SE has no 'starter cars' with a V6!
The one channel mono sound 🔊
is killing me, I couldn't make it
5 minutes in to this video 👉🏻💥💨🤯
Good memories. Thanks for posting this.
Wow! I played this game! I liked it! It was a great game in 80s!
This game NEEDS a remake
My cousin and i spent hours as kids pkaying this . Memories
Remember this one. Had it on my Olivetti 386 pc:)
40:01 The king of pop himself!
played this game so much as a kid... good times
I really need to play this again!!!!
que buen juego, como lo vicie en su momento !!!
Back when consoles were ahead of PCs in gaming. That quickly changed in the early 90s tho.
Actual motor tuning - listening to the sound and vibrations of motor.
Price haggling.
Mechanic AND Racing simulator.
Pink slip racing.
Cops rating the cars.
Burger drive-ins.
Why doesn't this still has no remake?
@Roc Towerhug it play it on phone if they redid the sounds
i played this games hours and hours and hours...
I loved the V6 Engine w/3x2brl carb + 4 spd transmission. It was crappy as hell as it was very hard to compete with small V8 w/1x4brl carb + 4 spd transmission... but it was a challenge!
The other setup i loved was the Small V8 + 2x4brl carb + 4spd transmission... i used that setup to race against cars with Big engine but just 1 carb... it was really really close.
I also remember picking the less desirable stuff and trying to win... I must have spent a good year or two playing this every afternoon after school. Lol
I remember there was a car you could buy at the beginning that you could strip everything out of and get a few thousand dollars for. I assume it was an Easter egg.
+phrenzy1 Dodge Custom Royal Lancer!!!
49 chevy styline
I've never seen this game. If I did I know I would have been HOOKED. Too awesome
Omg how much i played this. If I could i would again. Is it possible download from somewhere?
Sanyi a király :D
Used to play this at my high school in 1994.