I'll say this for the Gran Turismo license tests: I completely sucked at racing games until I got through those, but now I can play them competently. Those tests even helped me drive better in real life - less because the physics were true-to-life, and more because all the principles they teach are sound. Individual tire grip, weight transfer, clean lines, etc. Unforgiving as they were, those license tests did more for my understanding of driving cars than actual driver's ed did.
This sums up my experience as well. I'm not much of a gamer, but I'm fairly competent and competitive in racing games, and I owe it primarily to doing those license tests over and over back when I was 13.
The fact that they were able to pull off a game with these physics and this amount of realism in the mid 90's is absolutely incredible. I can't even estimate the number of hours me and my friends put into this game. Taking our memory cards to each other's houses and racing our own unique cars against each other. Then GT2 came out and blew our minds again. These games came out when I was in middle school and taught me a lot about cars, racing, physics and tuning.
That menu music and really all the music was all rock and electronic themed outside of JP which was still likely Kazunori's choice (being the Director and Producer), but those choices worked out very well in the US and in the EU as well. Despite liking rock music only the tracks that made it into the game from each respective artist really resonated with me (then and now). I still listen to those tracks, the licensed ones but every time I do, I think about GT... I still have my OG copy which wasn't even purchased for me. My parents picked it up for themselves but they never really played it and they eventually relinquished ownership of Gran Turismo (1998) to me though my mother still has the second game in her cabinet it was purchased by my father, but he doesn't play it either. Kind of how I got into some other games on PS was from games my parents rarely picked up for themselves like Air Combat, Star Wars: Dark Forces and Tiny Tank (the latter in that list was not a kids game, but I was allowed to watch).
The dealership layout was awesome, and it's garbage they don't do that today. Also used car inventory that changed, cars with mileage that would affect sale value and performance, these early GT's were awesome. The RPG racing sim was amazing, then the idiots thought no one wanted that RPG leveling up stuff, nah, they just want mindless online competitive racing. Morons.
Kazunori Yamauchi is a genius because he managed to make the first Gran Turismo, without even having a driver's license. Sony has no idea how lucky they are to have someone like him on their team.
@@Octave_RollandI vaguely remember hearing something about that. He still drove but didn’t have a drivers license for a little bit… or maybe that was the rocket bunny guy…
Honestly, even as someone who grew up with GT3 for the PS2, both Gran Turismo titles on the Playstation 1 were still very enjoyable when I played them last year. A true testament to the talent and passion of the small dev team back then, being able to create something that endures the test of time even two decades later.
Saying this game is nostalgic for me would be an understatement. To me, this was vaguely the first game I remember playing and it introduced me to my personal dream car, the '96 Dodge Viper GTS.
I think it was a secret because it would only work in less detailed versions of a few tracks, instead of letting you pick from every track available in the main game. The compromises that had to be done to make it work at 60fps were probably too much for a whole game.
@@nicolascorre6830 and even those were modified to show less detail by either removing objects or shorthening the draw distance, I can't remember which one. also having only one car in the race (you), frees the CPU resources more
@@YszapHun yes, removing objects, light effects like flares and opponents. Every car in the arcade mode was available. And I'm pretty sure it was in 60 fps plus double resolution.
I have one of the best childhood memories with Gran Turismo. Me and my friend were obsessed with this game. I often took my console to his house because of the bigger TV he had and we spent hours tuning and customizing our cars. Good times!
I did exactly the same. I remember us playing it all night and we would take notes of the 0-400m and 0-1000m times of the fastest cars, tinkering with gear ratios, camber, suspension stiffness etc.
Yup. This was the first driving game that made my jaw hit the floor. All the previous "racing" games were kiddie toys. This was the first one that felt "real" to me.
I think the important thing to remember when considering the quirks of the license tests and even he quirks outside of the license tests is that Kaz was also very heavily influenced by the TV magazine Best Motoring, a kind of Japanese Top Gear. There’s an official Best Motoring Chanel on YT and if you go and watch some of the 90’s uploads all will become immediately clear, as the way they used to evaluate cars from small Kei cars to firebreathing supercars all included these kinds of trials. And once you watch the track battle you’ll basically realise the whole game just reacreates the world of the TV show. And I love it even more for it!
I remember my brother playing this and then later me. To this day I remember the Dodge Viper GTS being an absolute beast, especially in the Normal car cup.
The start and break test is one of the best lessons this tests teach, englobed in it is: visual sign to breaking points, acceleration from 0 and breaking. You need to keep track of distance in signs teaching you to search for breaking points on other track's, controlling starting acceleration to avoid loosing grip.
@@HunterAtheist coming from you i searched Hunter Green on youtube and i saw like 100 other people with the same name, then i searched for toxicandrewcz and nobody else has that name
Great re-review! Part of why the AI are a lot harder is also because they run upgraded cars in other championships, even the Sunday Cup has upgraded AI, which you fail to mention in the review, on top of the rubber banding.
Was just about to comment the same thing! I remember I had to check the entry list every time before I raced and if any of the AI cars was too powerful I loaded the race again. :D
Given how successful this franchise became, I hope all 20 (or so) of the team-members who overworked to create the game are millionaires. Though somehow I doubt it.
If they have royalties to the entire GT franchise, I wouldn't doubt that. However, unlike musicians and artists they probably don't have royalty from their work and are only paid with a fixed salary
This took my love for cars, as a 9 year old, to another level when it was released. I was obsessed with the NSX and RX7 throughout my teen years. I really wanted one when I turned 18 but I couldn't afford either so I bought a 06 RSX Type S and it was just as awesome to me. That RSX is still in my driveway after 15 years because it reminds me how much I was into the NSX and RX7 because of GT lol
11:10 There is no damage, because the car companies didn't allowed it. It was to protect the Image of the manufacturer and promoting their product ideally in this "new digital media".
Great video, i am 35 and was a young boy when this game came out, this game absolutely got me into racing. I couldn't get enough of it. Looks pixelated today but i assure you back then it was amazing the graphics and the way the cars had body roll. Keep up the good work love your stuff
If I only had $1 for every hour I spent on all of these 1-4. What amazing times. I'll never forget the first time as a kid I completed an endurance race. This re-review really takes me back. Thanks for this!
I always remember when I was around 6 years old and wouldn't give this game a chance because I thought it was about tourism lmao One day I decided to play it anyway, and man, it definetly changed the way I saw racing games
Mitsubishi 3000 was my favorite car!! This game shaped my childhood. I remember getting my first car that happened to be a stick shift! With no training other than this game mechanics, i got the clutch down by the time i got home! Some things just change your life. This is one of those things for me! And the license thing was new and welcomed! Not like most people had an idea how to actually race a car! Learning to look for the apex and just something easy as practicing molded a habit that i still have today! Thank you for teaching me to race!
I'm kinda surprised at their shock when it sold so many copies... it was basically the iPhone of the simulation racing genre - they existed, but nothing in this kind of polish before.
Absolute masterpiece. Wish they did a Hd remake. Having fast menus allowed you to jump in and play quickly. New games too cumbersome in that regard. The original actually came with insert in the case written by skip barber explaining basic racing physics. Such a wonderful experience. Thank you to everyone involved in that project.
Nice. I like it when folks revisit or re-review games. Some people tend to review a game from way back before they've gotten their groove and just leave it at that.. not updating it to their modern standards.
The day I loaded this game for the first time and started playing was when I officially became a gamer. The addiction factor to buying new cars that behaved like the real thing and upgrading them was absolutely genius and I couldn't believe what I was playing.
cool video dude i liked that you gave the history of the developer and the game and stuff and cool visuals, that guy was so ahead of his time and cutting edge back then
As a 34 yr old who still loves gaming, I can say that this game was perfectly challenging for me as I was still developing mentally and helped mold my gaming skills they are today.
This game not only got me into cars, it also helped shape my taste in music. Since GT1, Feeder is still my favourite rock band, and will always be. And the original soundtrack was just as good as the licensed one!
Thanks for the in depth videos! I subbed for your amazing amount of details and also for your coverage on the best games for past gen consoles! I just got back into my PS3 and my 360 because of your forza and gt videos, you rock and greetings from Florida!
This videogame has shaped me in so many ways… i already loved cars before it but when i played this and gt2 my relationship with cars… it is just part of my life
Learn something every day they said did not know this alway played it with the Logitech steering wheel never used a controller So many great memories with both gt2 and gt3 awesome game
This game meant so much to me. It led to my love of the series overall, and by the time I played GT3 A-Spec, I knew that the first car I would fully finance on my own would be a Subaru WRX. But it all started here. This game, more than anything else in my life, taught me to love the art of driving, and that no car was just a car but a machine with a distinctive personality.
It should be noted that Gran Turismo didn't look how it is presented here. We had CRT tv sets that smoothed the image slightly. Most of us played on 14" sets explaining very large icons. Colour bleed and such were all factors in development. We didn't have hi-res pixel perfect displays back then. Just an observation not a critique. Great video.
It’s funny how the graphics got better by the end of the video. It’s like my brain started filling in the lack of pixels. Thanks for the video. I have a lot of memories playing these games with my Dad.
I have to say, the portion about the art style, music, and menus was spot on. This was one of the first games I really got into as a kid and the US cover, and dealer music has stayed with me to this day. Did we ever figure out whats under the car cover?
GT 1 will always have a place in my heart.I grew up with games like stunts which was a dos game wacky wheels nfs 1 test drive 1 etc etc.When i first got gt 1 was like 15 years old and it change my way of playing car games.It also introduced me to the skyline which are my all time favorite(T R32)I didnt mind the grinding.That is the reason i uninstalled forza horizon 4 because you get fast cars without putting any work in it.I have original gt from 1-4(never got a ps3 or 4 nor would i ever get one)I play gt 4 on pc with emulator and i love it so far.Never got around to finish 3 and 4 so taking some time to do so.
Gran Turismo was recommended to me by a game store employee when I was 7, i had never seen any news of it. It was significantly harder than than any game I’d ever played before, and caught the attention of my entire family.
A friends dad walked in on us watching the replay of our last race. He thought we were watching TV highlights of a real race. Hard to imagine anything elce on the PSX passing as "true to life"
I use to play this on my phone time to time, but I had a blast with this review, that soundtrack... hits just in the right spot for us back in the day went nuts with this game, also I like that you show the game as it was, withouth enhanced graphics by emulation, thats pretty cool, thanks you the best dude keep it up
The two best things about the OG GT IMHO? Grinding out wins to buy upgrades while chilling to the soundtrack, and rocking the races in a freaking Ford Taurus jellybean. Why? Just because. But I will say, I got tired of "upgrading" to "better" (at least newer) GTs because they became all about arcade driving the best of the best cars. I mean a power trip is fun, but the real fun was finding cars friends or I actually owned and upgrading them to race better than we ever did IRL. THAT was the fun part. I also swear while the graphics got better, the physics got worse with every new game. Having done time in autocross, I know what real cars can do, and in game they just kept getting worse and worse by comparison to reality.
It’s amazing how after so many years this games music is still memorable and it’s approaching a quarter of a century old soon. A true racing classic game
menu and dealership music was so cool and charming in this game! BTW I can see you didnt know about the GTO twin turbo ( not the LM version) wich was the strongest car in the game :D
People don't understand how ahead of it's time this game was. It was like someone from 10 years in the future had come to deliver their version of what a racing game should be, making every other game of the time feel like a quick demo.
Aka ToCa World Touring Cars, its real name. I love that game, though it felt a bit less polished than ToCa 2 in terms of gameplay and sounds. The cheats are what made it infinitely replayable for random fun haha
My brother and I would do those 4 hour+ endurance races all weekend sometimes. Those were almost psychedelic in nature. You'd drive tsukuba perfectly for hours at a time and not even remember it. My brother and I also got into amateur racing in our teen years and I credit Gran Turismo for our early podium finishes. Being able to see the ideal racing line at the subconscious level was a great help. Even up to today my brother and I cannot be in two motor vehicles of any type at the same time without racing fiercely, despite the catalog of contusions, broken bones, and legal penalties we've accrued from doing so. Last time it was 4x4 pick up trucks with studs on a snowmobile ice race course situated on a frozen lake. I assert that I won because I was able to keep my truck out of the snowberm the longest.
I remember buying this when it came out when I was a kid. I read the driving manual cover to cover, did every race and got gold on all license tests. I shared my memory card at school so other could see the GT40 (unlocked with gold licenses) and see my achievement. I learned so much about cars and driving as a young kid through this game. Now I'm playing GT7 on the PS5 and it feels like nothing has changed.
Wow seeing Motor Toon Gran Prix literally unlocked memories I forgot I had. I can't believe it! Gran Turismo & everything in this video was significant in my childhood but i couldn't remember it haha
I remember playing the shit out of this game! Me loving this game is a understatement. At that time I was in love with cars and still to this day. Finding out non-USA cars are unicorns to me. Still to this day.
Received a copy of this before it was launched in the UK. My mate said he had a few Japanese games so would translate as much as he could. Played the entire game having to guess the requirements for the tests because he could translate nothing, now that was tricky.
If you like OG racing games from the dawn of home 3D, you should check some DOS/Windows racing games too! Namely, Grand Prix series, pretty much the first modern simracing series (I recommend starting with GP2) and maybe Spirit Of Speed 1937, being the weird one in the bunch of Microprose games. And you should definetly take a look at the Sega GT, the only game that I can remember from that age that dared to take on the GT1/2, it was direct competitor that was... good enough. Great video btw, I knew that Mr. Kaz was quite a maniac, but that's something special! Keep up the good work!
I still have my original copy of the game, the trust and creative freedom they gave to the team and the dedication they had really helped this game become one of the big hits of the PlayStation, and definitely influcenced the PlayStation's popularity and reputation.
@@qactustick It's meant to account for certain cars appearing in one region versus another (Cars that only appear in NTSC-U/C versus NTSC-J), I believe.
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"You throw enough money at it, eventually you start winning". And that´s why GT is the most realistic motorsport game ever made.
Hahah
Can't argue that point!
and now the same thing can be said with gran turismo 7 only it’s real money!
Lmao 🤣
@@shaungreer3350 That only makes it even more realistic 🤣
I'll say this for the Gran Turismo license tests: I completely sucked at racing games until I got through those, but now I can play them competently. Those tests even helped me drive better in real life - less because the physics were true-to-life, and more because all the principles they teach are sound. Individual tire grip, weight transfer, clean lines, etc. Unforgiving as they were, those license tests did more for my understanding of driving cars than actual driver's ed did.
I for one certainly learned what corner apexes and optimal driving lines were.
no other racing game at the time taught you about out-in-out cornering, and why it matters.
This sums up my experience as well. I'm not much of a gamer, but I'm fairly competent and competitive in racing games, and I owe it primarily to doing those license tests over and over back when I was 13.
I can confirm this is true. I learned to drive way before touching a real car Because of gran tourismo licenses.
GT taught me how to avoid self-inflicted car accidents... well maybe. I haven't had a car accident yet in the meatspace in over 16 years of driving.
The fact that they were able to pull off a game with these physics and this amount of realism in the mid 90's is absolutely incredible.
I can't even estimate the number of hours me and my friends put into this game. Taking our memory cards to each other's houses and racing our own unique cars against each other. Then GT2 came out and blew our minds again.
These games came out when I was in middle school and taught me a lot about cars, racing, physics and tuning.
The dealership music and the button sounds... Pure nostalgia. Love GT!
That menu music and really all the music was all rock and electronic themed outside of JP which was still likely Kazunori's choice (being the Director and Producer), but those choices worked out very well in the US and in the EU as well.
Despite liking rock music only the tracks that made it into the game from each respective artist really resonated with me (then and now). I still listen to those tracks, the licensed ones but every time I do, I think about GT... I still have my OG copy which wasn't even purchased for me. My parents picked it up for themselves but they never really played it and they eventually relinquished ownership of Gran Turismo (1998) to me though my mother still has the second game in her cabinet it was purchased by my father, but he doesn't play it either.
Kind of how I got into some other games on PS was from games my parents rarely picked up for themselves like Air Combat, Star Wars: Dark Forces and Tiny Tank (the latter in that list was not a kids game, but I was allowed to watch).
The dealership layout was awesome, and it's garbage they don't do that today. Also used car inventory that changed, cars with mileage that would affect sale value and performance, these early GT's were awesome. The RPG racing sim was amazing, then the idiots thought no one wanted that RPG leveling up stuff, nah, they just want mindless online competitive racing. Morons.
Kazunori Yamauchi is a genius because he managed to make the first Gran Turismo, without even having a driver's license. Sony has no idea how lucky they are to have someone like him on their team.
"without even having a driver's license" what??? You have a source for that?
@@Octave_RollandI vaguely remember hearing something about that.
He still drove but didn’t have a drivers license for a little bit… or maybe that was the rocket bunny guy…
Honestly, even as someone who grew up with GT3 for the PS2, both Gran Turismo titles on the Playstation 1 were still very enjoyable when I played them last year. A true testament to the talent and passion of the small dev team back then, being able to create something that endures the test of time even two decades later.
Honestly? Were you dishonest before?
Hey Dustin nice to see you here 😀
Saying this game is nostalgic for me would be an understatement. To me, this was vaguely the first game I remember playing and it introduced me to my personal dream car, the '96 Dodge Viper GTS.
Same man
Exactly the same.
Those bold lines and hard stripes are the best.
Same dream car mate, perfect lines. Not because of GT though, anyone remembers Viper Racing?
You and me both!!!
A 60fps that you had to unlock is such a weird and great bit of trivia
I think it was a secret because it would only work in less detailed versions of a few tracks, instead of letting you pick from every track available in the main game.
The compromises that had to be done to make it work at 60fps were probably too much for a whole game.
@@MateusAuri if i remember it was only special stage route 4 or 5 or even 9 (ik they were 3 SS races in GT1).
@@V1VISECT6 clubman stage route 5, special stage route 5 and 11.
@@nicolascorre6830 and even those were modified to show less detail by either removing objects or shorthening the draw distance, I can't remember which one. also having only one car in the race (you), frees the CPU resources more
@@YszapHun yes, removing objects, light effects like flares and opponents. Every car in the arcade mode was available. And I'm pretty sure it was in 60 fps plus double resolution.
I have one of the best childhood memories with Gran Turismo. Me and my friend were obsessed with this game. I often took my console to his house because of the bigger TV he had and we spent hours tuning and customizing our cars. Good times!
I did exactly the same. I remember us playing it all night and we would take notes of the 0-400m and 0-1000m times of the fastest cars, tinkering with gear ratios, camber, suspension stiffness etc.
I remember having a sleep over with my two friends and we just played GT1 and read car and video game magazines all night.
It sounds like you had a gay ol' time.
Sitting in class together making the engine rev sounds to one another indicating that we where up for playing after school. Such fun.
@@thelunchbox420x Go play on the highway, kid.
Remember my teacher had this when i was at primary school and bought it in with his steering wheel and projector one day! It was amazing!
The physics in this game blew my mind in 1998.
Graphics is also great for a ps1 1998 game
Yup. This was the first driving game that made my jaw hit the floor. All the previous "racing" games were kiddie toys. This was the first one that felt "real" to me.
I think the important thing to remember when considering the quirks of the license tests and even he quirks outside of the license tests is that Kaz was also very heavily influenced by the TV magazine Best Motoring, a kind of Japanese Top Gear. There’s an official Best Motoring Chanel on YT and if you go and watch some of the 90’s uploads all will become immediately clear, as the way they used to evaluate cars from small Kei cars to firebreathing supercars all included these kinds of trials. And once you watch the track battle you’ll basically realise the whole game just reacreates the world of the TV show. And I love it even more for it!
I just love that they didn’t change the menu sounds especially the countdown before a race starts. It’s just too nostalgic when I play GT Sport.
This is the first time I've ever heard of a game where you literally had to unlock the framerate
60 fps wasn't really mainstream at all in video games in 97.
@@nicolascorre6830
Maybe for 3D polygon based games it wasn't, but a huge majority of 2D games in the previous generation ran at 60fps.
you didn't, it was just a bonus mode, the graphics detail had to be lowered massively for it to run at 60 FPS.
@@Kuson2 I know. I was more making a joke about framerate unlocking
@@LarryLopez91 60fps but for a sprite animation rate divided by 2, 3 or even 4. The hifi mode in GT was a big step forward on consoles' hardware.
I remember my brother playing this and then later me. To this day I remember the Dodge Viper GTS being an absolute beast, especially in the Normal car cup.
i stopet playing gt series after in one of games they introduced penality for kicking other cars and other shits
The start and break test is one of the best lessons this tests teach, englobed in it is: visual sign to breaking points, acceleration from 0 and breaking. You need to keep track of distance in signs teaching you to search for breaking points on other track's, controlling starting acceleration to avoid loosing grip.
I remember paying $85 AUD for this back in 98... Worth every dollar
That's crazy i wasn't even alive back then
For me, I was born a month before the game released
Same, did you buy it on launch and get that dumb cap?
@@feelingevaporated2912 I managed to get it at China Town (Haymarket) in Sydney
Same here, also got the dualshock when I picked up my copy. Had very sore thumbs for weeks..
Great job CSP. I appreciate the calm and well-paced style of game reviews. Hope you continue it!
Wasn’t expecting this video but definitely not complaining, cant wait to see whats next!
That's such a generic comment
@@andrewcz4346 ok
@@andrewcz4346 That's such a generic name.
@@HunterAtheist coming from you i searched Hunter Green on youtube and i saw like 100 other people with the same name, then i searched for toxicandrewcz and nobody else has that name
@@andrewcz4346 Maybe because Hunter Green is their real name.
Literally so close to 100k, cheers brudda!!
This game introduced me to the Nissan Skyline GTR. It also taught me real life car physics and made me a better driver.
Thier strategy guides are on point for real life driving lol
_THE REAL DRIVING SIMULATOR_
The computer that's inside the R34 is designed by the same company that put this game out
@@michaelhowell2809 I was surprised at how technical the official guides are. They really go deep into it lol.
@@Housesider I remember it tells you to set up cones to practice cornering and I was confused as to how to do it in the actual game lol
Great re-review! Part of why the AI are a lot harder is also because they run upgraded cars in other championships, even the Sunday Cup has upgraded AI, which you fail to mention in the review, on top of the rubber banding.
Was just about to comment the same thing! I remember I had to check the entry list every time before I raced and if any of the AI cars was too powerful I loaded the race again. :D
The first time I realized they're upgraded is when I saw Mazda Demio in Sunday Cup had 170hp. A stock Demio would only have 94hp.
@@gamtax In the Sunday Cup, it runs 144hp. In the Lightweight Cup, it runs 177hp.
Given how successful this franchise became, I hope all 20 (or so) of the team-members who overworked to create the game are millionaires. Though somehow I doubt it.
If only
Yea that's not how it works, though in sure they got a nice bonus.
If they have royalties to the entire GT franchise, I wouldn't doubt that. However, unlike musicians and artists they probably don't have royalty from their work and are only paid with a fixed salary
I know that Kaz has a Porsche 911 GT3, and 2 Ford GTs. He’s doing well, the rest of the original team, maybe not.
Recently getting into gran Turismo and watching all your GT reviews, this is a nice surprise
This took my love for cars, as a 9 year old, to another level when it was released. I was obsessed with the NSX and RX7 throughout my teen years. I really wanted one when I turned 18 but I couldn't afford either so I bought a 06 RSX Type S and it was just as awesome to me. That RSX is still in my driveway after 15 years because it reminds me how much I was into the NSX and RX7 because of GT lol
11:10 There is no damage, because the car companies didn't allowed it. It was to protect the Image of the manufacturer and promoting their product ideally in this "new digital media".
Great video, i am 35 and was a young boy when this game came out, this game absolutely got me into racing. I couldn't get enough of it. Looks pixelated today but i assure you back then it was amazing the graphics and the way the cars had body roll.
Keep up the good work love your stuff
If I only had $1 for every hour I spent on all of these 1-4. What amazing times. I'll never forget the first time as a kid I completed an endurance race. This re-review really takes me back. Thanks for this!
I was hoping for a re-review of the GT franchise for so long! Great video, as always
I still go back to it every couple of years. I'm 36 now and this game still fills me with pure nostalgia.
The sound effects for the transitions is a nice touch!
I always remember when I was around 6 years old and wouldn't give this game a chance because I thought it was about tourism lmao
One day I decided to play it anyway, and man, it definetly changed the way I saw racing games
The Flatout series deserves a review
yes!
@@KotatkoVonDrapek lol kámo nečekal jsem na tomhle kanále dalšího čecha xD
Yup
@Alexander TM-290 same
Mitsubishi 3000 was my favorite car!! This game shaped my childhood. I remember getting my first car that happened to be a stick shift! With no training other than this game mechanics, i got the clutch down by the time i got home! Some things just change your life. This is one of those things for me!
And the license thing was new and welcomed! Not like most people had an idea how to actually race a car! Learning to look for the apex and just something easy as practicing molded a habit that i still have today! Thank you for teaching me to race!
I'm kinda surprised at their shock when it sold so many copies... it was basically the iPhone of the simulation racing genre - they existed, but nothing in this kind of polish before.
I've never played this specific gran turismo but gran turismo 3 introduced me to the beautiful "ASTON MARTIN"
The first time I played this game I thought video game technology had peaked. It was so realistic I couldn't imagine a game having better graphics.
Absolute masterpiece. Wish they did a Hd remake. Having fast menus allowed you to jump in and play quickly. New games too cumbersome in that regard. The original actually came with insert in the case written by skip barber explaining basic racing physics. Such a wonderful experience. Thank you to everyone involved in that project.
I just wish I still had my old PS1 :(
Play that on Pc with an emulator. It'll be like an HD remake
Nice. I like it when folks revisit or re-review games. Some people tend to review a game from way back before they've gotten their groove and just leave it at that.. not updating it to their modern standards.
Damn, the timing of this video. I just went back to this game two days ago.
The day I loaded this game for the first time and started playing was when I officially became a gamer. The addiction factor to buying new cars that behaved like the real thing and upgrading them was absolutely genius and I couldn't believe what I was playing.
I remember when GT2 came out, reviews say the graphics evolved from perfect to perfect.
cool video dude i liked that you gave the history of the developer and the game and stuff and cool visuals, that guy was so ahead of his time and cutting edge back then
I feel that Gran Turismo is a game that really stands out from the rest
And one of the best exclusives on the Playstation
What a controversial opinion. So brave of you to express that belief. Thank you.
so glad youre still making vids! keep it up man
As a 34 yr old who still loves gaming, I can say that this game was perfectly challenging for me as I was still developing mentally and helped mold my gaming skills they are today.
gaming sucks today
This game not only got me into cars, it also helped shape my taste in music. Since GT1, Feeder is still my favourite rock band, and will always be. And the original soundtrack was just as good as the licensed one!
When the analog sticks came out that changed this game immensely
and for the better, no more spinning with FR cars
TVR Cerbera remains my favourite car from any game. An absolute beast
I miss the vacuum they used to record the car sounds.
Get the new golf or new toyota gr yaris and you’ll be in for a treat
Thanks for the in depth videos! I subbed for your amazing amount of details and also for your coverage on the best games for past gen consoles! I just got back into my PS3 and my 360 because of your forza and gt videos, you rock and greetings from Florida!
This videogame has shaped me in so many ways… i already loved cars before it but when i played this and gt2 my relationship with cars… it is just part of my life
Starting Gran Turismo 3, "Pressure Sensitivity" was used, allowing you to press the X button harder to go faster.
Learn something every day they said did not know this alway played it with the Logitech steering wheel never used a controller
So many great memories with both gt2 and gt3 awesome game
Not sure how nostalgia is talking, but there's something about those ps1 graphics that hit home for me
This game meant so much to me. It led to my love of the series overall, and by the time I played GT3 A-Spec, I knew that the first car I would fully finance on my own would be a Subaru WRX.
But it all started here. This game, more than anything else in my life, taught me to love the art of driving, and that no car was just a car but a machine with a distinctive personality.
Watched alot of your vids. Just subbed, im loving the more in-depth reviews. Keep it up. Love your content.
Thank you for the memories! Me and my grandmother played this when I was so young :)
It should be noted that Gran Turismo didn't look how it is presented here. We had CRT tv sets that smoothed the image slightly. Most of us played on 14" sets explaining very large icons. Colour bleed and such were all factors in development. We didn't have hi-res pixel perfect displays back then. Just an observation not a critique. Great video.
It’s funny how the graphics got better by the end of the video. It’s like my brain started filling in the lack of pixels. Thanks for the video. I have a lot of memories playing these games with my Dad.
I have to say, the portion about the art style, music, and menus was spot on. This was one of the first games I really got into as a kid and the US cover, and dealer music has stayed with me to this day.
Did we ever figure out whats under the car cover?
Even Yamauchi can’t remember what car is it.
Nice review, bro, Gran Turismo 1 was undoubtedly one of the most important racing games on the PSone despite it's sequels outclassing it.
Your voice sounds like it belongs in a racing game tutorial
"Alright kid, let's see whatchu got! Drive to that start line so we can get started"
GT 1 will always have a place in my heart.I grew up with games like stunts which was a dos game wacky wheels nfs 1 test drive 1 etc etc.When i first got gt 1 was like 15 years old and it change my way of playing car games.It also introduced me to the skyline which are my all time favorite(T R32)I didnt mind the grinding.That is the reason i uninstalled forza horizon 4 because you get fast cars without putting any work in it.I have original gt from 1-4(never got a ps3 or 4 nor would i ever get one)I play gt 4 on pc with emulator and i love it so far.Never got around to finish 3 and 4 so taking some time to do so.
Gran Turismo was recommended to me by a game store employee when I was 7, i had never seen any news of it. It was significantly harder than than any game I’d ever played before, and caught the attention of my entire family.
Oh, that riff at 7:11 cut to my soul
Lol I learned how to drive using Gran Turismo. People tell me that I drive very well and smoothly
A friends dad walked in on us watching the replay of our last race. He thought we were watching TV highlights of a real race. Hard to imagine anything elce on the PSX passing as "true to life"
ridge racer 4 replays ?
*Yes !!!!* 🎉🎈
Thank you for making this video!
My favorite game ever made.
Great review! I recently backed up my old Memory Cards. Can't wait to race my beloved Mitsubishi FTO again ❤️
This came out when I was in college, and led to a lot of skipped classes and drunk virtual driving.
Super cool video! Love the concept of retro reviews.
Loved the video man and I remember getting this for my birthday and it was amazing
This well deserved a re review thanks buddy
The best Gran Turismo review video I have ever seen
I use to play this on my phone time to time, but I had a blast with this review, that soundtrack... hits just in the right spot for us back in the day went nuts with this game, also I like that you show the game as it was, withouth enhanced graphics by emulation, thats pretty cool, thanks you the best dude keep it up
I spent 100s of hours playing this game in the 90s it was the greatest game ever made at that point of time
The two best things about the OG GT IMHO? Grinding out wins to buy upgrades while chilling to the soundtrack, and rocking the races in a freaking Ford Taurus jellybean. Why? Just because. But I will say, I got tired of "upgrading" to "better" (at least newer) GTs because they became all about arcade driving the best of the best cars. I mean a power trip is fun, but the real fun was finding cars friends or I actually owned and upgrading them to race better than we ever did IRL. THAT was the fun part. I also swear while the graphics got better, the physics got worse with every new game. Having done time in autocross, I know what real cars can do, and in game they just kept getting worse and worse by comparison to reality.
It’s amazing how after so many years this games music is still memorable and it’s approaching a quarter of a century old soon. A true racing classic game
menu and dealership music was so cool and charming in this game! BTW I can see you didnt know about the GTO twin turbo ( not the LM version) wich was the strongest car in the game :D
this game is where i first learned that the skyline gtr existed.
People don't understand how ahead of it's time this game was. It was like someone from 10 years in the future had come to deliver their version of what a racing game should be, making every other game of the time feel like a quick demo.
16:55 That winning soundtrack......i got it on my smartphone now because i liked it as a kid already and still love it!
Another game that I play back in the day is, Jarret and Labonte stock car racing, it's awesome
Aka ToCa World Touring Cars, its real name. I love that game, though it felt a bit less polished than ToCa 2 in terms of gameplay and sounds. The cheats are what made it infinitely replayable for random fun haha
Great video. Thank you for great memories. Still have 1 and 2.
You forgot to mention if you rub the logo on the disc, it'll smell like a tyre.
I think this was only true for GT2? Like the rubber smell right?
My brother and I would do those 4 hour+ endurance races all weekend sometimes. Those were almost psychedelic in nature. You'd drive tsukuba perfectly for hours at a time and not even remember it. My brother and I also got into amateur racing in our teen years and I credit Gran Turismo for our early podium finishes. Being able to see the ideal racing line at the subconscious level was a great help. Even up to today my brother and I cannot be in two motor vehicles of any type at the same time without racing fiercely, despite the catalog of contusions, broken bones, and legal penalties we've accrued from doing so. Last time it was 4x4 pick up trucks with studs on a snowmobile ice race course situated on a frozen lake. I assert that I won because I was able to keep my truck out of the snowberm the longest.
I remember buying this when it came out when I was a kid. I read the driving manual cover to cover, did every race and got gold on all license tests. I shared my memory card at school so other could see the GT40 (unlocked with gold licenses) and see my achievement. I learned so much about cars and driving as a young kid through this game. Now I'm playing GT7 on the PS5 and it feels like nothing has changed.
Considering this is 1998 the graphics look incredible!
*1997
the yellow evo was my go to for this game, it was grippy AF
Wow seeing Motor Toon Gran Prix literally unlocked memories I forgot I had. I can't believe it! Gran Turismo & everything in this video was significant in my childhood but i couldn't remember it haha
💥💥 Ah the good ol days of gaming in the 90s and 2000s
As always, amazing quality review!
Let's get you to that magic 100k subs soon!
Great review. This took me right back. I always felt this title had so much potential and the GT2 really solidified it.
This game was incredible when it first came out. There was nothing like it. It looks very dated today, but it was absolutely boss back in the day.
I remember playing the shit out of this game! Me loving this game is a understatement. At that time I was in love with cars and still to this day. Finding out non-USA cars are unicorns to me. Still to this day.
I never owned the full game but I played the hell outta this game on my demo discs.....jampack and underground
Me too, I was really bad at it
Received a copy of this before it was launched in the UK. My mate said he had a few Japanese games so would translate as much as he could. Played the entire game having to guess the requirements for the tests because he could translate nothing, now that was tricky.
If you like OG racing games from the dawn of home 3D, you should check some DOS/Windows racing games too! Namely, Grand Prix series, pretty much the first modern simracing series (I recommend starting with GP2) and maybe Spirit Of Speed 1937, being the weird one in the bunch of Microprose games. And you should definetly take a look at the Sega GT, the only game that I can remember from that age that dared to take on the GT1/2, it was direct competitor that was... good enough. Great video btw, I knew that Mr. Kaz was quite a maniac, but that's something special! Keep up the good work!
I still have my original copy of the game, the trust and creative freedom they gave to the team and the dedication they had really helped this game become one of the big hits of the PlayStation, and definitely influcenced the PlayStation's popularity and reputation.
The official number of cars in GT1, according to the Gran Turismo Wiki, is between 160-180.
So...it's more like an official range, then? That's not an exact number!
@@qactustick It's meant to account for certain cars appearing in one region versus another (Cars that only appear in NTSC-U/C versus NTSC-J), I believe.
2:48 hip cups!