Sega Touring Car Championship is a top-tier arcade racer with an insane sense of speed and a killer soundtrack. It may demand an extraordinary amount of patience and time to master, but it pays the effort back in spades.
Dorian Scott I don't think I ever understood what a truly difficult racing game was until I played this. To this day I don't believe I've played a racing game that was harder to come to grips with than this one, but it was soooooo satisfying to get good at! The first couple of times I played it years ago I remember raging so hard because I couldn't even go down a straight road without slamming into the wall. Give it a try - it plays fine in Mednafen! ;) And boy are you missing out! The NES Micro Machines game isn't a port, it's the original! Check it out, it's a classic! th-cam.com/video/IabqTpgTHjY/w-d-xo.html
I've never seen a game this detailed be so smooth on a classic console like this! I never played this game but it feels a an early draft of ridge racer with how fast paced it is and the music too.
There's something a bit "Initial D" about this games first couple of sound tracks. Very underate against Rally and Daytona. Most people don't realise this game is trying to give a different feel to the others and came across a bit harder. I enjoyed the saturn port back in the day.
@@hellacia8151 there is quite a lot of eurobeat, there are like 3 soundtracks you can choose during first heat, if you choose avex you would have eurobeat for the whole playtrough
I loved this game.Great graphics,soundtrack,a good variery of cars and tracks and fast gameplay.If you played with the arcade racer or the analog controller it was a superb experience.
100% yes. I absolutely loved it. Not quite enough to budge Daytona as my favorite Saturn racer, but its soooooo damn good. And the insane difficulty level makes it a better game, I think. I rarely say that, but mastering this game feels like the video game equivalent of reaching the summit of Mt. Everest :D
@@NintendoComplete Once you got the right car and settings. It's not. I find taking the 4wd cars Alfa and Opel which have trouble drifting on their own......softening up the suspension. Gives you a fantastic level of control, even with the regular model 2 pad.
Great driving. I played the arcade version, and remember the steering to be very finicky. This game also has a great soundtrack, and I'm puzzled as to how an F-bomb got past the censors (in the second track). "Are you f***in' awake out there!?" E-rated game, folks. 🤣
I remember this game ! My father bought it to make me happy while I asked for Sega Rally :p I was so disappointed ! Fortunately I had the steering Wheel and this game was very speed and playable with it !! There was some secret circuits with cheat codes ! I don't really love this game (I don't like graphics and music) but it wasn't a bad game. Just I really prefer Sega Rally and Daytona USA CCE :D !! I sold it later without any regret... But thank you for this memory !! :D God bless
The biggest issue with this game is the existence of Gran Turismo mere months after its release on the Saturn. That game proved that realistic driving isn't like what this game portrayed. Especially weird is that they apparently aimed to reflect real driving, while forgetting that these cars have lots of downforce and thus don't twitch the way it was in the game, even upon throttle release.
@@SpeccyHorace It's an arcade racer as in the fact that it was released on the arcade. Their aim for this game is realism - read up on the development of this game. They even have a real racing driver trying out this game to tune the physics. It aims to be something like F355 Challenge games.
I remember playing this game in frustrarion,cause i wanted to play Gran Turismo. Hahaha Btw, have some fun with it,even though i played much more Daytona USA and Sega Rally
I started playing the game for the first time yesterday. Despite people saying the controls are twitchy, but after close to an hour of playing, i was able to get the hang of the controls and had some fun drifting around each turns. The game definitely has a steep learning curve but not impossible as long as you spend time with it. I went back and forth between the default and custom car set up but then i stick with the default setting for rest of the game. I usually went with the Opel Calibra because i felt the most comfortable when i drove it. Alfa Romeo is also a good starter car for beginners. Avoid Supra and the Mercedes until you are good enough.
Most people only had the digital controller (the standard one that came with every Saturn), and this game is basically unplayable with that one. You need the analog 3D pad and even then, it's still hard as balls.
I was just thinking that. The frame rate was maybe 20fps with frequent noticeable pauses. I guess Sega didn't bother to adapt it properly to 50hz. It was released in the dying days of the Saturn after all.
Siegfried39ify Yep, the Pal version was awful, the biggest disappointment ive had in gaming, Winter Heat was the same, 2 of Sega's last few games for the system that more than likely was seen as too much effort to convert it properly for the PAL regions for their dying console, it remained full screen so that maybe says it all really.
Surprised to see this game garner so many positive comments today. IIRC the official Sega Saturn magazine tore this game a new one back in '97 for its ugly graphics and choppy frame rate. In fact they were so disappointed in the final product they apologized to their readers for hyping it in their previews. No doubt it's a million miles from the arcade version. But it does looks better than I recall.
were you using the racing wheel? Cuz even with the 3D pad, while I can get first eventually, my turns definitely don't look as smooth as yours. (speaking of which: it's time I get that wheel anyways lol)
I want to like this game but I feel like the difficulty is caused by the fps drops. I’ve played the arcade game and it feels very different. Glad you like it but l’m not sure if l will ever have the patience to master this port.
honestly, the only thing that wasn't polished was the graphics. (I'm the biggest Sega fan, and Saturn fan ever, but even I can admit: boy these graphics are rough to look at [especially after playing the arcade version; Sega Rally looked just as good in the arcade as STC in the arcade, but the Saturn port of this game.. probably about 4 times worse graphics than the Saturn port of Sega Rally. there's no two ways around that] ). But the gameplay is absolutely rock solid. It controls different from Sega Rally, just like Sega Rally controls different from Daytona. but also with this game: you really can't play with a d-pad. I mean obviously you CAN, but this was really meant to be played with the analog controller, and even much more, a racing wheel. But even just playing this with the analog controller is a night and day difference from playing with a d-pad.
vgaoct91 I think it might've actually been the other way around. The arcade version of STCC came out in '96, and the home port came out near the end of '97, just a few months apart from GT :) GT had better graphics and more stuff crammed in, but I think for sim-style racing this one plays much better!
Vgaoct91 I Wouldn't call Gran Turismo that realistic tbh and Sega Touring car never aimed to be super realistic, its an arcade game after all and was actually released before GT.
@@nate567987 Its actually one of my favourite arcade racers! I actually had a 3rd place time on the Dreamcast online leaderboard on the Motegi track, although i believe it only had 6000 entries, but still pretty cool though.
saturn could, but Sega didn't come up with the idea of making a game like this, or at any rate it thought there was no need since Sega was the home of arcade games, while gran turismo is instead a sim-arcade game. But then it changed his mind by releasing sega gt on dreamcast
I think Saturn could've handled it better actually, especially since they have a second CPU that should theoretically be usable to offload some physics calculations. More RAM (especially with added expansion) means that it has more memory than PS1. If done properly Saturn should've been able to have Gran Turismo better than PS1.
I just bought this game. Never had it back in the day. Let me tell you..... this fucking shit is frustrating. There is a really good game here. It's just hidden in the Saturn Side under some car setting tweaks. I was playing arcade and raging. Switched to Saturn Side.....Its all good now.
Sega Touring Car Championship is a top-tier arcade racer with an insane sense of speed and a killer soundtrack. It may demand an extraordinary amount of patience and time to master, but it pays the effort back in spades.
NintendoComplete, I've played *Micro Machines* for *SNES* and *Sega Genesis* yet this is decent too.
Dorian Scott This is much harder than Micro Machines. I loved MM on the NES!
NintendoComplete,
1. There's an *NES* game!?😱
2. How *IS* this harder?🤔
NintendoComplete GAME OVER YEAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!
Dorian Scott I don't think I ever understood what a truly difficult racing game was until I played this. To this day I don't believe I've played a racing game that was harder to come to grips with than this one, but it was soooooo satisfying to get good at! The first couple of times I played it years ago I remember raging so hard because I couldn't even go down a straight road without slamming into the wall. Give it a try - it plays fine in Mednafen! ;)
And boy are you missing out! The NES Micro Machines game isn't a port, it's the original! Check it out, it's a classic! th-cam.com/video/IabqTpgTHjY/w-d-xo.html
Can a game ooze any more 90s than this one? wow!
drunkensailor112 Seriously, Sega was a master of that :D
You haven't seen Comix Zone. That one has a Gen X-er superstar comic book artist, in a 2d beat'em up, with a killer grunge soundtrack.
Awesome gameplay. I just added this to my collection and I can’t wait to try it with my Saturn steering wheel.
How did you like it? The steering wheel is by far the best way to play it!
That sense of speed makes modern racing games look like your crawling.
I've never seen a game this detailed be so smooth on a classic console like this! I never played this game but it feels a an early draft of ridge racer with how fast paced it is and the music too.
The handling of the cars really let it down was near impossible to control them
Shame as it looked so good
There's something a bit "Initial D" about this games first couple of sound tracks. Very underate against Rally and Daytona. Most people don't realise this game is trying to give a different feel to the others and came across a bit harder. I enjoyed the saturn port back in the day.
it's Hyper Tekno and was put out by the same company that put the SEB disks
they used litteral eurobeat from avex
@@minignoux4566 The only Eurobeat song used was Don't Drop Me by Ann Sinclair
@@hellacia8151 there is quite a lot of eurobeat, there are like 3 soundtracks you can choose during first heat, if you choose avex you would have eurobeat for the whole playtrough
I have the 2 seater arcade version of this just to relive my saturn childhood.
I loved this game.Great graphics,soundtrack,a good variery of cars and tracks and fast gameplay.If you played with the arcade racer or the analog controller it was a superb experience.
100% yes. I absolutely loved it. Not quite enough to budge Daytona as my favorite Saturn racer, but its soooooo damn good. And the insane difficulty level makes it a better game, I think. I rarely say that, but mastering this game feels like the video game equivalent of reaching the summit of Mt. Everest :D
@@NintendoComplete Once you got the right car and settings. It's not.
I find taking the 4wd cars Alfa and Opel which have trouble drifting on their own......softening up the suspension. Gives you a fantastic level of control, even with the regular model 2 pad.
@@NintendoComplete SEGA Rally is my favourite Saturn racer
Great driving. I played the arcade version, and remember the steering to be very finicky.
This game also has a great soundtrack, and I'm puzzled as to how an F-bomb got past the censors (in the second track).
"Are you f***in' awake out there!?"
E-rated game, folks. 🤣
Because everyone thought that to be "Are you stuck in a window pane".
This game's freakin music OWW!
When TH-cam mutes the in-game audio because of content ID 💀
Is it me or the musics in this game are damn catchy?
that cus it is
I remember this game ! My father bought it to make me happy while I asked for Sega Rally :p I was so disappointed ! Fortunately I had the steering Wheel and this game was very speed and playable with it !! There was some secret circuits with cheat codes ! I don't really love this game (I don't like graphics and music) but it wasn't a bad game. Just I really prefer Sega Rally and Daytona USA CCE :D !! I sold it later without any regret... But thank you for this memory !! :D God bless
I used to have this game, I played it on my first laptop in my life
0:40 This sounds like mortal kombat's theme "techno syndrome"
The biggest issue with this game is the existence of Gran Turismo mere months after its release on the Saturn. That game proved that realistic driving isn't like what this game portrayed.
Especially weird is that they apparently aimed to reflect real driving, while forgetting that these cars have lots of downforce and thus don't twitch the way it was in the game, even upon throttle release.
It's an arcade racer, mate.
@@SpeccyHorace It's an arcade racer as in the fact that it was released on the arcade. Their aim for this game is realism - read up on the development of this game. They even have a real racing driver trying out this game to tune the physics.
It aims to be something like F355 Challenge games.
"That game PROVED" Oh the humanity...
I remember playing this game in frustrarion,cause i wanted to play Gran Turismo. Hahaha
Btw, have some fun with it,even though i played much more Daytona USA and Sega Rally
I started playing the game for the first time yesterday. Despite people saying the controls are twitchy, but after close to an hour of playing, i was able to get the hang of the controls and had some fun drifting around each turns. The game definitely has a steep learning curve but not impossible as long as you spend time with it. I went back and forth between the default and custom car set up but then i stick with the default setting for rest of the game.
I usually went with the Opel Calibra because i felt the most comfortable when i drove it. Alfa Romeo is also a good starter car for beginners. Avoid Supra and the Mercedes until you are good enough.
Can't understand why some computer magazines back in the day underrated this one. It looks and moves well with plenty of skill to master.
Most people only had the digital controller (the standard one that came with every Saturn), and this game is basically unplayable with that one. You need the analog 3D pad and even then, it's still hard as balls.
Castrol supra's my favorite race car.
Amazing racing saturn Game!!!
You make it look easy!
Hi! Can you share your settings? Great video! ;)
Your a boss going for Manuel transmission also what happens if you put damage options on?
purpledonatello I've honestly never had the balls to try. I can't imagine the gane becomes any easier that way.
As far as I'm aware damage gives you steering damage after a couple of crashes. I don't recommend playing this game with damage 😂
Impressive playthrough because this game was IMPOSSIBLE
Somehow on your video, game looks better,than i remember,on PAL Saturn game was choppy and uncontrollable as hell!
Siegfried39ify this is the NTSC version.
Oh that sucks! PAL must've got shafted with a bad conversion that just slowed the original down to 50hz. That would be awful for a game like this!
I was just thinking that. The frame rate was maybe 20fps with frequent noticeable pauses. I guess Sega didn't bother to adapt it properly to 50hz. It was released in the dying days of the Saturn after all.
Siegfried39ify
Yep, the Pal version was awful, the biggest disappointment ive had in gaming, Winter Heat was the same, 2 of Sega's last few games for the system that more than likely was seen as too much effort to convert it properly for the PAL regions for their dying console, it remained full screen so that maybe says it all really.
@@RetroGamesBoy78 Oh damn, Winter Heat as well? That must have absolutely ruined it, just like Touring Car.
My local game store has this for $15, I'll probably pick it up.
Surprised to see this game garner so many positive comments today. IIRC the official Sega Saturn magazine tore this game a new one back in '97 for its ugly graphics and choppy frame rate. In fact they were so disappointed in the final product they apologized to their readers for hyping it in their previews.
No doubt it's a million miles from the arcade version. But it does looks better than I recall.
That's because they reviewed the PAL version 😂
Because of how short the tracks are, I always play with the 5-lap setting.
were you using the racing wheel? Cuz even with the 3D pad, while I can get first eventually, my turns definitely don't look as smooth as yours.
(speaking of which: it's time I get that wheel anyways lol)
thank you god for gran turismo exists
Its almost like this game tries to play "Eurobeat"
(Im more used to the Initial D Eurobeat Style)
eurodance!!
Either of you guys know what the singer is saying at 1:08? I've always thought it said, "Don't be gravy," and I really doubt that that is correct lol
What i hear is "Call me Baby"
danylopez123 Español Dude! You're a genius, that totally makes sense! Lmao Thanks!
No Problem
I want to like this game but I feel like the difficulty is caused by the fps drops. I’ve played the arcade game and it feels very different. Glad you like it but l’m not sure if l will ever have the patience to master this port.
What FPS drops? It runs perfectly smoothly, I don't know why people say that.
It's all Eurobeat.
Let's *FUCKING GO.*
Why is Alfa the only car on result screen facing left? :)
Wow I 💘 this video Game's Pretty good I LIKE RACE CAR'S
I like turtles.
It's a cool game but realistic my ass lol, F355 Challenge was Sega's real arcade sim-racing game.
did you play the japanese version? I've read that version is better.
drunkensailor112 No I haven't, just the US one. Any idea the differences?
Seeing you barrel into the pit Lane at top speed give me emotions, and not good ones
Its a shame they didnt "polish" this more. It could have been an Amazing racing game
it's amazing
it's still fun to play, just need to learn it
honestly, the only thing that wasn't polished was the graphics. (I'm the biggest Sega fan, and Saturn fan ever, but even I can admit: boy these graphics are rough to look at [especially after playing the arcade version; Sega Rally looked just as good in the arcade as STC in the arcade, but the Saturn port of this game.. probably about 4 times worse graphics than the Saturn port of Sega Rally. there's no two ways around that] ).
But the gameplay is absolutely rock solid.
It controls different from Sega Rally, just like Sega Rally controls different from Daytona.
but also with this game: you really can't play with a d-pad. I mean obviously you CAN, but this was really meant to be played with the analog controller, and even much more, a racing wheel.
But even just playing this with the analog controller is a night and day difference from playing with a d-pad.
Not bad!
...If I didn't know any better, I assume Sega was trying to emulate the realism of Gran Turismo?
vgaoct91 I think it might've actually been the other way around. The arcade version of STCC came out in '96, and the home port came out near the end of '97, just a few months apart from GT :) GT had better graphics and more stuff crammed in, but I think for sim-style racing this one plays much better!
Sega didn't attempt Gran Turismo until Sega GT on the Dreamcast
Vgaoct91
I Wouldn't call Gran Turismo that realistic tbh and Sega Touring car never aimed to be super realistic, its an arcade game after all and was actually released before GT.
@@RetroGamesBoy78 355 chanlge was an arcade game
@@nate567987
Its actually one of my favourite arcade racers! I actually had a 3rd place time on the Dreamcast online leaderboard on the Motegi track, although i believe it only had 6000 entries, but still pretty cool though.
Até hoje eu falo Sega rallye championchip pqp que nostalgia
Hats off...
3:16 Nice Sound
Decent graphics. Something I've always wondered is if the Saturn would have been able to handle a game like Gran Turismo.
saturn could, but Sega didn't come up with the idea of making a game like this, or at any rate it thought there was no need since Sega was the home of arcade games, while gran turismo is instead a sim-arcade game. But then it changed his mind by releasing sega gt on dreamcast
I think Saturn could've handled it better actually, especially since they have a second CPU that should theoretically be usable to offload some physics calculations. More RAM (especially with added expansion) means that it has more memory than PS1.
If done properly Saturn should've been able to have Gran Turismo better than PS1.
Is this running on an emulator?.....
The sense of speed in this game is unreal, if they only had different modes for newbies with easier controls.
What were they thinking putting initials d tracks in there?
I've played it on arcade machine.
I once tried uploading my own playthrough of this game.
Then TH-cam muted the whole damn game!
So now it's gone. 😭
Damn... looks like i will have to upload my footage without any music. Such a shame
I just bought this game. Never had it back in the day. Let me tell you..... this fucking shit is frustrating. There is a really good game here.
It's just hidden in the Saturn Side under some car setting tweaks. I was playing arcade and raging. Switched to Saturn Side.....Its all good now.
Who put eurobeat in my Saturn?
Ridge racer rival
移植到SS根本悲劇，一個好遊戲給糟蹋得不成樣
Cant play this in 2024. Graphics look like crapola.
1:14 WHAT???
2:24 Not Again.
7:45 The Gameplay was ruined I don't like this. I'm disappointed.
probably copyrighted
Ottimo senso di velocità..ma grafica squallida
man, they can't do gear ratios right....
I don't get how Sega arcade racing games had better music and terrible game play.
The gameplay is fine in this game. It's just the Saturn version looks hideous.