For those who wondered Beginner: Volkswagen Type 2 Beginner: BMW 5 Series Advanced: Chevrolet Camaro Advanced: Dodge Viper Expert: Toyota Supra Expert: Volkswagen Beetle Extreme: Bugatti EB110 Extreme: Koenigsegg CC Personally I always had to go with the Koenigsegg(IT'S DANGEROUS!!!)
Me and my friends spent years playing this game, we loved the hidden play area with the loop ECT. We used to play 4 player tag (it). Priceless memories for me :) I'm 32 now... *sigh*
Getting there was even a challenge! Great memories trying to reach that hidden stunt area close to the water and wrecking each other in the meantime, and every time you'd explode you were set back on track and it would take minutes just to get there again haha :') Also playing tag mode in the harbors was awesome. One of my favorite racers on the Nintendo 64!
There was a huge secret cave place in one of the levels. It was in one of the coastal races. You would drive your car down on a side of a cliff somewhere and enter a small cave. The cave was huge with load of crazy jumps and ramps. So cool.
WhaWhaWhaWhaWhat's your name? Nothing nasty now! I absolutely loved this game on the N64, still play it every so often now. I just love the ton of exploration the game offers, even stuff like the stunt arena not discovered for years after.
I remember finding the stunt arena (in a cave down the hill by the ocean on one level) as a kid by total accident. Found it probably within a month of owning the game; not years later. Back then the Internet was still new and me being so young I never thought about sharing this discovery. Anyway, when I stumbled upon the secret stunt arena I was ecstatic. I thought it was the coolest thing ever and I probably spent a handful of hours playing in that area. I remember also going over all the other tracks with a fine tooth comb after this and, while finding other cool secrets, nothing compared to the stunt arena.
@@ratiocinator Same with me and my friends on the stunt area. We also found it not too long after getting the game trying to hunt down all the keys. (IIRC, isn't there a key in there?) It was such a pain in the ass to get to without blowing up that once you got there... if you hit a ramp wrong, you would be picked up and put back up top onto the track. I remember there was a cheat code that C-UP would just pick you up and put you right where you were. You could C-UP continually to get keys in the sky if you wanted to be cheap. Really good memories with this game.
I think what I really liked about San Francisco Rush, both the arcade and N64 version, is that I'd describe it as a 'chaos party race'. You're encouraged to bash into guys and knock them into stuff and when they do it to you it's not because it's personal but because it's fun! Its closest contemporary's I'd say would be Flatout 2 and Burnout 3. Part of the fun is "Did you see that crash? It was all like vreeee-kerpow explud!"
I loved this game. Back when it came out this was about the closest thing you could get to an open world racer. I had alot of fun and spent many hours trying to find all the cool jumps and secrets.
I do think they would want to make it more like 2049 though. Not necessarily in the design, but in the creative department. I feel like the Rush label could pull in some good sales if they made a good and fresh polished game.
S0up3rD0up3r Believe it or not, that racing game that featured West Coast Customs, LA Rush, was actually the fourth installment to the rush series. That could potentially be considered a modern sequel but considering that it came out around ten years ago makes it debatable.
Spent so many hours just exploring the tracks in this game and finding geometry that would launch our cars into the air flipping and twisting like a gymnast- and then our amazement when we discovered the secret underground stunt cave!
I picked Rush up a few months after it came out and over the years remained a favorite of both my friends and myself. I never really felt I mastered the controls (which, as you pointed out, handling some cars was a bit frustrating) but ample fun was had nonetheless. My favorite aspect was easily the exploration which was featured to a degree I'd never seen before in a racing game. From collecting the keys to the countless shortcuts, enormous hidden half-pip in track 2 and underground stunt park in track 6, not to mention the hidden Alcatraz track, Rush blew my little adolescent mind many, many times. Great review! :D
Oh, memories... I had this game when I was a kid, and I remember a few things about it. The first easy track, always using the easiest vehicles because I was just a kid who wasn't very good at games in general, how incredibly hard it was to avoid exploding, and trying out a manual transmission once and then refusing to go back to it ever again. But what I remember most about it was the announcer's lines, from "Checkpoint!" to the signature "RUSSSSSHHHH!!!!!!!" at the start of the race.
Awesome review. Cheers mate. Brings back a lot of great memories of hours and hours of gaming back in the late 90s! Crazy how fast time flies... Still game now but back then is when it was awesome. Goldeneye, San Fran Rush, 1080 snowboarding, Mario kart a few of my favourites! Even wave racer (which came free with my n64) was a cool game! Miss these days
Brings back so many good memories. Can't even count how many hours me and my brother put into it on n64. Still have it and still play it. I miss arcade racers.
3:54 I don't know about anyone else, but blowing up always makes me laugh!! The fact it does that so much is just so funny. I really honestly think that is the best feature of the game.
So you DO listen to us! HAHAHAHA! Just kidding, brother! Glad to see this series pop up! I'm SUCH a fan of this series. I had several (rather popular) radio shows that were devoted to just playing this SF and Rush 2. My fiancee and I play this game to this day, and have a blast doing it! I'm not sure how old I was when this game released, but I remember getting it either for Christmas or my birthday. I fell in love instantly. I'm a car guy (as you can tell by my channel) and have always loved racing (as you can tell by my channel) so to have cars that I could recognize (such as the E34/38, Supra, Corvette, Mustang, etc.) and do INSANE tricks in, just made my day. I would spend hours, upon hours, just driving around in free mode exploring the vastness of each city. When Rush 2 came out, it blew me away! I can't wait for you to review that so I can hear your thoughts!
David Adams haha well it went from one or two requests to a near daily message asking me when ill be doing it so like the cruisn series i thought id just cover them all back to back in a special week :)
And this is why we love you! I still remember the first video of yours I watched the "gay video games" from then, I was hooked! I'd love to see another parody list like that. Your sense of humor is really fun to watch play out on camera!
So glad to see you start up your Rush reviews! I feel like this game laid a good foundation for Rush 2 with its graphics and track designs, but the music and physics in Rush 2 are much improved. This one is fun to play, but it's hard to take it seriously like I can with the other Rush games. Rush 2 is my favourite, only because 2049 has a terrible amount of locked content, and it can get too frustrating, grindy, and even boring to complete it 100%. Can't wait to see what you and others think!
This is the first racing game I played on the N64 back when it first dropped. Man, I remember how amazed we were with the graphics and how much we laughed, every time we made big leap off the track, almost flying across the raceway and crashing into a building or at sea. We had a blast with this game. Nice review.. I need to pick it up and revisit old times.
One of my earliest experiences where I learned that the world can be cruel. After countless childhood hours spent practicing and improving only to have a perfect run ruined by a pixel of my car touching an obstacle jutting out in San Francisco Rush. It was an explosion every time.
Me and my friends LOVED SF rush!! We would spend hours playing the game with the codes turned on to stop the time. We would play around in that secret stunt area. We would have competitions and vote on who had the best crashes. Some were totally epic. Then when Rush 2 was released I was totally excited for it and bought it the first day. My friends and I played it for one weekend and then one guy asked to borrow it. He completely stole it from me and refused to return it.
Rush 1 and 2 are some of my favorite racing games of all time. What made them so great to me was the speed, the jumps, the explosions, and of course the shortcuts. Every track was so full of hidden pathways and things to explore. Also woth mentioning was the multiplayer. For people asking for a sequel, I consider split/second to be a worth successor of the rush series, you guys should try it out.
Holy crap I loved this game as a kid! The crashes & stunts were insane! They were the reason I played it. Me and my friend would spend hours just demolishing our cars in the coolest fashion!
Picking this game up a few months ago, I was very impressed with the total package for an early N64 racer. It's fast, smooth and graphically very solid for its time. Like you said, it blows its contemporaries out of the water. Also, as far as afordability goes, the game is a steal. I'm personally more a fan of the sequels and eagerly await your reviews of them.
First time I felt the rumble pack on this game I knew I was in love. This is my favorite racing game on the N64. I eventually saved up for a full size arcade of the Rock edition.
I know this video is over 8 years old but, from what I can tell, no one mentioned that Trick Park hidden at the very bottom of one of the levels. As a kid I remember carefully driving off road, down the hill, close to the water in order to get to the opening of the trick area. It was a blast. The only bad thing was when you crashed - it sent you back to the race and it was a tedious drive to get back there. I have no idea how I found out about it but I have never forgotten it!
Me and my brother played this game endlessly as young kids and I absolutely love everything about it. What ever we named our profiles on the control pak was our characters. For example we'd name and then imagine Sonic and Tails were driving and even role play with the infinite time cheat and a massive amount of other fun cheats we could use. This game hits Nostalgia more than any other racing game I've ever played.
I spent hours playing this game... I loved how you can choose your song... Used to go to my friend alvins house and we literally spent hours playing this game. We even made our own fame in free mode. Going off ramps and naming some "tricks" ahhah we had our own scoring system
I loved this game back when it first came out, so many memories of friends coming over and trying to see who can pull off the most ridiculous crash or stunt, finding the secret playground area on track 6 or trying to unlock Alcatraz. Great review once again!
It's finally come! So excited for the rest of the week!!!! I personally wasn't attached to this first game like rush 2 & 2049. multiplayer stunt mode is where I sunk the majority of my time during my childhood and today. I am always able to convince non 64 lovers to take part in this mode and they end up having a blast. It becomes so competitive to land that one ridiculous stunt to beat out a friend!
can also adjust the "flatness/fatness" of the car, tire size, and gravity. I remember 3 hidden cars that can be unlocked. all very difficult to drive, but so fast you won anyway
ikr? when we were kids I was all ticked n jealous at my little brother for finding that mysterious stunt track where nobody would ever think to go, till I found this giant red half pipe on a differerent track.
I think I love it because of 2049. The hours spent in the battle mode and stunt mode with friends and on my own are uncountable. Even in retrospect pushing nostalgia aside as far as I can the series truly progressed well through the 64 era.
This game took time for me to master as a kid. I still love it to this day. Little things like the "Rave Rush" song to the sound made when you select the Bugatti or the Koenigsegg still are fresh in my memory to this day. My cousin and I used to spend hours exploring each course trying to find all the hidden paths and riding the hidden vertical loop on that one level(damn I miss the 90's). I may dust this off one of these days.
I loved the secret "skate park" that you could find by driving down the hill in one of the longer levels. No one seems to talk about that part of the game.
The hidden stunt course...my friend and I tried to see how long we could hang in there with the well hidden underground course only to find that we failed, exploded and got sucked back out onto the main road. The entry to the stunt course was well hidden on a hill side on that long, skinny track...and we had to be careful even going down the hillside as to not blow up getting there :) There were many "all nighters" we'd be up playing this and inputting some of the codes so we can race upside down, in heavy fog, or disable the auto position that would happen when you turned over as to maximize our time in the hidden stunt areas.
Unexpectedly loved this game back in 1997. I remembered during the holiday season that year really wanting to continue playing this game so bad! Instead me & my now late mother had to pick up her (also departed) sister, my aunt Marilyn, & her son (my cousin) Chris in Santa Rosa, CA, driving in a rainy day, from Vallejo, CA.
Loved this series. I remember renting it without much expectation and being blown away by how cool the game played with the huge jumps and shortcuts. The graphics haven't aged well but it's still a lot of fun to play. Nowadays not many all out arcade racers like this are made anymore it's more simulations.
And In the case of this game that made my teenhood and became very shortly my most favorite racer in my now 42 years of life in this earth since Pole Position II on the Atari 7800: Neon-flavored Skiddles on wheels. FROM ATARI GAMES, TASTE THE RAINBOW ON THE STREETS OF SAN FRANCISCO!!😉😎
also, while i certainly spent a lot of time with the original SF rush on the n64 and loved it, i was disappointed that it didn't look quite as good as the arcade game. fortunately midway rectified this with the next two installments with rush 2 and 2049 having much better draw distance and comparable graphical sheen to the arcade.
This is one of the few games I can get my girlfriend to play willingly. I picked up a boxed copy for pennies last year, and it's one of the few cib 64 games I have. Great review as always!
spent countless hours on this game as a kid. i think the main selling point of it was the physics combined with stunts, which many racing games at the time did not feature.
Believe it or not, I've had played the PlayStation version when I was younger and that was my first exposure to the series. I was unaware there was an N64 version until watching Nikateen's video few years back.
I can remember renting this and spending hours just doing flips off of the fountain in that plaza.. I had never experienced anything like that before on a home system. Still one of my all time favs..
This was one of the first Racers I ever played. I found all the secrets in the game. The only secret I never understood was the random fire pit with spikes within the city? Was there something after it, because it sure looked like it.
Before buying this, i had never played played the arcade game and was looking for a chrissy present my grand parent could give me back when i was a kid. I ended up loving this game for so many reason. At first i didnt like the driving so much, thought it was alot different to the usual, but as soon as i got used to it, this whole game opened up. I loved going into practice mode and finding all the keys, and also trying to find all the shortcuts. I then tried really hard to beat the game on hard settings etc. After beating the game and finding all the keys (plus just generally enjoying racing for fun) i found new exciting ways to really enjoy this game, especially with friends. One mode, which i must of spent 10 to 20 hours on with friends and by myself, was a self made challenge. We would play on the 2nd race course and modify all the settings so that it would be Low gravity, realy hard AI, very windy and you only lived once (including the computer). The Aim was to see how quickly you could kill of the AI (which as you know were really hard to budge). This challenge was so much fun, especially since the opening start of Race 2 was really hilly, so lots of airtime (which made it slightly easier to kill the AI. Others different challengers i enjoyed was trying to break the invisible was in race one. I would put on low gravity, and if you would hit a jump/rock at the right angle at the start of the race, you could go through the invisible wall and fall through the Track. My other fond memories was unlocking the secret 7th level, which was amazing to me at the time, as i had played a fair amount before this secret was known, plus i also quite enjoyed the secret stunt location in race 6. Overall, one of my best experiences on the N64
alot of people don't realize when they play San Francisco Rush, Rush 2 and Rush 2049, it forces u 2 master huggin' corners and when u master tha huggin' corner technique, it will also help u on other racing games dat some people say has bad handling like for example, Driven on Gamecube and others!
My copy is waiting for me in the U.S. I'm looking forward to getting it back home and playing it, along with a good many others. It's cheaper to fly back and bring everything back in my suitcase than it is to pay shipping, and in many cases it isn't even available, so that's what I do. Oh and visit family and friends since I'm there anyway hahaha! Looking forward to the rest of the RUSH reviews.
Thumbs up! I always rather appreciated 'San Francisco Rush' for both the racing and for having a rather hefty number of game settings, though several had to be unlocked through bizarre button codes. My favorite feature has always been the option to race every course forwards and backwards (in addition to mirroring). This effectively turns six tracks into a challenging pack of twelve (or 24, if mirrored tracks are added), with the backward tracks having their own series of alternate paths and shortcuts. Great times, man; great times!
the best thing for me was spending hours trying to survive level 6 in reverse with deaths off, and trying to kill all the other racers and be the last one standing. That is how my brothers and I sunk loads of hours into this one! STL is the best song also. More into level 6 in reverse, the paths you take just hold so many daunting jumps that even the AI takes. It's fantastic!
@@n64glennplant good question! I'm not sure. I have all three rush games and my favorite part is searching for shortcuts and keys. USA has Mt dew cans which makes a glugging sound which I still get a kick out of. 2049 has lots of coins instead of keys which are an awesome challenge. My favorite track would be the one with the giant half pipe in the first rush game. I could go on and on
For me this was my first racer that didn't have carts. I think I played practice mode the most, I had a lot of fun exploring the tracks and finding the best ways to get really good air time. And getting my car as damaged as possible without exploding. I also remember trying to make my initials ASS and it wouldn't let me. Nasty. XD
The only thing that disappointed me about this game was the shortcuts that the arcade had that were missing in this version for no apparent reason. I played this game so much though, loved it
My favourite game in the Rush series. I didn't own it myself, but a friend bought it and it was one of those games we kept coming back to for years. I bought the third Rush game myself, and I loved it, but it still wasn't as memorable as this one. Did anyone manage to collect all those keys? I swear, some were nigh on impossible to get to. Seemed like they required an insane amount of luck and skill to reach.
You're gonna get to Rush 2049 right? That one was my favorite of the series. I love futuristic racers and that one was right up there with F-Zero for me.
i remember getting this game as a kid... and i thought it was broken because the cars kept blowing up. We returned it and got diddy kong racing instead lol
one of my favorite racing games of all time, I love it to death and have absolutely no idea why lol. It was just really fun, I guess thats all there is too it XD
This game had a great feel of speed. In my memories it was not that interesting of a game, what made it good was the Stunts, Physics and Destruction. I spend many hours just going for Jumps and crashes.
My favorite racing series of all time. Played this game for hours looking for all the secrets and keys.
WrecklessEating hell yeah :)
For those who wondered
Beginner: Volkswagen Type 2
Beginner: BMW 5 Series
Advanced: Chevrolet Camaro
Advanced: Dodge Viper
Expert: Toyota Supra
Expert: Volkswagen Beetle
Extreme: Bugatti EB110
Extreme: Koenigsegg CC
Personally I always had to go with the Koenigsegg(IT'S DANGEROUS!!!)
Same
Me and my friends spent years playing this game, we loved the hidden play area with the loop ECT. We used to play 4 player tag (it). Priceless memories for me :) I'm 32 now... *sigh*
I’m in my mid 30s so know exactly what you mean with this era 👍
Getting there was even a challenge! Great memories trying to reach that hidden stunt area close to the water and wrecking each other in the meantime, and every time you'd explode you were set back on track and it would take minutes just to get there again haha :') Also playing tag mode in the harbors was awesome. One of my favorite racers on the Nintendo 64!
There was a huge secret cave place in one of the levels. It was in one of the coastal races. You would drive your car down on a side of a cliff somewhere and enter a small cave. The cave was huge with load of crazy jumps and ramps. So cool.
What?!?!? Lol im about to go look for that
Yessir. So hard too because if you fuck up you reset all the way to the road
@@toddthezondalover645 that did suck balls for sure dude
WhaWhaWhaWhaWhat's your name? Nothing nasty now!
I absolutely loved this game on the N64, still play it every so often now. I just love the ton of exploration the game offers, even stuff like the stunt arena not discovered for years after.
***** i wonder how many people did indeed put in something nasty!
***** Possibly :D Sega arcade game infamously would not let you enter your initials in as SEX. But everything else you can thing of was fine!
I remember finding the stunt arena (in a cave down the hill by the ocean on one level) as a kid by total accident. Found it probably within a month of owning the game; not years later.
Back then the Internet was still new and me being so young I never thought about sharing this discovery. Anyway, when I stumbled upon the secret stunt arena I was ecstatic. I thought it was the coolest thing ever and I probably spent a handful of hours playing in that area.
I remember also going over all the other tracks with a fine tooth comb after this and, while finding other cool secrets, nothing compared to the stunt arena.
@@ratiocinator Same with me and my friends on the stunt area. We also found it not too long after getting the game trying to hunt down all the keys. (IIRC, isn't there a key in there?) It was such a pain in the ass to get to without blowing up that once you got there... if you hit a ramp wrong, you would be picked up and put back up top onto the track.
I remember there was a cheat code that C-UP would just pick you up and put you right where you were. You could C-UP continually to get keys in the sky if you wanted to be cheap. Really good memories with this game.
I think what I really liked about San Francisco Rush, both the arcade and N64 version, is that I'd describe it as a 'chaos party race'. You're encouraged to bash into guys and knock them into stuff and when they do it to you it's not because it's personal but because it's fun! Its closest contemporary's I'd say would be Flatout 2 and Burnout 3.
Part of the fun is "Did you see that crash? It was all like vreeee-kerpow explud!"
I loved this game. Back when it came out this was about the closest thing you could get to an open world racer. I had alot of fun and spent many hours trying to find all the cool jumps and secrets.
I'm so sad this game hasn't had a remake yet...or hell even a modern sequel ;_;
S0up3rD0up3r i think its about time that happened too!
I do think they would want to make it more like 2049 though. Not necessarily in the design, but in the creative department. I feel like the Rush label could pull in some good sales if they made a good and fresh polished game.
Rychotech Yeah kinda like how they remade Hydro Thunder. Which was really unexpected.
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S0up3rD0up3r Believe it or not, that racing game that featured West Coast Customs, LA Rush, was actually the fourth installment to the rush series. That could potentially be considered a modern sequel but considering that it came out around ten years ago makes it debatable.
Spent so many hours just exploring the tracks in this game and finding geometry that would launch our cars into the air flipping and twisting like a gymnast- and then our amazement when we discovered the secret underground stunt cave!
I picked Rush up a few months after it came out and over the years remained a favorite of both my friends and myself. I never really felt I mastered the controls (which, as you pointed out, handling some cars was a bit frustrating) but ample fun was had nonetheless. My favorite aspect was easily the exploration which was featured to a degree I'd never seen before in a racing game. From collecting the keys to the countless shortcuts, enormous hidden half-pip in track 2 and underground stunt park in track 6, not to mention the hidden Alcatraz track, Rush blew my little adolescent mind many, many times. Great review! :D
Oh man this brought back some memories, renting this from BlockBuster and searching for keys, good times.
TheBlackLink not just good times - awesome times!
I used to rent it on Friday for two nights, because the local game shop was closed on Sundays so I'd get a free night. Goodness, to be 12 again!
Oh, memories... I had this game when I was a kid, and I remember a few things about it. The first easy track, always using the easiest vehicles because I was just a kid who wasn't very good at games in general, how incredibly hard it was to avoid exploding, and trying out a manual transmission once and then refusing to go back to it ever again. But what I remember most about it was the announcer's lines, from "Checkpoint!" to the signature "RUSSSSSHHHH!!!!!!!" at the start of the race.
Awesome review. Cheers mate. Brings back a lot of great memories of hours and hours of gaming back in the late 90s! Crazy how fast time flies... Still game now but back then is when it was awesome. Goldeneye, San Fran Rush, 1080 snowboarding, Mario kart a few of my favourites! Even wave racer (which came free with my n64) was a cool game! Miss these days
Brings back so many good memories. Can't even count how many hours me and my brother put into it on n64. Still have it and still play it. I miss arcade racers.
How would you rank them?
@@steve5123456789 the rush games? First one is my favorite followed by 2049 and then Rush 2. Did not care for la rush at all.
@@actioncross257 Doesn't the first one have the worst controls?
@@steve5123456789 I played on n64. The controls never bothered me.
3:54 I don't know about anyone else, but blowing up always makes me laugh!! The fact it does that so much is just so funny. I really honestly think that is the best feature of the game.
Its unique to rush... From what i know
Such nostalgia!! I still play this game via emulator as an adult..so glad you gave this game a positive review...i held my breath for a second..
So you DO listen to us! HAHAHAHA! Just kidding, brother! Glad to see this series pop up! I'm SUCH a fan of this series. I had several (rather popular) radio shows that were devoted to just playing this SF and Rush 2. My fiancee and I play this game to this day, and have a blast doing it!
I'm not sure how old I was when this game released, but I remember getting it either for Christmas or my birthday. I fell in love instantly. I'm a car guy (as you can tell by my channel) and have always loved racing (as you can tell by my channel) so to have cars that I could recognize (such as the E34/38, Supra, Corvette, Mustang, etc.) and do INSANE tricks in, just made my day. I would spend hours, upon hours, just driving around in free mode exploring the vastness of each city. When Rush 2 came out, it blew me away! I can't wait for you to review that so I can hear your thoughts!
David Adams haha well it went from one or two requests to a near daily message asking me when ill be doing it so like the cruisn series i thought id just cover them all back to back in a special week :)
And this is why we love you! I still remember the first video of yours I watched the "gay video games" from then, I was hooked! I'd love to see another parody list like that. Your sense of humor is really fun to watch play out on camera!
This game passed me by as a kid, wish I had picked up a copy.
So glad to see you start up your Rush reviews! I feel like this game laid a good foundation for Rush 2 with its graphics and track designs, but the music and physics in Rush 2 are much improved. This one is fun to play, but it's hard to take it seriously like I can with the other Rush games. Rush 2 is my favourite, only because 2049 has a terrible amount of locked content, and it can get too frustrating, grindy, and even boring to complete it 100%. Can't wait to see what you and others think!
AMathMonkey wednesday and friday will reveal all :)
This is the first racing game I played on the N64 back when it first dropped. Man, I remember how amazed we were with the graphics and how much we laughed, every time we made big leap off the track, almost flying across the raceway and crashing into a building or at sea. We had a blast with this game. Nice review.. I need to pick it up and revisit old times.
One of my earliest experiences where I learned that the world can be cruel. After countless childhood hours spent practicing and improving only to have a perfect run ruined by a pixel of my car touching an obstacle jutting out in San Francisco Rush. It was an explosion every time.
Me and my friends LOVED SF rush!! We would spend hours playing the game with the codes turned on to stop the time. We would play around in that secret stunt area. We would have competitions and vote on who had the best crashes. Some were totally epic. Then when Rush 2 was released I was totally excited for it and bought it the first day. My friends and I played it for one weekend and then one guy asked to borrow it. He completely stole it from me and refused to return it.
You needed to find some hook on the dude. Parents, school, police, etc
glad you're reviewing these! it's so hard to find well done reviews of the rush series on TH-cam. i look forward to watching the next 2 (:
Rush 2 just went up :-)
Rush 1 and 2 are some of my favorite racing games of all time. What made them so great to me was the speed, the jumps, the explosions, and of course the shortcuts. Every track was so full of hidden pathways and things to explore. Also woth mentioning was the multiplayer. For people asking for a sequel, I consider split/second to be a worth successor of the rush series, you guys should try it out.
Gustavo CVE good recommendation, i felt like burnout paradise in a way was almost containing a lot of the elements that made this so fun
Holy crap I loved this game as a kid! The crashes & stunts were insane! They were the reason I played it. Me and my friend would spend hours just demolishing our cars in the coolest fashion!
omg the sound of cars crashing and getting banged up brings me back man
that key in the shipping area pipe was just evil
Picking this game up a few months ago, I was very impressed with the total package for an early N64 racer. It's fast, smooth and graphically very solid for its time. Like you said, it blows its contemporaries out of the water. Also, as far as afordability goes, the game is a steal. I'm personally more a fan of the sequels and eagerly await your reviews of them.
Marco Wolken not long to wait! wednesday and friday are the next games in the series
First time I felt the rumble pack on this game I knew I was in love. This is my favorite racing game on the N64. I eventually saved up for a full size arcade of the Rock edition.
Wow that’s such a cool cab to have
A fast and chaotic racer. I loved the death race option.
I know this video is over 8 years old but, from what I can tell, no one mentioned that Trick Park hidden at the very bottom of one of the levels. As a kid I remember carefully driving off road, down the hill, close to the water in order to get to the opening of the trick area. It was a blast. The only bad thing was when you crashed - it sent you back to the race and it was a tedious drive to get back there. I have no idea how I found out about it but I have never forgotten it!
You know it’s cool I found out about that from magazines so maybe that’s where you heard too?
Me and my brother played this game endlessly as young kids and I absolutely love everything about it. What ever we named our profiles on the control pak was our characters. For example we'd name and then imagine Sonic and Tails were driving and even role play with the infinite time cheat and a massive amount of other fun cheats we could use. This game hits Nostalgia more than any other racing game I've ever played.
I spent hours playing this game... I loved how you can choose your song... Used to go to my friend alvins house and we literally spent hours playing this game. We even made our own fame in free mode. Going off ramps and naming some "tricks" ahhah we had our own scoring system
I loved this game back when it first came out, so many memories of friends coming over and trying to see who can pull off the most ridiculous crash or stunt, finding the secret playground area on track 6 or trying to unlock Alcatraz. Great review once again!
Evan Peters thankfully they gave us alcatraz more easily in the sequel!
***** Truer words have never been spoken lol
It's finally come! So excited for the rest of the week!!!! I personally wasn't attached to this first game like rush 2 & 2049. multiplayer stunt mode is where I sunk the majority of my time during my childhood and today. I am always able to convince non 64 lovers to take part in this mode and they end up having a blast. It becomes so competitive to land that one ridiculous stunt to beat out a friend!
Michael Crowe it seems a lot of people love those modes too
My favourite racing series of all time if only they would make a remaster.
This game, the music, the cars!
I wanna experience this all over again -v-
***** i love it when games give you that feeling
I remember loving this game. I don't remember how bad the graphics were haja
Nostalgia is a wonderful thing - most ps1 games have that effect on me when I see them now
can also adjust the "flatness/fatness" of the car, tire size, and gravity.
I remember 3 hidden cars that can be unlocked. all very difficult to drive, but so fast you won anyway
Use to enjoy playing this game in the arcade. When I was a kid .
How could you forget the stunt track? It was always my favorite for multi player
ikr? when we were kids I was all ticked n jealous at my little brother for finding that mysterious stunt track where nobody would ever think to go, till I found this giant red half pipe on a differerent track.
I think I love it because of 2049.
The hours spent in the battle mode and stunt mode with friends and on my own are uncountable.
Even in retrospect pushing nostalgia aside as far as I can the series truly progressed well through the 64 era.
Rychotech thats what i liked to see too
great review glenn love the rush series
Super happy you're getting around to doing these :) Easily the best racing series on the console!
Saturnology the next 2 will be this week so you won't have to wait long :)
This game took time for me to master as a kid. I still love it to this day. Little things like the "Rave Rush" song to the sound made when you select the Bugatti or the Koenigsegg still are fresh in my memory to this day. My cousin and I used to spend hours exploring each course trying to find all the hidden paths and riding the hidden vertical loop on that one level(damn I miss the 90's). I may dust this off one of these days.
The car would've blown up multiple times
I loved the secret "skate park" that you could find by driving down the hill in one of the longer levels. No one seems to talk about that part of the game.
I think is because there’s so many cool secrets
This is the grandest one in the game though.
Im a huge fan of this series. Even tho the first 2 games have aged a lot, i still play them every now and then.
The hidden stunt course...my friend and I tried to see how long we could hang in there with the well hidden underground course only to find that we failed, exploded and got sucked back out onto the main road. The entry to the stunt course was well hidden on a hill side on that long, skinny track...and we had to be careful even going down the hillside as to not blow up getting there :)
There were many "all nighters" we'd be up playing this and inputting some of the codes so we can race upside down, in heavy fog, or disable the auto position that would happen when you turned over as to maximize our time in the hidden stunt areas.
Unexpectedly loved this game back in 1997. I remembered during the holiday season that year really wanting to continue playing this game so bad! Instead me & my now late mother had to pick up her (also departed) sister, my aunt Marilyn, & her son (my cousin) Chris in Santa Rosa, CA, driving in a rainy day, from Vallejo, CA.
I remember the game cabinet fondly since one massive arcade near me had over 20 of them in a row.
Ahhh took me back! Love the reviews, keep it up
Robert Miranda thanks the rest of the series will be covered this week
this game was amazing!! So much fun, I remember often playing the same race over and over. The stunts, the branching paths...every lap felt fresh
Loved this series. I remember renting it without much expectation and being blown away by how cool the game played with the huge jumps and shortcuts. The graphics haven't aged well but it's still a lot of fun to play. Nowadays not many all out arcade racers like this are made anymore it's more simulations.
***** yeah i think its about time they came back, the closest recent thing too it i can think of was burnout paradise
Love these arcadey style racers with all the colors.
And In the case of this game that made my teenhood and became very shortly my most favorite racer in my now 42 years of life in this earth since Pole Position II on the Atari 7800: Neon-flavored Skiddles on wheels.
FROM ATARI GAMES, TASTE THE RAINBOW ON THE STREETS OF SAN FRANCISCO!!😉😎
Rush extreme racing 2 was me and my brothers child hood. along with Mario kart 64, and Diddy Kong racing.
awesome time to be alive right
also, while i certainly spent a lot of time with the original SF rush on the n64 and loved it, i was disappointed that it didn't look quite as good as the arcade game. fortunately midway rectified this with the next two installments with rush 2 and 2049 having much better draw distance and comparable graphical sheen to the arcade.
Like that polygonal spherical explosion ewe
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This is one of the few games I can get my girlfriend to play willingly. I picked up a boxed copy for pennies last year, and it's one of the few cib 64 games I have. Great review as always!
spent countless hours on this game as a kid. i think the main selling point of it was the physics combined with stunts, which many racing games at the time did not feature.
I had a lot of fun with this game as a kid, mainly because you could explore. Sat down and unlocked the entire game in a 10 hour binge once!
NostalgicRoe great binge by the sounds of it!
This game was damn fun to play, brings back sweet memories.
I love how all of the cars look just like a name brand car... without the brand.
Believe it or not, I've had played the PlayStation version when I was younger and that was my first exposure to the series. I was unaware there was an N64 version until watching Nikateen's video few years back.
Whoa and to think the n64 rush games are way better than the ps1 games so you get to enjoy them all over again
One of the games I bought the N64 for, such a satisfying racer
I can remember renting this and spending hours just doing flips off of the fountain in that plaza.. I had never experienced anything like that before on a home system. Still one of my all time favs..
Cosmo Ishtari awesome memory :)
Also I remember going down some hill and finding a massive playground. Epic
Another great video about a racing game I had not heard of. Cheers
Where did the 90's go guys? We've gotten old, haven't we?
Like seriously old
This was one of the first Racers I ever played. I found all the secrets in the game. The only secret I never understood was the random fire pit with spikes within the city? Was there something after it, because it sure looked like it.
if you think about it the game has that open world vibe and its ahead of its time
Before buying this, i had never played played the arcade game and was looking for a chrissy present my grand parent could give me back when i was a kid. I ended up loving this game for so many reason.
At first i didnt like the driving so much, thought it was alot different to the usual, but as soon as i got used to it, this whole game opened up.
I loved going into practice mode and finding all the keys, and also trying to find all the shortcuts.
I then tried really hard to beat the game on hard settings etc.
After beating the game and finding all the keys (plus just generally enjoying racing for fun) i found new exciting ways to really enjoy this game, especially with friends.
One mode, which i must of spent 10 to 20 hours on with friends and by myself, was a self made challenge. We would play on the 2nd race course and modify all the settings so that it would be Low gravity, realy hard AI, very windy and you only lived once (including the computer). The Aim was to see how quickly you could kill of the AI (which as you know were really hard to budge). This challenge was so much fun, especially since the opening start of Race 2 was really hilly, so lots of airtime (which made it slightly easier to kill the AI.
Others different challengers i enjoyed was trying to break the invisible was in race one. I would put on low gravity, and if you would hit a jump/rock at the right angle at the start of the race, you could go through the invisible wall and fall through the Track.
My other fond memories was unlocking the secret 7th level, which was amazing to me at the time, as i had played a fair amount before this secret was known, plus i also quite enjoyed the secret stunt location in race 6.
Overall, one of my best experiences on the N64
alot of people don't realize when they play San Francisco Rush, Rush 2 and Rush 2049, it forces u 2 master huggin' corners and when u master tha huggin' corner technique, it will also help u on other racing games dat some people say has bad handling like for example, Driven on Gamecube and others!
I remember getting thrown from the chair playing the arcade version as a kid, the force feedback on that thing was insane!
My copy is waiting for me in the U.S. I'm looking forward to getting it back home and playing it, along with a good many others. It's cheaper to fly back and bring everything back in my suitcase than it is to pay shipping, and in many cases it isn't even available, so that's what I do. Oh and visit family and friends since I'm there anyway hahaha! Looking forward to the rest of the RUSH reviews.
SoftOtaku thanks! they'll be on wednesday and friday of this week so stay tuned
*CHECKPOINT* Was the happiest sound when i was younger
I love the loose arcade steering.
Something that always bugged me about this game: why do all the cars have go kart wheels sticking 2 feet out the sides?
I guess it was a work around for the graphical limitations
Would love if the first 2 games were re-released without the fog effects on Xbox One, similar to the treatment Turok 1 and 2 got by Nightdive Studios.
We can dream right? 👍
Thumbs up!
I always rather appreciated 'San Francisco Rush' for both the racing and for having a rather hefty number of game settings, though several had to be unlocked through bizarre button codes. My favorite feature has always been the option to race every course forwards and backwards (in addition to mirroring). This effectively turns six tracks into a challenging pack of twelve (or 24, if mirrored tracks are added), with the backward tracks having their own series of alternate paths and shortcuts. Great times, man; great times!
the best thing for me was spending hours trying to survive level 6 in reverse with deaths off, and trying to kill all the other racers and be the last one standing. That is how my brothers and I sunk loads of hours into this one! STL is the best song also. More into level 6 in reverse, the paths you take just hold so many daunting jumps that even the AI takes. It's fantastic!
Man.. this game looked way better in my memories lol. Good times
I liked this game better than Crusin' because the cars had a certain feeling of weight to them.
This game is amazing! I have it still and still love it more than new games
Good to hear - what’s your fav entry in the series
@@n64glennplant good question! I'm not sure. I have all three rush games and my favorite part is searching for shortcuts and keys. USA has Mt dew cans which makes a glugging sound which I still get a kick out of. 2049 has lots of coins instead of keys which are an awesome challenge. My favorite track would be the one with the giant half pipe in the first rush game. I could go on and on
For me this was my first racer that didn't have carts. I think I played practice mode the most, I had a lot of fun exploring the tracks and finding the best ways to get really good air time. And getting my car as damaged as possible without exploding.
I also remember trying to make my initials ASS and it wouldn't let me. Nasty. XD
Looks like a good fun game. I never played this one. I played Rush 2 a couple of times at an arcade. Great video!
foolio1990 see i never got to play rush 2 in the arcade :(
I love the Rush series! I like playing rush 1 with the low poly code, it looks like Virtua Racing or Stunt Race fx, pretty cool
Gotta say the only thing that bugged me about the game was the severe amount of understeer the cars have. worse than GTA IV.
it's perfect 2 practice huggin' cornering techniques
i always felt like this, crusin usa, and lamborghini were basically the same back in the day but they were all good fun.
The only thing that disappointed me about this game was the shortcuts that the arcade had that were missing in this version for no apparent reason. I played this game so much though, loved it
My favourite game in the Rush series. I didn't own it myself, but a friend bought it and it was one of those games we kept coming back to for years. I bought the third Rush game myself, and I loved it, but it still wasn't as memorable as this one.
Did anyone manage to collect all those keys? I swear, some were nigh on impossible to get to. Seemed like they required an insane amount of luck and skill to reach.
Loved this game as a kid
Rush 2. Stunt tracks. Nuff said.
This game was great ! Thanks again for the upload
Andrew Calean thanks for watching!
You're gonna get to Rush 2049 right? That one was my favorite of the series. I love futuristic racers and that one was right up there with F-Zero for me.
Richard Gonzalez that will be friday :)
i remember getting this game as a kid... and i thought it was broken because the cars kept blowing up. We returned it and got diddy kong racing instead lol
What a funny story but also a cool way to get DKR
ITS DANGEROUS!
I like you man, you're my style.
one of my favorite racing games of all time, I love it to death and have absolutely no idea why lol. It was just really fun, I guess thats all there is too it XD
Ryath Atma sometimes no explanation is needed and this is one of them :)
This game had a great feel of speed. In my memories it was not that interesting of a game, what made it good was the Stunts, Physics and Destruction. I spend many hours just going for Jumps and crashes.
I have the Rush games in the Midway collection. Never actually got around to playing them.
I probably should do that.
***** great versions although if i remember correctly this game they modified the sound for and its even worse