The Need For Speed Special Edition: An LGR Retrospective
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 ก.พ. 2018
- Retrospective focusing on the original Need For Speed game's 1996 special edition: NFSSE for DOS and Windows PCs! Classic no-frills racing with eight great cars and lovely environments, ahh yes.
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Music used is from the NFSSE OST
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I have the need. The need, for mildly fast.
0utta S1TE Can't hold the necessity of crashing into a tree.
Gotta go moderately quickly!
The need for going 3 MPH over the speed limit
Riiiiiiiide in toooooo the somewhat threating zone...
Necesidad de ir especialmente rapid... Wait this is not a spanish comment
Your story is exactly what happened with me with Test Drive 4. Sat on my shelf for months before my parents finally got a computer with a CD-ROM drive. Oh the memories. Fantastic video.
5:10 Good Lord, that music makes for one _Radical_ Rehabilitation Sequence, lol
Rehabilitated through the power of ROCK
\m/
Can't get enough of this guy. Been watching for 10 years now! Here's hoping for 10 more :)
Thanks for sticking around!
No, thank you sir, for giving me a reason too
LGR Clint, you ever feel as if you're burning out on this stuff? Like maybe alot of times you do videos because of obligation rather than passion? It certainly doesn't feel that way, but I worry about ya buddy.
Certainly not yet. I just make sure what I make is what I'm passionate about :)
Yea I'm completely hooked on this channel. Thank you so much for all your hard work.
Sadly the EA logo brings out the tears for different reasons these days.
Holy crap, I had that exact same Acer, and I haven't seen it anywhere else since back then. I remember always playing with the clicky door while waiting for the blazing fast 56k modem to connect.
Haha, nice. Yeah I wore out that door on front after a couple years
Says a lot of how blazing fast it actually was xD
Claudio Lluberes Compared to the 28.8 I had before, it felt like it. I could download a full game demo in only 3 hours!
jeremebp ROFL... Yeah, the days of leaving a download for a demo running in the background of your computer while you went to school...
@RemixedVoice: ...and hoping that no one else picked up the phone before the download was finished. :o
R.I.P. Saki Kaskas (1971-2016)
One word. Callista.
Rest in peace, Saki...
I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks this soundtrack is fucking amazing through and through.
Aaeeyaaeeyaa
i have a coworker whose name is Kalista.
What he died of? o:
Need For Speed was really something special back then, too bad the last couple of titles were so disappointing.
This was generic as fuck even back in the day.
the last couple decades of NFS have been disappointing.
KKsHaDoWx you are insane.
I enjoyed the last games too.
I actually enjoyed NFS payback =D generic story tho
As somebody who just bought Need for Speed Rivals on PS4 because it was $5 and has spent the last three weeks gnashing teeth at how simultaneously frustrating and enjoyable it is, I would love to see you keep going with the Need for Speed reviews, Clint.
The need for LGR
I'd watch LGR play shirtless volleyball.
while sweating profusely in a speedo?
I can't believe how much this review mirrors my own experience. I remember buying NFSSE when I was 12 years old at Costco, when we too did not have a PC with a fast enough processor (or a CD-ROM drive). I also remember staring at the back of the box so excited to play it. I begged my dad for a new computer, and behold for my birthday that year, a new computer with a Pentium processor at 133mhz showed up. Still one of my favorite games as a kid.
This is the first PC game that I have when I was 5, this has influenced me become a petrol head!
The Viper is the car I love the most, since I born in Hong KOng, there were no american muscle to be seen.
That music video really hooked me into the game and real life cars.
Man I really love this game, thanks Clint for reviewing this for us :)
The Viper was pretty cool, yeah, but man, was that Mazda a bright, bright yellow that appealed to me back then. Still does, to be honest.
Although, truly, the love of my life since NFS2 has always been and always will be that gorgeous Jag XJ220. Now THAT is a car.
This takes me back.
Not because I played the NFS games, but because it takes me back to that special time when you're a kid and you don't know the limits of a video game, it feels like this magical, open-ended world where everything can happen. Back in grade school, me and my best friends would swap stories about all the cool things we did in video games. Good times.
It was really awesome to hear you mention Jeff van Dyck and Saki Kaskas. These two guys put together explosive soundtracks for numerous games in the mid to late 90s, and more people should know who they are. They created music so amazing that I would sometimes just sit back and listen to playback during menu screens rather than fire up my next hockey game.
20 years later and it is still my favorite racing game, i just love this thing.
NFSSE was the game that showed me racing was more than just Pole Position at the arcade.
And then NFS2 SE came out with Glide support, and blew my freaking mind.
This video reminded me of your "Remembering the Classic Need For Speed Games", one of my favourite videos of yours very moving at points when you talk about your sister. Keep up the excellent content Clint I love to see your channel grow.
Thank you!
I remember playing this on an old packard bell. My brother and I would alternate trying to beat each others lap times. Was also the first time I used a racing wheel. The first time I actually played it was at a Playstation demo kiosk at a hills department store. It amazed me. Ill always consider this the best NFS game, no bells and whistles, just fun racing.
Saki Kaskas was amazing, i heard about his passing right after it happened and i felt like a part of my childhood had left me, i spent so much time playing NFS2-HS and his music, along with Rom Di Prisco, and several artists, is the type of music i like to chill to. Rest in Peace Saki.
'you're just crying out for some rehabilitation aren't you'
sounds like the start of a bad porno
and I still think SE 2 was the best of the series
You do you ma, I still love my nfs mw 2005
Fun fact:
The Lamborghini featured in the videos was Richard Garriot's and they burned out the clutch doing doughnuts in it.
this just gave me the mental image of lord british running over innocent people in a sports car.
Probably some of the other people listed under Special Thanks in the credits but I wouldn't have a clue other than that, sorry.
www.mobygames.com/game/dos/need-for-speed/credits
Windhelm Guard Dost thou require healing, Avatar?
Man, this brings back memories. i LOVED this game. I had it on the Panasonic 3DO in my mid-late teens, and i could race my buddies on my 27" Zenith tube TV. This was the game that introduced me to cars i had never heard of back in the 90s. The NSX, Supra and the RX7. The point to point highway racing in traffic was bloody awesome. In the end my favorite car was the NSX and the 911 second. My buddy always made us race two 911's. God, great memories.
I never got around to try the Special Edition so some of this stuff surprised me, from the mods to the exclusive car and tracks, but the vanilla The Need For Speed was also my very first purchased CD-ROM game, at a time when my computer could barely play the FMVs without slowing down. The installation itself was mindblowing to me back then. Great stuff Clint!
No Microtransaction 😆😆😆
Less Content 😆😆😆
No always-online 😆😆😆
I love how you always manage to effectively convey the broad essence childhood wonder of pc gaming from simply messing around to online mod searching, I can completely relate. Moar nfs pls^^
The hours I spent as a youngin playing this, Nascar, monster truck madness 2( mostly the demo, didnt get the full version for years later) , road rash , soda off road and various other racing games is staggering. I love seeing all this again. You should do the monster truck games next!
Oh man.....watching this video of these racetracks and cars is bringing SO many memories for me right now.
I'm feeling very nostalgic and getting misty eyed.
I used to race the Viper on Alpine (I think).
I would drive that car so fast down an open stretch of road and purposefully slam the Viper into an oncoming
vehicle!!
I loved the sound of the metal scraping against the concrete and hearing the glass shatter in the windshield!!
Such good times back then!!
I played in Knockout mode and the Tournaments to unlock the special tracks!!
It was very stressful and I had to play over and over and over again until I finally won!!
I would love to be able to play these on a modern computer with the right equipment.
I had the first 3 or 4 NFS games, I had Driver and Driver 2, I had all the Crash Bandicoot games and I also had
Road Rash and Road Rash 2.
All of those games played on the Sony Playstation 1.
I forgot what the graphics looked like from these NFS games.
I have been so used to seeing these modern games with impeccable graphics and then to see the
graphics from NFS was such a shock to the system!!!!
Great review on this game.
Wish I could play it again!!!
Back in the day when Electronic Arts still had their 80's logo and were actually trying to create interesting new games.
@SNES Nes Magic.
it felt unique, you knew what a good game made by devs who cared.
@@MegaManNeo that's a cool cartoon avatar, what is it?
I have the feeling that he reviewed this game before, I would be pleased to see a Review of NFS2 ^^
I swear, Clint could talk about the most boring topics in the world and I'd still watch these videos. I love them, and always look forward to more. Need For Speed 3 was my NFS game of choice. I had a crappy Intel Integrated Graphics chip in my PC for years, and just spent hours racing in that game after school.
I swear I've played this game as a kid and I never knew about the Warrior...My god that thing is so 90s it hurts.
I'd love to see it go against the Rocket Car from RUSH 2.
Oh wow, another LGR video focusing on the NFS series. I clicked as fast as I could lmao.
YES! I've been waiting for this one! Hope NFS 2 will follow!
Absolutely will. I'd kinda like to cover the first six games this year.
That's awesome! To this day I consider them to be the best in the series.
i loved the play station version of NFS-2 so damn much.
especially all the shit you could unlock with the right codes, such as the Citroën 2CV, the school bus, the box and the t-rex.
Dude, you just unlocked a game from my childhood memory I completely suppressed for some reason. THANK YOU! I remember smashing the DOS version of this game so much.
Oh man, this brings back so many memories! This was actually my first game on CD-ROM back in '96 or so. I remember my dad got it for me and i couldn't get the car to move because you had to press "A" to set the gear to drive. I played it every day and i'm still hoping for a worthy remake with today's technology! Awesome video Clint! Keep them coming!
Hey Clint, now that you are no longer a kid in the 90s, would you ever purchase a Viper?
Yes. Because I'm still a kid in the 90s.
I for one can't wait for the inevitable woodgrained Viper.
+Nutz4Gunz45 Oh I know, I've been actively tracking the prices ever since I got my license at 16, haha. Shocked how low even a great example can go for these days, but I'm waiting til I get some place with a garage to house it.
LGR I hope you show it off when you get one!
LGR - get another business/commercial storage facility. drive the Viper to thrift in, feature the car in a few videos, put an LGR decal on the glass somewhere (NEVER THE PAINT) and call it a business expense.
I remember my friend and I used to park miles ahead and purposely block the road to cause traffic. I then drove as fast as I can and crash into them. We had so much fun doing that. Also, I vaguely remember moon level.
Sounds like you're remembering the console release, which is a bit of a different beast. This one didn't have Lunar Springs or split-screen :)
Oh that's a bummer. I didn't know PC release did not have split screen and the moon level. That replay feature that PC release has could of been fun to play around with, that wasn't on the console.
oh man! my first CD ROM game ever is NFS2! i remember trying to run it on my dad's Acer, it's a P120 with 8 MB of RAM, choppy gameplay but i powered through, playing that game for more than 2 years (alongside C&C and later, Starcraft).. i remember envying my friend's copy of NFS2SE then saving all of my pocket money to buy it.. (also NFS3 later on and my dissapointment that it just won't run without a 3D card..) ... oooooh, thanks for the nostalgia trip, Clint..
This review brought a tear to my eye. this game changed my life forever in the early 90's
Didn't know that secret track was there. I downloaded a remake for nfs 3 and thought it was just an original user created track.
You spoke my mind. I still have the original game and box. Still one of the best!
Great video. Love the in-depth look at some of the classics that so many of us grew up playing. Keep them coming.
For me, it's weird and awesome at the same the fact that my experience with this game almost equals yours, Clint. As was the case with Phantasmagoria, a game in which I spent so much time just looking at those 7 (SEVEN!!) cds, reading the manual, taking care of the box and imagining how cool it would be to play it at night, I bought NFSSE before upgrading my computer with a multimedia kit back in 1996. It was worth the wait for the two games because they ultimately have a special place in my heart. It's very interesting to notice that some people, living in different parts of the world, happen to share similar emotional memories of a particular thing. The Need for Speed Special Edition still is my favorite racing game. I gotta try to run it in Windows 10 now. I also have NFS2SE, but I didn't enjoy it as much as the original. I'm looking forward the next video you've just announced. Thank you very much for this great trip down memory lane, Clint! Take care.
We got the need for lazy!
I really enjoy looking at this system requirements on the old pc box games
Might enjoy this then!
th-cam.com/video/UHdEd2hbtTQ/w-d-xo.html
wow thanks!
Just like you, the PC version of NFS SE holds a special place in my mind and heart! So many fond memories of playing it back when it was released! And, like you, races from point A to point B are my thing ;)
Awesome vid, Clint! Thanks for the memories ;)
P.S: RIP, Kaskas.
This was my first CDROM title I bought boxed, a massive step up from the Test Drive I'd been playing until then. So many late nights with a QuickShot joystick competing with friends for best lap times. Great memories. Awesome video as always.
Thanks man, glad to bring on some good memories
Great episode!
I only played the PlayStation version of need for speed, but I played so much nfs2se. You could drive around as a Trex.
Or a crate. Fun times.
I too have very fond memories of playing this game. I'd love to see a re-release version of this or a remake. It just feels to me like the newer games have lost the magic. Probably just nostalgia, I guess.
This game was my intro to gaming. Great video with footage that really sent me back in time. I can’t wait to see you go through the rest of the series!
Recommended - 16MB RAM
You could make a video about Turbo Tax and I would still watch it.
I love old need for speed! But I love this videos even more. You bring back so many memories for me! Thanks and keep up the awesome videos you have brought me hours of entertainment. Definitely going to patreon to give you some appreciation.
Man, this video is awesome. I had the exact same memories of buying the actual game before I received my first PC for Christmas 1996. By then I was staring at three boxes without playing: Duke Nukem 3d, Need for speed and Screamer 2. Ohh the good old days and you my friend just touching the exact feelings and nostalgia I am looking for :) Thank you!
I love how the old games have interior views yet the new games don't have one
the last racing game that have interior i played was forza horizon
The new ones also have way more of everything else
Im so surprised Clint doesn’t just have like 2 real Dodge Vipers for nostalgia only
I'm just watching your videos this saturday. And it pleases me to no end. It pleases me like i rarely get pleased.
Man, you made a video about my entire childhood. We were poor so we could only afford very little games. I spend $15 on this game at Toys R Us and played easily thousands of hours on it. Thank you LGR for making such an awesome video to remind me of my entire childhood....!
and still, 20 years later, no intel based onboard video chipset can handle it.
Really?
So basically this is LGR:NFS:SE4DOS&WinPC
+Ninetails2000
We are on the internet, so it's basically rather:
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I've been playing this game for damn near two decades now and I just today learned of the unlockable Rally track variants. Now I have to get it up and running again. Thanks Clint!
I never played this one but seeing that track editor makes me wish i did.
Looking back, I have fond memories of NFS 3. The music, the tracks and the 2 player cops vs drivers split screen mode I used to play with my sisters were memorable. Not to mention the menu, especially the car showcase which I barely understood at the time. That was amazing.
Thanks for reviving such great memories.
you should do the burnout gaames at some point
I agree
Definitely possible, but not high on my list of priorities since they're almost exclusively console games.
Burnout Paradise though 👌
LGR Awesome that you would even consider it!
The "Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit" from 2010 has a lot of Burnout in it's genes.
You should do a proper review of test drive 3...liked that game so much back in the day
The Need For Clint
I have the need! The need for Lazy Game Reviews!
Need for Speed SE was really important on my life! My first racing game and I still love and share some of your nostalgia points!
You've made an awesome video, Clint! Cheers!!!
I would love to see the next games on the franchise receiving the same treatment, because Need for Speed 2 SE was the first multiplayer racing game I've ever played!
Thanks for being awesome, Clint!!
I forgot I even had this game until you had this video. A flood of nostalgia. Great video sir. Keep them coming
Playing NFSSE with a joystick? Then, we want to see a flight simulator played on a steering wheel!
Never played the first, only had NFS2 special edition. Amazing game and i really miss the old Need for Speed games. I miss the creative maps, i miss that didn't finish a race within 3 minutes (as with the later hot prusuit games), i miss that it had shiny cars but didn't take itself to serious, and holy crap do i miss NOT HAVING A GENERIC CRAPPY STORY JUST LET ME DRIVE ALREADY GJEEES. EA is EA so we will never see the fun Need for Speed games back anymore, now it all has to be super shiny and way to serious, yet having stupid stories cause the people in suits hear that RPGs with stories sell well so hell they want a story in their racer cause if race fans like one thing it's a story about some wanna be street racer and all the super models and gansta rappers he meets on his road to become the best driver ever...yeah...way more fun then playing tag in splitscreen race mode (yeah me and my friends did that, playing tags with cars).
Thanks for presenting your collection, such a treat!
Thanks for this LGR, I also fell in love with this game as a kid. I played it on the PS1 with my brother. So much fun crashing the cars!
I wish modern Need for Speed music was this cool. I have Need for Speed Rivals on the PS4 and the music sucks
Is that on there? My God! All I heard was a load of post Nu Metal EMO rubbish so I switched the music off completely.
I just looked at the soundtrack. There are a couple of decent tracks. But it looks like Spotify can be run in the background so you can play whatever you like, which is probably a better option.
Lo-fi Guy the riders on the storm had a remix done with snoop in the NFSU2 game. so if you're looking for that song, that's your game
Fair enough
Lo-fi Guy the soundtrack was done by the legendary Saki Kaskas, may he rest in peace.
I wish I had known about the extra car and levels when I was younger! My dumb dog thought the CD was a tasty snack and I haven't been able to properly play it since. (For those of you wondering, yes my dog is okay, and he wasn't in any pain.)
Dude this totally takes me back, thank you. I think I still have my disc somewhere. I bought several more need for speed games after this one and I was able to drive real cars in 98.
I'm very glad to see you review this. It's certainly something close to your heart from what I've gathered from other videos, and it looks really fun. I wasn't a PC person as a kid, but I do have fond memories of arcades and Cruisin' USA. :)
Please remake the first NFS EA!!!!
You probably watched the TV-series Viper
You bet I did.
I saved so many replays on this game. Scrolling back and re-watching crashes, flips and insane air was a lot of fun
I had NFSSE and I would race for a bit, and inevitably get bored and do the same thing, pit maneuvering cars and slamming into them head on to see how many flips I could make my car do. Anytime I played racing games, (especially old 3d rally car racers for DOS) it always eventually devolved into finding that one spot on the track you could catch big air and trying to hit another car mid air. I love the nostalgia I feel watching these reviews.
Did you play "Viper Racing" - 1998 ???
Such a cool game!
TONS!
Ohh, that game! The crashes were hilarious...
Dude I know you probably won't see this, and even if you do, I know you probably didn't play this game but... Viper racing! Please please do a review on it😩 lmao that game was my while childhood, honestly probably on the same level as NFS and GTA games at that time. Viper racing was my whole childhood lol and I think you'd love it too sense you're a big viper fan too haha
I really enjoyed that one when it came out, it did some innovative stuff. Definitely wanna cover it someday.
NFS:SE was a celebration of disc based gaming. Videos and content blew my mind at the time.
Yes, please more of that. NFS was just so amazing. Especially when you think back to Test drive and 2D car cut outs on the street ...
The yellow rx-7 is fine for me, it's exactly keisuke's car
the original NFS is the reason i bought my Rx-7 IRL :)
JDBooker nice :) 'm not talking shit about nfs tho,
To this day, every NFS fan has screamed for segmented tracks to be put back in the game, something that EA has refused to listen to and implement.
The immersive environments totally sold this game for me. They had rich bold colors and played smooth for a 90's racing game. Well, that and the crashes. Sometimes I thought I felt physical pain when crashing unexpectedly.
When I was younger the family PC was always a hand me down from my dads business. I waited years to get an upgrade from our 486 to a Pentium 166 with a CD-ROM to play NFS SE. The test sequence and FMVs made me so excited back then, I got the same feeling when they appeared in your video just now :) The first retail game I bought was POD. We were on holiday interstate, so I did the same thing as you, staring at the box and reading the manual, wondering what it would be like to play. Thanks for the video LGR. :)
Loved that game, i remember it also had poor physics. On the forest track with the bridge i ran into a car before proceeding over the bridge, i looked in the rear view mirror and i saw the car i ran into doing a pirouette on its front. Crashed a few seconds later because i was laughing so hard :o)
Ichinin it actually had rather decent physics. Not the crashes, but in handling. As lgr describes it: 4wd Lamborghini, tail happy 911, and the very agile Supra Turbo :)
I have great memories on Need for Speed 2. I used to play it with younger sister back in the day.
Now you can play it with 3D acceleration and TCP/IP multiplayer on Linux thanks to this: github.com/zaps166/NFSIISE
So many memories...
Radoslav Fatura this looks like it could be installed on a pi
This game can run on ARM devices, also on Android. Only 32-bit little-endian CPUs are supported. So in theory, yes. Haven't tried it yet, since I don't have another RasPi to test it on
Oh nice, hadn't seen that!
It was released 9 months ago, I think
If there isn't a video on youtube for this showing it off, then someone needs to...
Cool, keep 'em coming! It's nice to revisit reviews and re-review games. Can't wait for your Need for Speed 3 re-review, that's my old favorite of the series.
I still listen to that soundtrack today. Absolutely insane compositions whether on the rock or techno side. One of the very rare games I play with music on.
those times when EA was truly Electronic Arts...
nowadays, it is Embezzling Annoyance.
ah, EA back then used to bring out excellent titles every single time.
now when i hear about EA i cringe.
things sure changed in the past 20 years huh
oh and by the way Clint,
you should totally make vids about the first three grand theft auto games (Grand Theft Auto, GTA London and gta2)
people today tend to forget where grand theft auto really started off from... (including R* games sadly)
and besides, it would be nice to hear your thoughts about how you've seen the franchise in its earliest days.
i know i spent more hours playing the first grand theft auto than the hours i spent playing GTA4 and GTA5 combined (a number which is probably at around 1200 hours total, which then again is nearly nothing compared to my entire playtime on San Andreas which is probably easily over 10,000 hours - i was so addicted to that game it was basically the only thing i've played every day for a period of nearly two years lol)
NFS2SE was even better. Great memories from those times. Thanks, Clint for helping us remember.
One of my favourite PC games as a kid. Thanks for the trip down memory lane!
you could not lose with the Supra
Which tells you how the car physics weren't quite right with a Lambo, Porsche and ZR-1 in the mix.
The Supra was totally broken in the game. Completely outclassed other C-Class cars, and could square up with other B-Class cars. The only ones that outclassed the Supra were the A-Class cars, and the Dodge Viper to a certain extent.
I've never clicked on a notification so fast! :OOOO
Hot Pursuit 1, Hot Pursuit 2 and NFS Underground 1 are the most dear to my heart. I've played them for countless hours, with their soundtracks still firmly stuck in my head.
I only ever owned the Sega saturn version of this but my god do I love it to death.
Many weekends in the mid 90's were spent blissfully cruising the roads in a red Supra, dodging traffic and cops while rocking along to some sweet tunes.
Love this game and it's one i'll never let go of.