Oddball Racing Games on the Sega Dreamcast

Here we look at some racing games that throw away the realism and double down on the fantastical.

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Opening "Sega" jingle is from Astal for the Sega Saturn.

Ending Music during the credits is from Batman for the Sega Genesis.

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By: Jan Neves

Intro by Evan S.

Episode Notes:

1. Captured on real hardware via RGB SCART and Framemeister.

2. Most of these are still affordable even in todays retro market.

3. I tried to take focus off anything that would be considered "normal".

4. To this day I still can't believe how few Model 3 games were actually ported to the DC.

5. There are even more beyond this list. There are at least a dozen more games on the DC that have racing elements.

6. Couple of corrections and clarifications. Star Wars Episode I Racer is a two player game, not four. In the Stunt GP section, Halifax was the distributer, not the developer of the game. They shared duties with Eon Digital Entertainment. Team 17 actually developed Stunt GP. I completely had it backwards.

[SegaLordX]

Couple of corrections.

Star Wars Episode I Racer was just 2 players, not 4.

Stunt GP was developed by Team 17 and published/distributed by Halifax and Eon Digital Entertainment. I had it backwards in the segment.

Little errors like these tend to slip past me when doing larger videos. I'll work harder in the future to catch em.

[daren]

The stunt tracks in San Francisco Rush 2049, in multiplayer, with the largest wings, was endless amounts of fun for us. You didn't show the wings!
I miss my Dreamcast. It deserved, and was capable of so much more

[AyeYoYoYooo]

I vastly preferred Looney Tunes Space Race to any Mario Kart or Crash Bandicoot or PAC-Man Racing game available around that time. Absolutely underappreciated Dreamcast gem.

[trevortrevor]

Toy racer was made in 4 months to promote online gaming, Sega asked No Cliché to produce the game as quick as possible, this is why it's simple, using the assets from Toy comander. It was sold for cheap at that time, around 10 euros, again, to promote the online. No cliché was working on Agartha at that time.

[Movie_Games]

They should make a new Loony Tunes racing game. The art style is awesome.

[Simpyphus]

If the Dreamcast version of Rush 2049 is based on the N64 version, they did an amazing job improving it. Kinda like Tony Hawk 1 and 2.

[Joshua_Quinzel_Isley]

Looney Tunes Space Race is definitely my favorite racer on the Sega Dreamcast.
The cel-shaded graphics were spot-on for a bouncy and cartoony kart-racer, and don't get me started on the amazing Dreamcast OST of the game cause it rocks!

[dragline]

This channel feels like it was made for me specifically and my interests. I have been collecting DC racing games for 20 years. Keep up the great work! Thank you!

[Hektols]

I wasn't aware that the Dreamcast had so many unconventional racing games. My favorite in the list was Wacky Racers, as someone who loved the show it was a good surprise, at that time classical TV series didn't have games released years after they were over.

[nnickplays]

Thank you for the video! I always love enjoying watching your videos before bed, like reading a good book just before bed.

[BashoftheMonth]

If Ep. 1 Racer seems too easy and un-loseable for anyone at first, I'd recommend you at least play until you get to the second circuit. There's a pretty big difficulty spike right off the bat and it actually turns into a real competition.

[michaeltertelyi]

Dude, that weed joke for the last game was absolutely hilarious! I had a good laugh, I was not expecting it

[HammMann]

well, there's no way he's gonna talk abou- 15:55 oh my god... *_OH MY GOD, SOUND THE ALARMS EVERYONE HE'S TALKING ABOUT THE THING!_*
A couple things to note about it are that you are actually one of the first reviewers i've seen that actually gets the whole "the PC / Dreamcast versions were released at similar times, but aren't the same games" thing correct, i have seen SO many people get mixed up thinking the dreamcast version came out in 2001 or the PS2 version came out in 2000 both developed by appaloosa. and another thing to note is that the PS2 version is a completely diffrent beast to the dreamcast version, so maybe give that a look some day.

[Temple_of_Anbis]

I always appreciate how open-minded you are toward other people's experiences with games while still sharing your own opinions on them, but aren't afraid to call a game garbage if it's more or less undeniably so.

[gammaphonic]

“Untouched ports from lower spec machines” is the glass half empty way of looking at it. I prefer to think of those games as “the best version of previous gen games”. As pretty much all of them ran at much smoother frame rates on the Dreamcast. 5th gen is where stable frame rates go to die, haha.

[AlMusicStudios]

The first game I bought for the Dreamcast was SW E1 Racer, and I absolutely loved the visuals, handling, and music! Years later, and I'm still playing this gem via emulation, and even now, I'm impressed.

[Chris-Courage]

So many fun games mentioned here. South Park Rally is my favorite cart racing game, Demolition racer and Rush 2049 were stupid fun, and Trickstyle was a surprisingly great playthrough experience for me.

[じょせふ-vz]

23:06 videogame music really peaked in the late 90s whew 🥵

[firestarter]

What I love about this channel is both the lack of ads and e-begging, but also the casual discussion of these forgotten games for what is otherwise forgotten consoles in today's modern life. It's amazing to see reviews for these types of games as if they just came out, an awesome time capsule that I love to keep coming back to with each new video!

[teddym]

What a kickass episode in the Sega Lord series.