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2 hours of Road Rash goodness.

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Electronic Arts' Road Rash was a major title for its initial push onto the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis consoles, with the series migrating to CD-based hardware and 'next-gen' consoles including the 3DO, Saturn and PlayStation, taking in some intriguing handhelds ports along the way. Join John Linneman for this extended look into the franchise from its origins through to its eventual decline and extinction.


00:00:00 - Introduction
00:01:49 - Chapter 1 - Before Road Rash
00:03:24 - The origins of Road Rash
00:06:03 - Chapter 2 - Road Rash 1
00:09:31 - How do the graphics work?
00:16:19 - Port Analysis - Amiga, Master System, Game Gear, Game Boy, Book, PSP
00:28:25 - Chapter 3 - Road Rash 2
00:32:03 - Road Rash on Game Boy Color
00:34:09 - Chapter 4 - Enter the 3DO
00:37:11 - Road Rash for 3DO
00:46:00 - Port Analysis: PlayStation
00:52:33 - Port Analysis: Sega Saturn
00:57:10 - Port Analysis: Windows 95
01:02:00 - Sound Comparison
01:04:47 - Chapter 5 - Road Rash 3 and Road Rash CD
01:15:50 - Bad Super NES Clones ft. Audi Sorlie
01:18:00 - Chapter 6 - Road Rash 3D for PlayStation
01:27:49 - Chapter 7 - Road Rash 64 for N64
01:32:41 - Chapter 8 - Road Rash: Jailbreak for PlayStation
01:39:36 - Road Rash: Jailbreak for Game Boy Advance
01:46:02 - The Ending and Credits

 

[adamsapple]

This would be considered trash and unplayable in modern era GAF.

 

[Beer Baelly]

This shit was wild back when I was little. Never finished that RR pc demo

 

[Fake]

Wow, another RETRO video. Best Christmas gift ever.

 

[GC_DALBEN]

i love rr, i played so much with my family.

 

[adamsapple]

i love rr, i played so much with my family.

Some of my very earliest gaming memories are watching my older brothers play this on a Genesis (Mega Drive?), this was sometimes in the early 90's before the playstation came out.

 

[FoxMcChief]

I will give this a watch later today. I loved this series!

 

[FoxMcChief]

This would be considered trash and unplayable in modern era GAF.

Not the important part of GAF.

 

[diffusionx]

This would be considered trash and unplayable in modern era GAF.

I played this game on my Mega SG and unironically had a really good time.

 

[SomeGit]

Appreciate the shoutout to Skitchin', loved that game.

 

[Diseased Yak]

Played the hell outta this on my 3DO back in the day.

 

[TGO]

This would be considered trash and unplayable in modern era GAF.

they actually believe those games was 60fps

 

[Grildon Tundy]

Thanks for posting. This took me back.

My fellow gaming nerd friend got me Road Rash PC in (I think) 1999 for my birthday when it was one of those budget games you could pick up at Wal-Mart. I remember it didn't have an ESRB rating and instead had a thermometer-like graphic on the cover saying something like "moderate violence".

Seeing the different graphics options for that version, I wonder what settings I played it on. Oh, to be blissfully unaware of trying to optimize graphical fidelity again. Ironically, I can blame Digital Foundry for training me to pay (too much) attention to that aspect of gaming these days lol

 

[Horseganador]

The sound of the baseball bat was very addictive xDD.

 

[cireza]

Another insane Master System conversion. That console was an absolute 8 bits beast.

 

[DeepEnigma]

I remember crashing the bike on purpose just to see if I could run all the way to the finish line.

You fought the controls like a Souls game.

 

[mayham2199]

Me and my cousin couldn’t get enough of these games. There was also a skating one that you could grab onto cars and kick other people off.

 

[tommib]

Not the important part of GAF.

Post of the day.

 

[Alexios]

For a series where most of the games are dodgy it gets way too much renown for a couple half decent entries just because of the edgy themes a la Mortal Kombat that made crap cool for the casuals back in the day. Those early 3D engines had some really interesting stuff going for them though.

Like the original NFS looks so smooth with a long draw distance but later games (in the series or in general like on Sega Saturn) are like completely different and not at all like a refinement/improvement of that style. Idk what makes them so unique? Or is it just the super low res and use of sprites?

I'd have liked to see more in that vein just with a little bit better car modeling and collisions etc., better HUD and such refinements (even if they'd have to sacrifice the also cool mirror or anything else to make it happen but surely they didn't max out the engine's potential with the first entry anyway).

 

[OmegaSupreme]

Check out Road Redemption if you want a pretty good modern Rash-like.

 

[YCoCg]

These kinds of videos are always the best DF has to offer, John has a knack for these mini documentary types.

 

[RAIDEN1]

Road Rash deserves a modern day revival!

 

[Fake]

The master system version is everything I want.

 

[The Fartist]

I picked up Road Rash 1 at a swap meet for like $15 wen I was 9, played the shit out of it on my Genesis.

 

[omegasc]

Another great video from John!

 

[RickMasters]

I remember I used to rent RR1 for the megadrive back in the day with my pocket money every other week.


Eventually saw the 3D0 version and NFS and was blown away….. not enough to want one but enough to know my megadrive was not cutting edge….. well… VF1 and virtua racing might have had something to do with that too….

 

[Danknugz]

3do version blew me away so good