The History of Racing Games Pt. 2: How Gran Turismo Happened - Past Gas #61

[@TheCarPassionChannel]

Gran Turismo 2 was such a heavy influence on my addictio... passion. Very cool to hear the story behind it

[@DatShepTho]

And for me too!

[@Kev27RS]

GT2 is a massive classic! So many cars and tracks that never came back after that second title...

[@TheCarPassionChannel]

@@Kev27RS Agreed, I was very disappointed with the car selection in GT3 although it was a great game. But when GT4 came out I was really in love again, the used car lots 😅 oh and of course "Stage 5" turbo systems and Nitrous was a nice addition.

[@Kev27RS]

@@TheCarPassionChannel True! GT3's car list was kinda disappointing. GT4 was great but still missing a lot of cars and some tracks from GT2...

[@TheCarPassionChannel]

@@Kev27RS GT3 did have Complex String and the introduction of F1 cars I'll give it that

[@solotopp]

Gran Turismo is 100% why I got into cars. I was 4. Amazing game series.

[@bryceheppler7181]

Dude gt3 a-spec is 100% why I got into cars,im more into jdm cars now but I used to spazem driving that red dodge viper

[@TheG60528XiJinPing]

Gran turismo 5 is why I got Into cars. Still one of my favorite games.

[@Chrys-T]

OMG me too! My Dad bought GT3, I was so infatuated with it he actually let me start playing.

[@tannerrider3172]

Same. It was the first thing me and my dad both liked. Rather than him making me play sports. From there on once I knew he liked cars like me I was all about it. I was like 4 when it came out as well

[@Z-Twinturbo]

Gran Turismo 1, baby, legendary game

[@philsayer9797]

Glad to hear Burnout 2 getting some respect. That game used my IRL cars for the sounds (which includes a Honda NSX). Still remember Ben and the audio team recording drive-by and static revving across the range. Nice little trip down memory lane! :-)

[@Onewheelordeal]

Pretty cool to get your cars immortalized

[@NobodyQuiteLikeMe]

Gran Turismo 2 is seriously one of my favorite games of all time. About every two years I start the game over and play it again. Thanks donut you guys all have such good hearts and souls. Thank you so much for being here during my depression and giving me something to laugh about. James I really appreciate you man. Always making me laugh. Anyways you guys freaking rocks and I hope your success with KZbin keeps happening. Hey also could you do an up to speed on the dodge srt 10 ram? Or maybe the Chrysler 300c SRT8? My dad passed away 2 years ago and he is responsible for my love of cars and racing. Used to race because of him. And he bought me gt2 when I was a kid. He had an srt 10 and maaan that truck was awesome. Almost scary to drive lol. Anyways keep it up thanks guys.

[@Kev27RS]

GT2 is a massive classic! So many cars and tracks that never came back after that...

[@Reynar7]

"There's no perfect racing game" NFS Underground 2: Am I a joke to you?

[@jamessizemore7103]

Need for speed underground 2 was the game that got me into cars, also had an amazing sound track

[@FredoNavajas92]

Ive waited for them to talk about it the whole time

[@kvkv1762]

get low. get low get low get low

[@mikeyg923]

@@FredoNavajas92 I know ! I think it blows most wanted out the water

[@seoulgt86]

That’s the one needed to be remade, not most wanted.

[@C4CH3S]

underground 2 and colin mcrae 2.0 for me

[@ChaseLackoYT]

My dad got me in cars and from then I’v been learning more and more and now I can take apart and rebuild an engine

[@palamecianrider7385]

Gran Turismo 2 was just absolutely brilliant. I can just stay for hours just reading the car descriptions listening to the bgm

[@rayt2987]

Nolans Snoop rap at the end was 11/10

[@ShunbunNoHi]

I still have my original gran turismo 1 and 2, with my original save game memory card. I need to play this now!

[@Kev27RS]

CLASSICS! Especially GT2!

[@luckywalker2419]

Do an underground where you play old car games together. That shit would hit 😤😂

[@JMDrives]

The Skyline R34 caught my eye when I first tried GT2. I always hit the wall and spin-out in Tahiti Road, from there, I practiced that track whole heartedly even following the AIs and learning that going near inside the corner makes the car faster going thru a turn. And that's the start of my racing passion.

[@Simcadepro]

dude in the middle reminds me of butter's from south park

[@Mondo_Monchi]

I remember a lot of great nights having my friends over to play Gran Turismo 4, and burnout on the Ps2. Nostalgia made me play them again recently and they're every bit as amazing now, as they were then.

[@juanarroyo5846]

Tokyo Extreme Racer Zero was one of the greats of that time

[@andrewmeilinger6203]

The whole series is

[@TheWhiteCometOfZion]

I'm 29. Started playing GT1 in the late 90s. I already liked cars but this made me understand it. I still play GT3 and GT4 to this day and I've even done some professional driving in real life now.

[@shanavlakaram4919]

Gran turismo brings back such good memories of my childhood ❤️

[@RByrne]

When i wad a kid i was obsessed with cars, then GT and GT2 seriously changed my life. It introduced us to so many cars we never even heard of. Also, types of racing id never really got to see before, plus the endless mods.

[@nismonolo]

Gran Turismos 1-3, Midnight Club, Hot Pursuit 2, Carbon, Most Wanted, ProStreet, the Test Drive games games like these led me to where i am with cars today. i’ll never forget the intros to those Gran Turismo games. The Cardigans or Lenny Kravitz blaring while the most amazing cars flew by, kicking sparks off of the curbs or spinning out uncontrollably. the soundtracks, the sound effects, the broken cars. it was all perfect.

[@wychitahenricks1800]

Gino's Pizza is a chain in Canada, played a large part in my college life. Some of the most greasy pizza you could eat.

[@bauerleinjohn]

Always went to the one by My grandmas in Hamilton when we’d visit her. Great za

[@wheneveriwantvideos]

Riders of the storm with snoop dogg on nfsug2 was a classic

[@nigeldean1813]

When i was 4 or 5 i got the ps2 for Christmas and it came with jak and daxter, atv offroad fury, and Gran Turismo 3. One of the best Christmas' ever and that's what got me into cars real hard. Gt will always be the best racing series to me just because of that nostalgia factor

[@geoffwalker7170]

GT3 on PS2 was what solidified my love for cars and race style driving. I would like to mention N64’s San Francisco Rush was another fun game I used to play prior to that.

[@tahiatt1]

Ridge Racer was dope. You could pop out the disc while the game was still playing, put in a cd and listen to whatever you wanted while playing. I remember my 6 year old mind being blown.

[@canadianguy1234]

It sounds like the Skyline that Yamauchi bought and crashed influenced the creation of Gran Turismo. Now look where we are, Nissan and Polyphonic Digital working together, over 20 years later.

[@fahadahmad7088]

Gran turismo 2, Colin mcrae rally 2 and F1 1995🤤🤤 heaven

[@jblox1990]

That was a great episode. I learned a lot. I thought it was weird that in all this talk about racing games, arcade cabinets, and console ports, the Rush series never came up. San Fransisco Rush and Rush 2049 were in practically EVERY arcade type setting you stepped into in the 90's and early 2000's, and the console versions are still some of the most fun you can have with your clothes on. Stunt mode!!!

[@42gilligan]

Hell yes! Stuntman was so fun and brutal! Miss that concept...

[@superstriker412]

I love that game, it's a very interesting idea. I liked listening to the stunt man talk about the physics involved in the stunt

[@ThrasherDBS]

My cousins introduced me to Gran Turismo. They showed me both 1 and 2, and I thought it was the coolest thing ever. The car that caught my eye the most was the New Edge Ford Mustang and it would stick with me as a favorite go-to car for pretty much most of my racing game time, so I spent a lot of time driving the SVT Cobra R in games. This past April, I found a 2000 Ford Mustang GT in my favorite color and in decent enough condition to easily fix up for only $2300. Six year old me would have gone absolutely crazy knowing that one day, that car that he really liked would eventually be his to own one day. And I have Gran Turismo to thank for that. Jesus, I actually teared up a bit typing that.

[@bughuulss]

Day 35 of asking for a Dirty Dirk's Blinker Drink T-shirt from the Wheelhouse: Car Terms Every Car Nerd Needs to know

[@paulxaviercyr]

I remember spending days off from work... Tiny 1 bedroom apartment.. Huge TV, huge stereo with my Xbox and PS2... I would go into games settings and mute the music but turn up the efx and rock my own soundtrack while spending hours on end playing BurnOut takedown, Tokyo Extreme and whatever racing titles I had rented to try out. My group of friends would even have game night on Fridays with people from work... Drinks, pizza, multiplayer gaming, nachos and just fun as hell. We would take turns hosting this as schedules and living arrangements permitted... Man, the early 2000's were really fun times for me.

[@DiamondR15]

I finally caught up and finished every video and this is the first week i I fianlly get to watch it the day it comes out!!!

[@sanny632]

Same lol

[@longjohnsilver9873]

Donut podcasts are the only thing that make sunday's tolerable

[@zef2stroke655]

I hate Sundays, because I know works in the morning 😭

[@ashleymalzard2865]

In Australia we get them on Mondays. Perfect wind down and remedy for Monday-itis

[@BZ0905]

Donut podcasts and sunday night football.

[@truckdude8080]

And the Seattle Seahawks

[@MegaRobbieDobbie]

Gran Turismo was a game changer. At 37 years old I've played all the racing sims on all the systems. When I played Gran Turismo......I knew we entered a new Era of Racing Simulators.

[@Captn_Meep]

Gt2 on the ps1 is where I was sold on cars and racing. I still have it and play it now and then to enjoy that first experience

[@anthonyk5496]

There was a great NES racer called Formula 1 Built to Win. Very similar to Rad Racer but had car mods (tires, suspension, turbo etc.) and a career mode. You started with a Mini Cooper, and worked your way up the classes to race Vector W2, Ferarri f40 and eventually F1. Other favorite NES driving game was Codemaster's Micro Machines. Great 2-player mode, still fun to play.

[@WickedlNl]

If you were there day one and even if you were an arcade kid addicted to Need for Speed, Gran Turismo had by far the best replays in the world. I mean they looked incredibly realistic mainly due to the proper camera angles and that fake reflection on top of each car and wind shield. It was just mind blowing for the time.

[@purppluto7398]

This podcast always comes out at the perfect time. Sunday night before bed.

[@esaedvik]

Driver was so damn good. And so were pretty much all these games. NFS UG 1 and 2 are still maybe the fondest memories. Interstate '76 too. PURE with its ATV's being another highlight much later on.

[@Tom-jf9vr]

Keep up the good work guys been binge watching for a month. Can we get an up to speed soon love you guys

[@michaelhodges1391]

One of my first video games i remember was the Senna game on the Sega Megadrive, great memories!

[@jacksmith4460]

37:00 yep...I loved my XJ220 lightweight 900+ BHP beast, and the Tommy Kairai Z2 missle that I maxed out...THAT was a car I loved GT2 so much the best Racing game from a historical sense

[@ianfoster9538]

Really shows my age by saying it, but growing up in the PS3 era really made me appreciate exotic cars way more than I would have instead of just the classic cars I grew up surrounded with. My first experience behind the wheel was with the Driving Force GT wheel bundled with my PS3 and GT5. Still have that wheel plugged in next to me in my computer to this day, well after having my own set of interesting real world wheels.

[@Onewheelordeal]

"Make your buddy use the MadCatz controller" had me dying. The turbo button automatically mashes any button when you hold it. Had 6 PS3 controllers and 1 for PS4 so y'all are def right

[@blacknsilver_]

Gran Tourismo on the PS1 was my first video game ever and I always did the endurance races on the weekend.

[@geoffsmith4949]

great podcast guys! Joe, that valvoline ad was f'n hilarious... just when i'm thinking how much longer is this going to go on, I remember the yellow bar at the bottom and start laughing even more cause its only half way done

[@BEN-us7ue]

Nolan the only reason these videos have under 1K likes Is that the vids are so good we forget to like them

[@AppleSlipper]

Need For Speed and Forza cemented my love for racing games!

[@daltonnash465]

Love that you guys are doing this!

[@JrokkShenanigans]

Gran Effing Turismo!

[@ryanfirth1318]

The fact that nolan said NFS prostreet was bad blows my mind!! I was sure he would be into it! Prostreet was about event racing and it was amazing! No free roam sure but the tuning was so good! It acctualy worked! I had a mk4 supra and fully upgraded it would top in like the 900s hp but with a sick tune i brought it up to 1100 and had 7 sec quarter miles! Thing was unstoppable!!

[@saddlebrook]

Whoaaaa NFS prostreet was badass and underrated! Gran Turismo just dragged me deeper and deeper into the car world I’d been obsessed with since i was born

[@OuterHeaven210]

Literally the only reason I care about cars. Also I loved the GT street menus. Also the jazz music

[@danielmann6772]

16:45 DUDE! I hadn't thought of the 3DO until just this moment

[@markoe500]

GT1 gang for sure. The disc came as a double pack I got my copy used in 98’ for 39.95 lol and I thought I was short a disc but found out it didn’t really have a second disc. I was oddly obsessed with the game only at 8 years old ha. Always loved seeing the TV commercials and playing the demo. Never was good at starting out on simulation mode always chose the 236hp mk3 supra back then but now a days ae86 or EG civic as a starter does the trick.

[@bofflet7063]

Garfield, Calvin and Hobbes and Far side were my childhood too. Gonna say that explains a lot of Nolan's humour though

[@Mike220111]

Remember, when I was a kid? I used to still tell my parents to get me hot wheels or Matchbox. I love cars. Gran Turismo one and Gran Turismo 2 really made me fall in love with cars.

[@KSwapTheWorld69]

I just love your Ryan Tuerck 4586GT shirt Nolan.

[@ignatiusmarcuslee9206]

I have been playing racing games for like 8 years now (im 13 btw) and out of all the games i played, GT has been one of the greatest

[@justinsgarage1125]

Virtual boy with Mario tennis and wario land was my jam 🤘🏼

[@jacksmith4460]

Daytona USA was a follow up to Virtua Racing (same 3d engine but Daytona mapped texture) not Outrun, they both had the Outrun "time bonus" system though, so you could say VirtuaRacing came partly from Outrun

[@grizzlybear702]

Idk guys... EAs Need For Speed: Underground 2 with Brook Burke as Rachel Teller was Super Dope.. tearing up the city with that sound track.. quick runs, chirp runs, all the crazy racing... and let's not forget the RT rating system.. crazy scoops, lambo doors, big wangs, spinners, underglow, multi colored NOS purge, and EVERY LITTLE STICKER YOU PUT ALL ON YOUR SUPRA MADE IT FASTER!!! NFS:UG2 was IT man🤣☠👌

[@kylevlaming4343]

I'm pretty sure the turbo button was for spamming a selected button. Hold down the button that you wanted to spam, and press the turbo button and it starts sending the button command as if you were rapidly tapping it. much faster than you could have hoped to manually.

[@letsplayclassicgames5024]

C'mon man, Stuntman (the first game, not the terrible sequel) did not suck! It was just unreasonably difficult at times. Has to be in my top 10 games of all time and top 3 PS2 games. Great podcast by the way! Glad to have something new to listen to from Donut!

[@Senvae]

The R.A.T. mouse was not originally from MadCatz. MadCatz bought Saitek, and that mouse was part of a "Cyborg" series of components. I had an original Saitek branded RAT 9. Loved it in concept but they used a bad laser sensor that just ruined the whole experience. The swapping batteries (which were a first back then), were hands down the coolest feature. Second favorite aspect, the core frame beneath those spaced out surfaces was actually made of metal. It felt solid and heavy. You could even add weights (or remove them) to make it feel better to handle.

[@floodtheinbox]

virtua fight was cold. that and panzer dragoon

[@zodiac909]

I saw GT 1 demoed at a Toronto Auto Show when i was 5 years old, the moment is burned into my memory, and at the age of 29 today, I would STILL buy a Playstation JUST for Gran Turismo.

[@AbandonedRaven]

I had that case that came with both GT 1 and GT 2 on the PS2. Not my first racing game but played them both for hours and GT 3 even more.

[@MichaelMitchell9969]

Love Gran Turismo, and good pizza The Rainbow!

[@SynthiaVan]

MAN, NOW I MISS PIZZA PARLORS. GROWING UP EAST COAST we had some real Italian gems. Living out west now, I don't know of any near me.

[@terrellnaidoo8488]

Can't remember how old I was but I had just started getting into cars, the things that sort of peaked my interest were Power Rangers Turbo and then The Fast and The Furious. And then my uncle got me Gran Turismo Concept and I think the combination of those things is what really turned me into car guy

[@DJArkum69]

I was a 3DOwner. My sister was dating a guy that managed the electronics dept of some dept store when they were shutting down. He got me the display model, and a CD wallet with almost the entire 3DO library in it. It was effin rad, and there was only 1 controller port. Then the controller itself had a controller port, and you could daisy chain up to 8 controllers for multiplayer games.

[@nikmadrid6111]

Bring back all the GT games as downloadable on PSN

[@jodichristensen9536]

Nolan’s nod to Miles Davis, Bitches Brew, shout out was key! It’s an album designed, for beatnicks and listeners to kick back, relax and vibe with, an smoke along to. I highly recommend trying it...The live version of the Bitches Brew album is a whole other animal entirely, Its an acquired taste. I have found that casual music listeners, find it unsettling and get almost agitated by experiencing hearing it, they throw the towel in early at the warm up tuning phase, hit stop or eject and never get to behold the 720 and McTwists, that are found on the Miles Davis Fillmore East live shows, where Miles and company, running kick it up several notches, really runs the voodoo down, all dark and heavy something similar to prehistoric death metal jazz instrumental, Miles shrieks through his trumpet, like a angry Elephant in musk, trample rampaging at you. Miles Davis at the wheel, manning the controls, conducting the build up, and driving his ferocious band along, like a sorted Ferrari, with a gated manual shifter, turning on a dime, then zipping off, trading off solo’s, and nailing it, propelling them selves on to even further heights, through improvisation, while running through the Bitches Brew album live...When Miles initially debuted the Bitches Brew material to shocked audiences, it was referred to as Heart Attack Jazz, because when Miles Davis his scary band, sent it out to a bewildered crowd full of folk music fans, of a young Bob Seeger. Several of these hippies at the show, possibly took something, heard Miles caught the fear, and suffered Pokémon like seizures, from the syncopated polyrhythms, and went into shock suffering sensory overload heart attacks! Miles Davis’s, Bitches Brew, album is very dark heavy experience indeed, take precautions. LoL...8)

[@cuzithagreat975]

I love that caliper cbd products are sponsoring donut💯🤙🤘 Thanks joe🙃🍄

[@nickguilbert4259]

Nice you guys; really enjoyed that. I've always almost solely played Gran Turismo; and I'm thinking I missed out on Midnight club and Need for Speed. Might have to find a PS2! Colin Mcrae Rally 2 was a beast of a game. Not easy to complete. Good luck with the Dirt franchise.

[@ashleymalzard2865]

First played og Gran Turismo when i was about 13, on a demo disc. I was already in love with the wrx by then, but after playing GT, i was smitten and bitten by the racing genre bug. Even my Grandma was impressed by the graphics.

[@elektrosoundwave]

Best part of Midnight Club 3 is playing Detroit Techno while driving in Detroit. I bought the game for that reason alone.

[@PACKERMAN2077]

sadly the techno offerings in that game were subpar compared to two as it shifted to rock and rap but it still had better Rock and rap than mcla so I'm assuming that you had custom tracks on your hard drive.

[@elektrosoundwave]

@@PACKERMAN2077 umm, I'm looking at the soundtracks and with the exception of Mistress Barbara, all the techno is on 3. You don't know techno if you don't know Underground Resistance and they and their affiliated artists have so many tracks on there.

[@PACKERMAN2077]

@@elektrosoundwave I meant Trance sorry. 😓 ACM, Alpinestars, D- noiser, AXUS, AoT, Henderson, Nokturnal, Subtech, a golden sampler platter. Not even including Bangalter, Mistress, Felix and the house side, the techno in 3 was fantastic, but the trance offerings were indeed lacking, besides the DnB which made up for it with nostalgia from MC:SR.

[@tylerevans1700]

Diggin' the Grado cans James

[@salvus7021]

FYI. The RAT 7 is an incredible mouse. I've bought two and wore them into the ground. Shame about the cheap thumb buttons tho. But my Logitech and Razor didn't last any longer. And I bought a Mad cats controller around when this video was posted and the left trigger went out the 3rd time using it. Lol.

[@Ratze2000]

Midnight Club 3, Grand Turismo 4, NFS Underground and Driver SF are my Favorit Games. I highly recommend anyone who has not played Driver Sf to play it.

[@basedury]

anyone else get into cars from need for speed underground 2? I remember modding out the celica and 350z and having so much fun

[@juanpablocastano2192]

Gran Turismo Sport is my favorite racing video game, I like our current Gran Turismo they're doing great and I love some of the cars available specially the race cars.

[@eder7468]

Im still trying to complete gt4, 8 years after i first played it, its those 24 hour races that get me stumped

[@wmorgan4183]

You gotta have mates and do it in shifts..

[@alex199273]

54:18 Say what…. NFS Pro Street slapped. Reason why I bought my e92 as my dream car. Such a killer game. NFS Payback in the other hand……

[@fernandoraimundo0339]

Please do a podcast on the Argentinian IKA Torino car and the 84 hours Nürburgring endurance race. Also a podcast on Fangio

[@darkinertia2]

its cool the creator did what i did as a kid trying to figure out all the cars that past by...i remember trying to figure out the trim acronyms and not being too far off lol

[@willisbathum8630]

I am little surprised that the Forza series did not get much attention. I hope the Horizon series especially gets some recognition in the next episode! Horizon 4 is flat out incredible.

[@scottoleson1997]

They didn’t mention any of the Xbox racing games which in my opinion beat out the PS2 racing exclusives. The entire open-world midtown madness series that was made by people at rockstar, project Gotham Racing, rallisport challenge, outrun 2, Forza Motorsport, sega gt 2002. All great games.

[@willisbathum8630]

@@scottoleson1997 project gotham! Those were awesome games.

[@scottoleson1997]

@@willisbathum8630 yeah, in almost any racing game conversation, I’ve never heard PGR get mentioned but I think they nailed the divide between arcade and sim racer with emphasis on different handling models and track conditions, but having a score system and trying to always change things up and break boundaries in the racing genre.

[@cozymonk]

Mad Catz was recently bought by Logitech a couple years ago. Before that, they were buying smaller companies like Saitek, to focus more on the sim market. As far as I know. I was really into Sims then and my x52 pro went from being a Saitek x52 pro to a Mad Catz Saitek x52 pro, to a Logitech x52 pro, according to driver updates.

[@42gilligan]

GT is the reason I own a 92 Nissan 240sx rb20det and 00 subaru impreza 2.5rs, soon to be built into a rally monster! NFS and dirt are the other reasons lmao

[@Wien]

Gran Turismo 2 taught me a ton about cars and racing, it is the single greatest and most informative racing game of all time. Also, Mad Catz controllers were the worst. This video immediately gave me serious flashbacks to working at GameStop in the early 00s.

[@pix_sa]

Man such an Awesome game

[@llb2rtii205]

Gran Turismo 4 was my fav but GT2 got me in to cars fully.

[@dakotadiecast2528]

My cousin had a 3DO. We played the crap out of NFS at his house. I thought it was the coolest game ever at the time.

[@collisionspecialist3514]

MadCatz actually made some decent products. The MC2 was a legitimately good wheel for the PS1, and I would love to get another *working* PS2 so I can use it with GT4. I also heard some of thier Flight Sticks were good.

[@Onewheelordeal]

Y'all could prob kill it with some vintage gaming live streams

[@blazer1041]

This was a great video! Everyone agrees! Zero dislikes!

[@chazzbranigaan9354]

still 0 to this day!

[@MegaRobbieDobbie]

Madcatz Controllers always felt different! It was always the "Guest" controller! Lmfao!

[@MegaRobbieDobbie]

I had a Goldstar 3DO with Road and Tracks Need for Speed when it came out. I actually used the Lamborghini Diablo cut scene video for a 5th Grade Presentation!

[@miketech2]

im so so soooo excited for this episode