Hot Wheels: CRASH! Where Everything Explodes Excessively

[@LGR]

The Hot Wheels PC is dead _again,_ by the way. Otherwise it would've made an appearance!

[@Mini-z1994]

Guessing powersupply kicked the bucket ? Is it a sfx style powersupply or some proprietary shape & size ? *edit* ah a quick google tells me its sfx-s actually.

[@kebabhorson9765]

that sucks to hear

[@LGR]

@@Mini-z1994 The PSU was completely replaced when I first restored it: kzbin.info/www/bejne/ipfLnnWZd7WBr8U My bet is the motherboard, as it's frequently been problematic on each of the systems I have.

[@JaredConnell]

@@LGR F

[@chevron-vw5rn]

Couldnt use at least the monitor and speakers from it?

[@MikeDest]

I was a paid beta tester for this game back in early 99. I was a senior in high school at the time, my friends were jealous. There were more courses than what was in the final release. There was only a single downloadable course, if I remember right, and I think I have it archived. I was told there was never a Crash 2 due to sales and how many tech support calls we had because of DirectX issues. The company ended up buying The Learning Company, which was Softkey, Broderbund, and Parsons Technology. Yeah... that Bob Parsons of GoDaddy. I worked at the Hiawatha / Cedar Rapids Iowa office. I still have hot wheels boxed that they gave to me for being an employee at the time. If i find the level I have I'll archive it and make it available, but I only remember one, not six. Stunt Track Driver that came out around the same time was much more popular.

[@MikeDest]

@Jan Steenstra The downloadable track I remember was just a single zip file that you had to manually put in a certain directory. it was kind of advanced for the time.

[@TreesandStuff69]

Hey, I've been reverse engineering this game. Finding the built-in editor windows as well as references to a console. There's some missing data though that was cut from the retail version that makes some things not work. If you do happen to come across the beta, could you archive it in some way? Maybe this version has some more secrets :)

[@RegularCupOfJoe]

Holy crap! There is/were game developer studios in Iowa?!

[@MikeDest]

@@RegularCupOfJoe It wasn't developed in the Hiawatha Iowa location. We just did customer service, tech support, and testing for Mattel, The Learning Company, Broderbund, and Parson's Technology.

[@RegularCupOfJoe]

@@MikeDest Still cool, though!

[@retromtg1834]

For that mousepad, 25 years under a heavy book or something should do the trick

[@GreenLeefMusic]

Maybe a good rosin press or something 😂... Minus heat.

[@yungsagegaming8577]

@@GreenLeefMusic That has me thinking, why not a metal forming press? Doesn't use heat

[@andrews6641]

You’ve unlocked a core memory. I remember screaming and throwing a fit thinking the game was broken, because I didn’t realized you needed to click and pull back on the mouse to launch the car.

[@cowboycarl121]

Same comment as me, man as much as i must have played this game i forgot it existed.

[@renatoigmed]

I nostalgically imagine myself back at 12 years old in my room playing this game on a rainy afternoon between open TV shows before going to shower and have dinner... one of the best moments of childhood life.

[@Malus1531]

You shower before dinner? That's a weird time.

[@mesterak]

Man as I kid I avoided showering at all. Lol

[@brettvv7475]

@@Malus1531 Tons of kids showered before dinner, what are you on about?

[@kattihatt]

@@Malus1531 why is that weird? Youre weird.

[@Malus1531]

@@kattihatt I dunno everyone I know showers either in the morning or at night, not in the middle of the day.

[@miguelrivasmorales4454]

This was not the only time Criterion Games were inspired by a game from another publisher, the whole Burnout idea was taken from a 1998 Arcade game from Konami called Thrill Drive, which had you driving through different courses(countries in this case), while avoiding crashing to achieve more points, just like in Burnout! The game was very popular and common in Japan, with its last game(Thrill Drive 3) being released in 2004 for the Arcades, however the Arcade board is just a PHAT PS2 on an Arcade cabinet, and it can be actually played on the PCSX2 emulator.

[@artard451]

Dude this is creepy, I've been on a Windows 2000 era binge on KZbin and was curious if anyone has reviewed this game, wasn't expecting to find "LGR uploaded 9 minutes ago"

[@D0NU75]

he's always watching you

[@BenKWN-YTP]

yooo tharts whack

[@artard451]

@@D0NU75 Works for me, anyone else who gets an adrenaline rush shopping in the electronics section of goodwill is trustworthy in my book. Someone has to document our childhood. Clint if you’re reading this I’ve got a monorail 133 I picked up a while back with matching keyboard and found a low profile ISA network card that actually fits and works in Windows 2000. Could be a fun video. I’ve got a backup of the oem image somewhere too.

[@LGR]

@@artard451 Nice pickup on the Monorail! I've covered it on LGR :) kzbin.info/www/bejne/b5Dad6pnhJh1iJo

[@brettvv7475]

@@artard451 Dude, I just got back from Goodwill like 5 min ago. You're good peeps.

[@SinKillerJ]

To my memory the online maps were just rearrangements of the existing assets into new layouts, likely to save on download time. I may have them on an old drive, but if so it is quite buried and I simply have not had the time to dig through.

[@noahbossier1131]

Please find them edventually

[@PerfondicSplakko]

I played this game as a kid and I remember the downloadable levels. When we downloaded them there were four available. Maybe they made another two at some point, but my dad only ever got four to download. This is what they were to the best of my memory. Level 1: This one was just an intersection out in the middle of an open area. Periodically, three cars would drive up and move through the intersection just narrowly missing one another before driving away. There may have been a few smaller objects like benches or a fire hydrant around, but the main goal was to time it so you crash into all 3 cars at once. Level 2: This one was basically a remix of the one level where you're on top of two skyscrapers. I think it also used the big satellite dish from that one level in the first group of stages. This one was probably the least memorable. Level 3: This one was my favorite and pretty memorable since it didn't seem to reuse a lot of assets. You started on one side of a canyon. There was a rope bridge going across the canyon and on the other side was a building and a water tower. All along the canyon wall were mineshaft entrances. If you tried to go across the rope bridge it would just break, so the way I remember beating it was launching the car into one of the mineshaft entrances. Then after a few seconds, the car would come out another entrance on the other side of the rope bridge, smash into the water tower, which would then fall over destroying the building and the rope bridge. Level 4: This one's kind of a mystery since it never loaded properly. I could still play it, but it just appeared as a few objects inside of a blue void. You seemed to start at the top of a hill with a curvy path going down it lined with railings. There were a couple cars on the path and a trolley driving by at the bottom of the hill. Based on the level thumbnail, my dad thought it was probably supposed to be based on Lombard Street in San Francisco, but it was hard to tell since most textures and objects didn't load.

[@hellishinc]

DUDE. 3:30 That is SPECTACULAR. Now whe know what Micheal Bay used to play as a kid.

[@biebersheenis]

I honestly can't believe how a game this simple is so satisfying to play. I remember every single sound and action shot from this game (the rollercoaster car getting yeeted still kills me), I don't think I've ever been so nostalgic for a game on this channel before.

[@devikwolf]

I miss the era of "The game is EXACTLY what it says on the tin" games like this. So satisfying.

[@DoutorSocialGames]

4:58 this needs a low-poly blue hedgehog running away from that truck, trying to escape the city ;]

[@DonovanKreed]

Thank you for covering this game. I got this game for Christmas as a kid but never got a chance to play it because my computer did not meet the requirements to run it, so seeing you go through the game was a delight!

[@brettvv7475]

Man, wasn't that the worst? You a get new game as a kid only to have it not umeun, with no option to fix it?

[@bloeckmoep]

@@brettvv7475 : Nah pretty standard, got holiday island... had no PC at all. Got SW galactic battlegrounds... PC not capable of playing. Got SW Jedi Knight 2 Outcast... same as before, not capable of playing because lack of PC powerful enough to run it even in post stamp resolution... So many botched memories, ah wonderful. 🤗

[@brettvv7475]

@@bloeckmoep Jesus, not sure what "not umeun" means, but what I meant to say was "not run".

[@rawr51919]

​@@bloeckmoep Could just keep em around for the day you'd finally get a machine to play them, even if it took you years to do it

[@lunayoshi]

The subtitles are the gift that keeps on giving. [Explosions.] [So many explosions.] [All the explosions.] [Jazz music, explosions explode.]

[@madmanfrommars]

Every video on LGR is awesome, but I particularly love the old school straightforward game review coming up every now and then. Feeling ALL the nostalgia.

[@mikewifak]

We need to see some of these stop-motion VHS recordings… LGR Begins.

[@noahbossier1131]

I agree. I think it’s a great idea.

[@coffeelover239]

I remember playing this many years ago as a kid. This game really felt like the precursor to the crash mode in the Burnout series.

[@WatcherKoops4677]

did you know the first Burnout game was inspired from Thrill Drive?

[@PainkillerM360]

Nice vid, LGR! I dig all of the tech focused episodes, but especially love when you look at some vintage computer games.

[@herooftime1000]

So glad you got back to PC games again! I always love your application reviews!

[@Dodge34]

For me, this brings back memories of Burnout 3 Takedown, in crash mode, I can't count how many hours of fun I had on this game on XBOX, sadly I can't find it anywhere for PC, and I would guess my newest PC wouldn't support it either.

[@reverendtos4271]

So good to see a game review again!

[@Weggorino]

Oh man, I've been racking my brain trying to remember what this game was called. Thank you, LGR! I was absolutely obsessed with this game as a kid. I played the level with the giant donut over and over for hours on end.

[@duncansparks1675]

I had a demo disc of this game as a kid. I played that level with the tow truck driving into the marina hundreds of times.

[@matthewrohde1588]

That wouldn't be one of the Planet Hot Wheels Energy car discs would it?

[@Gerarghini]

Planet Hot Wheels moment

[@MaaveMaave]

Did y'all play Planet Hot Wheels online? I played with my dad. We got 2 accounts to 999 and 9999 points (1 away from level up) so that they would stay at the top of the leaderboards.

[@scottthewaterwarrior]

That is one of, if not the best levels in the game so I don't blame ya!

[@20JK10]

I remember playing the demo for this game. The only map you could play was the one with the black Rig Wrecker tow truck going down hill towards the ocean. I would love to see a remastered version made for Android/Iphone.

[@gregs_music_corner]

aaah good ole obscure game reviews. You should do more of that! not too work intensive, and everyone loves em!

[@christopherwong9748]

What a crazy coincidence. When I was a kid, I played a demo of this game that contained only the downhill level, I think. I had been searching for this game to learn more about it for the past few years and could somehow never find it until now. Thanks for covering it!

[@RoryStarks]

It looks a little like Blast Corps on the N64, which is also a fun vehicular puzzle game.

[@Blazbaros]

I remember playing the demo of this game endlessly, even if it was just the one San Francisco level. I tried so desperately to get the highest score possible! And now I really want to play Burnout Revenge again on the Xbox. . .

[@curtisdowney9286]

That was one of the first PC games I played when I was five/six (1999-2000). I played this for for hours (sometimes all night) crashing Hotwheels into stuff. I was so happy when I saw this pop up on your channel and I still have the disk 22 years later but have not gotten around to DOS-Boxing it so I can revisit it again. Thank You LGR.

[@nightwheel]

I can't believe a major KZbinr actually decided to cover this game. I'm completely awestruck. The memories that I have with this game. Some of the strongest gaming memories I have from the 90's.

[@ohhgeez865]

Lol

[@fadingbeleifs]

GAWD, I had a lot of fun with this game, I had the entire Hot Wheels systems, bu time took its toll and eventually everything died, disappeared etc... I still have the keyboard, and most of the games, still have the steering wheel and pedals.... I really with Mattel, Hot Wheels, would come out with another themed system... These are some of my fondest memories, Thank you for reviewing this one Clint...

[@sixteenseven123]

Oh my god, I remember having this game as a kid! I don’t remember too much about it honestly, but seeing the back of the box, the Ferris wheel level, and donut shop level, do remind me that it existed in my life at some point. I do know that my family switched from windows to Mac at some point in my early childhood so maybe that’s why the box held more memories for me than the game itself because all I could do was look at it longingly, but still a trip none the less. Thanks LGR👍

[@MatthewPiercey]

Happy to see this simple masterpiece of a game getting some love. This was one of my go-tos at my grandparents' place on good old Windows 98 SE. I hope someday the DLC levels will see the light of day; I didn't have internet back then or I definitely would've downloaded them. But I'd also like to see a modern recreation of this concept (although Burnout definitely helps to scratch that itch).

[@jopatech]

6:37 When you think you're safe in a tent but a rollercoaster car crashes the party 🤣. Awesome review!!

[@rick-deckard]

How to convert a Blerbs video into a full fledged LGR video: 1) Add 4 cups of alliteration 2) Sprinkle of Magnus Ringblom 3) 15+ minutes at 425 degrees 4) Make tea, hot cocoa or coffee while you let cool for 10 minutes. 5) Enjoy

[@LGR]

...you're not wrong

[@fensoxx]

This content is the OG LGR content though and so nice to see crop up from time to time. Seems to reset the world and put things back where they belong.

[@dastroyer6070]

Yesssss, I enjoy your videos but was hoping we'd see more game reviews like this again!

[@WilliamHaisch]

8:50 Best marketing slogan ever: “Doesn’t matter! Hot Wheels!”

[@flippedoutkyrii]

CRASH. I unwrapped this game under the Christmas Tree in 99'! I haven't played it in 2 decades so this was a Nostalgia Blast! Some of these crashes were violent then I remember! I didn't even know this game had downloadable content, either!

[@MrToontastic]

I see “Hot Wheels Crash!” I immediately click. I crash some Hot Wheels. My childhood is fulfilled.

[@VazDraeStudios]

Oh man. We had this as a kid. Me and my brother loved this game. I remember gathering around the PC trying to figure out how to launch the car just right to get all the objects hit, so that we didnt miss anything. Also explains where we got that exact same hot wheels car haha

[@Dcook85]

The included AOL disk is such an icing on the cake hahaha those things came with EVERYTHING back then.

[@musicaldude9429]

i would have loved this game as a kid if i was born in the late 80s early 90s, but sadly im a 2002 genz kid that likes old pcs so much that i begged my parents last year to get me a win 98 pc, love your work LGR

[@louieyovino]

I remember playing this growing up in the late 2000s. The bit with the bomb rolling into the aircraft tower is classic.

[@strain42]

I always love seeing LGR talk about old PC games, but this one feels...oddly therapeutic. Just seeing how far you can keep the chain going with cool stunts and explosions? Absolutely dig it in concept, and it made for an awesome video!

[@x_Odin]

I remember getting this and some Tonka racing game together and absolutely loving it as a kid. Graphics definitely don’t look like I remember though lol

[@blunderingfool]

Ah, Tonka raceway was a very... Limited game. XD The space one was neat though.

[@RazgulTheKind]

Damn I had no idea this existed, that's some seriously cool tech for the late 90s.

[@Mecharuva]

When the fucking carnival snack stand explodes into a violent fireball from a roller coaster cart landing on it, good lawd my sides.

[@lukealby3745]

I had many Hot Wheels games but totally forgot about this one! I had ones like Stunt Track Driver, Bash Arena, Highway 35, Stunt Track Challenge, Velocity X and Planet: Hot Wheels. But man... This video unlocked some old, fond memories.

[@UltraAceCombat]

A pleasant surprise seeing this uploaded! I grew up with this game and always had a soft spot for it. Glad to see you cover this!

[@gtasomogyi]

0:06 greetings from Hungary! Insane is still one of my favorite game of all time. This Hot Wheels game is sadly not as good as I hoped, but some maps of the game remind me on Carmageddon 2, what is another favorite of mine. :D

[@LeonardZakoor]

I lost it when you used the mousepad as a tunnel! LMFAO...keep it up man. Love the channel!

[@togglefire3537]

This review is bringing back a lot of memories. My legit first-ever PC game was hot wheels stunt track driver and then my second game was this game. I swear this was hours and hours of fun back in the day. I could never beat it and I never got the additional levels but it's still a blast to play.

[@snizzsnazz]

I was hoping you'd review this one someday. Probably my #1 favorite from Hotwheels. Great video man :)

[@ElectroDFW]

Ah, an early warning on the ethereal nature of DLC that alas, went unheeded. I cannot wait for the tide to shift again back to physical media one can actually *own*.

[@execation]

Nice one Clint! Was just looking for summat to watch. Sorted!!!

[@zizzleplix]

Nice to see another Hot Wheels game get covered. These late 1990's/early 2000's Hot Wheels PC games were a big part of my childhood on the PC. Hot Wheels Crash is very simple in premise and game-play but it's still fun for that little breath of nostalgia. I hope other Hot Wheels games get covered at some point in the future (Hot Wheels Turbo Racing, Hot Wheels Micro Racers, Hot Wheels Mechanix, Hot Wheels World Race, etc.).

[@LGR]

Turbo Racing and Mechanix are on my shortlist 👍

[@5MadMovieMakers]

Cool guys don't look at expolosions

[@Dylan-rt6ty]

I"m a simple man. I see LGR covering anything hot wheels related, I slap that like button

[@davidrimshnick]

Awesome! Can't wait for the upcoming VisiCalc retrospective!!

[@FuzzballRenakitty]

More Hot Wheels.... zoom! I see Demolition Racer there Clint- reckon we'll get to see that in the future? I'm only used to the PSX version so having the lowdown on the PC port would be nice! :D

[@Dcook85]

Oh my God YES! I played this SO much as a kid. I only needed the Hot Wheels PC to play it on but sadly that never happened.

[@TastySnackies]

It’s like Burnout’s crash modes, but with that classic 90s cheese

[@phr3dmcc0y]

@3:33 I CANNOT BELIEVE you didnt throw a nod to "goat simulator" by posting "Michael Bay" at the gas station explosion. 😄

[@NovaSilisko]

I have more nostalgia for this game than any other in the entire world. Every sound effect is seared into my neurons for all time. I still have my copy! No big box any more, but the case and stuff are still kicking.

[@rylanclarkson3296]

A great start to my morning when an LGR video is released

[@andrewray3154]

A great way to end mine. 3am in Australia

[@ThePickleSlicer]

You just unlocked my memory of this game. I would always play it over my grandparents

[@Cypherwraith001]

The demo for this was one of the first computer games that I can remember. Thanks for the deep cut, brings back a lot of memories.

[@rileydemeyer4371]

Hell yeah I was hoping you'd cover this sometime I remember getting in a cereal box and playing the crap out of it

[@veggiet2009]

"Consolidate my childhood why don't ya!?" - LGR 2022

[@plecebomc]

I used to play this ALL the time as a kid, I was fortunate enough to have some CTX EZ notebook with a K6 2 as a kid. Some laptop my sister had in college that a repair shop said was unfixable that I some how repaired as a child. :) This game, Frogger, and Tarzan I played on that little laptop ALOT. Such memories.

[@94KSpeed]

I loved this game growing up. Man, is it limited, though.

[@nothingmaster9432]

I had this in the late 90s as a kid and I remember spending hours playing this during summer vacation along with Hot Wheels Stunt Track Driver.

[@auto1lija]

Great video as always Clint!

[@JESSICA-qo7hz]

Ohhh my GOODNESS!! I remember getting Hot Wheels: Velocity X when I was younger and loving it to death. So much so that I later went searching for games again and picked up Hot Wheels: Mechanix as well as Stunt Track Driver 2. 2 games at once because.. There was a "buy two get one free" deal, so I got Hot Wheels: CRASH! for free. Nice! While none of those games really held a candle to Velocity X, they all still won a very special place in my heart. I CLEARLY remember certain elements of each game and am often sort of surprised by how little people seem to know about them. I remember CRASH! in particular being a little lackluster at the time compared to what I was used to, but I still played the heck out of it. Such a simple game! The Stunt Track Driver games seem to be the only ones that anyone really remembers, which is honestly kind of a shame!

[@FurryMcMemes]

I remember playing the hell out of the demo for this game, it was in a Hot Wheels game collection and I only vaguely remember the games in it but not their names. Unfortunately my computer could only run it at a blistering single digit FPS.

[@captainsemicolon]

Takes me back to the first LGR video I watched, of the review of Hot Wheels Stunt Track Driver. Definitely my favourite childhood game, along with Lego Racers

[@cbw56]

I fell in love with this game back on my HP Pavilion 4445 w/ Celeron... wow, brings back great memories! First game of its kind I've played, right along with Midtown Madness. Ahhh, the good ol' days.

[@ymmatinthehat]

played this game all the time as a kid, those crash sounds and tire screeching is ingrained into my mind

[@dmanbiker]

I remember playing this game all the time as a kid. It was like the crash mode in the old burnout games long before that series even existed. I think I even remember going to the website and getting more levels. I remember I got a hotwheels screensaver that was just a program you opened up in fullscreen with a picture of a hotwheels car on it. Doing the exact opposite of what a screensaver was for.

[@KenshinMizuhara]

Oh man this game was really something for me back in the day. My parents bought it for me from Best Buy or something and I was SO excited for it, it looked so cool and I could NOT wait to get home and play it. Unfortunately, our PC wasn't quite up to the task, so the graphics were basically just black abstract shapes in a blue void, just totally unplayable. Took it back and got something else, can't remember what. Was a shame because I wanted nothing more than to just crash the shit outta some virtual Hot Wheels. This is a vindicating video. Cool to see the Mattel mention and the works of other developers making content for that brand as well, you should definitely look at the Caterpillar Construction Zone series sometime if you get the chance, I played those at least as much as I played Stunt Track Driver, and they were a lot of fun. Great video as always!

[@T4silly]

Wake up, instantly get assaulted with childhood memories. Oh yeah, it's all coming together today.

[@realGeorgelucas18563]

The downloadable scenes reminds me of what I bought as Disney Coaster (not the DOS game), also released as "Ultimate Ride" apparently. It was released in 2002, but by the time I bought it on holiday in Florida in 2004 (I got it in a shop in the Contemporary Hotel), the website for downloading more Disney characters to review your rides was long gone. Which was so upsetting as a kid, I wanted to see what Stitch thought of my ride of nothing but loop-de-loops!

[@doug960]

I remember this game. The tow truck that came with it could actually tow most other Hot Wheels cars. The hook seemed like it was designed to fit in the rivets on either end of the underside that hold the body to the chassis.

[@jrokruhlica]

Completely forgot about this game until you uploaded this. Major nostalgia, thank you!

[@retrodevdroid3670]

So it's basically the virtual version of what I played with my Hot Wheels all day when I was young. Only with explosions. :-D

[@Dlstufguy2]

I used to run a toy department at a Walmart. You just gave a few hot wheels collectors a heart attack

[@Malus1531]

Why?

[@dwarf365]

@@Malus1531 opened lmao

[@vanitymirrorss]

I sunk SO many hours in this game as a kid. The Volcano level took me forever. This, Stunt Track Driver 1+2, Army Men II, and Re-Volt are what what my childhood consisted of.

[@WhimsicalYokaiVideos]

My parents got this for me when I must have been either 4 or 5. Playing this on the family PC was so much fun. I loved this game

[@TheLogax100]

I vaguely remember playing this as a little kid in the early 2000's. It looks exactly as I remember it, nostalgic 90's polygons and all. Good to finally know the name of the game. I could never beat it tho, lol.

[@Zippy_Zolton]

Finally! You should eventually cover the rest of the Hot Wheels games!!

[@Nautules83]

I LOVE these retrospectives SO much! :D Thanks Clint!

[@cupriferouscatalyst3708]

Love the pause and realization after saying that the hand launch option is inadequate for "serious gameplay" lmao

[@Pichuscute]

Played this at the time as a kid and loved the hell out of it. Had a lot of fond memories playing it with my mom, who seemed to like it for its puzzle-y gameplay too. Honestly, it was a pretty genius idea that I'm surprised hasn't really happened more often.

[@TheTurkeYSangwich]

I had this game along with stunt track driver when I was a kid. I distinctly remember the carnival level taking me hours to figure out. If only 6 year old me knew it were so easy... Sadly my CD is long gone but thankfully still have the Tow Jam hotwheels that came with the game!

[@GerardKean]

"consolidate my childhood or whatever" - LGR 2022

[@darkovikaplayssimgames]

For some reason this woke up memories of a game I used to play pretty addictively- it was this infinite runner on PC that was for the M&M’s. It hd a story, but it was so unforgiving that i never got to see a majority of the story haha

[@collinmc90]

omg I can always count on you to bring back some long forgotten memories lol. that stunt game was my jam when I was like 7 lol.

[@E2theBizzle]

Back when this was first released, either the Hot Wheels or Mattel website (I can’t remember which) had a demo for this game. It was one level, the one with the donut shop, and you could only choose the launch angle as the power was fixed. I probably played that demo for at least an hour, just seeing what different chain reactions I could cause.

[@YamiVT]

I love your game reviews, man