LGR - Moto Racer - PC Game Review

From the same developer as Flashback and Fade to Black comes "the greatest racing game of all time". For fast, awesome, 3D-accelerated 90's arcade racing on the PC, look no further than Moto Racer!
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[@jacobcraft123]

seeing this almost made me tear up......this was the one of the first racing games i ever played on my dads computer .........having lost my dad recently this brings back alot of memories i miss you dad thnk you for introducing me to so many awesome video games and playing them with me

[@COBOListhefuture]

God I remember finally being able to wheelie pretty much the entire speed bay track. Lapping opponents in your 3rd lap ftw

[@BorisTerekidi]

I got that game bundled with a computer (Compaq Presario) when I bought it back in 1998 and it was one of my fav games. The music was also really awesom.

[@1magazine]

Boris Terekidi Hey, we also got Moto Racer bundled with a Compaq Presario! If I recall correctly we also had Rage’s Incoming included, and another one which I can’t remember. However Moto Racer was such a blast, Speed Bay being the favourite track of course :)

[@ChrisLove713]

same here

[@jacknettube]

Also have a Compaq bundled with those two games. Memories. I sorta lost Incoming, but I think I still have Moto Racer lying around.

[@BigStickMan09]

Same here! Loved this game. Still remember the first time I saw the spaceship.

[@erikgust2]

This is a huge nostalgia trip...

[@Calling321]

LOL. That game actually ran really well.

[@funnylookingfoetus]

Are you talking about the beard, or the game?

[@Azerkeux]

I still own this game

[@TheTuttle99]

Seriously holy, all the menus, all the noises. Man

[@ManInMostlyBlack]

I used to play the shit out of this game

[@videogamemagick8572]

Just bought this plus Moto Racer 2 during the GOG sale and I'm glad I did, thanks for the great review Clint

[@Dungyfan007]

Whoa! somehow I never saw a video with that magnificent beard!

[@praveensharma9893]

+David Holbrook just watch Osama man

[@odinsplaygrounds]

We don't speak about Clint's ISIS years anymore.

[@PeterMetzger]

My brother came home from college in 1998 or 1999 with Moto Racer 2 running on an AMD K6 300 MHz computer and it blew my mind.

[@MetalJesusRocks]

I loved this game when it first came out! A classic

[@vdfritzz]

gameplay didn't age at all

[@thextremez2489]

Hi metaljesusrocks love your channel :)

[@kylerobinson6102]

We all knew YOU would love this game! Obviously!

[@javiergonzalez1013]

Shut the fk up

[@SianaGearz]

OK, what's up with late 90ies games, especially racing games, having the most awesome soundtracks? Whether it's rock, or house&techno, or whatever, it's all kind of on another level of awesomeness! Am I turning into an old person? Is this what being an old person is like?

[@emanatingf]

you're not alone

[@kiddhkane]

It's just having good taste

[@jasonsmith8802]

Dude I still listen to the second one's OST for biking.

[@ThommyofThenn]

don't forget midi slap bass

[@valmarifoto]

because they made good music in 90's and early 2000. :)

[@TechnoToastx]

As soon as I heard that soundtrack the nostalgia hit me like a truck. All that time I spent as a kid playing this game on my dad's computer is slowly coming back to me. Speed Bay will always be my favorite map. I swear I played that map so much that I barely remember the others that well. To be honest I don't even remember if my child self was patient enough to beat this entire game to unlock everything. All I wanted to do was ride a motorcycle wicked fast alongside a beach and knock the other racers over.

[@simplylogan93]

Aww man -- that soundtrack -- those graphics -- I loved this game.

[@CosmiCandy]

Thanks-a-million for reminding and showing us all our fav childhood games. Thanks for sharing.

[@cappantwan2978]

Holy crap, you just made me blow up in a wave of nostalgia. I remember my parents buying me this game for my WIndows 95 Compaq Presario. This game used to blow my mind as a kid with its 3D graphics and textures.

[@EvtheNev]

I remember lending my copy to a "friend" of mine back when I was a kid and never seeing it again. Never quite got over it, never quite spoke to him again! lol

[@AgustinCesar]

I will quote, today in 2018: "Ohhh WHAT A ROCKET", good ol' memories

[@jhonrock2386]

Watching this in 2019. Man! You did change a lot in these last 6 years uh? Good game, I played the hell out of it back in the day on PS1.

[@AlyxxTheRat]

POD's one of my favs too. I think it still holds up today. I actually bought it on GOG and I have such a nostalgia trip every time I boot it up.

[@xMobilemux]

I'll never forget this game, it was the very very first video game I had ever played in my life and was pretty much my all time favorite bike racing game until I played Freekstyle. Moto Racer was amazing back then and is still fun as hell today :)

[@LGR]

Actions like yours are what got me to buy the game and 3DFX card back then, so thank you :D

[@Billiamiscool]

Oh shit I'd forgotten about LGR's magnificent beard!

[@Gammera2000]

Billiamiscool I've never seen it before. It shocked the f$#& outa me.

[@Nederlance]

It really wasnt magnificent tho

[@ElShogoso]

of course it was

[@lunarcarousel]

We had this pre-installed on our Compaq Presario of the day. My brother and I looooved playing this for hours. Thanks for the nostalgia trip, Clint!

[@DanWallace85]

This game was awesome.

[@THOMASSU63]

I loved this too on my PC w 3DFx back in the day. I still have the original left, but it's the regular version in a smaller box.

[@MonoManokit]

Oh god the nostalgia.

[@Admiralex91]

I hate racing games but I played this one quite often.

[@joshuakelly8266]

Man, I remember having that game on my computer & playing it at like 6 & I am 16 now. I still have it. I am about to download that now just to play it again.

[@LGR]

I don't have hardly any of the game boxes from my childhood either. Same thing: careless brother/self and parents who wanted the boxes gone to make space. I've had to find all these games again in their packaging over the past several years, since I now know their true value and how much I enjoy them.

[@miskone1044]

thank you so so much for doing these reviews and random vids! you manage to bring back so many memories from different years and stages of my life simply through video game reviews - which to me is pretty fantastic lol.

[@souta95]

I remember playing this on a late 90's Compaq Presaio with a 350MHz AMD K6-2 and integrated SiS graphics. It was one of the few games I had that made use of a gamepad for the PC.

[@wolfgangervin2582]

Getting very strong Sega AM2 vibes here. That's a wonderful thing.

[@someinterwebguy]

MotoRacer and MotoRacer 2 are pleasant memories of late 90's PC gaming for me. Pentium II 233mhz, 96MB RAM, and a 16MB TNT video card - good times. Good Review!

[@HarrySteel]

Never Stop Your Reviews And Don't Make Them Shorter Keep Going With These! Unlike Most KZbin Channels I Could Watch Yours For Hours At A Time And Not Get Bored! You're Awesome And So Are Your Reviews. Keep Up The Good Work! :D ~Harry

[@LarryKoopaFanatic]

Used to have the PS1 version way back when it feels like now and played the hell out of it and damn, hearing that soundtrack was one huge punch of nostalgia. One of the first racing games I got into back in the day alongside the Gran Turismo franchise and Test Drive 5. Good times that literally feel like yesterday to me still. Thanks for this blast from the past, LGR!

[@Tannerlegasse]

LGR Thank you so much for this review. I've been binge watching your videos for months and this was one of my all time favorite games as a kid. Keep up the awesome stuff :)

[@TheVanillatech]

Had a Matrox Mystique when Motoracer landed, and the box said my card was supported for 3D accelerated mode. Yep it was supported - but the Mystique didn't have bilinear filtering support so the game looked same as software mode only it could be played in 640x480 with a super smooth framerate. My friend had an Orchid Righteous 3D and when I saw the game running on his PC it made by buy a 3Dfx VooDoo card. The Matrox stayed in my PC as a 2D card - and for the best Mechwarrior 2 version ever released (the Mystique MW2 was superb!).

[@GamerGee]

2:30 that main theme. Guitar with the organ chord and 808s and the sax. What a crazy blend that comes out good

[@zuyvox]

I had to persuade my father to buy this new game from the flea market. At first he didn't want to, but then he did it and we haven't regretted it. He even made a list of which motorcycle is suitable for which racetrack.

[@LGR]

Yes, Glide-enabled games often provided a far superior visual experience at the time. Anti-aliasing, anisotropic filtering, z-buffering, volumetric effects, lighting, etc. I have videos on the Voodoo and 3DFX cards that show the difference :) Wrappers such as nGlide and dgVoodoo are good ways to check it out nowadays though, and sometimes even make older games work better on modern systems.

[@AlyxxTheRat]

3DFX was the shit back then. A BIG reason I am partial to PC's when it comes to gaming, they're always modular and therefore more capable of greater graphics than consoles, since consoles are locked to their components. I remember back in 1998, playing Tomb Raider II and MDK on PC and then seeing them on Playstation. I couldn't believe it was the same game, they looked so much muddier and pixelated on console.

[@LiveLikeaPunk]

I can't beleive that you review every single game that i played in the 90's and have forgotten of. I love you ^^

[@ForeverYoungAaron]

Not sure why but it's somehow so cool hearing one of my favorite youtubers talk about his experience in my town. Although Comp Usa is a relic these days haha

[@ckimberly35]

I like when you make appearances in your videos! Thanks LGR.. for the video; so many memories!

[@Detective09]

This was one the first PC games I owned. It came bundled with my Compaq Presario back in 1998. So many memories.

[@kenjenkillasounds]

Omg the SAAAMMME THING FOR ME CAME WIT MY COMPAQ PRESARIO😢😊 same year

[@QualityJeverage]

My god, I had this game, and it's one of those that I haven't thought about at all since I played it as a kid. I'm having a nostalgia freakout watching this, why are your videos so good at that? ;)

[@gt1man931]

Played the hell out of this on a P 166 overdrive and a 4 meg rendition card. Seemed like it looked better than whatever this is on. A fun romp to burn a half hour back then.

[@Faapu]

Bruh, I played the shit out of this game and everything that one guy said is forever ingrained in my mind. I prefer the sequel though, especially the PS1 version's soundtrack.

[@obviam333]

With your reviews your'e making my gamer life brighter, thank you very much.

[@TheVanillatech]

I had a Matrox card when I bought this game, a Matrox Mystique 2MB. It looked absolute no different to Software mode on the Mystique but it ran noticably faster. I mean, it was as smooth in 640x480 on the Mystique as it was in 320x240 in software mode. A few months later I bought a 3Dfx card and it ran just as smooth as the Mystique did, only now with BiLinear filtering and looked so much smoother. Awesome game though. Great times had with this one at LANS.

[@Napalm30308]

Seriously dude, thank you for reviewing this game. This was my first ever video game, I remember playing it on my parent's old clunky Compaq computer on Windows 98, I still have the game disc on a place of honor here at my desk. Thank you LGR for hitting me with that little blast of nostalgia.

[@BarendCombrink]

Man, I loved this game.

[@JoshyHendoMan]

When we got our first computer as a family this game came with its purchase. I still remember my dad laughing his head off watching me try and master the keyboard controls. I played this game all the time. So awesome to see highlights of it.

[@MrTechnoSqueek]

I played the hell out of this game as a kid on a family friend's pc and I totally forgot the name of the game till now..and I am so glad its on GOG. Thank you for bringing back memories for me.

[@zombee38]

Great review! love this game and I still have it somewhere in the garage...like very much the Sega-ish arcade style

[@catgirl_eva]

I remember playing this back in 2004. The game was awesome and unlike most other games that I tried, it ran awesome on my 700MHz PIII Gateway with 128MB PC-100 and nVidia Vanta 8MB video card.

[@andrewattenboroughtwothumb4697]

I loved this game as a kid and finished it many times and love the pocket bikes

[@sonic4j]

Wow I was about to go to bed, then I noticed this video on your channel. I thought I was the only one who liked this game! I remember bringing it to school in 6th grade and playing it in the computer lab with my friend. The game is very light on the CPU so it was one of the few 3D games that worked really well with my Celeron 300 (no A) and ATI 3D Rage onboard graphics. I am going hook up that same computer and play it again in the morning!

[@TheTaskmaster]

NO DOUBT man the input name screen was amazing the sound fx on thie game are just my favorite of all time this is my favorite true racing game of all time as well

[@GyroCannon]

Man I loved this when i was a kid I totally forgot about this until I saw the name and it brought all of the memories back

[@mistyhunter]

I JUST NOTICED THE FREDDY GOT FINGERED REFERENCE. YESSSSSSSSS. Probably my favorite movie of all time.

[@LGR]

Try the GOG version, it fixed the speed issues on newer PCs.

[@GazixVR]

My first PC game. It came with an old Compaq PC from the 98 days. Still have the game and still love it.

[@CheffBryan]

XD SOOO nostalgic! This and Revolt were the first two games my brother and I had, so glad you covered both!

[@OscarAbarcaChinchilla]

I almost cry with that electric guitar sounds, so many memories playing this with my friend doing line one by one because just want of us could play at a time on my pc.

[@SevenForce1]

This came packed with my old 500mhz Pentium 3 PC. Think I still got the CD lying around somewhere. Great racer.

[@videogameobsession]

Nice job on the review. I remember stocking this game when it came into our store. I loved it so much I brought in my PC (With 3DFX card) and put it on display with this game. I think I'm personally responsible for selling at least 4 copies of this game in '97. :P

[@M4R14NO94]

Fun fact: the announcer dude on this (as well as 2 and Advance) was voiced by Christian Erickson, aka Lance Boyle from the MegaRace games, and more recently Heavy Rain's "The Doctor". I seem to recall there were one or two lines where you could clearly tell it was him.

[@LGR]

Hard to say. My favorite game with cars is probably Carmageddon 2. "Racing game" implies racing though, and C2 isn't really about racing. POD is a personal favorite, largely because of the atmosphere and my crusade to find every version ever made worldwide. Still, it can't compete with modern games as far as actual racing is concerned though, and Forza 4 is my favorite of the modern ones.

[@AdamBath]

This was the first 3D accelerated game I ever played, on my ATI Rage 128.

[@youngjay914tv9]

This is my all time favorite racing game My cousins and I used to spend hours battling each other in the 90s Still got the game disc for Playstation Mint Condition 😂😂🔥🔥 This should be remastered for the PS5

[@LGR]

Correct, though I was only talking about the game being used to push the Glide-capable cards, not saying it had Glide rendering. Should've been more clear I suppose.

[@PowerMeep]

I remember triggering a bug during either the menu eyecatch or maybe a saved replay where it stopped playing back automatically and transferred control to me, the player. That absolutely blew my mind when I was little. I don't remember what buttons I pressed to cause it, but the rider focused on by the camera crashed into something. When he got back onto his bike, he was back in player-control mode.

[@mainecrab]

I love this game and was so good at it. The graphics were so damn good on NVidia Riva 128 and Voodoo 2

[@LGR]

That was the one :D Loved that store.

[@LeonStephan]

This reminded me to my other favorite racing game back in the time Need for Speed 3: Hot Pursuit. Do you have any plans about reviewing it?

[@LGR]

Eventually, yes! I talked about it here recently though kzbin.info/www/bejne/sHWXkHWCoJZ0sKc

[@naranjo1989]

Nice review man, this game brings back so many memories.. Can. Run this game with software graphics? Or is it 3d harware accelerated graphics only?

[@cantinflash1354]

Forgot how much I loved this game, Im not into racing games but this one got me tied to my chair for many many hours. Thanks.

[@AlyxxTheRat]

One of my alltime favourite racers. Popped this in all the time as a kid.

[@Valtron771]

So much of my childhood on greatwall. Thanks for the nostalgia hit

[@FactsOverLoadd]

thank you!! i've been looking for this game for years!

[@lastsc7429]

You just made me remember my childhood! The days of Voodoo 2 and my 300Mhz PC !

[@ianism3]

I had Moto Racer 2, which i absolutely loved because you could create your own custom tracks! if I remember right the system was easy to use and of course I focused on making the ones with the biggest jumps possible. I wasn't really interested in the tarmac/superbike side of the game

[@micfrog]

Holy crap this video shows up in my reccomended feed and not only is this a game I played as a kid but I also had no idea you had a massive beard...

[@greilthelegendaryhero252]

My brother and I used to love this game. When we got a new cpu we could no longer play it. But then, almost 12 years I remembered this game completely randomly and instantly got it on gog.com. It's just as good as I remember.

[@ZebbeSebbe]

WOW! I never thought I would see this! I played this a lot when I was young! Remember playing this with my dad! Great times!

[@johnconnorstopskynet]

Dude I'm so jealous of your big box collection. I used to play a more ghetto version of this called Cyclemania. Was awesome used live action video for the tracks and sprites for the bikes, cars, cows etc. lol

[@WalcomS7]

Somehow wound up on this video...i'm amazed how fun this looks. If you happen to see this Clint, have you ever played Whiplash?

[@CdH94]

I've messed my pants, thanks for the nostalgia Clint. I played the crap out of this on a 166 MHz Pentium system with a Microsoft joystick a long time ago. Time to try and get it working on my modern machine. This, Grand Prix Legends with a Thrustmaster T1, and Lego Creator made my late 90s 5 year old brain go wild.

[@LGR]

Moto Racer 2 had the track editor :)

[@GameplayandTalk]

Looks pretty sweet! I remember seeing this one at just about every computer shop back in the day, but I never got around to trying it myself. Seems like I missed out!

[@kylerobinson6102]

The gameplay was fantastic on this series! Fond memories of my younger years.

[@TheExileFox]

You should really review the Redline Racer and compare it to this one, it's similar but has fun cheats and maybe a better soundtrack

[@ACBlackJ0ck]

Oh man, completely forgot about this game! I remember back in the day when I was a wee lad watching my dad play this on his PC. Gotta pick this up on Steam!

[@nathanielenochs1843]

DO NOT DO THAT! The steam version is an absolute train wreck. The DRM free version on GOG works way better.

[@tlarson91119]

Oh my God, I forgot I even played the hell out of this game when I was little. When you showed the start screen, I remembered that start button.

[@MaximilienNoal]

That's a game right from my childhood ! In France it was quite popular at the time. It looked awesome and was blazing fast ! :)

[@AxiomofDiscord]

late nineties the most rapid changes in gaming hardware ever. Well for PCs that is dedicated consoles had been ramping up for sometime by that point but this is where PCs started pulling away and made up for lost time and than some with dedicated gpus. Fast forward to the world beyond 2004 and advancements to me seem to just be standing still in relation to what it use to be.

[@VigoVonHomburgDeutchendorf]

True, I bought the P133mhz in 1997 and in late 1998 I was unable to play 70% of games(I was lacking gpu accelerator). Now I own a PC from 2009 and I'm able to play 95% of games on High-medium settings.

[@AxiomofDiscord]

DarkBolo Yeah my PC is from 2010. My problem now though that helps even more is as an adult a game is 3 years old by the time I get around to it.

[@mangafanatic19]

Pure nostalgia for me😊 I loved this racing game so much growing up.💕

[@cassiodalcin]

Clint, plz do a Megarace review! Lance Boyle was great there!

[@GRex7777]

I am SOOOO glad I watched this video. I've had this game since I was little but never knew there were addon tracks. and a few google searches managed to find them :D I'm gonna have fun tonight!

[@MagikGimp]

Very impressed by the demo of this one back in the day but I never bought games back then so haven't got around to playing it in full yet.