POD PC Game Review | 1997 Ubisoft Old PC Racing Game | Second Wind

POD 1997 PC Game Review. POD is a 1997 futuristic racing PC game. Remember when there was loads futuristic racing games back in the day? You've got your wipEouts, your F-Zeroes and among them all you’ve got POD. The reason I remember the POD PC game so well is that we got this game free with our first family PC.
When the Pentium 2 came out, a big deal was being made over MMX technology. We got a Pentium 2 PC with a bunch of bundled software optimised for MMX processors. Amongst them was this futuristic racing PC game by Ubisoft, POD. Mate, this game. It blew my mind. I remember thinking it was the coolest thing. Crisp 3D graphics, CD quality sound and music; it had it all. The worst part about POD PC game though is that because it was so optimised for MMX processors it basically didn’t work on anything but. Since my parents scrapped that Pentium 2 PC, I never played POD again. One of the reasons I built my MMX Pentium 3 retro gaming PC was because I wanted to run POD PC game. I’ve kept the disc all these long years waiting to review POD in a retro PC game review for Second Wind.
I installed POD on my 90s retro PC, patched it to POD 2.0 Gold (the GOG version) and ran the 3DFX patch (POD was one of the first PC games to support 3DFX cards). I show you how to patch POD to run 800x600 but my capture card wouldn't capture POD PC game footage at 800x600..
1997 POD game's story is pretty bonk. POD PC game is set on the planet Io. Some miners dug down into the deep and they unleashed a big all-consuming virus that's taking over the entire planet and killing everything. So everybody gets on ships to leave the planet behind. But there’s eight people left, and there’s only one seat left on the last ship leaving. So they do the only sensible thing imaginable in that situation and they have a death race by modifying and adapting mining equipment into SUPER AWESOME RACE CARS. Seven people will be left to their doom while one lives to POD race another day I guess. Haha, POD race.
The cars in POD game themselves are excellent. All weird retro shapes and 90s grungey textures. The courses in POD are all absolutely bananas. These post apocalyptic, almost Mad Max-esque tracks are all built around abandoned cities or ruined mines etc. The courses are pretty detailed and they’re all tied together with this retro 90s grungey aesthetic that 12-year old me just loved.
1997 POD PC game plays out in a very typical racing game fashion. First place gets 8 points, second place gets 7 points; all the way down to 8th place who gets one point. After 15 races whoever’s got the highest score is the one who gets on the shuttle. Physics was a bit of a novel concept in PC games of 1997 and so Ubisoft are clearly trying to show off here. Heavier cars stick to the road like glue but lighter cars skate around corners as if they’re racing on glass. The cars lose LOADS of momentum going uphill, but they don’t half put some mustard on it when they’re going downdale. Hitting two cars together causes them to rattle off one another like snooker balls which can be pain or a massive bonus depending on which car benefits from that inertia. On the higher difficulty levels the cars even take damage.
One thing of note is the POD game had online PC multiplayer in 1997. The PC game multiplayer servers are down but you can do local split screen which is really rare for PC games now, let alone old PC games from the 90s
POD is still a really fun retro PC game. Arcade racing PC games are always fun. I love a bit of Killer Loop, I love a bit of Rollcage and it's nice to have some variety on that front. I’ve got quite a lot of these retro 90s futuristic racing PC games so I’ll be doing a bit of a rundown or a "best of" at some point because this is a wicked genre, man. The reason I started Second Wind retro PC reviews is to talk about old PC games that you can play on both new and old machines, to give them a Second Wind on your own PC. POD is available for PC on GOG for less than a fiver so for the price of a pint in a Shoreditch pub you’re getting something that will last longer and almost certainly be more fun. Cheers!
If this review has left you interested in POD PC game, check out the following links:
www.neogaf.com/forum/showthrea...
www.thebasingers.com/0706milbs...
witnessteam.free.fr/
You can buy POD Gold from GOG here:
www.gog.com/game/pod_gold
#podgame #secondwind #podgold
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[@boyblucas8439]

Dear god I miss this game. Great video man

[@MattyStoked]

Thanks mate. Before making this video I honestly hadn't played POD since release. I'm so glad it wasn't nostalgia, the game is actually good!

[@boyblucas8439]

I haven't even thought about it in 15 years. It just popped into my head the other day and you're video totally transported me to the good old days

[@MattyStoked]

I'm so glad that your nostalgia brought you to our channel. And I'm even more glad that you liked the video. I like to play old PC games, feel free to check out if anything else floats your nostalgia boat :)

[@tomf3150]

Don't mourn it yet, dowload Pod Gold, apply the patches, force it in 3DFX mode, and use a glide mapper : bam Pod in full HD. God Old Games

[@Gnarrkhaz]

This 90's industrial pc graphics style has always been inspiring for me.

[@MattyStoked]

Yep I really love the grungy 90s aesthetic. So recognisable! 😁

[@masterlowsferatu]

The amount of detail is incredible for a game of its time. All of the textures appear to be completely unique from each track.

[@InputArchive]

I love how you edit your videos. No bullshit, just straight to the point but in a casual laid back manner.

[@MattyStoked]

Mate, this is such a nice comment. Thank you! That is exactly what I want these videos to be. And positive too, I get no pleasure from harping on about how bad something is. I'd rather talk about things I like 😀

[@sebshifter]

This game awoke from the dephts of my subconscious when i saw the same bizarre color scheme elsewhere. Thanks for posting this !

[@MattyStoked]

Thanks for watching! This is proving to be a popular one! :-)

[@furiosound]

something similar happened to me. couldnt sleep and this forgotten memory came up out of nowhere

[@jasonTL]

I was just eating dinner and my brain just said " remember that game you played like 5 times when you were 8? It was called pod and if you flipped the logo upside down it was still pod". So I said, "oh yeah, thanks for the fun fact, brain"

[@Larry]

Never had the full game, but owned a demo that I played the absolute hell out of. I was weird like that with PC games, was happy enough playing the demo over and over, same thing with the demos of Moto Racer and Interstate 76.

[@MattyStoked]

Oh I was absolutely the same! Being a young kid from a family with not a lot of money, demos were one of my main gateways to PC gaming. My brother bought be a copy of PC gamer for my birthday one year and it was like he'd bought me 15 games! This stayed with me well into the 2000s - I completed the Liberty Island demo from Deus Ex in every conceivable way 😬

[@eelcogg]

HL Uplink

[@juanmanuel2659]

Yeah i only played the demo of this game, never got tired of it

[@user-ww9ld6ke4t]

shame on you, mate! :

[@user-ww9ld6ke4t]

@@MattyStoked OH, SHAME on you, MAte!! >:

[@blaket81]

Holy crap this game takes me back! Unlike a lot of the other comments this came free with my family's 2nd PC not our 1st. Our 1st PC was an IBM PS/2 with only Windows 3.11 on it and it had a 5 1/2" floppy drive. Our 2nd PC which was a Compaq Presario with Windows 95 on it. I'll never forget the 1st time booting up that computer and a video popped up with a man telling you about the computer. I thought I was in the future.

[@MattyStoked]

You were in the future! Nothing was as futuristic as the mid-90s. Nobody knew the dark time which lay ahead, it was a decade of infinite possibility!

[@MattyStoked]

We got POD in the late 90s free with our PC. Playing it 20 years later and you know what, it's still good! You can get POD Gold on GOG now and I'd recommend giving it a go.

[@shiveringisles3509]

nice to see people still playing in 2017! if anyone needs help running the game or just want to reminisc, come join the POD discord: discord.gg/wAFv2sN

[@DL-zo6od]

First 3D racing game outside of arcades that I played at 640 x 480 (high res at the time) at 60 FPS, I loved playing it even just for the smooth graphics! We are talking 1997 on a Pentium 166 MMX with a Voodoo 3D card. Phenomenal home gaming graphics for its time.

[@MattyStoked]

That comment is everything that makes this game so awesome. The nostalgia for the hardware, the passion for this era. You're in good company here :-D

[@anavallejoscotter2631]

OMG!! I loved being able to access this game again through your review, it triggers so many memories! Great review

[@MattyStoked]

Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you so much :)

[@thekingofelfland3294]

Cracking review!!! I'm bloody 50 years old and I loved this game. Was just recently thinking about how to get to playing it again. I loved the spacey music...

[@MattyStoked]

Thanks for the comment Trevor! I loved this game too. It used to be a right pain getting it working, but the good news is you can now buy this from GOG, and it's all working out of the box (so to speak).

[@falloutghoul1]

Man, I used to have this game when I was a small child.

[@MattyStoked]

Me too! Well, I would have been about 10 or 11. Seriously good game!

[@barrychapmam2458]

I remember when it was in testing i help with the bata test. Was a great game

[@mattmisanthropy.]

Oh wow, the nostalgia!!! It was the same story for me, the game came with my older sister's new PC. The family was rubbish at the game but here came 6 year old me, beating them all. I played this game to death. Thank you so much for making a video on it!

[@MattyStoked]

Thanks for leaving such a nice comment! I was hoping to catch all that nostalgia with this. Pod is still one of the highest selling PC games due to the amount of PCs and CPUs it was bundled with. I remember playing it with a joystick, which is actually a nightmare. Things were different 20 years ago :-D

[@brookefuller8215]

I searched for something about this game and found ur video. I loved this game so much it was so cool the levels were the best part ,so cool and unique and kinda had a dark feel to them. I would love to play again now.

[@MattyStoked]

Thanks for commenting. I'm glad you enjoyed the video :) You can get the game on GOG and it's really cheap. It'll run on anything so give it a go!

[@alpha013]

This is awesome. I remember getting this game with the book of CDs that came with our Gateway 2000 in 1998. I couldn't even remember the name of the game, I just googled 'racing game gateway 2000'. Awesome video man.

[@MattyStoked]

That's amazing! I love that my little video has enough search value that you could find it. Thanks for the kind words.

[@braddj6279]

I played this when I was 12 as well. Man this brings back so many memories. Thanks for the vid.

[@MattyStoked]

Glad you enjoyed it. I still love this game!

[@atommicatgmaildotcom]

I absolutely loved that game, and the cars looked soooo cool. I miss that gaming era, everything felt so innovative.

[@MattyStoked]

I think you're right. The decade between 1995-2005 had a lot more wild decision-making. I think this is due to the fact that games weren't making megabucks (or costing megabucks), so publishers weren't so averse to doing something a bit crazy.

[@atommicatgmaildotcom]

@@MattyStoked I think you're right, but I think there's another reason - Games, game design, character design, world design - everything was uncharted territory. There were very few familiar paths to take, so everything anyone did was based on very few precedents. That allowed the designers more creative freedom. They didn't know if it's gonna work because it was rarely done before. It was a leap of faith anyway, so might as well make it a big one. Who knows what's gonna happen, right? There's no benchmark.

[@MattyStoked]

@@atommicatgmaildotcom if you're interested in this topic, search on my videos for "spirit of 2005" :)

[@jasonTL]

I was just eating dinner and my brain just said " remember that game you played like 5 times when you were 8? It was called pod and if you flipped the logo upside down it was still pod". So I said, "oh yeah, thanks for the fun fact, brain"

[@bdruckus]

The custom tracks were awesome. There were soooooo many

[@MattyStoked]

I remember they released a "best of" on CD. The 90s was a hell of a decade!

[@MatthewJohnCrittenden]

Nice review, heading to GOG to relive some memories. Looks like it wasn't just my rose tinted spectacle view of the game. I think this was my first 3D accelerated game. I grew up in Kent so the references not lost on me :)

[@MattyStoked]

Thanks for the comment! I genuinely love this game and hope you enjoyed the video. It's definitely still fun to play, highly recommended.

[@MatthewJohnCrittenden]

@@MattyStoked It's still great, I had to fix some sound problems but simple enough to change the shortcut to only use one CPU thread as directed on the GOG forums. I saw the box art in the background on another gamer's channel and instantly needed a copy :)

[@AdventurewithSimon]

I remember this game, love the review!!

[@MattyStoked]

It's a great game, I wish I'd made a longer video :-) Thanks for commenting, glad you liked the video!

[@Balconetti]

This was the first PC game I ever bought, during a family trip to the US in 1997. I was 11 years old. Back in those days, online reviews and piracy via P2P channels weren't a thing yet, so you didn't really know what you were buying and whether you would like it unless you played the game in store, or there was a demo CD. I think the packaging did it for me. It just looked so cool with the futuristic-looking cars. Tomb Raider was also on the decision table.

[@MattyStoked]

Thank you! I love hearing stories like this. I personally just loved that rusty, grunge aesthetic. It's so 90s! You're right though, there was no guarantee back then. You got what you were given!

[@Larry]

Aah, I had a demo of this from a cover disc I'd play over and over, that and Interstate 76.

[@MattyStoked]

Fantastic 90s PC games, both.

[@bcukdannage]

Came here looking to see if anybody had brought this game back. Twas an awesome game to play, and feel like mad max!

[@MattyStoked]

I'm so happy you found the video. Hope you liked it.

[@EagleLeader1]

Geez I totally forgot about this game. I played it a couple times as a teen on my cousin's PC. The name was familiar when I clicked on the vid. But it still took me a minute to remember it. That memory was covered in cobwebs lol. Thanks.

[@MattyStoked]

That's awesome to hear! Little trips down memory lane is what I'm all about with these videos 😌

[@PanthalassaRo]

An uncle had this when I was a kid, the cinematics and sound were something jaw breaking, I was only accustomed to the NES at that point.

[@MattyStoked]

Aw that's amazing! When we got our first PC at home I couldn't believe how good the games looked. I love this 90s aesthetic.

[@panderz_gg]

Holy shit I have been searching for this game. I played this as a kid in 1997. Never remembered the name. HUGE THANKS.

[@MattyStoked]

How did you find this video?! I'd love to know. Did you type in "weird futuristic racing game"? 😆

[@panderz_gg]

@@MattyStoked I googled "90's PC racing game on different planet". Yours was the Top video recommendation for that search input. And it was BANG ON. Already bought it on GOG and nostalgia is kicking hard. Really you helped me out A LOT here.

[@alx86]

OMG… I can’t believe that I found this game with this keywords “Game cars pc windows 2000 planets” …it was the best game by a lot in my childhood 😍 Thank you for the video 🙏

[@MattyStoked]

I'm glad you enjoyed it! But I'm super glad that you managed to find it with those search terms! Hooray for late 2000s SEO advice :D

[@alexandrelima5666]

One of the racing games that i most played in my childhood.

[@MattyStoked]

Me too! This was my F-Zero, my WipEout!

[@smitty2jones]

POD was a whole lotta fun, but the damn turning sensitivity was through the roof. FWIW, Need For Speed 2, also 1997, had split screen also. Me and my buddy would crowd in front of my PC and play these 2 games all night long!

[@MattyStoked]

Unfortunately the controls are binary instead of analogue. Even though analogue controls are supported via joystick, the joypad / keyboard will only poll a result of left, right or null. So if you're turning left, it's full lock or nothing. Shame really!

[@GarageSupra]

If you were lucky enough to have good internet back then there was a awesome modding scene as well with heaps of extra cars and tracks! That menu selection noise is unforgettable

[@MattyStoked]

What a sound effect!

[@tristanwegner]

With podhack and nglide, I am running the game in butter smooth 3840*2160 !!! I love when games can looks much better, than even the developers ever imagined. The track design and atmosphere is almost timeless. Also Pod Gold has 16 additional tracks, even more diverse than the first 16. Plus downloadable ones.

[@MattyStoked]

Oh that sounds RAD. I'll be Googling that!

[@btchonda5173]

Thank god for this nostalgia bomb. I used to play this and elf bowling all the time on my grandmas computer when I was a kid XD

[@MattyStoked]

That's adorable. I love getting these kinds of comments on here :D

[@masterlowsferatu]

Who’s playing this in 2020 and realising it’s quite fitting for the current times? 😷

[@MattyStoked]

Haha, let's get off this planet while we still can!

[@jasonb1316]

Some serious nostalgia here. Loved the customization and the damage feature at the time. Spent countless hours glued to our old gateway playing these. Did yours come with the awful Eraser movie tie in game?

[@MattyStoked]

Thanks mate. I loved this game and played a lot of it, same as you. I really enjoyed it as an adult, I would recommend it for a quick burst of nostalgia. It's cheap and pretty fun, even today. I did not get that Eraser game! I'm going to look that up!

[@ILLRICARDO]

Back when ubisoft was good, I miss the old days in the 1980s to mid 2000, everything was perfect.

[@FeelingShred]

People have to understand that this is not just a racing game like any other. To begin with, you have 32 tracks (ok, to be fair there's 8 or 9 there that are rubbish garbage... but even then, you get at least 24 solid racing tracks) Of all those tracks, they can be reversed (which makes some of them behave like a totally new track with different paths and so on) which leaves you with 64 tracks in total. On top of that, there's a feature I never seen in any other racing game out there: Random Championship. Wanna have a quick race but don't wanna waste time getting through option menus? Then this option is for you. Hit Enter and Boom, you are in a random track, with a random car, now off to the races... POD was also one of the first games that had full control over the camera (CTRL+VFBG although unfortunately it doesn't save custom camera positions between races), you could jump the camera to the other cars (CTRL+1, CTRL+2, and so on), you could restart the race at any time (including championships) by pressing CTRL+Y and you can fully setup your car (which to be honest feels like cheating sometimes but it's absolutely welcomed in the Hard difficulty) And is one of the few racing games, if not the only, on which different cars behave differently based on their shape and size (some of them jump easily, others not despite being smaller or having less "mass" or whatever) Imagine on top of all this if this game had a full-fledged career mode with cash prizes and upgrades, it would have infinite replay value. One of those quick games you fire for a quick fun while waiting for something or while listening to something in the background. Simply amazing. Still a bitch to run though, on my core2duo laptop for some reason I could never run 60fps butter smooth like this video shows.

[@FeelingShred]

Now, do anyone know if there's a track editor for this game? There are some tracks that I would gladly edit to make them more "bearable" or at least to not make you lost. If that's not possible, I would like to remove some of the tracks, so I don't have to deal with them ever again. Seems like they are not using an elaborate random number generator for this game, because when you select Random Championship, there's a few tracks that seem to appear every damn time, doesn't feel like it's fully random at all, it's not like it's using any state-of-the-art Mersenne Twister or something xDDD

[@cyborghyena]

Yeah and it randomizes the settings of the car, too!

[@cyborghyena]

​@@FeelingShred If you use the GOG version you can use this to add emove tracks www.lazygamereviews.com/0706milbs/pod/goginstall.html Just be sure to read the instructions properly, it took me a few tries, but it was the only thing that worked. As for the randomizer giving the same tracks, I'd either enter one and exit right away and try my luck, or keep 'rerolling' until it gave you a track it never really starts with. It's a pain, but it seems to stay evenly shuffled after a few tries. As for a track editor, that's a different story. If there was a utility made, I haven't found it. The only thing I found in my travels concerning editing or creating new tracks as it would have been done was using a really old version of 3Dsmax that appears to be unobtainable, and even IF you had it, you'd probably have to run it within a VM. The more realistic option is to rip the files from the game using Ninja Ripper gamebanana.com/tools/5638 and edit them from blender using this plugin here gitlab.com/Syroot/Pod, and edit/add textures using GIMP. All of these are free software, which I used all the time, with the exception of Ninja Ripper, but I've heard of it in modding circles so it should serve well enough. The only problem I foresee is if you changed the actual layout of an existing track, or create a new one from scratch, it would break the AI, which is hardcoded to the track itself. The only customs that worked for me were mere texture swaps of existing tracks or the modder knew how to program the AI, I don't know how to help you there, but ask around, maybe someone can help with that.

[@FeelingShred]

@@cyborghyena I wasn't aware of that, cool!

[@FeelingShred]

@@cyborghyena I was able to setup the game on Linux to run inside of a tool called DxWnd, it runs smoothly now, and I was able to fix the music playback with a thing called LECMUSIC.DLL google it if you need it... I also replaced the engine sounds for the original ones (before the Gold version) which in my opinion sound much better

[@gooieglopp]

Omg. I had the demo of this with our family's first computer.

[@MattyStoked]

Yes! That's the hit of nostalgia I was aiming for :-D

[@morganshibby8941]

It's also because of this game that I started to make electro music

[@MattyStoked]

Link your Soundcloud!

[@TVGGAMEZCO]

First pc game I played. Then I got Blade Runner on PC & I fell in love

[@MattyStoked]

A one two punch! Blade Runner is such a good adventure game. Easily one of the GOATs

[@HellYeaKitty13]

I played this game all the time!

[@MattyStoked]

Awesome! I love this one 🤩

[@ewaf88]

Ditto I got this with my 1997 P2 PC which had a 2.3 GB disc and a 233mhz processor (Gasp). Great game

[@MattyStoked]

A two gig disk! My parents machine had 750mb!

[@ewaf88]

@@MattyStoked Goodness only 750mb - a nightmare. As Spook might say - - what play a 3D game in this Zinc plated vacuum tube culture. NB my PC was a Dell which cost £1500 back then which is an inflation adjusted £2750. The latter amount would buy you one hell of a PC now

[@lurkerrekrul]

I have a retail copy of this game. I never got it to work. I never got around to trying to follow the various guides for how to get the retail version installed and fixed.

[@Jay1830]

I loved this game as a kid (born in 94) but there is an other one I did play and i cant find it anymore. Its was a futuristic shooter, i remember there was large metal doors opening and closing by sliding vertically, and you could pick guns that where hovering a few inches over the ground and rotating on themselves. I remember i felt in a pool and it killed me. The name of the game was pretty short

[@MattyStoked]

Quite a short description. Are you underground the entire time? Could be Descent. I can think of quite a few games that fit the description. If you can think of anything more I might be able to help :-)

[@Jay1830]

The Game Show hi thx for your answer :) I really dont remember much i was very young and i did just play a little walking around in the game when my brother left the game on... i think it was always indoor and i remember a place that was pretty white with a sort of cave inside and i died when i went in the cave. I talked about a pool in my previous comment, i think the water was green and i died when i fell in it. The game might be quake 2 but i watched some gameplays and meh

[@chapelnightborn4526]

i played this on a pentium 4 with no problems at all. amazing game

[@MattyStoked]

Agreed, it is a great game :-D

[@tomspotley5733]

I got this game free only my first computer, a ‘Tiny’ or ’Time’ pc bundled with loads of awful hardware like a rubbish digital camera and printer. POD was awesome though!

[@MattyStoked]

Sonic Ninja Yes! I think my (raff) first Time computer came with that bundle. Did it have Magic Carpet as well?

[@MattyStoked]

[Matty] jumping in here too! My copy of POD (used in this video) came in a horrible software bundle from Tiny. It included POD, Space Station Simulator and some awful 3D architecture software. POD was the nuts though, which is why I still have it :-D

[@tomspotley5733]

It didn’t have Magic Carpet but came with the oddest game called ‘Normality’ which was brilliant if a little trippy.

[@RMCRetro]

How much IS a pint in a Shoreditch pub?

[@MattyStoked]

Seven quid easy.

[@HAWXLEADER]

I loved that Cockroach cars racing game! Always thought it was weird looking though... I loved Rocket Jockey more.

[@MattyStoked]

It is weird looking! It's awesome :-D

[@lewdypoo]

I seem to remember a game around the same time that had a "techno" soundtrack if you played it as an audio disc. It was something of a Cruis'n USA-esque title and had a mode where you could drag race... I thought the name of it was Top Gear 4 or Top Speed 4 but can't find anything. Did you play something similar back then? It was definitely in the Pentium 2 days around when POD would have existed.

[@MattyStoked]

Test Drive 4?

[@lewdypoo]

Thank you! That's it!

[@MattyStoked]

I loved that game. I still love that game. It's an excellent game. I loved San Francisco, driving it in reverse, jumping up hills and crashing in to buildings. Then coming home and playing Test Drive 4.

[@fatbosa]

holy shit this is the game i've been searching for YEARS

[@MattyStoked]

That's amazing! How did you find the video? 😁

[@fatbosa]

@@MattyStoked i had a flashback of it, and then went searching on google images. when i was about to give up i accidentally clicked on google's "all" tab and by luck took a glance at this vid's thumbnail lol

[@MattyStoked]

@@fatbosa that's so cool! What were you searching for?

[@b3z3rk3r2]

that was my 1st game in my life on Pentium 166mhz , 16 mb. RAM and s3 virge :)

[@MattyStoked]

S3 ViRGE was the bomb! I had a real thing for S3 cards back then, I think it was because they were an underdog and I've always rooted for the little guy.

[@mountaindew267]

To anyone going to GOG to get this game: The split screen multiplayer is completely missing, the controller support is missing, so only keyboard, and the game crashes on exit so that not even task manager can do anything about it.

[@MattyStoked]

Oof that's rough!

[@HellBrYnger]

the story of PoD can be lend down to one path, humanoinds have been stragulating that one planet for far too long and since everyone of the high socieity are about to leave ONE coorpartion promises the best driver to win shall be a part of the escape ship. this was a game made in the 1990's but telegraphs way ahead.

[@HellBrYnger]

what does humaity think about that whole subject? we cant be rescued at once, has humanity thought about the natural selection process of it all?

[@MattyStoked]

If there's a looming ecological disaster that will send this species extinct, we'd better all start working on our driving skills.

[@JothJackson]

We got Pod free, too!!!

[@JOE_XD]

That game was good! Was it 3Dfx compatible? It was looking better in my memories, thanks for the vid!

[@MattyStoked]

Yes is is! You're seeing me play the game in Glide on my SLI Voodoo 2s!

[@JOE_XD]

@@MattyStoked SLI ? :P Must have seen that on Linus. I had the very first 3Dfx card (Diamond Monster 3D) before the voodoo series. It was kind of a SLI. XD

[@MattyStoked]

@@JOE_XD Yep!

[@zephyrkhambatta]

Omg I got it free too here in SINGAPORE!!! I miss this!!!! Where can i buy it now?

[@MattyStoked]

You're in luck! You can now buy this game on GOG! www.gog.com/game/pod_gold

[@FeelingShred]

3:38 what game you mentioned before Rollcage? Yeah Rollcage was amazing

[@MattyStoked]

Killer Loop. Great little game

[@FeelingShred]

@@MattyStoked never heard of it, will look it up... there was another one called Mini Car Racing, it's isometric and the AI is flawless, but the sheer amount of upgrades and tracks make for a very entertaining game from the WinXP era... This POD engine looks like it could be used for so many things over the years, such a shame that so many game engines in the 90's would get abandoned, after all the hard work...

[@THEOLYMPIAGUY360]

I am looking for an old pc racing street racing game. It was street drag racing it had a Japanese girl flagging the races when you played online if you didn't have enough money to cover the bet it would take you car parts. Any ideas????

[@Nockspielt]

im searching for a game that i loved playing back in about 1997, its a buggy racing game with amazing 3d graphics, like with loopings and stuff in the dessert....i dont know the name, but i need to know whick game it was....anyone?

[@MattyStoked]

I think you're thinking of Powerslide. Great game in the old Unreal engine!

[@Nockspielt]

@@MattyStoked No it was not Powerslide. the tracks was like very small und like in F_zero but without loopings. The graphics was really good, it looked like it was scripted a bit....

[@MattyStoked]

Hmm, don't know then. I thought maybe Hi Octane as it has a desert track, but it's not that. Small desert tracks, in a buggy, scripted 3D graphics. I dunno, MegaRace or MegaRace 2?

[@Nockspielt]

@@MattyStoked Hey!!! Yuhuuu youve got it, it was Megarace 2!!! I think there was a demo on a pc games magazine in about 1997, Thnak you very much. I played that demo day and night and it looked so good!! i searched for that game the last 2-3 years, thank you so much.

[@user-tj2co3jf4v]

how can I play this game on a Mac?

[@MattyStoked]

I don't think it was ever written for the Mac. You could try WINE?

[@FassinTaak]

MAN my old man used to play this pissed with his drinking buddies, I enjoyed this as I knew he'd soon be out all night so I could rape the phone bill playing Quake 2 on BT's extortionate Wireplay dial-up.

[@MattyStoked]

Playing games online in 1997 was mental. 1p a minute on NTL 😅🔫

[@MTCmaquinas]

Uma vez eu joguei esse jogo o dia inteiro e o cd ficava muito quente... Aí depois eu coloquei um cd frio do need for speed e explodiu kkk

[@Eclispestar]

Oh i played this game a lot. not a fan of racing games but this one Oh ya!

[@MattyStoked]

Still brilliant. Not as rapid as other sci-fi racers but it's absolutely chocka with atmosphere.

[@m9078jk3]

Yeah you want POD Gold .Software rendering on the other versions doesn't look so nice in fact it looks ugly.

[@MattyStoked]

You can see in the video, I've shown the first course rendered in software mode. The rest is rendered on my retro PC's Voodoo 2s using the 3DFX driver. POD is patched from OEM to POD 2.0 (Gold) before you can do this.

[@tomf3150]

install it in 3dfx mode then use a glide mapper: search dgVoodoo V2.54...

[@NauticalOnion]

If you didn't pick Scorp in this game, you were playing it wrong.

[@MattyStoked]

omg this is truth

[@whiskeyjuliet]

Isn't it just simpler to say "For the price two pints anywhere outside of the M25"...

[@MattyStoked]

lol how is that simpler? Cheers for commenting though mate.

[@tekstyles]

where do you live? I cant get two pints for a fiver anywhere near where I am