PSX Longplay [377] Road and Track Presents: The Need for Speed

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Played by: MadMatty
Playstation port of The Need for Speed released along with the Saturn version in 1996. Being released long after the original 3DO version and the updated PC version you would think that anything wrong or criticised in those versions would have been fixed here. In fact non of that happened and here we have a poor port which looks considerably worse than the other versions but it is also incredibly difficult to play as well. It seems like the game was not play tested and balanced before rit was released and its only through the use of save states that I have made it through the game at all.
I play through the Tournament mode which consist of 6 tracks, unlocking a 7th on completion of those 6. This mode is bloody difficult, near impossible in fact. Just one mistake and you may as well restart or rage quit. The AI cars blatantly cheat by going faster then the car is capable of, blasting round corners without breaking and no negative effect of scraping on the road sides. Sometimes is not always clear where the road side is as sometimes just hitting some gravel is enough to cause a collision and other times it will let you go over the grass. This mode is no fun at all. Autumn took me a few days to crack it as just losing some speed on one corner is enough to cost you the race as you will never catch up to the car in 1st. Unfortunately you absolutely need to place 1st on every track to complete the tournament.
After completing the tournament (6 initial tracks), Rally mode is unlocked. In single race or head to head mode you can now go round 6 of the tracks with rally car handing causing you to slide around a lot more. Also the warrior car is unlocked for single race/head to head mode. This is a super car I will show later in the video. Of course it doesn't tell you that you have unlocked it. You have to press a button combo when selecting a car (L1+R1) in order to use it. Oasis Springs is also unlocked which gives rally handling in a dessert which is just a re-skin of Rusty Springs.
As I was having so much fun with the game ..... I went through tournament mode again, showing different cars where I can and on completing this, Lunar Springs is unlocked (L1+R1+Triangle) which re-skins Rusty Springs level as low gravity race on the moon. Yeah the game feels so rewarding, it still doesn't tell you about the special codes after you unlock them.
After tournament mode is completed, its time to have some fun finally. I show off both the unlocked lunar and oasis tracks in a head to head race and then I show off a Head to head in the warrior car on the city track. Now the game is populated with traffic making it more fun and the ai cars can crash as well. You can even get into a police chase of sorts. If I was to just casually play this game it would be in this mode and seems to be where the most fun is to be had. Once I'm done I show the games credits video. The last half hour of this video is just going through the Showroom information for all the cars. It takes a while.
Did this game do anything right? Introducing car physics long before games like Gran Turismo hit the scene was interesting, but the way the cars controlled just made the game a constant battle when the ai cars never have to worry about handling,speed or grip. The game kinda feels/looks more Arcady than the other versions no doubt do to the influence of the ridge racer games already on the ps1 which now I think about it, could also be fiendishly difficult at times. The cockpit view also works well and helps with immersion and with the cops and the traffic it feels like this game could have been part of the test drive series.
00:00:00 - Intro and demo video.
00:03:05 - Start of Tournament - Play through of 6 tracks. Unlocked Rally Mode, Vegas Track, Warrior car and Oasis Springs
01:06:52 - Start of 2nd Tournament - Play through of all 7 Tracks. Starts off with unlocked Vegas track. Unlocks Lunar Springs (I cut out another run on Vegas track as it wasn't needed)
02:21:25 - Head to Head mode on Lunar Springs
02:26:00 - Head to Head Mode on Oasis Springs
02:30:15 - Head to Head on City Road using Warrior car (Easily the most interesting and fun part of the video)
02:40:05 - Credits Video
02:43:10 - Showroom ALL Cars (General)
02:48:21 - Showroom ALL Cars (History)
02:58:05 - Showroom ALL Cars (Videos)
03:04:00 - Showroom All Cars (Mechanical)
03:08:47 - Showroom All Cars (Performance) -
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[@justinclarke2631]

Ahhh 2021 and the nostalgia is still not lost, one of my earliest memories! Thank you.

[@081588101]

my second racing game on the ps1 after ridge racer. who could know how big it would get... this game was epic back then!

[@frankiebeans8055]

081588101 I remember renting a ps 1 system from blockbuster and this game.

[@mcd2bbw]

This game pretty much got my dad to buy a surround system and some bucket car seats for his little game room. Which he also bought a playstation for specifically...haha Need for Speed..

[@samurizzy]

Back when the menus for games looked like they were done in PowerPoint. Those were simple times.

[@user-jh6vt8vx4v]

samurizzy They did not put much effort into it. The whole game was a junk port from PC version anyway. And I don't appreciate the heavy under steering in early NFS game, it is almost a signature of the game, and there is no correction to it.

[@MichaelPohoreski]

As someone who worked on the _Need for Speed_ PSX version and **implemented the front end UI** (along with Shelby) -- NO, we didn't use PowerPoint. **Everything was coded by handed in C.** We had a design doc and worked with the artists to have a logical flow.

[@CricetoFunni]

Michael Pohoreski can I have your autograph

[@MichaelPohoreski]

@Damar Fadlan Only the first two and most of _Most Wanted_

[@GamerGee]

@@MichaelPohoreski screw what they say. I loved the NFS PRESENTATION. was coastal the track based off of a real place?

[@DarthSchwartz]

i was so happy when this came out for psx. i was considering buying a 3do just for this game back in the day. Automatic transmission felt like it played faster on the psx version. i remember having to drive a standard transmission in the 3do version to get any sense of speed. there's also glitch in the Lost Vegas track where if you hit a jump at a certain angle it records a faster top speed for your car in the air. i got the diablo up to 271 mph :)

[@Corn13R33]

Yeah Supra top speed 155 but you hit the jump on Lost Vegas 230+

[@PH96Official]

🇨🇦 Electronic Arts Canada 🇨🇦 We developed the first NFS trilogy remember that when you say Canadians haven't made iconic videogames!

[@deadpoolvega]

Wait, what??

[@justaintfeelinit8742]

I never heard someone say that

[@PH96Official]

Yeah a lot of people incorrectly think all the big studios are from the UK and US @@deadpoolvega

[@PH96Official]

@@justaintfeelinit8742 really I'll take note of that.

[@JimmyFoxhound]

I remember buying this game in those big huge PS1 boxes before they went to the smaller normal sized CD cases. Man the boot up sound and intro.. nostalgia overload! I want to go back!!

[@youcantseeme0015]

So Classic. One of my favorite racing games on PS1

[@jetertj]

My very first nfs game ever played i could never forget. My very first car was a blue viper good times.

[@abelreiscarvalho7143]

Your is unique when it comes to longplays , cos it brings tons and tons of old games that many other channels don't care about !!!

[@DailypursuitNetNews]

Oh, what a memories ❤️

[@GamerGee]

1996 summer. S video crt. 32”. Pioneer pro logic system 2 12” floor speakers 140 rms. House shook. This was the game man.

[@Dauwis]

I had this game back in the day, wish I still did. Still have my original PS1

[@user-ml7xq4rb4s]

Супер игра, все что вышло после её уже не те, не тот адреналин, сюжет и прочее, у меня диск до сих пор живой с этой игрой.

[@javieralas2061]

Cómo olvidarlo me trae muchos recuerdos 😔😔😔

[@calicocookietv7994]

I'm slowly gonna get every single need for speed game so of course I need to get this one. The game that started it all lol

[@MITCHY_B_2003]

Still to this day some of the songs from this game randomly pop up in my head and I start humming along .

[@milosvlatkovic116]

Damn hard game! I just had to check the KZbin. You are a hell of a driver man!

[@rulue8610]

Special edition has bonus and additional tracks

[@benzer126]

Wow sherlock.

[@leonardoplays5546]

I remember ea has No DLC No pay to win No loot boxes Free to play

[@yoanfernanda]

Thanks, Road and Tracks Magazine

[@yittmashups]

1:33 - Hey, turn up the 'tude!

[@KVN-1000]

1:08 IS THAT A SUPRA!!!

[@MichaelPohoreski]

It is! It was one of Funky's favorite cars.

[@KVN-1000]

@@MichaelPohoreski who is funky?

[@MichaelPohoreski]

@@KVN-1000 Daniel "Funky" Swadling. He was one of my colleagues when we worked on NFS PS1.

[@KVN-1000]

@@MichaelPohoreski respect to both of you

[@fawkkyutuu8851]

Videogame soundtracks used to be so memorable. We no longer have nearly as many classic game soundtracks anymore even If the game turns out great nowdays the soundtrack Is boring over-dramatic orchestras ( Witcher 3 was great tho ). I miss that catchiness In the 90's when electronica was at It's peak and all over PS1 games , the soundtracks were extremely diverse and memorable.

[@MrHatman26]

A lot of indie games have good and memorable soundtracks though.

[@mcd2bbw]

Yes...! I have that same feeling about the 90s games on playstation. That all had that techno upbeat playing. Battle Arena Toshindin. Tekken. Ridge Racer. Etc etc The music is very memorable.

[@someguy8951]

@@MrHatman26 Hotline Miami is the perfect example

[@MrHatman26]

@@someguy8951 I'd agree but I've never listened to it :/

[@someguy8951]

@@MrHatman26 damn I would recommend listening to it, it really has a good soundtrack

[@carlossalcedo1607]

Momento 1:37:10, se hicieron pedazos todos! Excelentes recuerdos... Saludos!

[@edu_moonwalker]

Back when NFS didn't needed ultra realist graphics and any generical cop story F&F wannabe, but a natural sports cars competition race, which it lasted until High Stakes and Underground 2.

[@someguy8951]

At least the stories of the later nfs games don't affect the overall games too much.

[@DSMTheEditor]

From humble beginnings

[@augosyx]

When I was a kid, this was the only racing game I have no clue how to win or get 1st place but I can get first place in Ridge Racer and Gran Turismo no problem.

[@prcaroo1]

They were the days best ever 2 player driving game ............I so wish I could have a game right now

[@fizzy360wolf]

Let's get these people to 1m would ya

[@bfg9000d1]

Autumn Valley was hands down my favorite track. Other tracks in Need for Speed were far better. But for some reason I fell in love with this track. I could pull off some pretty mean track times back in the day.

[@50kenel]

Oh me too! I would play the 12 lap course with my sister and we would have to stop on lap 7 or 8 because our fingers hurt from pressing the button non stop. Good times man.

[@bfg9000d1]

​@@50kenel I had the mad catz steering wheel and pedals. Which made it really fun. I know Grand Turismo was the big racing game back in the day and was probably far better. But I really like the feel of need for speed.

[@50kenel]

@@bfg9000d1 totally! I would buy a remaster with a remade soundtrack. The music is so good

[@barbieandthemagicofpegasus7000]

Special a n d Track: Turbo Racing

[@puanrumbiak9833]

Honda HX24

[@andreasbusuk]

832

[@arthurmeledandri8385]

The warrior special car thumped!

[@jiriwilly2659]

My first racing game on PSX

[@Jean-ei5ws]

I just bought this game, and damn even if i win races, it's frustrating

[@rastihu7694]

0:01​ 0:32​ 0:55​ 1:18​ 1:29

[@a2pha]

Oh ! The SNES version for PSX. Yeah, that was great.

[@Lightblue2222]

Had this for years and didn't know about the lunar stage

[@DarkSider360x]

Sheep Raider´s Longplay

[@laughingalex7563]

Strange seeing this….when i tried the demo on a game disk, it’d make the car auto stall at the start, and so automatically losing was guaranteed.

[@constipatedparker5879]

They got the Supra right with 320bhp instead of the gentlemen's agreement power measure

[@MsSirAndy]

Nice port however I like more Saturn version

[@foxyaus]

Playing this on mobile thru epxse and it's very interesting to see and study this game I líke the first person idea it's a shame that didn't stay for every NFS game after !! Retro gaming is amazing

[@Scottwilkie18]

Wish that electronic arts logo was used more

[@uss_04]

Man back then I thought the graphics were amazing on my CRT and thought the potential of games were unlimited. Never did beat this game though. Always loved Alpine because it was just pure flooring the pedal no real turns :D

[@emianisa786]

55:49 ferarri testarossa

[@retroboy-fh1ji]

The 3DO and Saturn versions looked better than this one. Also, the framerate is uncapped at 33 or 34 unstable fps, lower resolution (even more pixellated than the 3DO original) and texture warping. But still, i love this game better than the shit released today.

[@robjackson4050]

there is also a pc version

[@retroboy-fh1ji]

rob jackson i'm talking about the console versions. I know that was released the Special Edition for DOS and W95, but its an unfair comparison because is really obvious that performance and graphics are superior on PC. Console wise, the 3DO wins for the graphics and Saturn for more stable framerate and a little bit better graphics than PSX.

[@DaGhostChild]

Retrofan 99 I had the PC version of the first one but played the SE in a friend's house back in those days. Although PC version had better graphics with the 640 x 480 setup, it's a shame you couldn't change the color of the cars in either versions.

[@MichaelPohoreski]

I worked on the PS1 version. We ran our physics at 100 Hz but you are correct that the FPS was only 33 FPS. We ported the game from the PC version to the PS1. That was 15-bit art but on the PS1 the artists used 4-bit and 8-bit palettized textures with a 32-bit color palette which allowed us to get more colors. We lost in resolution but had a wider color gamut.

[@Two90west]

Where can I get this on any PS platform... please help

[@speed7733]

Miss the machine gun hack 😂

[@MichaelPohoreski]

Dave was _pissed_ when he found out it has been leaked. :-/

[@ahmadmuzaffarzafriy]

Is it me or the HUD sometimes disappear during game play? 2:09:00

[@kevinbarton9052]

It is terrific. Even I think for PS4 Need for Speed combining Gran Turismo together sounds like an exciting combination to me as a new idea.

[@XshakeninjaX]

Classic

[@clientcomfy7342]

Супер игры 🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂

[@cristobaljofre2989]

Ok, me voy a poner a jugar a "Road and Truck dos puntos the need for speed"

I like the one from 1998.

[@Victor_2000s]

Nfs 3 Hot Pursuit.

[@RetroSerj]

Оказывается луна была в первой нфс впервые а не в грантуризмо6,капец))

[@HikariSakai]

Ok I have no idea what I'm doing wrong but I can't even place 1st in the first damn race lol. What the hell is up with the difficulty scaling on this game? It makes absolutely no sense lol.

[@Bammer2001]

I didn't know they used an SGI computer.

[@MichaelPohoreski]

Sheila used TrackEd on an SGI to make and export the tracks.

[@Bammer2001]

@@MichaelPohoreski Where's the information from?

[@MichaelPohoreski]

@@Bammer2001 I worked on _Need for Speed_ (PS1). One day I over heard Brad (and Laurent as well?) talking with Sheila (who did track modelling) about looped tracks and misc. track stuff. I saw that she had an SGI box at her desk. After we shipped us programmers also did an Post Mortem and I got some details on how the tracks were created. The center of the road was modeled from splines and extended outwards which is why you couldn't drive very far off road in NFS 1. Sheila is also listed on Moby Games.

[@Bammer2001]

@@MichaelPohoreski SICK, I'm glad to hear from an actual NFS 1 developer!

[@BlueflagAlpha]

we need a nfs game where we race on the moon

[@zuda8919]

lol wtf

[@homero2fast2furious59]

1-4 5-8 9-12 13-16 17-20 21-24 25-28 29-32 33-36

[@GamerGee]

1:14:44 final lap

[@steelchroniclesgaming]

I swear this game looked like real life when I was 8 🤣

[@kalasatwater2224]

Tried it in Yabause but the car doesn't move when I accelerate lol

[@DAGJ.7]

La versión de PC tiene un poco de más calidad, pero está versión de PS1 tiene mucha más música y sonidos.

[@all-stargamer3333]

Someone please, teach me to playing this Game because this Game is so fucking Hard and i never reach first Place in any Race.

[@someguy8951]

I haven't played this game before but judging by what they said in the description they used savestates to actually progress

[@eduardolobos7380]

The japanese version with nissan skyline cars is way easier.

[@Blockhead2]

You've to play with manual transmission, at the start avoiding all cars and surpass the first one. After that you have only to worry about not letting other cars passing you by staying in the middle of the road and not making mistakes. That's it, do not try going extreme speeds, the AI will always beat you in speed. The initial segment will take many many tries. I won the tournament.

[@califaern3sto]

I have this game on ps1 and i haven't seen any cops

[@fizzy360wolf]

The 3do version has more cops and traffic all around

[@SonySupporter]

@@fizzy360wolf That's BS! The 3do has only two cars on atrack and traffic. PS1/Saturn?PC have eight cars on a track. You can reduce the cars and add traffic in those versions.

[@fizzy360wolf]

@@SonySupporter I didn't say it had thousands of cars on one track I said it has more COPS and TRAFFIC there is a difference

[@SonySupporter]

@@fizzy360wolf That's why it has only two racing cars on a track. It's either traffic or eight sport cars.

[@fizzy360wolf]

@@SonySupporter so your point

[@alexwaterson9062]

10

[@barbieandthemagicofpegasus7000]

144

[@RyukFerry]

Curious thing this game don't feel like a real nfs game, at this point, it looks like a ridge racer clone...

[@fizzy360wolf]

The 3do version is more realistic

[@calicocookietv7994]

2:22:58 You can do a race on the moon?

[@darwindumanacal2945]

Need For Speed The Original

[@gtavesanat]

PS1 version of the game has harder races than PC version

[@RetroSerj]

А я то думаю почему я немогу прийти первым??????😂Пришел первым в первой трассе и в Городе,пробовал вторую и это капец,максимум второе место,сто процентов это нетестировалось нормально,эта самая сложная нфс)))но сама игра хорошая, но видимо по нормальному ее нельзя пройти,я ехал идиально на второй трассе и даже не приблизился к первому месту((максимум второе,тогда я думал что я что то делаю не так но видимо все так,просто порт переусложненный

[@26830711]

Good game.

[@saaniaali7774]

2:50

[@saaniaali7774]

2:00

[@psychotictactoe]

3DO NFS looked a million times better than this.

[@saaniaali7774]

1:00

[@johngaravito3186]

Password

[@Gecnijvetzko]

I't better than Payback...

[@bmac2814]

Damn the need for speeds on the gameboy advanced looked way better than this lmao and the ones on the gba were fun af.

[@cuteboy219]

The nfs>>>>>>>>Payback

[@Victor_2000s]

Old games its better than todays.

[@someguy8951]

@@Victor_2000s Not all games today though

[@Victor_2000s]

@@someguy8951 Its rare to see a good game, one example is Ratchet and Clank Rift Apart.

[@someguy8951]

@@Victor_2000s It really isn't red dead redemption 2, uncharted 4 etc

[@Victor_2000s]

@@someguy8951 I don't played these two games.