Ross's Game Dungeon: Test Drive 3

[@Accursed_Farms]

The average quality of the comments on this series has been kind of amazing for me. I literally was not looking at the YT comments when they were up on Machinima's channel because they were so bad.

[@FlyntNukaOfficial]

Dont worry past Ross, they will only get worse from here. Just wait for 2015-17

[@Ramdileo_sys]

11:25 yes well .. beyond fast @Accursed Farms ... the design of that car comes from Lamborghini Countach... and the prototype is from late 60s.. it look's futuristic back then.. it looked futuristic among other cars of the late 80's with its anniversary model.. also in the 90's and 2000 also... come on... even today you see it on the street among authentic futuristic cars like the Tesla Model S.. and the Countach... the Diablo .. the Murcielago .. The Gallardo .. they all look like something that come out from a science fiction novel ..

[@IAMSHADOWMAN1]

@@RenegadeScooter Someone hasn't watched the follow up episode

[@coffin7904]

@@FlyntNukaOfficial I was gonna say prophetic then realized

[@coffin7904]

@@FlyntNukaOfficial people are so fuckin pedantic in these comments

[@SadButter]

"THERE ARE NO GOOD REASONS. ONLY LEGAL ONES." Now THAT'S a quote that will get a lot of use later...

[@AMarin221]

this it the quote that solidified my crush on Ross

[@moshelaks1961]

666 likes!

[@spookmeyer970]

This might be one of the best ross lines ever

[@Myth_or_Mystery76]

In other words, if company's weren't greedy/apathetic pricks, then piracy, for achieving purposes, would be unnecessary.

[@bigjohnsbreakfastlog5819]

And this applies to both PC and console gaming.

[@td3info632]

For anyone watching this episode today: there are now patches available for Test Drive III which make the steering less of a problem.

[@Thewestcoastshooter]

Where can i find them?

[@td3info632]

MyAbandonware has v3.0.

[@kostyik3261]

For anyone wanting to play this game today.... why do this to yourself?

[@ChaseMC215]

I don't think Ross mentioned this, but the game is running a bit too fast. If you looked at the clock, it doesn't tick in real time, meaning that the CPU is too fast to support this game. This game desperately requires a slower computer to work properly, unlike in Microsoft Flight Simulator 4.0 where no matter how fast or slow the computer is, the clock is always real time.

[@PoliPantev]

@@ChaseMC215 watch the first follow up episode, he explains that in detail tldr game is supposed to run at like 11 frames per second, steering sucks even at proper speed, also would you watch 20 minute video in 11 fps

[@MitchieDBBC]

Even 10 years later, I still love how he's trying to preserve these old games.

[@MrFeIidae]

Oh, wow. That bit when he's driving in the rain? If you watch carefully when he drives under the overpass, the rain stops for just a split second. Then it resumes, just as if you were actually driving. That's some serious attention to detail. Still doesn't excuse the turning though.

[@auralunaprettycure]

I love details like this in old games, that's so damn cool!!

[@Skarwind]

Games in 2020 cant even do the rain split/snow split when moving under objects.

[@Earthstar_Review]

Meanwhile, it rains indoors in Fallout 76

[@TheJabbate1]

Speaking of Copyright laws, I’ve find the situation of Midway’s Area 51 from 2005 interesting. Unlike Atari’s Area 51, where the base was completely made up, Midway used the actual base as reference for it’s surface level setting and they needed to get permission from the US Air Force. And by doing so, the Air Force became a minor legal owner of the game. This is not uncommon, the Military has partial ownerships of any media that uses their resources, from Top Gun to Call of Duty, they just can’t make any money from it since they are part of the Government. When Midway went under, the Air Force became the sole owners of the game’s rights. And since they can’t make any money from it, they made the game Freeware. Seriously, you can legally download a game from 2005 for free!

[@bluelobster4593]

When a branch of the military has a better stance on game preservation than most AAA companies

[@mihailos8701]

Oh wow, that's good to know, thank you

[@AtlatlMan]

Yep. You also need to patch the heck out of it to get it to run properly.

[@IkomaTanomori]

"Maybe you're on house arrest right now" Funny story about why I'm rewatching old youtube favorites right now in 2020...

[@coffin7904]

what happened cutie

[@IkomaTanomori]

People liking this comment got it, people replying to this comment did not get it. I'm talking about the pandemic locking us all in our houses, in case you didn't get the joke.

[@Duvvers]

honestly i love how thin the difference is between ross and his character in freeman's mind

[@Stu8621]

@@IkomaTanomori shhhhh, don't tell them, let them figure it out on their own

[@eternal60214]

@@coffin7904 pedophilia

[@MichaelPohoreski]

I worked on Need for Speed 1 for the PSX. One of the thing you _didn't_ mention is that Test Drive 1 and Test Drive 2 was the _same_ team that went on to do Need for Speed ! They were called DSI (Distinctive Software Inc) before EA bought them and renamed them EA Canada.

[@ПавелОмельяненко-б9й]

Which part of the game are you Exactly Developed ?

[@SoilentGr33n]

Thank you for your work, I still play that game. DSI I think are the company who made Grand Prix circuit. That menu music is imprinted in my DNA at this point.

[@sirbattlecat]

Wow thanks. I played that game *a lot*. Very enjoyable, especially the looong open road A to B type of maps. They don't really do that anymore in car games.

[@miyu4043]

And while Accolade was making Test Drive 3, DSI made Stunts/4D Sports Driving which also came out 1990, was vastly superior and is still the most amazing 3D driving game for DOS IMHO.

[@ZenSolipsist]

Yeah ok. Thank you for your work brother ✌️☯️ @moderntao

[@kebubas]

I find it funny how in this game driving under a bridge or into a tunnel stops the rain... probably 80% of games released today fail to do that

[@Lucifronz]

Even TES Oblivion didn't do that properly and that came out in 2006 and that came out nearly two decades later. Though there are always weird changes like that in gaming tech because of one reason or another. Like how games these days almost never have reflections because it's more taxing on performance than it used to be. And I mean *real* reflections, not faux reflections where it's a plastered image barely visible in windows and on metal objects. Used to be they just had a model of your character mirror on the other side only visible through reflective surfaces like bathroom mirrors. That's far too much to do today... although I'd argue it's totally doable if they just limited this function to certain areas with mirrors, even if that's true, they're still not gonna do it unless it's part of the gameplay somehow.

[@Puroboi8894]

Little did Ross know that a rant about abandonware while playing a 1990s game would be the seed to a massive movement.

[@commenter_HIMIK-MAN]

Drunk driving? Drowning the car?? House arrest??? Shit, Ross lives some really extreme life.

[@angelartiyalvt9574]

HIMIK-MAN you're just now realizing this?

[@commenter_HIMIK-MAN]

Angry Squirrel Productions I haven't been watching him all that much before. I only watched Freeman's Mind and Civil Protection. And only like 1-2 months ago i marathoned his entire channel. And then i was like, "Holy shit! He didn't created Freeman's character, he is Freeman!"

[@giovannicervantes2053]

@@commenter_HIMIK-MAN he is i wouldn't be surprised if he went to mit and went back in time due to some g man or something

[@NightOwl1515]

@@giovannicervantes2053 Honestly, I'd love a "Storytime with Ross" series.

[@giovannicervantes2053]

@@NightOwl1515 yes his q&a is good and the updates are fine but we need a storytime with ross at a digital campfire

[@Accursed_Farms]

Came here for the triangles huh?

[@vladvoinea4512]

MaybeXD

[@The24thWight]

Exclusively.

[@ZenSolipsist]

Did you just reply to your own comment?

[@michaelgmail5968]

its always the triangles with me

[@tohopes]

The rearview mirror is awesome.

[@slendy9600]

i didnt even notice that till u mentioned it

[@tohopes]

slendy9600 But _in hindsight_, so to speak, you like it?

[@TheGaluMoD]

it is but I'm curious whether they would have been able to render a larger picture if they'd left it out.

[@arthas640]

I prefer having that in, it's a really nice touch. Alot of modern games dont even include minor details like that, since "realistic rear view mirror display" isn't something you can slap on the back of the box.

[@Slash0mega]

Arthas Menethil, sure it is! *Advanced vehicle physics! *Fully Modeled Interiors with working indicators/mirrors! *Licensed vehicles from top manufacturers!

[@FernieCanto]

"There are no good reasons, only legal ones." That is one of the most brilliant quotes I've *ever* heard, and I'm going to plagiarise the fuck out of it.

[@salottin]

Fernie Canto Agreed

[@Eclipseknight9]

This will be my court statement if they ask me why I shouldn't have killed the head of EA

[@TheSuperCanucks]

Fernie Canto FUCKIN' A

[@majormissile5596]

+Eclipseknight9 Death is too easy on him. Torture him by burning every single penny he had made right in front of him!

[@lead2546]

+Eclipseknight9 If your really gonna do it, let me do it instead. I found the main EA company and I am ready to snipe anyone from here. itssocold!!

[@AmaroqStarwind]

8:34 On the Sega Saturn, everything is made of Quadrilaterals. Squares, rectangles, diamonds, trapezoids, kites, rhombi, pseud-chevrons, etc. While this had a lot of advantages because it reduced the overall polygon count of most models and it also reduced texture warping, it was difficult to produce games this way because nobody was used to it. Also, the Saturn could not natively render triangles, so to create a triangle, they had to create a quadrilateral and give the fourth side a length of 0. This led to triangular objects having rendering glitches because the graphics processor didn't know what to do.

[@AbandonedVoid]

There were a few games that were made mostly of lines, too. No triangles or squares, but vector lines. I also saw a system awhile back that used circles, and instead of using a cartesian coordinate system it used a polar coordinate system. I think it was an arcade shooter. So not all 3D games even at this time were made of triangles, there were some interesting other systems being used.

[@adamaniac1977]

"There are no good reasons. Only legal ones." - Ross Scott Sorry, I just loved this quote and thought it deserved repeating.

[@zantman1000]

"so the more you save the more you're damning yourself on later levels when you need more money, and you don't have it because you were playing this game to have fun. That'd teach you" -Ross Scott

[@ZenSolipsist]

There is an old joke with two people talking lol “find the magic” -Ross Scott oh that’s good. No that’s bad. TEST DRIVE 3 @moderntao

[@kylek.3689]

"A flight sim where your wings fall off" Kerbel Space Program.

[@erictheepic5019]

Also War Thunder.

[@psychocomytic9778]

otherwise known as an accurate flight sim.

[@vrapbrap]

DCS world. Put way too much weight on your A-10's wings (bombs etc) and then maneuver wildly. Boom.

[@milanstehlik5969]

Yeah, but in War Thunder it does not hinder you at all (at least in soviet planes) :D

[@CrazyKraut20]

Ju-88 c6 is still operational without wingtips in warthunder... untill youve lost all your oil and coolant up to the point when your engine dies.. but yeah

[@sickgringo007]

If you crash a car with electrical windows into a lake, you should just try to open the door IMMEDIATELY. If that doesn't work,take your car key into a fist and punch the window out, or try to kick out the windshield with your feet. Don't try to do it with your bare fist, you'll just drown with a sore hand. Since you're probably close to a coast, it could be shallow. The pressure will only equalize once the car stops sinking, then you can open the door after a few seconds, so with a pair of good lungs, you still have a chance.

[@danielsurvivor1372]

15:19 Damn, so you held your principles so far back as episode *three* , it feels, idk what's the word, cathartic? Euphoric? To start watching Ross dungeon from the very beginning(in the past I only watched your most popular one's like Deus Ex episodes) and then seeing you still being a Chad 🗿 and defending consumers rights to abandonware is just beautiful 🥹

[@abloogywoogywoo]

A love of maps and detail is not a disorder. If I got time to kill, I personally like reading ordnance survey maps and following the trails of disused roads and dismantled railways to see where they once were and where they used to go. Its actually a love of exploration. Discovering a whole new world, or rediscovering what was once lost and forgotten. And it goes much further. You have to have an appreciation of this to be worth two cents in level design for games. Though from what I understand Ross, it goes so deep, so maze-like and so complex, your aforementioned lack of passion for DOOM's levels have taken it to an extremity of cryptic bullshit that you do not care for. Anything you take in moderation can't be unhealthy...

[@crabdragon243]

Unless that thing is bullets

[@Liam9787]

Anything you take in moderation can't be unhealthy? Shit, I should go smoke some meth.

[@onefinefungus2052]

That's the spirit, lad.

[@troubleinbound]

abloogywoogywoo I've got something similar going on but with UFO and cryptid sightings. I'm not an adamant believer, I'm actually a bit of a skeptic, but it's still fun to go and look around in the woods for weird stuff.

[@cmc3223]

CallMeWumble Same, I dont believe in any stories Ive heard at all, but its still fun to listen, and way funner to go to those places.

[@Accursed_Farms]

I don't think your argument holds up at all for 2 reasons: 1. I'm talking about games that have already been RELEASED, not unfinished works-in-progress. This argument only makes sense for people who haven't presented anything yet (HL2 leak, Doom 3 leak, etc.) 2. These situations basically NEVER involve the actual creators. They're almost always about the company that's bought out the company that once housed them. The creators almost always are happy for people to play their old stuff.

[@dharkbizkit]

7:05 i can totaly relate to that guy. iam red green blind. in elementry school i had problems in art classes but always felt like "ok, the problem lies in know the color" so in the years ive spend so much time trying to learn how certain colors look because i thought i missed that "learning phase" in my early childhood. since i made no progress i tried to avoid that topic at all. i didnt call things by their color (hey, look at the purple car..) because i felt stupid. i never catched up with the idea of beeing color blind because i could see colors. and even after i heard the terms red and green blind i thought i wouldnt apply to me since i can see that marlboro boxes are red. the day that changed was when i had a check for my military draft that basically shattered my "future" by telling me "well sir, your red green blind wich means you cannot, never ever do these certain jobs in the military, police or other free market civil jobs" and splashed 4 sheets with checkboxes on the table. so, within 5minutes, i went from haveing a problem with source unknown to beeing basically impaired.

[@GarthTheMighty]

dharkbizkit ggggg

[@VeryPeeved]

color blindness is a dumb name for it.

[@MattZelda]

@@VeryPeeved Yeah it's more color confusion. Like I can't tell the difference between purple black and blue. (Blue/yellow colorblind)

[@zarrg5611]

It's also annoying how there is this stereotype that colourblindness is mutually exclusive with artistic ability

[@pride081]

Just wanted to say, I’ve been rewatching old episodes and I’m surprised at how well everything holds up still! Thanks for entertaining me for so long Ross :)

[@LostOne428]

"Your beer isn't going to drink its self when you're driving over a bridge" should be a shirt. I'd buy it!

[@MrPentek]

"Pirates are the only reason a game like this is still alive!" Keep seeding everyone! Keep seeding :)

[@Laternater]

"And the boss started waving a gun around until the game got finished." Goddamn. Lol.

[@slendy9600]

Laternater i think thats actually how Konami does things #FucKonami

[@davidjohnson4171]

Hell if your looking for a threating work environment in game designing, screw Konami, look at EA. I know Konami can be assholes but I've never heard of actual illegal practices coming out of the company, just douchey ones. EA on the other hand I've heard stories about, the only one that comes to mind at the moment is that they withheld overtime from the people that earned it, but I know there's more. I know this is an old thread, but I'd just thought I say that Konami, while making questionable business movements, is far from the worst developer out there. Both in terms of released content, and employee relations.

[@Bugatour]

"it like a flight sim were the wings fall of your plane." after that a distant echo in my head just went nerd cubed.

[@jerrycan1756]

+Fenris McKechnie Flap! HUAEEUUAGGHH

[@dontspikemydrink9382]

fuck you nick

[@Artificeral]

Ross Scott has created his own world here. You can't compare him to most other gaming youtubers, accursed farms is on a different plane of existence, videos like this are a great example, and i mean this in a good way.

[@Ghost_Of_SAS]

"It would be like playing a first person shooter where your gun backfires every third shot" So basically System Shock 2

[@Ghost_Of_SAS]

***** Ah, random bullshit deaths. What would we ever do without them? Oh yeah: enjoy the bloody game.

[@Ghost_Of_SAS]

***** You know a mechanic is bullshit when even the enemies are complaining about it

[@tastychunks]

what about Far Cry 2?

[@Ghost_Of_SAS]

tastychuncks That too, though in FC2 all you had to do was go to one one of the many gun shops on the map and grab a fresh free gun off the rack. In SS2 if your gun breaks you are basically boned.

[@davidkyo1985]

***** It could happen to you as well, but very rarely. Jinxed was a very strong trait with a character specializing in unarmed though.

[@Bark777]

The steering was horrible, then add the fact that the game speed was not locked but directly depends on the CPU speed. Remember playing this game on Pentium 133Mhz and as soon you hit the forward button the car had gone forward a few 100 meters and crashed into a cow or something.

[@bnmcmhn]

Reminds me of gta 1 with frame rate cap off

[@gamesandglory1648]

Especially if you activate turbo mode in emulator

[@msn3033]

I've been watching your Game Dungeon vids for a while and it kind of just hit me how therapeutic these videos are. These are some of my favorite reviews for comfort factor along with just being genuinely interesting. A lot of people are not great at engaging me with games I had never heard of before but you nail it every time. You present your opinions and info in probably the most accessible way I've seen done on KZbin. Thanks for your continued effort because you are really good at what you do. Hope you see this comment and find it encouraging. Cheers

[@PonderousEclectica4383]

god i remember when this episode first came out, it feels like just yesterday...

[@zydian_]

1990, this? that's incredible

[@RafaCoringaProducoes]

14:15 ross your rant about abbandonware is even more actual with your activism now, worth the rewatch!

[@kenteets1407]

When a company buys another and they have software available, such as this game, in the legal brief they should have to declare their intention for the software, re-release, remake, etc. if its not mentioned, then it should be available for free distribution, cause the company doesn't care enough to mention it. their also should be a time limit on software, if you don't upgrade, or re-release the software after a set amount of time, it should be allowed to be distributed changed etc. This would apply to bought properties and not like old nintendo games, cause the software never changed hands. Great video as usual.

[@handsomebrick]

Game preservation is far more likely to happen in spite of the law, than because of it. You'd think that companies would want to avoid killing games because it devalues their other games in the marketplace, but this never seems to happen. Hopefully there is a better answer out there than resorting to piracy.

[@sammowastaken]

With a different inflection and delivery that "driving my car into a lake" tangent would fit perfectly in a Mr. Plinkett video.

[@marcelodcs1]

Man, Test Drive 3 and Wolfstein 3D are one of my earliest gaming memories. I remember my father booting the games when I was about 4~5 years old. That police officer image is burned in my brains haha

[@AtleastAlot]

If you're in a sinking car with shorted out power windows you are supposed to wait for the car to fill entirely or almost entirely with water. This is because when the car is full of water the pressure is the same on the inside as it is on the outside so you can open the door relatively easily and swim out. The hard part is not panicking, holding your breath for a long time and not getting eaten by sea monsters.

[@NoraInuG]

This, in my opinion, has _got_ to be the funniest, most informative game review I have ever seen. I just love games that are both absolutely fantastic and utter garbage at the same time.

[@Elmex_1]

Overwhelming in fullscreen? No way man, this looks gorgeous. I gotta give this another try sometime

[@evieisleavie]

"If it was a literal bag you could stick your hand in, it would be filled with gold nuggets and snapping turtles." I never noticed this before... This line is actually really well written, with short and sweet imagery. No words wasted... Just shows how much effort Ross puts into these videos.

[@alloounou6900]

Yeh

[@RipOffProductionsLLC]

I'm kinda reminded of a review/analysis of of the game Fear and Hunger: "a lot of things get described as 'diamonds in the rough', Fear and Hunger is more like a solid gold meteorite that crashes into your living room and takes off your leg... it's not an experience for everyone, but it might be worth it to some of you."

[@mastasolo]

Do you still want the 3D data for the Level? I could give it a try

[@jakobdiekmann8726]

Pleas can you do it for me ?

[@MetroidChild]

it would be awesome for me too

[@Chud_Bud_Supreme]

Someone should hack the map and make a mod of it where you're walking around in a sandbox style open-world RPG like Eternam or something.

[@s3vR3x]

holy crap the 3d game data for this game would be AMAZING

[@psychochicken9535]

I loved the open world gameplay and always laughed at the fact that trees had to point upwards when you tilted on a hill.

[@SteltekOne]

Speaking of the crack. I have a faint memory of Accolade re-releasing this game in a collection, and a magazine found that the game files actually contained 'cracked by' references, as in, Accolade themselves just used the cracked copy when they re-released it. (Of course, that was ages ago, and even I can't fact-check it any more.)

[@SuperTunnelBoy]

No matter how many times I watch these videos they always feel now and still entertaining to me. keep making great content Ross you're definitely one of the best KZbin creators in my opinion

[@geeveelution]

The weather system really impressed me, and open world? Wow. I love these reviews, they're really unique!

[@NoriMori1992]

First time checking out _Ross's Game Dungeon_. I'm so used to hearing you only as Freeman, and only ever seeing what "normal Ross" is like in writing, that it's incredibly surreal to me hearing you voice your own opinions in what I assume is your normal speech. XD Then again, it seems like Freeman's speech, humour, and mannerisms are on many levels an extension of your own, which makes me wonder where one ends and the other begins. :P I love how you mentioned teacup rides. XD

[@headcrabking9054]

In interviews and other videos Ross has mentioned that Freeman is actually quite different from him, as he intentionally writes freeman to be way more narcissistic and paranoid, though I'm sure there's more Freeman in Ross than he'd like to admit

[@darthruin666]

After a ridiculous amount of time, I finally stopped the video at 19:33 on the one frame of game map.

[@Kellihiss]

***** This entire comment is exactly the same as me XD

[@QuadDamnage]

I had to slow the video wayyyyy down

[@1ducko19]

Did you try getting it while it was at quarter speed (4 times slower). I got it like that but THINGS Happen to Ross's voice when you do that, just warning you....

[@eonswhm7505]

After way more tries than I'd like to admit, I can finally rest in peace again.

[@nerfcplolster]

prntscr.com/654084 heres a cap of the map

[@DarcyFerrier]

It's gona ba carnevil.

[@MaartenvanRossemLezingen]

+Darcy Ferrier No, he only reviews old DOS games.

[@DarcyFerrier]

Not only...

[@MaartenvanRossemLezingen]

Darcy Ferrier Have you seen his CarnEvil review? He talks about you in it.

[@DarcyFerrier]

Oh nice

[@DarcyFerrier]

actually though?

[@krumz90]

I turned 23 two days ago. I have been watching Ross's Game Dungeon since I was 13 years old. It's been pretty great.

[@Ultrox007]

If you're drowning in power windowed car wait for it to fully submerge while using the back of the car for air. once submerged break your window, use a tool if possible, grab the turn bar and kick if not. If you can't break the window open, then you should be able to open the door and exit once the car is fully filled with water as the pressure will be equalized.

[@alyx8815]

Great advice

[@MuensterQ]

can't believe it's been 10 years. I remember watching this when I was 13 and it feels like yesterday

[@arbiter628]

This video is like a yearly rewatch for me

[@Yusuke_Denton]

I remember watching this when I was 43 and it feels like yesterday.

[@AmayirotAkago]

I laugh so hard every time at 10:36 when he screams at the dithering xD Freaking love your reviews, Ross. You make excellent points while still being funny as hell. Keep it up.

[@zagStygian]

Please, never stop making these. They are too good.

[@headcrabking9054]

You'll be glad to hear that he's still making videos 9 years later!

[@RaposaCadela]

I finally played this, it's sweet! I absolutely love the dated graphics, even if playing with the right cycles is laggy, I don't mind. It's quite fun to drive around when the steering works alright. Also found out how to combine this with the add-on Niagra Falls, all cars and the two courses on the same executable!

[@luckygreentiger]

You can buy glass-breakers for cars that don't have manual window handles. Most of them actually have two functions: to break the glass and cut seat belts (with a little blade inside the handle). Since the glass is actually safety glass you can usually break the glass without having to worry about cutting yourself. If your car is in the water, unbuckle yourself first, and break and remove the glass to get out.

[@IvoryLifeAKAInkymon2]

It was proven on Mythbusters that if you wait for your car to fill up with water, you will then be able to open your car door and swim up. However your car will also tip and topple and flip upside down so you loose your sense of direction very fast especially since everything is blurry and you can only open your eyes so much, and on top of that, it gets darker the more deep you go under water. So if you ever crash into a lake, you better hope its shallow, or you are screwed. Anyways in a nutshell, when your in the water in a car, Its best to actually NOT be quick, but to wait for that last breath, wait for your car to fill up and then open your door and escape, and somehow get your barrings on whats going on around you. Chances are if your in a deep river or ocean, swim down in your perspective which will be up in reality. Well most likely anyways. I never drove a car into a river, so yeah.

[@roflmagister5]

11:58 it feels real because it's based on real roads. The first leg from Paso Robles to Monterey, it's an area about of 30 × 120 miles shoehorned into the game's map format (~ 6 x 15 "miles" ingame, which you can traverse in 2½ minutes if skilled).

[@Koboldfunnywow]

This is a really great video, the message about copy protection and legal grabass is quite the listen.

[@valcliffb8558]

Huh. Looks like Ross is the type that speeds and/or starts going offroad whenever he gets riled up behind the wheel. I'll have to remember that if I ever ride shotgun with him.

[@andrewfield8632]

In my experience driving into the deep end of lakes with power windows, the whole system shorts when submerged and for me that was immediately. You have to wait for the water to fill your vehicle completely to open the door. As long as you hold your breath you will be fine.

[@SkyCharger001]

About the steering, on systems of that era it ran at a much lower frame-rate (and the clock went one second per second) so it's possible that the accelerated steering was meant to kick in after a more reasonable amount of time. (which 'reduces' the issue to a lack of forward compatibility)

[@BrainSeepsOut]

The world needs a modern Test Drive game. A cross country race with realistic physics and cops that will ticket you if you go fast near them- sounds like a lot of fun and a bit of escapism for car owners- people with sportscars do this kinda thing IRL.

[@MrSilnev]

BrainSeepsOut That's sort of what NFS: The run was...

[@BrainSeepsOut]

The Crew comes to mind too.

[@aprofondir]

BrainSeepsOut NFS Run or Forza Horizon 2 (in the open world sense)

[@CaptainGoodall55]

"More chickens.." *Says Ross, while ramming a cow*

[@Inkerlink]

"I'm against games dying." So it begins.

[@sparkss4]

There was definitely an alien spaceship that showed up occasionally. I used to spend many hours driving around in this game looking for weird stuff.

[@terry2295]

Ohh god this video is almost a decade old

[@terrycoyle6864]

You said it about the copyright and abandonment. With you all the way, so many good games get lost to that.

[@AniSky759]

Tip for surviving driving into a lake: Don't struggle. Struggling uses up energy, energy uses up oxygen, the more oxygen you have, the longer you can hold your breath before passing out, and the longer you can hold your breath before passing out, the higher the chances you'll still be conscious by the time enough water leaks into the car to equalize the pressure. THEN you can try opening the door.

[@AniSky759]

***** Window axes are for the weak. ...And maybe people with asthma.

[@Muhnyeah]

***** How are you gonna initiate the 3rd law of motion if there's like a .5 meter of room to swing with your axe?

[@1Deltaforce1]

"Planes, trains, detailed traffic" and to think I missed that reference every other time I've watched this video!

[@pissmissile]

"There are no good reasons. Only legal ones!" lol Ross i love you man. Thanks for helping me find my potential grad quote.

[@RobloxSugarFanta]

ROSS, I LOVE YOUR VOICE

[@parnet]

Farout that was a funny review.. The dude goes off on so many random tangents but still brings it back to the game eventually.

[@Isaacfess]

The beauty of Ross.

[@alexandrudinca3080]

I'm starting this whole series today and i'm very excited. After youtube recomended me the dungeon siege episode i was hooked. I'm going in!

[@blood117]

I wonder if anyone has a made a mod that fixes the steering.

[@Falsechicken]

When you drive a car into a body of water (and you have power windows) it is actually best to wait until the cabin fills all the way up. You wait until you can take your very last breath then go under and you will be able to open the door fine. Equalized pressure. Thanks Myth Busters!

[@AxelLeJeff]

Mythbusters has a great few episodes about escaping from sinking vehicles.

[@Mr.Emil.]

Thank you Ross for making these videos, I enjoy the depth of your observations and the way you make them.

[@Isaacfess]

9 years old now, holy crap.

[@jakesommer3914]

Happy 10th birthday lad

[@penkatadrums]

I remember this game, it was my first favorite game ever and I had it and I cried and I loved it and it still couldn't steer well... :D I spent my whole childhood imagining how much fun that game could be if you could somehow... steer...

[@ZeroStas]

I need to write down that joke about guy jumping from airplane!

[@JakeRayTM]

Hey, thanks 3 years after!

[@SoupStores]

ok johnny joestar

[@pablofernandez-beri6646]

Awesome, man! I'm watching your video in 2020 I don't know why, but this Test Drive III game was definitely a game changer for me, I don't know if it was 'cause I was strating highschool then back in the early 1990s, or if I spent a couple of overnights over my newly aquired i386 with full grayscale greys on it, but this video feels just awesome, it explains a lot of things, thanks, man! Cheers!

[@TheDrowsyPanda]

Hey Ross, you may not remember me since I emailed you with a completely different name, just happy to see you're still here, and I'm still following your Freeman videos. Thanks for emailing back those years ago, it meant the world to me at that time. Much love brother.

[@PatchworthGaming]

If you drive into a lake, and the electric windows don’t work, there’s an easy way to break them. If you pull the headrest off the back of your seat, the pins keeping it attached are designed to shatter windows easily for just this sort of situation

[@LeatherIceCream]

Ross I think someone DID make a map out of this game..

[@mikem.s.1183]

The analogy of the "a man falls out of an airplane" is hilariously brilliant.

[@Hobo_Knight]

I want to imagine that the reason the steering in the game is tedious is because the game was meant to be played with those steering wheel controllers for PC.

[@Hobo_Knight]

I was WRONG

[@davidjohnson4171]

Maybe it's 'cause I'm slowly loosing it from how late it is, but I find the fact that you came back to this three years later, necroposted your own comment, to say you were wrong where most people would've let it be, hilarious.

[@Hobo_Knight]

because I'm losing control of my life

[@krustenhund]

I thought the same thing and looked for this comment. Read you next year.

[@abcde29204]

LMAO at the parachute and haystack joke. Literally rolling on the floor... good one!! Subscribed! I love your energy! Really awesome channel, keep up the great work.

[@cruzcamel]

9:50 that's exactly how I feel about the early kings quest games. I always imagined something so epic compared to what was actually being shown. Modern games just don't offer that kind of imaginative self-creativity because they show it all.

[@17Beastmode17]

I know this is an old video, but having an automatic center punch in your vehicle could save your life if you drive into water. They can instantly and easily shatter the side window on a car and can usually be got for $5 at a hardware store

[@WeasleFireable]

20:00 Holy shit that glitch.

[@ZenSolipsist]

Yeah

[@lionocyborg6030]

You aren't alone. I love game maps too. I used to draw them as a kid, such as levels from the Core Design Tomb Raider games (mostly the third one and its expansion pack), Half Life 1, video game like areas in dreams I'd had, and even a stylised version of Eat the Path from Marathon Infinity. My school friend Kristina really liked that latter one, even though it was unfinished at the time, and she's yet to see the final map. I was even thinking of using Weland to make that map in the game, though I'd need to find a way to get/make assets for the more abstract parts of the paper map.

[@weir-t7y]

Wouldn't the wings on your plane falling off be good in a flight sim so long as it's only due to situations that would rip wings off in a real world situation?

[@majormissile5596]

The FAR mod in Kerbal Space Program can make your wings fall off under very high-G turns, but I usually turn that off because it's not fun. However, in ace combat assult horizon, your wings will fall of when you die and turn into flaming debris, but I don't think that's what ross is talking about.

[@IttyBittyVox]

Major Missile Exploding is the whole point of KSP, if your wings don't fall off then you did something wrong.

[@loganjorgensen]

It really is a great example of early 3D gaming, I guess people were having so much fun exploring they just ignored the steering problem. That's my favorite situation, IP holder sits still for decades, fans revive it, and then "Hey we own that, stop reviving it.". :P

[@td3info632]

The steering actually did get fixed-Ross is just playing an old abandonware dump of v1.0 that hasn’t been patched.

[@Gik1618]

If you accelerate fast enough at the very beginning you can drive straight through the blue car in front of you without crashing...

[@offensivejerk]

+DeadSirius I remember doing that

[@TheRanchNumber51]

This game made me believe that driving in general was really hard (9 years old when I played this).

[@jeffsmith63]

The resistance of fresh water is to high for 12v to overcome. So your windows will still work even when submerged. Not to sure about salt water though. Also can't say for computer controlled windows as well

[@maximutatro3176]

Thx

[@danielsurvivor1372]

3:08 That's... Actually good analogy when you compare it to footage you showing, kudos 😅

[@patrickhaworth7122]

Ten years ago. Damn.

[@ZelosDomingo]

These are literally some of the best review videos I've ever seen. Keep up the good work Ross.