Street Rod (PC/DOS) Longplay, 1989, California Dreams

Year is 1963 and you're one of the hotshots aspiring to be king of the county. You're given a small sum of money to buy your first car. Tune it for maximum performance and off you go. In the diner where other hotshots are waiting to take your prized possession, you race for money and pink slips and if you win, you get to take home their cars!
The game's interface is relatively easy and fun to use. You have your own garage as the interface itself. Options are in the form of the garage's elements such as the clock for the game's main menu and the newspaper as your source for buying cars and parts. Add to that a third person with an attitude that talks to you as you play It's really a neat idea by which up to now, no other racing games have that style. You feel that you're living a virtual world as opposed to just going from menu to menu. Another realistic part is the ability for you to sell your car and haggle
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"Used Savestates between Stages" DOSBox DAUM
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In-game cars:
The King drives a 1963 Corvette.
From newspaper can be purchased:
1938 Chevrolet Master Deluxe
1940 Chevrolet Coupe
1940 Chevrolet Roadster
1949 Chevrolet Styleline
1955 Chevrolet Bel Air
1958 Chevrolet Impala
1956 Corvette
1961 Corvette
1963 Corvette
1955 Dodge Custom Royal Lancer
1962 Dodge Polara
1932 Ford
1932 Ford Sedan
1940 Ford Deluxe
1955 Ford Fairlane Victoria
1957 Ford Fairlane 500
1957 Ford T-Bird
1954 Mercury Monterey
1956 Mercury Custom
1949 Oldsmobile 88
1952 Oldsmobile 88
1961 Plymouth Valiant V200
1963 Plymouth Valiant V100
1964 Plymouth Savoy
1950 Pontiac Silver Streak

[@hoff2939]

Man I remember playing this for hours as a kid.

[@shortfingermusic]

dude, me too :O

[@Tsotha]

same thing here, except I never managed to beat The King - neither did my older brother, who played it more enthusiastically than I did for that matter!

[@njwilksy]

I had this on cga graphics Amstrad pc-20,and it was really good.

[@navylaks2]

I aswell:)

[@nurzi85]

those were the days

[@EduFirenze]

Hearing those first notes just threw me right into the past, what a great game

[@N55Venter]

yea, rather joyful flashback

[@CliffuckingBooth]

Just passing through on my nostalgia trip...

[@balthasar4282]

CharlesFBronson reminding you to do it again

[@MrVigotje]

Wanna try again?

[@CliffuckingBooth]

@@MrVigotje Wheeee :)

[@duduw1981]

I've played when was kid. In a poor 286 and monocromatic screen. Marvelous days

[@misterbulletl6689]

Same here, my 286 even had no HDD, game was run from floppy disk. I remember having multiple copies of the game because floppy was notoriously unreliable. And now, 30 years later, my 7 y.o. son plays almost photorealistic games on PS5, PC with zillion MHz and tons od RAM, huge screen etc... I miss those old days...

[@redX111t]

I played this game even before I started learning English in school. Playing games as a child was a fun way of learning English.

[@isaacmeira1856]

Man, can't believe I found this. Pure Nostalgia!!

[@myoldskool]

Needs a remake :)

[@Fuzz82]

My Summer Car?

[@edstar83]

Thanks Gshama didn't know about that game.

[@vinesauceobscurities]

Motor City Online tried. Too bad its an online game which servers died a long time ago.

[@MrL4t3]

Exactly ! With realistic modeling of the cars with growling sounds and graphical updates. The gameplay should stay the same. Perhaps with more tuning options ? 😉

[@jotabe1984]

@@MrL4t3 Street Rod 2 had diferential, Exhaust and more admision options like injection and supercharger... Nevertheless the Races were a bit odd and kind of unplayable, so i liked more Street Rod 1 since i was able to win a lot more than with SR2 A Remake should take the graphics and some of the mechanics from SR2 but keeping the easy going playability of SR1

[@josesantos2603]

I used to play this game in 1991... It was like having something from NASA in my bedroom.

[@FanFanBessie2]

I bet it was! I never played games back then - I'm a late bloomer to video games. I had just graduated high school in '91 & soon to join the Navy. I'm surprised at how complex some of the game mechanics are in this - and modelled after real cars... I bet this was freaking mind blowing!!! 😀👍👍👍

[@maxirofernandez]

I played this game every friday night when I was 10 years old on my uncle's computer

[@keokio7]

used to go to my friends house every friday to play this game for hours when i was 10

[@russcastella]

We installed this on every computer in my high school back in 99 😅 great days

[@ChiefJosephhhh]

In 02 and 03 they were on all the computers in wood shop class. We always loved free day in that class.

[@BigNoizz]

Omg the memories, 11 year old me played this for ever! Smile from ear to ear right now thanks for uploading this

[@TangodownNZ]

What a great game. Better than alot of today’s games, of course not in terms of graphics but definitely better game play

[@Insane00001]

Loved this game as a kid. Good to see it on here, Aahhh the memories...

[@ToomasTelling]

this could be a cool game today. i remeber playing this in the late 1990s on our families first computer we bought used cheap.

[@1punch_man]

The memories. Loved this game. Still love it. I need to play again.

[@louistournas120]

I have the game. I ran it when I had Win XP I think. I could try DOSBox under Linux.

[@groovyshoos5200]

You just won a helluva car

[@ranggapratamaputra5376]

Man, found it in KZbin time machine, bring back memories when a whole family play the game in turn.

[@aimps19]

Man, the nostalgia hits me hard. I was a little kid when I played this game.my main car in this game was always Chevrolet Corvette

[@afgdfdgdfddf42]

Hell yeah! The Chevrolet Corvette!

[@maxsousa]

I played this game for the first time now in 2019 and I liked a lot. I can imagine how incredible it was back in the 90's.

[@fisk0]

@ Well, the game was released in 1989. There are no records of its exact date of release, but given that the oldest available review is from February 1990, it was probably very late in the year, the vast majority of people didn't get around to playing it until it was the 90s.

[@arthur_p_dent]

There were better racing games around at that time. Test Drive II, for example. The mix of racing, buying & selling, and tuning your car was kinda unique, though.

[@kingdededelicious]

@@arthur_p_dent getting the racing parts was the best

[@NickRios]

In the mid 90’s my Dad picked up an Apple IIC from a garage sale and this game was included. I played this for hours and loved it. Thank you for uploading this trip down memory lane!

[@LooPHus]

For a long time I had a vague memory of a game with pixely, right-facing cars standing outside a diner, in bright colours on a black background. I really remembered the nice aesthetic more than any gameplay, which made it hard to search for ... Finally remembered they must have been *vintage* cars, and that was apparently the key to finding it! So nostalgic to see it again, still looks cool.

[@bundr]

the music from this sounds like someone is having a stroke and trying to play a boogie woogie at the same time

[@juiceter3981]

Dont know why they bothered with the music! And to think the amiga had been out for years at this point.

[@Oxazepam65]

I can still hear the computer case rattle...

[@retroanimearchives3802]

😂

[@retroanimearchives3802]

@Stimpy&Ren Cat yep, because of 16 bit

[@InfiniteClouds]

@Stimpy&Ren Cat Would've been night and day if they would have supported Tandy sound, at least. By 1989 you had Adlib, too, so there's really no excuse. 1987 though is especially egregious as "The Year of the Shitty DOS Port"

[@dcdcrawf]

You just brought me back to a better time, thank you.

[@h.v.g7882]

How cool is this? I was almost forgot this game 🥺. Back in the days? This was my favorite game. Wonderful to see this video. Many thanks 😊

[@korykreutz6801]

Played the crap out of this game as a kid. Amazing times!

[@VNVNation2013]

In the late 1990s, my younger brother got an old computer from a garage sale for free-the owner just wanted to get rid of it. It had Windows 3.1 with Street Rod installed. I was never any good at racing (and I honestly think it could have been implemented better), but I loved fixing up/selling the cars. I acquired this game and Street Rod 2 years later, and run them in DOSBox from time to time. Even installed them in old Windows 3/1 virtual machines as well. It was pretty cool to play a hot rod game that romanticized that "golden age" of hot rods. And by late 80s - early 90s, that was peak time to dip in to that nostalgia.

[@ammarmar3628]

I played it on Commodore 64 with 5,25'" disk drive. I could never beat the final guy, though, even with the best available car and all upgrades.

[@TheLambdaTeam]

"Your car's not running, speedy!"

[@richardrutkowski8762]

I loved that game. I was a little boy when I played that. Petrolhead since the very beginning. Today i work on my classics but would love to play that again

[@aussiefarmer4955]

Played this on Amiga 500 but needed extra memory brick to run it, was an extra whole 1 megabit lol. Part 2 of this game had fuel injection and supercharges, but the streets and halfpipe water causeways with logs to dodge was damn hard!!. This was a great great game ahead of it's time.

[@Zamolxes77]

OMFG, i played this so much back in the day ! Wish there was a similar game nowadays ! Never used this tactic, always went for - get car, tune, improve then race for pink slips and win !

My Summer Car

[@WOLFPACKED]

theres a game called revhead on steam thats in development.. getting better

[@ryanmcguirk951]

They need to bring this to the App Store!!!

[@user-qk7no6rr4d]

played this on hercules adapter. when I tried to do paintjob, the game said my graphic card cannot do that

[@snoop4470]

I totally forgot about this game. What a gem.

[@caeserromero3013]

Still play from time to time. First played this on a 286 Zenith PC...

[@angellestat2730]

it tooks like 20 years for modern custom car games exploited few of the things that make this game great. Like the part where we buy parts or cars, the part where we disarm and remplace each part we self. Then go to the station service or the dinner and bet there.. all amazing. I saw many of the last car games trying to copy something of that, but a lot of graphics and no substance.

[@Thadeal4realThadeal4real]

That was one of my favorite games i never thought it would pop up on KZbin 👀

[@cassol17]

This game was part of my infancy.

[@edwardvey3019]

Came here right after seeing a video with "Ski or Die". Loved the old dos games.

[@silvavicious]

I remember playing it as a kid without understanding shit. Years later I managed to learn English and now I get it.. It's pure fun 😅

[@Nick1981]

Wow I can't believe I found this, there's literally EVERYTHING on KZbin lol , brings back some great memories

[@cybcarr]

still used to play in 2018... :)

[@leonking9153]

So do i also have the second game ☺

[@sebastiandenenfeld9886]

I was playn this both parts as a teenager many slepless hours ❣❤

[@csipsssz]

My god, its melting my heart :) Thx !

[@dbzfanatic278]

30 years I have been searching for the name of this game! 30 freaking years!

[@colouroboros9993]

Rockstar should have thought of implementing this in GTA V

[@554account]

This game brings back memories. I remember playing as a kid. I couldnt for the life of me remember what it was called lol. Good vid, dude!

[@emtee40]

At my first manufacturing job I was promoted to a line supply position. I could finish all my work, what work was left for me, all of it in half my shift. I had this old 386 to print shit and get shipping info from but all access. I played the shit out of Street Rod and Xcom

[@NYlove44]

Nights playing this game, never could beat the king! 🤣

[@ChriaraCass]

I know nothing about cars and when I was a kid knew even less. I sucked so bad at this game but I kept playing for those pink slips!

[@sasarasasarasa]

Flopy disk 5.25 .... so many memories.

[@dr2stroke611]

i like the idea of setting the timing

[@retrogames_jp1404]

a real classic! Used to play or at least try to on my grandfather's computer almost 32 years ago!

[@somefunnyshit1]

Back in my day. This was the bees knees...

[@nobodycares85]

this really brings back memories. I enjoyed watching this.

[@laborawashere]

Totally forgot about this game, I played it a lot growing up.

[@TheWatchernator]

On of the most fun games of my childhood. That music though.

[@louistournas120]

It's done with the PC speaker which can only run 1 frequency at a time.

[@atagkr]

I used to play this all day with my 286 PC and black and white monitor. Good old memories..

[@darksinthe]

I love how the cop can't get you if you cross the finish line before they pull you over or murder you. COP: "Son, that was one hell of a run. I will just let you go since you finished before me."

[@Speculativedude]

Also another secret, if you just hit enter instead of actually typing a name, you would never get chased. Same thing happened in the second game.

[@sargothi]

I'd kill to have a modern version of this

[@tgchan]

Damn... I can only imagine how amazing this game must have been in the past... It still looks awesome and there's so much to do by the quick look at it/

Good memories. Thanks for posting this.

[@alexandruo.1639]

90`s born here, cool game like NFS Underground! First game ever played on pc was Prince of Persia, and Lamborghini American challenge!

[@MaartenvanHeek]

that road race from 18:39... pure adrenaline. Especially in the last race I would get crazy adrenaline kicks - still got it from your video - going through the red line trying to catch up with the other guy, not being sure if the wheels are squaling or if it is the cops...

[@rapiqui]

This game is so special for me. It allowed not only to race in a type of Test Drive racing game, which I loved, but also to learn basic mechanics by tunning the timming belt of a motor and changing manifolds, buy/sell parts...even learn some english expressions and american slang! but the best of all it was damn fun! Another fun fact is that I always wondered why if its brand "California Dreams" sounded quite american the credits showed only polish authoring. I can imagine that sourcing and documenting that 60s USA hotrod atmosphere so fantastically on 1989 comunist Poland woulnd't have been easy. Quite an incredible mix!

[@joesshows6793]

Used to LOVE playing this game!

[@VivaMidnight]

Never heard of this one, looks like the instiration for Car Mechanic Simulator, pretty cool actually!

[@ZB-dd2px]

What an amazing game. I was born 1990 so I was a bit too you for this but I know many games from the 80s through older cousins and my general interest in older games but I didn't know this one. It has such a deep gameplay that many of the todays games look very poor. This one proofs that a good game isn't about graphics.

[@firstclassatlanticflyer]

"GM, Ford Laugh at Cars from Japan."

[@kaitospence18]

Then the oil crisis came and who's laughing now

[@VDavid003]

Sanyi a király :D

[@MrJeffreycauchi]

Woow I used the first PC in my life back when i was 11 at school... and i loved this game... it was Gran Turismo 6 for that time hahaha.

[@andrewdreyer7765]

HOLY COW THIS GAME!!

[@ratscoot]

Spent countless hours playing this game on my Commodore Amiga 500, it was on a 3.5 in floppy disk.. On the underside was a slot and you could buy a 50$ circuit board that boosted the internal memory of the computer from 512K to 1 megabyte.😀

[@Aerojet01]

Thank you for the upload. Consisting the graphic limitations, they did a good job overall making this game.

[@jothain]

I used to love this. Especially Amiga version, which had so much nicer graphics and music. Though it ran really slow.

[@jetfighter2426]

Childhood dreamspot! Based on "American Graffity" movie plot. I wonder what this crew from Poland is doing today

[@KhaosGrimReaper]

I really need to play this again!!!!

[@Morgan423Z]

I played this on school computers back in the day. Good times.

[@snail415]

I just unlocked a hidden door in my childhood. Holy cow.

[@ahmadbartawiable]

Such a great game .. sorry to miss playing it on it's time.

[@mastermind9357]

Wow. I played it a lot. Good memories!!!

[@rfacavalheiro]

I used to play that a lot!! Nice game!

[@giovannitryideas]

played this game so much as a kid... good times

[@freedomfightersassemblyliv57]

Ah the music. Brings me back

[@westall6662]

Forgot about this game loved this when i was a kid

[@black_squall]

40:01 The king of pop himself!

[@tediz8280]

wow this brings me back!

[@user-mi9eo6eq8u]

Wow! I played this game! I liked it! It was a great game in 80s!

[@whatthehec6736]

Omg... never thought anyone would remember this! I remember playing this MS DOS on my shitty computer.

[@christopheraustin3324]

I remember playing this and Scorched Earth for hours upon hours

[@cfhcowboy9292]

My cousin and i spent hours as kids pkaying this . Memories

[@SinisterMud]

That was a fun game!

[@RamonCS66]

This game NEEDS a remake

[@DesignPixelmaster]

ehh so much love for this memory :)

[@BrickMuffin]

I've never seen this game. If I did I know I would have been HOOKED. Too awesome

[@Revoleo_33]

que buen juego, como lo vicie en su momento !!!

[@darksinthe]

I still beat this game every like 5-6 years ever since it came out when I was a kid. It is still a fun game to beat even now that Rocket League is the best game ever made, and I spend 90% of my gaming time playing that. Street Rod will always live on for me, though. Actually, I think its about time for another playthrough, thanks :D

[@purpletuna7307]

Your channel is god's work. Keep it up!

[@paulosampieri]

That brings lots of memories... And why the hell is this recommended to me?

[@lucascarracedo7421]

Google has been gathering data from the past...

[@mr.k1896]

My proudest gaming moment was beating the King in a Valiant while visiting my Aunt in Germany.