TEXACO's Need For Speed Porsche Unleashed Demo Discs

[@LGR]

I'll be backing up each CD and adding them to archive.org soon, watch this space! *EDIT:* here they are. archive.org/details/NFSPU-Texaco-Demos

[@mr.razington7881]

Thank you! Loved this demo back in the day.

[@Racerman2001]

While we're on the subject of racing games and the early 2000s, perhaps finding a copy of the offline versions of Planet Hot Wheels and doing a review of them and the Energy CDs could be in order? I wish we could actually find the .swf files they used for the website and get a "fully restored" version of Planet Hot Wheels, but hey, might as well look at what we have left.

[@SensuAudica]

Awesome stuff man. You should do a review of Silver or Bungie's Oni :) Great games!

[@metalnerd1979]

damn. i am tempted to ask, if you could sell me one of each car incl demo disc. but i am from germany, and i think purchasing all 5 plus shipping costs gonna blow my budget for this month... ;)

[@camocry1]

.

[@MitchQuadrupleTree]

"I worked in retail for........uh, too long." Oh, man, same. You ever find yourself walking through a store and see something out of place and you have to fight the impulse to straighten it up?

[@LGR]

...all the time. And I often do it, ugh.

[@MitchQuadrupleTree]

Yeah, me, too. Walmart has trained me well.

[@CommodoreFan64]

mitchquadrupletree It's been years since I quit my local Dollar General, but every time I go in the store, and see something I know is out of place, or a section of the store that looks like hell it still pisses me off, and I have to fight the urge, and make myself say let it be, as I was one of those people who even on their day off when I was working for DG would walk into the store for milk, or something, and fix something behind someone who was on duty I knew had done it wrong, or stop into fix the store's computer when it crashed, and spend 30 mins to an hour that I could have been at home doing other stuff ARRGGG!!!

[@miracleeskimobattleship2874]

>That moment when you know that feel as well

[@RaphaelCh]

I've never worked in retail, but nonetheless I know that feeling

[@SockyNoob]

Remember when Need for Speed games had cockpit views.....

[@MXOY99]

Oh I remember well... =_=

[@netsurferx1]

...Pepperidge Farm remembers!

[@Castdeath]

And actually legit good physics ..

[@Notyourdaddy83]

I remember when N4S was a good game, not some crap like nowadays :)

[@alexander1485]

remember when need for speed games had realistic physics (that don't send you flying through the road) ?

[@Bonno95]

Star Wars: The Porsche Unleashed

[@paulgraves1392]

The best part is that EA could make a Star Wars themed Need For Speed game with that name.

[@rizkaarifiandi5670]

911 Turbo StarKiller version

[@vgamesx1]

Razor Scumm They technically "could" but let's be honest here, a massive cooperation being creative and taking risks? Ha right, that would NEVER happen... Even if it did, the game would almost certainly be online only or at least highly focused on it with microtransactions, I wouldn't trust them to make anything worthwhile these days.

[@paulgraves1392]

vgamesx1 I never suggested it would be a good game. Just that maybe EA or Disney could be whorish enough to make such a crossover.

[@cliftongardner4367]

I'd play it.

[@bucharestbiketraffic]

'member when NFS games didn't have unskippable, annoying cutscenes. 'member when NFS games had awesome rad tracks. 'member when NFS games had a cockpit view and freaking manual transmission. 'member when there was no NOS. 'member when you didn't had to log in to Origin to freaking install a game. Oh, I remember. Thanks Clint for this trip back. It was worth it.

[@lethauntic]

There's still Forza, I know that it isn't the same series as Need For Speed nor is it on PC as far as I can remember, but it does tick those boxes there.

[@AtomicSpyAirsoftRO123]

What you doing over here man, get back on videos xD. Nu ma asteptam sa te vad pe aici :))

[@bucharestbiketraffic]

SteadyGuy Sunt fan LGR si canale cu PC-uri oldschool.

[@HFV_Junkyardin]

Underground 2 is still the best Need for Speed game

[@Vienna3080]

2:16 “I worked at retail... too long” Back then I didn’t get what he was getting at but 2 years later and 2 months of Walmart retail working, and damn do i feel that now

[@frazzleface753]

Who also remembers that Red Baron pizza coupon that still worked?!

[@ps3master72]

when, what video?

[@thedeadlinger6992]

Do you really think there's going to be a video on that..

[@DjAle1]

@@ps3master72 kzbin.info/www/bejne/rZXCmHhvp96da80

[@DenSporetrix]

The Equity logo looks like the Internet Explorer logo's brother that took up marketing instead of IT.

[@CoreyDWillis]

Sporetrix I had the same thought! Haha.

[@WeisserPaladin]

Thank you for pronouncing Porsche correctly! Greetings from Stuttgart, Germany, home of the Porsche

[@flawless-cowboy]

LGR and Cars...two of my favorite things, in one video! Thanks Clint!

[@Daniel-be6cj]

The dollar store near me got a bunch of the cars that came with these CD's and I was constantly collecting them. This might be the most oddly specific to my memories thing you've reviewed on here. I still have all the discs!

[@itsaPIXELthing]

Yeah!! Racing stuff ;) I absolutely love my racing games ;) Thanks for sharing, Clint!

[@vladratcu]

It is really funny: "This sampler version is intended for promotional purposes only, and may NOT be sold" But Texaco was selling it with the CAR as a BONUS :))))))) Am I the only one that is finding this strange? Cheers from Romania, Vlad

[@BBC600]

Vlad R I noticed that too! :-)

[@mrb740]

I think Texaco was selling the die-cast car, the disc itself was the bonus.

[@tripwire76]

"I worked in retail for... uuummm... too long.." - Dude! Me, too ;-)

[@oneminutefixed5003]

This game is one of my all time favorites, even recently I had to beat it again. Remember, never sell your Ferdinand!

[@T4silly]

I have the need for LGR.

[@TheDuduzinhobr]

Me too, Alucard me too

[@ZX3000GT1]

Need for LGR : Woodgrain Unleashed

[@kainhighwind2]

I love demos. You can find a lot of info about a game from the demo. They'll often have beta interfaces, or twist and modify their story to make them work for the demo and prospective consumers.

[@IntergalacticSpaceKitten]

I love the way this guy lays his stuff out all nice and decorative for his thumbnails. It looks great

[@Uniqueuponme]

I begged for a joystick to play this game. I remember the Texaco die cast car sitting on top of my computer monitor. I got the full game and a joystick for my birthday, one of the best I've ever had. Clint feeds my nostalgia needs.

[@interpol007]

Porsche unleashed promotion....yet no Porsche die cast vehicles lol Also need for speed: top speed is another unique Porsche unleashed variant

[@astralfields1696]

Hands down the best NFS ever made. The realism of the driving simulation is simply the best (among the NFS franchise). Finished it several times over the years. Used to play a lot of multiplayer over the LAN at the college campus in the 2000s. Few years back I bought a wheel and could not think of a better game to use it with :). Will probably finish it one more time in the future.

[@grumpyoldwizard]

Great job as always. Thank you for making my day. The tendency of the cars to spin rear forward was a real problem at the time. If you didn’t know how to drive a rear engine car, the Porsche was notorious for spinning out.

[@TheCorporatePlayers]

I fucking love this game to this day. Countless hours traveling europe.

[@PanekPL]

Hey LGR, thanks for the review. Somebody else probably noticed it, but the names of opponents are unique to these demos. They have different names in the full version. Stay cool!

[@tzetzeflysoup]

Absolutely love your choice of intro/outro/background music. Refreshingly smooth in the world of tech videos. One of the many reasons to sub.

[@megaglowz8540]

Some hardcore NASCAR collectors might beat down your door for some of those. Very cool indeed.

[@onometre]

Megaglow Z the fact that he was able to get every single one in one box tells me these aren't super rare

[@pootisbear]

+ultimatebman I don't understand how that proves that they're common, you can tell it's simply a box of demo discs straight from the factory that never got distributed so they just lingered in a warehouse completely untouched. Should that not mean the opposite? They never left the warehouse which implies that the discs probably weren't too popular so they just gave up on distributing them to most stores. I mean we don't really know but I'm just trying to do some logical thinking here.

[@onometre]

PootisBear I know it is if they were rare that box would have been split up into each of the sets

[@dickkickem]

on eBay there's a lot of them.

[@mikegrey5663]

I had the one that came with the green and didn't know it actually came with a version of the game until I found one at a peddlers mall

[@TheSLAPTrain1]

Really cool thanks for uploading this!

[@LGR]

Thanks for watching!

[@quirksandfeatrues69420]

@TheSLAPTrain what’s up dude

[@TRSleekZ12]

Yo Slap!

[@zaxlorax7605]

TheSLAPTrain Whoa dude you watch LGR? Nice!!! You don't seem the type to enjoy this kind of stuff ;)

[@FeelingShred]

As much as I looooved NFS5 Porsche (and hated Industrial Zone!!) my favorite will always be NFS4 High Stakes (playstation version, not PC). Perfect progression, upgrade system, difficulty...

[@MossRods]

Action, the company that produced the toy cars was a very popular brand of the era that had a niche market of producing mainly racing cars in 1/64 and 1/24 scale.

[@itskebiksons]

The sims 1 icon gave me goosebumps. I played that, sooooo much.

[@formdusktilldeath]

„mind numbing“

[@ShagadelicBY]

Back when they were self aware

[@woodywoodverchecker]

I've been laughing for several minutes, even though I am alone here. This is hilarious.

[@TenchiFreak5]

5 different installations of it? That's a pretty weird way for them to have set up the game since EA had DLC cars for Porsche Unleashed with installers that worked not too dissimilar from what you were trying to do to get all of the cars to work in the same executable.

[@jonmahashintina]

Hi LGR, My uncle overheard me watching your video, he used to work for EA back in the day and he began whipping me with his belt for rekindling old bad memories. Thanks for the video. Also, incar behind the wheel view - take note Codemasters!

[@PvtDonutDJ88]

Action, still makes the 1:64 scale officially licensed NASCAR Racecars today! They were probably not as well made back then, but they do a fair job on their cars now. I have a couple.

[@worcestershirey]

Action made some really good collector 1/64 cars back in the day. Since Lionel bought them out, the quality has gone way down (such as no more rubber tires or opening hoods on the collector versions of the cars).

[@CommodoreFan64]

I use to work for Dollar General for several years, and had a nice distract manager who found out I'm a NASCAR fan, and ended up giving me several of the various Dollar General Die cast promotional cars for my small collection, and they are not 1/2 bad for what they are, but yes sadly the newer they got the less detail they seem to have.

[@worcestershirey]

Man, I worked there too and my managers didn't even realize Dollar General was a NASCAR sponsor, even before they pulled off of Matt Kenseth

[@CommodoreFan64]

WorcestershireySauce Yep, and even in the company internal magazine(I forget the name off the top of my head as it's been a while) there was little fan fair, and with so many stores in rural areas like mine which is 25-30 mins from the nearest Walmart, they could have raked in customers with proper promotional tie ins with say $5 off $25 or more on Monday if we get a NASCAR win, or an automatic $2 off coupon on $25 or more on a Monday for every top 10 finish with big driver displays, and their own radio setup with MRN Radio to broadcast the races each week over a simple IP connection at each store. Hell to get more Dollar General Racing merch I had to go on eBay(Joey Logano's era), and the not so easy to find Dollar General corporate store website. 90% or more of the employees who work their I bet have zero idea DG did any kind of racing, and sad they dropped the sponsorship in 2017

[@windyman56]

They also still do the 1:24s too. I love collecting those. Went to Watkins Glen this year for the Xfinity show since I was a guest of one of the drivers but I stocked up on them. Merch tents outside the track sold older ones for ten a pop

[@THEQueeferSutherland]

Endcap planograms?! Christ, you just dug up part of my hellish past that I tried to bury.

[@LGR]

ARGH SORRY. Painful memories.

[@THEQueeferSutherland]

😢

[@CommodoreFan64]

Don't feel bad I use to work for Dollar General doing a lot of that crap. So I feel the pain too man!

[@forestine_]

But did this box come with a planogram? Aaaaahhhhhhh! Retail was hell, but I did enjoy putting things in order.

[@forestine_]

Also my first job was at a gas station during the peak of summer tourist season. It was a ride.

[@grzemson2527]

LGR thank's for all :) I was dreamed about this Texaco demos.

[@ToniML200]

2:42 "Porscha Unleashed"

[@williambbq]

As a kid I loved this game. I loved anything Porsche and my dad got me this at a computer fair a few years after it came out and I played the crap out of it.

[@TAHK0]

I need to know the mystery behind NENAD 👀

[@TAHK0]

I did some digging, and I discovered that "Nenad" is most likely referring to "Nenad Jankovic" who was, in fact, a developer on many of the Need for Speed games (including Porsche Unleashed)! This was a satisfying conclusion lol

[@TAHK0]

Here's a link to their game credits! www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,16771/

[@jon-paulfilkins7820]

I wonder if there is a police driver called Nena?

[@nenadsuperzmaj]

@@TAHK0 Oh thank you for this! It was so surreal to hear my name on an LGR video!

[@Jfunkey]

I actually got one of these when I was a kid. It was the 944 Turbo demo and I remember playing that demo so many times. Later on my Dad baught me the box set with all six original NFS games and I still have four of them to this day. I love these games so much that I even got Windows 10 to work with NFS High Stakes!

[@SuperPickle15]

My original high stakes cd exploded in my disc drive :(

[@boombaby1769]

+Jfunkey Do you remember at which price they were sold back then?

[@Jfunkey]

Sadly I don't know how much they were back then.

[@rawr51919]

Jfunkey I remember Hot Pursuit, but going into High Stakes, there's almost no comparison. Sure, there's a few things that could've been done, like giving the DLC Aston Martin it's police speech from Hot Pursuit, but 99% of the things NFS3 did right, 4 did even better (now we can not only drive around with more realistic physics, but we can also have basically an entire grid of police cars at our disposal along with a helicopter, and to top it all off, you can switch between them all (well, minus the heli, but still).

[@IronHeel]

My favourite NFS game. Thanks, LGR!

[@Yoshimatsu414]

Porsche Unleased was like my first PC game that started to pull me away from consoles, like my PS1 at the time. I think I got it around 2000.

[@antothemanto77]

NFS Porsche Unleashed for the PC is my favorite NFS game. Such a masterpiece.

[@1ManWrenching]

Need For Speed Porsche Unleashed was my favorite for sooooo long. It had such great physics. Really nice graphics (Voodoo 2? I forget). Even supported LAN play.

[@FlyboyHelosim]

Contrary to popular opinion, I hated the car handling and physics in this game. The cars slid and went into a spin way too easily.

[@Eatinbritches]

@@FlyboyHelosim It was pretty realistic, considering the cars the game was emulating. You're supposed to use the lift-off oversteer to tuck that nose in. Actually, with a wheel and pedals this is one of the most natural feeling/controlling racing games of its era. Much better than a sterile arcade racer where there's no challenge in driving the cars.

[@FlyboyHelosim]

@@Eatinbritches I've only ever played with a keyboard so I imagine it felt much better with a steering wheel.

[@worcestershirey]

I'd love to get my hands on one of each of those diecast cars, don't think I've ever seen them before! The liveries on the custom cars are neat as heck

[@NaCh0Ox]

Loves that game physics back in the day. Awesome video!

[@tl1024]

These toy cars is how I got into NFS-PU. It worked too, it got me to buy the full game. Probably my favorite NFS. So many cars were available in the full game. Thanks LGR!

[@adamthompson6669]

I loved going to shell down the road and getting the Ferrari models and LEGO Ferrari too and also HSV promotion stuff as I’m from Australia and love Holden’s and HSV :) :) memories :)

[@pek5117]

Grab a pie and a gaytime

[@chrissheridon1002]

I remember one of the NFS games had the te/ts 50 au Falcon, was always my favourite game

[@hoangtran4736]

"...all about racing through history in classic porsches" *chuckles* *racing through the eastern front in the elefant Panzerjäger Tiger (P)*

[@voxgizer5926]

"Endcap planograms" SING THE SONG OF OUR PEOPLE, LGR! SING IT!

[@CardboardSliver]

Voxgizer I always wondered what moron makes planograms. They're not human.

[@Theweouthereforrealclub-]

I got a bunch of these when I was a kid. They had them at our local dollar store. Weird how my childhood seems to pup up watching LGR so often.

[@seanmealins3805]

One of those discs was my first ever video game!!! Thanks for making this video, so many great memories!

[@nickhayes92]

So glad you did this LGR. I still have mine and is my favorite racing game!

[@DrAnGeber]

OMFG This is my FAVORITE NFS Game EVER!!!! :D After you turned that Music off (crazy late 90s Racing Music but doesn't fit in here) there's quite a nice Athmosphere in all the Tracks... nothing like cruising through Normandy in the Evening Sun or chase your Enemys through the side Streets of an gigantic Industrial Zone

[@Sam-lr9oi]

Huh, TIL Technicolor pivoted into CD/DVD manufacturing, that's a pretty neat aside.

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

Sam They had to keep something going while film was on the way out.

[@Astolfo2001]

They also currently own the RCA trademark as well.

[@HazmanFTW]

Mario's Last Car? Can you also get Luigi's Last Car and Bowser's Last Car? Weird that it came out 2001 but says it's only compatible for Win 9x and not for 2000 as well.

[@SuperJman991]

Tong Zou Mario Andretti, his last car before he retired.

[@HazmanFTW]

Princess Toadstool's Last Car

[@carreragt339]

well the compatibility thing is because of the game. windows 2000 released in the midde of the devepoment of porsche unleashed in march 2000 (or may im not sure) so they couldnt support windows 2000.

[@HazmanFTW]

I thought Windows 2k came out at the start of 2000?

[@alphatonic1481]

I have really good memories about NFS:P, especially the one time when my stepdad brought a projector from his work and i got to hooked it up to my PC for a day. I played all kinds of games on it. The most fun was playing NFS:P with my Momo Forcefeedback Racing Wheel on that huge "screen" (about 2x2 meters) which was beamed to my wall. BTW nice aileron roll @14:40

[@Roadstar1602]

It took 17 years for Nenad's easter egg to be found.

[@MrQuanticox]

Best NFS game.

[@kubamax9kubowski176]

Bumblebee Need for Speed Most Wanted (2005) IS the best NFS game.

[@FlyboyHelosim]

Except NFS: Most Wanted's car handling and physics are atrocious. NFS3: Hot Pursuit is probably the most comprehensive yet polished game in the series.

[@theastrogamer710]

This game was my childhood.

[@kevinhibbard320]

NFS: Porsche unleashed was so great on pc, I loved it.

[@benjaminmiddaugh2729]

EA hadn't yet completed its slide into evil, so giving away multiple tracks probably wasn't as big a deal at that point in time.

[@liamward9337]

Holy shit, the Boxster S edition of this game was legitimately the first thing I ever played. I have the car too lmao

[@stevenclark2188]

My first rule of retail merchandising: the Planogram is always physically impossible. I have seen POGs where even the rendered image of the top shelf extended 18 inches into open space off the end of the aisle.

[@ryanmosey5932]

Damn I remember spending HOURS playing this need for speed game back in the day. Ahh makes me so nostalgic!

[@froddobaggins]

Nothing like coming back from work and watching an LGR thing in my underwear, while also eating a bowl of icecream. Bless you Clint, you give my afternoons meaning.

[@crankysaint]

I snagged one of these for myself back when I was a store manager for Texaco. I still have it, along with a bunch of other collectibles from the time.

[@DavidLand91]

HE KNOWS WHAT CART IS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I thought I was one of only about 2 KZbinrs who remember CART lol

[@SockyNoob]

David Land you and EmptyBox?

[@chifurbr]

or he might just read the label on the package ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@Clay3613]

It was in that awful Stallone movie Driven...Matthew Buck aka Film Brain knows what it is.

[@limestonebutter]

David? I had no idea you had an interest in computers and stuff. Or were you just bored and decided to search “need for speed” on KZbin.

[@JoelSmithR1]

FTG

[@skagerstrom]

So many hours spent in Porsche Unleashed! In Normandie, roll up to the T crossing, enable the turn signal, stop - look left and right.. Wish there was a modern game that gave that relaxed but still realistic style!

[@yabukiMMA]

LGR videos always make my monday, Thank you Clint!

[@Wicuska81]

Your voice is so smoothing, I could watch your videos all day.

[@ryanfugitt116]

I dream of a day where there's a remake of this in some way favorite game ever

[@Monacomaverick]

This probably my favorite NFS game in the whole series. I still have the big box version which I absolutely love. I need to get the original NFS 3 box again too.

[@altrogeruvah]

I love these kinds of oddball partnerships you'd only hear in the 90s and early 00s, gas stations, cereals, hotels, airlines, very interesting stuff!

[@sunindjectorslab2168]

Rom Di Prisco, Crispin Hands and (R.I.P) Saki Kaskas rules!

[@BronxBarbarian]

I wish i could get a digital release of nfs Porsche, this is hands down my favorite nfs game.

[@Kokuyous3ki]

Pretty generous demo tbh. I liked demos a lot as a kid. And they worked wonderfully as enticement.

[@SlyEcho]

Man, that was such a good game, despite being licenced. Played it a lot.

[@ViperJay5]

I love how the 356A sounds like the 2000 911 Turbo. ;)

[@mildgrooveon]

Nice! Used to watch CART races with my mom every sunday. love it.

[@Mqgical]

Omg i remember playing alps as a kid over and over again. This definitely brought back some good memories. And thanks for making them available to download ❤

[@cliftongardner4367]

Man... Porsche Unleashed was one of the first games I bought with my own money as a kid. I didn't realize this was even a thing... I might have to find these myself!

[@PedroSilvahf]

I remember reading about some need for speed files being compatible with another game and we could just copy the folders like you did. It was a long time ago, cant remeber the games but the instructions were pretty clear on how it worked

[@briankinney1871]

These were also available at at least one Shell gas station (the one where my family got them), likely because it was owned by a company co-owned by both Shell and Texaco. (Up until I researched it just now, I thought it was because Shell bought a lot of Texaco stations after Chevron and Texaco merged, since Shell had exclusive rights to use the Texaco name on gas stations from early 2002 to June 2004, but it turns out the conversions didn't start until 2002, and they might have just been converting Texaco stations they owned already through their joint ventures.)

[@TimothyMischka]

My local Shell also was an ex-Texaco (Exaco?) and still has a few of these laying around, along with other assorted old Texaco stuff (toy tanker trucks, plushies, etc.). I should think about taking one home one of these days.

[@sbboyle]

I have Porsche unleashed for the GBA. I remember my mind being blown by the fact that I could drive 3D Porsche game models on a hand held device.

[@theguardian8317]

what a weird cross-promotion. 3 random products/brands in one package with the only thing in common is that they are car related.

[@diamondsmasher]

The Guardian “marketing”

[@Techdisk42]

Oh this game... I love this game. I never had a joystick or wheel so I played purely with the keyboard and loved every minute.

[@zgSH4DOW]

I barely remember the many hours of Porsche Unleashed I've played, but the red, circular menu and the wheel screech startup noise really awoke a lost part of me

[@TheForsakenEagle]

Classic NFS games need to be on GOG now!

[@TelaComes-q8z]

Man, I forgot about that little Texaco NASCAR that came with the disc I was about 5-6. Thanks for the content!

[@garkeinem]

NFS Porsche must have been the first game I have ever played in my life around the age of 6 in 2001/2002. Brings back good old memories

[@Parassassin]

Those speakers bring back many memories! Boom, right in the feels

[@andypro]

First American KZbinr who pronounces "Forza" correctly! 👍

[@ironcladshade1]

I'm almost certain this is the only actual NSF game I've ever owned. I remember being blown away by the fact that there were buttons for left and right blinkers

[@negil]

I had the GBA version of Porsche Unleashed and I remember really enjoying it. But man, the PC version looks pretty darn great! That you can actually watch the convertible top go down is pretty darn cool.

[@maj212212]

Oh cool. I collect small scale die cast and I got one of these as a gift from another collector ages ago. It's the Porsche 356, but since I don't really collect american stuff much I left it packaged and sort of forgot about it. Nice to know more!

[@mr.vidjagamez9896]

I bought a bunch of these many a moon ago at a Dollar Tree. I always wanted to do some kind of online video or write-up for them, but figured someone was bound to have done them already. Guess they were not as well known as I assumed they were.

[@EricT-2]

Yes! This was my favorite NFS game growing up. Thank you!

[@DapperFellowGent]

This brought back the memories... I loved these as a kid

[@zheydhan665]

One of my all-time favorite racing games