Beating EVERY N64 Game - Hydro Thunder (152/394)

[@professoroak1920]

takes me back to childhood hearing HYDRO THUNDER!!! as soon as you enter any arcade

[@ZerotheWanderer]

I always miss the loading screen driver/crew chief checklist.

[@Buddy47]

Your dedication to the N64 Every Game Challenge is truly impressive! I love how you bring nostalgia to life with each game. Keep it up!

[@turkeyman631]

'Dude, I dont know what you're trying to tell me, I'm just a tourist' Lol I love this series man

[@crism8868]

Fun trivia fact: the beta for Wave Race 64 looked a lot like this. Miyamoto cancelled that version of the game because he thought it was too similar to F-Zero.

[@BR-jw7pm]

Once you beat every N64 game, you NEED to make a ranking video 😂

[@rcoh4]

The ranking is in his google doc though.

[@nitePhyyre]

Then do 100% runs on the top 10. Or top 5 and bottom 5. Something like that.

[@nonungus]

Give the man a damn break after this.

[@bbbbbzzzzzzzzzz5431]

"Every N64 game", does that mean all of em 📯

[@danielgordon2907]

@@bbbbbzzzzzzzzzz5431 Thabeast is beating every n64 game, and he means all of them

[@TanookiOshawott64]

12:28 I only watch this channel for the travel tips so thank you!

[@jryancarpenter]

Thank you for continuing this challenge! I know you're ahead of the videos in real time, but I just wanted to say that these videos are one of the things I look forward to and signal the start of my weekend!

[@SlimCharles17]

I had this for Dreamcast, the graphics were so insane for the time. That console in general was pretty ahead of its time, sad it had such a short life.

[@reimi742]

This looks super fun, very impressive sense of weight and momentum for an N64 game too.

[@HalfAboveMid]

I remember playing an arcade version of this in Orlando back when Disney Quest still existed. Once you were in, the games were "free". I spent hours on it.

[@D3LTRON92]

Venice is sinking and sections of it have flooded over the years so you can actually see water marks inside some of the old churches from when they were partly underwater. That’s why they added the section through the building. Kind of a cool detail.

[@Teruko666]

I've always wanted a Hydro Thunder cabinet. It's a pretty simple game, but easily one of, if not absolutely, my favorite arcade game of all time.

[@FYCY]

Lake Powell is a big reservoir in Utah, Arizona and Colorado. It actually looks kind of like the track.

[@smj460]

The same river just upstream of the Grand Canyon

[@mike91mdk45]

Idk which i played more as a kid, SW episode 1 racer or this. Always loved the crazy jumps and feel of the physics. That "GO! GO! GO!!!" from the announcer will never leave my brain

[@ivan_pozdeev_u]

"Can't exactly bring that giant thing [an arcade cabinet] home with you!" Panga: "Watch me."

[@YemmyTheFerret]

I played this in the PS1 about a year ago and it's such a blast! A GOAT for sure

[@opp31337]

7:48 bro you hit the ramp in the middle of the dam... it couldn't be more obvious.

[@jilaelennio6944]

The HD remake on the 360 was so fun. I almost booted it up when I saw you uploaded this.

[@mischiefmikeyo]

I did the same thing I got it for free years ago, but it's a really solid sequel

[@blalesnail3098]

@@mischiefmikeyoExcept they removed the mechanic where boosting lets you knock around the other boats. 0/10

[@harryh536]

Recommending going to NY for pizza right after a race in Italy got to be the most American thing I've ever seen. But as a non-italian who hasn't had pizza in neither of those places Thab might not be wrong.

[@DaveAdams222]

Dude I remember playing this game CONSTANTLY on the Dreamcast. I had no idea it was available on N64, I'll have to look into that just for the heck of it. It's definitely a good time on the DC, though.

[@Dillfaro]

The final map was too cool. Game devs had a lot of fun putting that together.

[@mizer9510]

One of my all time favorite games. Used to play it all the time in the arcade back in the day. So glad I own it for the N64.

[@unkono]

Me too!!!!!!

[@Awesomeuserdude]

Man this one really brings me back. I had this for the Sega Dreamcast, and my friend and I would play it all the time. So nostalgic.

[@Bigd2k]

I miss Midway. They made such fun games.

[@DeskOfDean]

Surprised no one has filled the void. Arcade style games are my favorite. Blitz, mortal kombat, even old Mario parties had the same feeling

[@mizer9510]

Yeah Midway was amazing in the 90's

[@encycl07pedia-]

@@DeskOfDean Microtransactions have ruined gaming. The dregs who buy into those systems are just as culpable. The only microtransactions for arcade-style games are worth paying for credits in actual arcades that people mostly don't visit anymore in dead malls. Whenever I feel down, I remember that at least I'm too smart to buy season passes, loot crates, and virtual currency.

[@jspringer86]

@@encycl07pedia- "Microtransactions have ruined gaming." Proceeds to glorify spending $0.25 cent for each life... with inflation per CPI's own calculator that $0.25 in 1985 is $0.75 now. Take off those rose color shades they're blinding you.

[@encycl07pedia-]

@@jspringer86 You must be one of the dregs I was talking about. Essentially renting an arcade cabinet is far different than paying money to gamble, buy skins, or get a competitive advantage in a game you already bought and own. I'm not here knocking Blockbuster for renting out video games 30 years ago, either. But you wouldn't understand that, would you? At least their business model was meant to siphon literal nickels and dimes in definite transactions for an hour or two instead of creating addicts while siphoning tons of money over long periods of time. It's also much different playing an arcade cabinet with gearshifts, leaning bikes, and custom controls than tapping a phone screen. I don't think paying for virtual currency to buy in-game costumes is quite the same as spending a few quarters to play one of your favorite games for 3-5 minutes.

[@robdogracing]

I loved the shortcuts in this game. Thanks for the memories

[@severalwolves]

I still have that booming “HYDROOO THUNDER!!” burned into my head from every arcade I ever stepped into as a kid haha

[@joshmeads]

Seems like one of the better racing games. It's nice to see a decent number of tracks. They all seem to be pretty interesting as well.

[@davidt3563]

Dang this game looked pretty good for the N64! I miss playing this in the arcade with friends. It's pretty awesome that you can still find some cabinets running it in the wild.

[@newironside]

The Hydro Jump and boosted start make a lot more sense in the arcade. You had a bar you moved up and down to change speeds. Moving it all the way then all the way up was how you jumped. Showing it to older kids was one of my favorite memories of the arcade.

[@toolisgod6]

This game looks a blast to play

[@CEZA-123]

It is

[@mizer9510]

You've never played it? You're missing out.

[@toolisgod6]

@@mizer9510 never have, now I want to

[@73685]

This is the best series on KZbin. So dedicated, thorough, and full of harmless nostalgia. Brings back great memories of games with friends and having no responsibilities (aside from keeping my room and teeth clean).

[@fo-ef8qo]

the "HYDRO THUNDER!!!" Shout is permanently embedded into my mind between my local arcade and the n64 version

[@darrellgardner4561]

While I haven't played a ton of it, I've always loved Hydro Thunder. Its just high quality over the top arcadey goodness. The announcer and the engine noises always get you hyped. Doing big jumps and launching boats into the air is always a ton of fun. Maybe its because I haven't played it much but, I always thought this game was super hard on the arcade machine. something is definitely lost on the console ports, or at least it seemed like it the couple of races i've played on console. I used to play it when we would rarely go to Walmart.

[@breathstealer5486]

I'm not the biggest when it comes to racing games but even I couldn't deny the power of hydro thunder. In reality I prefer racers with weapons which most do not have.

[@olympicjbrag5913]

This series rocks man

[@samallen9105]

This is the only thing that I have to look forward to every week. I used to watch Game of Thrones every Sunday, When I was a kid it was X-files. Now it's Beating EVERY N64 Game on Friday. I'm gonna be so bummed when we all finally reach the end.

[@junctionwr]

The Grand Canyon has water in it and it's the same water that runs through Lake Powell.

[@dechangeman]

This is my feelgood channel. Really like the humor.

[@browncow5210]

HYDRO THUNDER! Man, I haven't heard that yelled since the arcade days. Good times.

[@neveroddoreven6116]

This guy has the hardest challenge. Imagine having to play through the crappy ones, ahhh mind numbing 😅

[@randomwowjunkie]

Started watching a bit out of order to catch up, just Quake 64 and Dezamon or w/e it is and I'm all caught up. Favorite series on youtube!

[@gustavocve1779]

I LOVE this game on the N64. Played it so much but could never unlock the bonus levels, amazing to see them here. Also worth mentioning is that the N64 version of this game is the only one to support 4 players splitscreen. No other version has that.

[@cavendishbandana8706]

I enjoyed this one a bunch. The game seems quite fun. I remember playing it a couple of times in an arcade but I was so bad at it. I've never won a race on Hydro Thunder.

[@rtyuik7]

i remember thinking i was such a 'rebel' playing this game, since it was the first game (especially an E-Rated one) to include the word Damn, as in the boat named "DAMN the Torpedoes!!" (the announcer's voice has been burned into my memory)...but i also wanted to say that the HydroJump method makes a lot more sense on the arcade controls, since the brake was triggered by pulling the throttle stick all the way back, which makes the stern of your boat dip into the water, which means boosting (straight "forward") will launch you upward...

[@mgnoodle2589]

Graphics were great on that game. No fog! I loved how the tourist boat was as fast as your powerboat

[@MusicSkeletonKeys]

What I like about this game is you really need to eke out everything from the boat and course secrets to finish 1st. Almost like a time trial, and the top computer boat is just a time to beat.

[@Cheeseburger_mage]

Omg this is pure nostalgia. Me and my dad used to play this at the arcade all the time!

[@lmno567]

For New York Disaster, it was a meteor/asteroid not a volcano.

[@316Autos]

Loved Hydro Thunder, but the N64 doesn't do it justice. Dreamcast version was awesome.

[@seantaft3853]

12:37 don't worry, the turtles already dealt with the killer rats.

[@Joker-fj8hg]

I’m surprised he didn’t make a 🐢reference

[@kbone369]

I dont remember a lot of games i played back in the day, but this one i vividly remember playing the hell out of on the dreamcast.

[@BobbyMiller64]

I enjoyed playing this in arcades too. I never played it on consoles, though. Anyway, neat video. The bonus boats were funny. :)

[@ericcook2423]

Loved this in the arcade with the actual thing you could sit on lol.

[@nojuanatall3281]

There's an arcade one town over from me Calle The Game Preserve in North Houston. That place has tons of pinball machines and arcade games. All free play, you just buy a membership up front. They have Rush 2049 and hydra thunder cabinets. The arcade is so loud and intense. Such a great game.

[@lastresort1757]

This is my favorite video game! Sick to see someone play it still

[@frmjewduhh]

This is my favorite racer of all time! BTW There is a ramp in the middle of the Dam in Lake Powell to get the 9sec boost on the bridge

[@TheIncredible2IC]

"Lake Powell kind of looks like the Grand Canyon but it's filled with water for some reason" Same river and state!

[@HaakonAnderson]

11:40 Somebody who worked at that church was like, "I told them we shouldn't allow boat races here!"

[@thejunkmanlives]

i remember the machine at my local arcade had the deepest/heaviest bass. idling before the race would shake the seat.

[@encycl07pedia-]

The Neo Geo was basically a cartridge-based arcade machine. As a general rule, I didn't like the home console ports of arcade games. Most of the arcade games were made to be extremely difficult in order to burn through quarters. That same greed meant they put minimal effort into making the game work for the home consoles so they were still brutally hard. There were some exceptions I enjoyed like Rush 2049 and NFL Blitz that weren't made ridiculously difficult to bankrupt the players. The timer in the NFL Blitz 2000 video is a rollover from the arcade cabinet in order to increase profit efficiency that they were too cheap/careless to edit out. I distinctly remember an NFL Blitz (maybe Blitz 2000) cabinet taking $2 per 2-to-3-minute quarter, so to play a single short game would cost eight freaking dollars. I remember feeling guilty afterwards that I asked my dad for that much money to play one game. I initially thought it would be $2 for four quarters.

[@TarantuLandoCalcuLingus]

The xbox 360 version of hydro thunder is awesome too! The bonus boats in this one are way funnier though lol

[@Mrnotpib]

The buffalo wild wings down the street from my apartment has a hydro thunder machine. Great game.

[@shouryuuken4147]

Good job on beating this one. When I tried this Hydro Thunder it took me many hours. But I agree that it is a fun game.

[@pirana6]

"this exited to... space?!" Ha! All of the ideas just shoved into the last track

[@jarrod1766]

My favorite part of hydro thunder is that being on water is always the slowest, you are always faster on land or getting air from a ramp

[@Old-ded-memes]

I was sure that you’ve played this one before, but then I realized; no… I’VE played this before. Your videos are blurring my nostalgia!!

[@RoyceMarcus]

Found the arcade version at a local laser tag place and had a blast (but was terrible at it). My next door neighbor got this for his dreamcast and when I found out it was on the N64 I had to get it! Obviously no match against the dreamcast, but I still played the hell out of this as a kid. It was a high difficulty for me then, but never felt totally out of reach. And it felt so good when you got that track and boat mastery.

[@aleckermit]

Fun little game. The grey cartrige North American variant for N64 is one of the rarer ganes on the console.

[@mattbattaglia4694]

Cannot wait for Extreme-G racing... one of my favorite games of all time

[@tanmad21]

Lake Powell is amazing. You should visit it IRL.

[@inthefade]

This game looks really awesome. It is very impressive for N64.

[@coreykelley9441]

"Lake Powell sort of looks like we're racing through the Grand Canyon" They're about two hours drive apart, so that makes sense. Loved this game as a kid but always sucked at the hard tracks and gave up.

[@mika161ultrainstinct]

I always forget these come out on Fridays, fun surprise

[@kylebarclay9352]

I loved this game so much. I remember my cousin got this for us off ebay when he was staying with us and we played it so much. I couldnt beat the cathedral level though, so i never did see the final courses. Surprised to see you not struggle as hard as we did 😅 i thought i was pretty good at the time.

[@G0lg0t4]

It's not a volcano but an asteroid that hit New York :)

[@FuzedBox]

As arcade-goer in the 90s, I was shocked at how well they managed to make this game look and play on the N64. The Dreamcast version may have looked almost indistinguishable from the arcade, but the 64 version was so much more responsive and had more charm. I could never consistently do boost jumps with the Dreamcast version. In the N64 version, I could perfectly time any jump to the exact height I needed. It's a pivotal skill. As much as I love the game, I have a huge gripe with it: The cheesy, arcade rubber-band scaling of the AI. It's abysmal; the harder class of boat you pick, the harder it scales until it becomes impossible to reach 1st place. In the Easy class of boats, Damn the Torpedoes is the most consistent boat for winning- plain and boring, but responsive and reliable. Midway is alright too, if you prefer its more "boaty" controls and your goal is to win. Miss Behave for some reason has tougher AI scaling and you won't win easily, even if you're adept with controlling it. The Medium class of boats are still winnable choices. Thresher is their version of Damn the Torpedoes; very solid with gentler AI scaling. Banshee is a blast to control and has scaling about on par with Miss Behave. Tidal Blade is not a consistent performer and has some tough AI scaling. If your boat of choice is in Hard, then tough shit; your races are now glorified time trials that you WILL LOSE to the other racers. A real shame, because those three are awesome and super fun to play as. The Bonus boats are weird. I've been able to hit first with Tinytanic and Chumdinger, but Armed Response and Blowfish seem to take on the Hard boats' scaling.

[@neveroddoreven6116]

Your videos are so good. The shadow man one was the best. Keep it up

[@theStepFamm]

this played best on dreamcast. one of my favorites as a kid i remember bringin my dreamcast on a plane with me to visit my cousins in arizona so we could play this because they didnt believe i had an arcade game at home

[@travismorgan3252]

For what it's worth, Lake Powell is along the Colorado River, right outside of The Grand Canyon.

[@camhabibi2217]

Loved this game at the arcade. Never knew it got a console release!

[@Q400Flight]

I love this game. My favorite boat was the Rad Hazard

[@youknuckle]

Hydrospeedway - Awesome edit

[@Folsomdsf2]

'through the grand canyon for some reason, though it's full of water' The grand canyon has a river at the bottom broskie

[@calcarTV]

that last course with all the random weird stuff reminds me of the tony hawks bermuda triangle XD

[@bes03c]

The mini Titantic was a wonderful addition.

[@arikjacobson5771]

what a game! cant wait for you to play the RUSH GAMES. especially RUSH 2049!

[@michaelvaldespinojr.4905]

Patiently waiting for No Mercy Content

[@xXCigarXx]

You said you cant exactly bring the machine home....But,I have one in my living room I bought from some people moving out of state. 😂 It was so big though I had 6 people lift it thru a window because the door of my house wasnt wide enough.

[@Trillyana]

For as many times as I saw this as an arcade machine, I never actually played it or knew what the gameplay looked like

[@Ethan-mn9jh]

I Loved this game in the arcade back in the day at Nickel City!!

[@pupperjackcheese]

Refreshing to see an N64 racer that doesn’t recycle the same four tracks!

[@JimTheEditor]

12:25 One of THAB's classic hot takes. Stay weird, friend!

[@tysheinin8733]

You can have your SM64's, Majora's Mask's, Perfect Dark's and Conkers Bad Fur Day's....give me Hyrdo Thunder over them any day!

[@rhysm.5915]

I could have sworn I remembered this game being 60fps.

[@syncmonism]

Well, it looks higher than 30. Might not be a totally consistent 60fps.

[@nojuanatall3281]

I think it is on dreamcast and arcade.

[@arancione8336]

It was on Dreamcast, Arcade, and in its ports in the Midway collection on GameCube, PS2, and Xbox.

[@Yourmomgoestocolledge]

Probably was on Arcade

[@YourPalJamieEllis]

This was one of the first two games I remember seeing played on a Sega Dreamcast, this and SoulCalibur. They completely blew my mind with their graphics--glad to see some measure of that graphical prowess made it even into the N64 port for this one!

[@Shinny1338]

That last level creeped me the hell out as a kid

[@ben_has_hobbies]

Highlight of my Friday as always!

[@asymptoticspatula]

That looks like a fun game! great video, thab!

[@BassForever]

Great home port back in the day, still holds up well.

[@Wetcamerainc]

The arcade as a kid was a magical place. HYDRO THUNDER

[@penguinjay]

I like this one, it was great in arcade and dreamcast. Pretty hard to get the hang of honestly. I got this one CIB when I saw it was pretty rare.

[@fernandorobles9912]

Gotta say I never thought I'd see the Titanic racing