Bro wake up it's 1997.

I fuckin' wish.

NFS 3 Hot Pursuit was my absolute jam when I was a younger man. The graphics were amazing for its time and it still ran like a dream on my trash homebrew.

That game made me want an MX5

Hot Pursuit was the best one IMO
- My favorites where Underground and Underground 2. The Soundtrack was awesome.
I had NFS 1 through 3, ~~NFS on my C-64~~(nope, Test Drive, the memory is so fallible sometimes) and the later two on my PCs. All were great fun, but I do think Hot Pursuit was the favorite simply because of the way it was set up for game play variety. I can still see one of the tracks in my mind a lot, the road through the hilly area during the fall, the leaves being scattered as I blew past the speed traps. Obviously much clearer in nostalgia vision than it probably was.
- The first Need for Speed came out in 1994. And even if the graphics do look old, never ever did this run on a C64. It was a DOS game, maybe you confused it?
- I played these on pc. I even got the force feedback steering wheel for the 3. Loved playing cop in hot pursuit
Hot Pursuit and the Porche one were my favorites; I remember steering with a force feedback joystick.
- Porsch Unleashed was quite a bit more simulator-like, at least the steering mechanics and coefficient of friction. I always kind of enjoyed the arcade physics of the original trio, without going completely slot-car, as keeping racing lines and risking shortcuts was still heavily rewarded. They all had really good soundtracks though, with that late '90s techno and grunge. Or at least that's what my nostalgia tells me.
The italdesign ooh buddy

The only videogame my dad has ever gotten into (other than Pong) was NFS II SE. He wouldn't race, he just liked driving around at 35 MPH and looking at the scenery. He enjoyed this so much he bought a wheel and pedals for it. I loved this game as a kid, and the fact that I could play it with a wheel. The song "Headless Horse" off the soundtrack is pure 90s cool as well.

Personally Im partial to Underground 2

Riders on the stoooorm
Underground 2 was the best.

Need for Speed II SE - Play in Browser for Free - Retro Online https://retroonline.net/Windows/Need%20for%20Speed%20II%20SE

"Mobile devices are not supported due to memory limitation"
This website's expectations are apparently almost as old as the games it provides. Still awesome though.
WOW

Thank fuck for that, sis. I had the worst dream.

Not my 1997; we were way too poor for that. My asshole first stepfather would be alive again and I would be back in the latter half of highschool, so a pass all around from me (but y'all feel free to enjoy good memories :) )

Create some new memories now. NFSmw 2005 can still run on W11 and it has a patch on Github that unlocks and tweaks everything. You can turn off the rubberbanding cheating that the games does and you can actually enjoy the game!

Mark my words: the Ford Indigo and GT90 are the future of cars. By the time the year 2000 gets here, we'll all be driving them shits.

This game gave me a life long love of the 1997 McClaren F1. Fastest street legal sports car at the time. Top speed of 232 mph.

If I became a multimillionaire tomorrow I would immediately seek out a 1997 McClaren F1. I never liked the look of the newer models.

NOOOOOOOOO i have to wait years again for NFS underground D:

This one was gold. they've been trying to rechase this dragon for years.

to their credit, i'll say that N4S rivals was pretty good.

and I forget the original on Xbox but that wasn't bad either as I recall.

The next great one for me was Project Gotham Racing. Like with SSX the first one was gold while the 2nd was at times over the edge. Like with how THPS3 went to the edge, except that was the best
What do you mean by rechasing the dragon?
- My guess would be: reliving your first time high, newer games will not live up to the nostalgia.

Playing this as an Aussie teenager, the Australia track was kinda hilarious, I was always like damn, this loop through that scenery should take about 32 hours minimum

Haha, that's great! What related landmarks does that track allude to?
- Been fucken ages, but it has the Sydney Harbour Bridge, plus a bunch of the cliffs on the freeway north of Sydney (which are sadly much less majestic since a freeway expansion on the early 2000s). Then it also has some red desert which is at least 1000km away, plus some old mining towns, which is somewhere in between.
  I just looked up a lap of it on youtube though, and the graphics are waaaaay worse than I remember.. I guess I had low standards in the 90s 😂

NFS2 Special Edition was so good. My favourite of the series. The menu music alone were bangers.

Wait but if it's 1997 I wasn't even born ye...vanishes from existence

Oh yeah, the days when there was no fucking AI and other shit.

I LOVED this game! Every part of it, I spent so many hours playing it...

I used to watch the intro every time as I thought it was the coolest thing ever https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASUCj2Uyats

Underground 2 please

Goo goo ga ga (I'm 1 year old)

I had the special edition and had a great time playing it. My favourite was the F50. I still watch the intro video and listen to the menu theme once in awhile

The F50 is amazing. Modern Ferraris look so ugly.
The music of the SE was so good. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QvMimQ9YD1Y&list=PLE730706C5F8C6F79&index=7&pp=iAQB8AUB goes so hard

The OST in Special Edition still holds up wonderfully. Especially Proving Grounds and the Main Menu.

That stupid dinosaur... every. fucking. time.

Methamphetamine addiction: part 2

Oh shit. I’m playing this in Morgan Thorne’s basement at 2am, while he sleeps, because my home PC won’t run this. Good times.

This post right next to Free rule, you say?. What a coincidence.

The dumbest thing Neo ever did was choose "the real world". What a dumbass. I would choose the fantasy pill and live every single moment as extravagant bliss.

I had a hard time finding that game after finishing NFS3, until EA finally released a box set collection.

https://www.mobygames.com/game/10925/the-need-for-speed-collection/

I remember seeing an LGR and behind the scenes video for NFS2:

Need For Speed II - 24 Years Later: An LGR Retrospective
- https://youtube.com/watch?v=pycArRS0w6k
Making of - Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2 [Behind the Scenes]
- https://youtube.com/watch?v=ywklZvWRK0M&t=50s

racing on a headless horse, ive done the damage set the course

pointed sticks and and ancient feasts, in my dreams i feed on beasts

theres no sun here no reflection, waiting for the ressurrection

paleness shines in moonlit places, alien beings in wooden cases

edit found it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wS32T_YsyQ

I would be crying.

Damn. It’s 2025 and I just booted that one up last night!

Neat! I finished Need for Speed 4 like a year ago. I was never able to beat it as a kid. That felt good.

They didn't really go well for me. I would only go back if I got future knowledge in my dreams. Like PTSD style flashbacks (would not want to be a 30 year old man stuck in a toddler's body)

I had this on PC when I was really young. Barely remember it. i could probably find the CD at my parents'.

Oh thank god... so the queen's still alive?