LGR - Interstate '76 - PC Game Review

Just played this again last year. Was such a fun game - thanks for covering it! Now, that said, I saw the ads/covers for Heavy Gear and Dark Reign which were two great games. I was a Dark Reign fanatic (and fairly good). This reminded me to look up my game website from the time which I THINK was fairly popular. According to my "Dreambook" it was anyways. Are you ready for this? Some links and images are broken but it's mostly intact. New browsers won't play the embedded midi files that were all the rage back then so play it yourself in the background for full effect (it will prompt you to download). www.chadkeck.com/site-archives/dr/ P.S. Don't laugh now, this was 90's middle school era, hah!

Chad Keck

I love this game! Just scored a late 90s Packard bell(don't laugh) it's got the specs to run this perfect.

Oh man one of my all time favorite PC games. I remember having a weird modded/hacked version of this where you could play the campaign with Taurus' car. That was a lot of fun.

Nr7

Of course I used this music in my videos prior to the efficient auto-takedown system on YouTube :)

Lon Seidman

That's awesome :) Heck, I edit videos in 2016 to the OST

LGR

I'm normally not an interior view guy when it comes to car games, but this one is absolutely of them where it plays better that way.

LGR

What can I say, I'm in a generous mood

LGR

Definitely worth a shot, but man it's a pain to get working on anything but the hardware it was designed for..

LGR

Heh, I thought of that myself while making this. "Sk--ter": the perfect mechanic name, just insert vowels.

LGR

I ripped the whole soundtrack to MP3s myself, it's great :)

LGR

I remember editing videos back in 1998 with music from this soundtrack :)

Lon Seidman

The code certainly does not hold up on modern machines, even trying all the fixes I've seen out there. It improves things when you limit cores and clock speed, but yeah, still not quite right!

LGR

Both are on the agenda for a "hopefully someday" review :)

LGR

It really is a special thing, and is a real shame it hasn't been revisited. I mean, sequels and spin-offs sure, but this particular style of gameplay stands alone!

LGR

Yeah, I didn't even realize it was him for a while! Those trippy sequences with only his voice all reverb-y threw me off at first, but by the end it's obvious.

LGR

Right on! Just a shame it's so darn fiddly to get working - seems a lot of early Win95 era stuff tends to be these days. I guess that's a bummer simply because this is such a unique driving experience (and I oddly *loved* driving from the interior view, but I guess I'm weird like that).

Rob Caporetto

Oh man, I need to play this, somehow... I kinda wish I still had my old Win 95/98 machine...

Ian Guebert

SimEarth AND Interstate '76? You're spoiling us! (two games that people have been requesting for a while)

Zabe

Aww this is just one of those games that I had in my hands yet failed to get to work on my computer and now I have missed out on it and only have associations of loss and disappointment with it as a result. I'll give it a try again, one day..

Marnix

Mechanic....Skeeter.........CATCH A RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIDE! OK. It's Scooter in Borderlands, but that was the first thing that popped into my mind. :P

RetroSwim

Didn't play this but I did play Interstate 82 mod for Battlefield 1942, played it a lot, very fun mod

Tapani J.

I remember the intro music for this game so vividly, it's pretty much burned into my memory forever. It was one of the first WAV 's I encoded into an MP3 file! It's almost just too damn funky. Not to mention I was blown away by how awesome the game looked for the time. Long live I76!

Ohh, this game. One day maybe I'll get myself playing through this, but on modern computers...well, it is based off the MW2 engine, iirc, so what did I expect. Cars are slippery and don't handle properly at all. Probably have to get it on an old computer and/or throttle it (faster computers seem to make things even worse). The game's aged way better than the code has, go figure. Though, of all the things I'd been told about this game, no one told me there was a poetry button. Today I learned.

Tanara Kuranov

A pity the sequel i82 was not as good. This game on 3dfx though, epic! I did see Heavy Gear and Dark Reign in there, both incredible games which would be great to see at some point.

Thank you! This game is one of a kind. It's like was never seen before, and never again seen after. The music, the cars, the soul... I loved it. This is one game that begs for a play-by-play re-boot. The magic is still there.

Paul

However, ADG made an episode about MechWarrior 2, if you're interested. :)

Maximilien Noal

I still can't get over the villain is John DeLancie. I was heavy into TNG reruns at that time and was like "Is that Q?".

Iceman2343

Hmm... now that you've mentioned it you've never done a Mechwarrior video have you?

TheDud

The outro is exactly as it should be, it's using YouTube's new annotation system which adds elements after the video is processed. You'll see the final result later :)

LGR

Consider fixing the endcap before going prime time. Thanks for the new video though, it looks like a lot of fun.

Joseph Coco