Playing Lotus on a monitor with the sound through an amp and a decent set of speakers was a mindblowing experience in the early 90s.

Sluggish handling in Rajd Przez Polskę is actually a highly realistic representation of how it was to drive Polonez Caro. Also, the agressive AI is a spot-on rendition of the situation on Polish roads in the 90s ;)

Jaguar xj220 and Lotus turbo challenge was my childhood! I loved it sooooo much

11:50 THAT Music is PURE Nostalgia from my childhood! Lotus Turbo Challenge 2's intro tune is just legendary ❤

This popped up on my feed.... I'm so glad it did.... A brilliant video 👏

9:47 All about Lotus I, II, III 🎉 My love for cars started from these

Awesome video. Love your choices. Glad I wasn't the only person mad enough to play Moonshine racers.

@3:10 I was literally thinking to myself as I'm watching, "It would have been nice if old games like this could have found a way to include an editor of some kind." Nice.

Lotus 2 is the standout for me. It felt super immersive and more real than the others party due to there being no arcade music during races, just the sound of the car. I remember linking up a friend's Amiga for 4 player race sessions too!

09:40 When you'd never played the Lotus series, but have many Top Gear hours under your belt: "Wait... What am I hearing in this game? What?! That's... Top Gear!!!" I actually feel a bit robbed now. Even with the fondness I still hold for Top Gear 1 and 2 growing up, that I didn't get these Lotus wrapped, computer-enhanced versions to play.

That title screen was really something else lol.

One feature of the first Lotus is often overseen: It was the first amiga racer that didn't need to use headache-inducing alternating bright and dark greyish bars to simulate the ffeling of speed, which I very much loved. I alway kept playing Lotus I and Lotus II interhanging, because I both had their own appeal. The polished purity of Lotus I and the greatmusic and utter performance of Lotus II. Lotus III was not my favorite, though. . it felt a bit sterile and had less character, despite being technically perfect of course. PS: Your screen format is wrong, with terrible effects on the rotating car models, square icons and top views of the cars where the car is nearly as wide as it is long.

Nice to see a few games I've not played in there, including a 96 release. I'll admit like almost every Amiga user I did love playing Lotus.

Wow, this brings me back… Me and my old man playing XJ220 on the couch. So much fun! And the music, man, the music!

You could've included Crazy Cars III / Lamborghini the American Challenge , though it might've been released on PC first and then AMIGA, I'm not enitrely sure about that. Another great one I played on PC, but which also exists on Amiga and Atari ST is Cisco Heat - extremely difficult, but fun nontheless.

Near certain that I played Moonshine Racers from an Amiga Format cover disc, iconic

How cool to discover this video (and your channel btw) just after reinstalling FS-UAE and playing... guess what... Lotus I 😄, which was one of the 1st games we had on our Amiga. I played it a *lot* with my elder brother back in the day. And replaying was quite fun! I was wondering if you had considered including Vroom in your list. I don't remember having played it that much, but I had heard rather good things about it. Since it was made by a french company (Lankhor), I don't know if it reached much audience outside of France.

I still listen to Lotus 3 soundtrack from time to time. There is a video with all the music her on youtube 🙂

I remember those Lotus games. I like you got clips of the tunnels and the dustdevils, yeah. Only thing missing is that truck you could drive under, that was cool.

You forgot Turbo Out Run and Out Run Europa :) Also, there's a remake called "Cannonball" that uses the Arcade-roms and playable on many different systems.

10:20 Those mechanics are really working it. A lube job from the looks of it. Those parts can be stubborn and hard to handle, but a good tugging will usually get them to release. No eye contact between them. Just a shared, unspoken commitment to the job at hand.

Crazy Cars 3 was really good

The Polish game is clearly drawing inspiration from the Great American Cross Country Road Race, that I used to play to death on the C64. Good times.

2:17 From memory, as part of the licence deal that enabled the developer to use the Jaguar name, they were banned from showing the car with damage - hence why on the repair screen you got the coloured boxes flashing over the general location of the damaged part. 11:50 I'm 99% sure it was Lotus 1 (rather than the follow up game) but if you completed the game then you would get a code on the finish screen which you could mail to the developers and they'd send you a "limited edition" T-shirt as a reward. As it was one T-shirt per household / game (although I have no idea if everyone got the same code and the "every game has a unique code" was a bluff) it was annoying that my brother completed the game a week prior to me also completing it.

Not sure about those last two games in particular! My favourite game I thought might be on this list was Crazy Cars 3/Lamborghini American Challenge.

Loved XJ220, built a track based on my local area

Great video, subbed. My favorite outrun was Battle Out Run on sega mastersystem. Lotus III of course also great on dos on pc.

Top Gear had an Amiga release too, though that was more Lotus 4. But has anyone ever tried to make a good version of OutRun on the Amiga?

Lovely selection there! I preferred Crazy Cars 2 on the ZX Spectrum though! :)

I love D4XX's remixes of the Lotus soundtracks so much!

Moonshine Racers looks like it's the most interesting, since the Lotus series obviously defines the racing genre on the Amiga. Thanks for the video!

I do live in hope Sarah Jane Avory will return to the something similar to her XJ220 title and produce another amiga sprite racer. Between the Lotus and Jaguar games, they pretty much became the definitive racers for the platform and few could be bothered to beat them. They helped eased the pain of the official outrun conversion somehow even less fun than the c64 port.

I'm sure these are not relevant to the topic but there were also 4x4 Offroad Racing (played it on a PC and an Amiga) and Harley Davidson Road To Sturgis, to name a few from the top of my head. Anyways, lovely video and it was so nice to feature a Polish game (that was... not so good :) )

The Amiga Outrun looks like Peter Griffin is driving

I played Lotus 3 on PC (as well as CC3). Man, I loved that game!

Hang on...gouldfish? From UG/RW?? My word the algorithm works wonders it does. Great video!

My favorite racing games on the Amiga was Lotus 3 and Lamborghini challenge.

I think you should take a look at Crazy Cars II... while it didn't have too many different objects in the graphics, it did away with the silly stuff on the roadside. Instead you now can change the road you're on much like in Outrun, but on a bigger scale, open-world-ish. You had a map based on 4 actual US states replicating their main highways, and you played multiple stages, in each of which you had to race to a different city and find your way there on the map. Unlike in Outrun, however, the different track sections weren't much different from each other regarding roadside objects or even colors, they only differed a bit if you got to another of the 4 states. In total, I think there were close to 100 track sections you could enter.

Great Video, have to tried CannonBall Outrun on your AMiga1200 ??

The soundtrack for XJ220 is second only to Turrican 2 on the Amiga platform IMO!

I remember Pro Drive but can't recall if it was on my Sega Megaadrive or Amiga

Nothing beats Lotus. From a 48 year old who still remembers the excitement of when it was first released

as much as Lotus II is an advancement tech wise, the change to checkpoints made for a lesser game. Lotus II is a game I see praised a lot but of the people I've asked, they haven't actually finished the game so I'm not sure what they're championing exactly. Generally most people got to the fog stage. I do like the game but it's hardly a surprise Lotus III went back to including laps again given there would have been plenty moaning of this aspect. Lotus II is a decent game though but the change alienated a number of fans. Thankfully we got to choose how we played with Lotus III

I love lotus 2 on my a500, amazing for its day. My favourite racer was test drive 2, the duel though

Crazy Cars 3 + Lamborghini American Challenge is the ones to play from that series :)

I used to think the weather effects in XJ220 were so cool

Greetings from Poland :)

One of my favourite games (Arcade), but this looks like Peter and Chris griffin (Family Guy) in the car.

I took personally the Outrun failure and when i seen Fedepede04 fixing the ST version, wanted someone to fix the amiga OCS/ECS version too! Any volunteer coder?

I never had an Amiga, nor a PC for most of the 90s. Lotus is blowing my mind with how much its like Top Gear on the SNES. I never realized they had the same people behind them.

Friend of mine had Crazy Cars. Oh how we laughed at the awful backgrounds while trying not to puke. Thanks to the backgrounds I never really gave it a chance. Loved Jaguar XJ220 and Lotus 2 though...

Those Lotus engineers look like they are enjoying "themselves".

U left out Mille Miglia and the very last racing game on the Amiga, Prime Mover from Psygnosys. This last one is the most technically advanced one, too. If u finish Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge on Easy, Mid and Hard AND u finish all their levels 1st, u get a phone number. I never called it, tho. I was afraid UFOs would kidnap me to be their Last Starfighter.

Great!

They really did mess up the 16-bit ports of Outrun didn't they? I wonder if an A1200 could do a near arcade perfect version. I guess lack of sprite scaling is an issue although that could be got around by having a lot of memory and having pre-scaled versions of objects in memory

I was a Megadrive owner back in the day, and I only fairly recently became aware of the Lotus games on the Amiga when I myself was putting together a big retrospective video all about Outrun and it's different ports and sequels. Lotus Turbo 2 really is an incredible looking game, Gremlin really did an amazing job of capturing the look and speed of an actual arcade game, something I think most of the other racers on this list are lacking. Crazy Cars looks like a load of graphical vomit, and the weird jerky road in Moonshine Racers was making my stomach feel a bit weird. I think, if I'm not mistaken, a lot of the Gremlin guys went on to form Sumo Digital. I wonder if any of the Lotus gang were involved with Outrun 2 on the Xbox...?

crazy cars 3 is the best amiga racing game along with super hang on.Which is still amazeing considering the hardware they had to deal with at the time.Kudos to stunt car racer and indy 500.Awesome Amiga raceing games,only in my opinion

My favorite racing game on the amiga was Chase H.Q.

So the one really good Sega arcade racer port to the Amiga was left off this list: Super Hang-On, which was legit good.

I just played Stunt car racer all the time!

Yea, for every diabolical recommendation occasionally the algorithm isn't useless.

Back in the day Crazy cars was considered utter trash which was why Crazy cars 2 was such a surprise, and was a massive hit. Getting chased by the police made it stand out.

This lotus esprit turbo challenge ost is kinda familiar

Who would tought that a bad Outrun port could result in some amazing other racing games who flollowed the same original style?

I sort of remember that the word 'peasoup' or something, was a cheat code on one of the lotus elan games? ✌🏼🌍

Some winners, some… let’s go with “runners up.” Outrun on the Amiga was such a disappointment but the Lotus trilogy went a long way to making up for that & 3 is a gem. Moonshine Racers really tried to do something different but it just doesn’t quite work with the tracks/gameplay being fiddly. Rajd Przez Polskę is a fascinating cultural artefact as it shows you the cars young Pol’s wanted in a post communism Poland. Fun list, thanks. I have Outrun for the Spectrum, which came with a cassette of the arcade soundtrack you were supposed to play on your stereo whilst playing. 😄

Really through Poland is just the best game ever, fantastic graphics and gameplay. I've never heard of it.

No Crazy Cars 3? I mean, after playing the first one I can understand you skipping it, but that was the best by a really long way (for one player anyway.)

They should have just released a decent version of Outrun. Although Lotus is great it gets a lot of its speed from just having the one car type

Lotus for the win!

Crazy cars 3 was an awesome game.

What a nice channel... I think I will subscribe if that is okay. 😊

I think when I was 10 I just sat there and spent 3 hours racing on Crazy Cars. I finished it but boy was it a slog.

And thats why I didn't play driving games back then

yeah fun thing about that game XD I have been there from the beginning, not a single one of the OUTRUN games have been good! not even the slightest! :p

Not sure how you are able to mess up the aspect ratio of the game....

I played the shit out of the Lotus games 💪🏻

Couldn’t be England, not enough potholes in the road.

I never thought outrun was something special even for 80s. Maybe because i missed it that time, but today when i tried some games of 80s i very liked Test Drive, Corvette etc which were revolutionary while outrun is extremely boring with just chasing nothing. And still i found no better racing all (2D 3-person view) than Top Gear 2 for Sega MD.

you forgot Top Gear 2

Those are not outrun clones, they lack racing against clock feature, probably only Lotus series fits. But than list would be very short ;) I would add Outrun Europa, at least parts when You drive on road, not on water and Black Viper since time is important factor during levels there (but also constant combat and shooting). It is hard to create good racing game and even harder to replicate OutRun experience.

There's only lotus.

Doom 2 came out before that polish game :DD

I've always found racing games that use a joystick not very fun to play. A mouse or dedicated steering wheel is best, but not all of them support them.

Good movie, but whre is very good game Lamborghini aka Crazy Cars 3? What about Crazy Cars 2 and Top Gear 2 and Turbo out Run? These games were'nt good but...

Roadblasters !!??

Man that moonshine game is such wasted potential I mean you could have done so much moonshine mini game which gets you better lot better driving locations hiding from the smokie moonshiners so much wasted potential

crazy cars was poor (though i do remember getting excited by the engine noise on the more powerful cars), crazy cars 2 was awful, so dull (but sexy box art which is why I bought it).... but crazy cars 3 / Lamborghini challenge was incredible.... btw Outrun is currently getting an AGA remake. Not sure when it will be out.

Don't know why you had trouble finding titles there are loads of outrun clones as mentioned in these comments. Another one that no one has mentioned yet is Lamborghini American Challenge.

I still have OUT RUN for my Commodore 64 as a tape version + the original Arcade soundtrack 🎶🎵 on the other tape 😺👍🕹️. I believe, i also still have the Amiga version of that game, too 😺👍🕹️. I have played JAGUAR XJ220 on my friend's Amiga 600 back in the early 1990's 😺👍🕹️. I bought BURNING RUBBER for my Amiga 500 from a former flea market in Espoo back in 1998. Actually, it's not a bad game, but it is hard and frustrating 😹. CRAZY CARS is the first car racing game, i have ever played on the Amiga 500. Actually, it came as one the three games in STARTER KIT. Me and older brother got it for christmas 🎁🎄🎅 back in the late 1980's 😺👍🕹️. Now, i still have that game for my Commodore 64 as one of The Hit Squad game tapes 😹👍🕹️. CRAZY CARS II was a bad sequel. I had it with a compilation called SUPER SIM PACK. CRAZY CARS III is the best of the series. CHASE H.Q. is a brilliant arcade conversion for the Commodore 64 and Amiga 😺👍🕹️. CHASE H.Q. II is fun to play on the Amiga 😺👍🕹️. STUNT CAR RACER is a legendary classic game. It is so brilliant, it made me play it everyday on my Amiga 500 😹😺👍🕹️. And finally, LOTUS I-III is... the... BEST 😺👍🕹️! Thank you, and a big retrospective like 👍🕹️ from Vantaa, Finland 🇫🇮.

Chase HQ

That Polish game has that weird C64 racer perspective of the road, that made all C64 racers suck (cause either they had that weird perspective to move fast, or they had a normal perspective and ran like crap)...

The release of Out Run on the Amiga was very disappointing. In that genre I thought the 1988 port of SEGA Super Hang-On, despite being motorbikes, was far superior. As in I actually played and enjoyed it, unlike Out Run. It was close to the arcade original, while OR was like a ZX-81 port.

Lotus 2 was, to me, the pinnicle of Amiga games. And that music.... Who needed Outrun!

lotus 1 only and chase hq

10:02 Lotus Trilogy the bottom right guy looks like hes playing the wrong type of game and the guy on the left is having way to much fun with is own game…

Good lord. I've not seen the Amiga port of Outrun before. I swear that it is a worse framerate than the Master System version. And that overdone title screen.....WHAT DID THEY DO TO MAH BOY!?!

Where is crazy cars III ? Which is the best and fastest racing game on Amiga, hmmm ? :D

That Rally Across Poland game looks pretty bad. Driving a rather boring car. The car seems to float on the track as it steers left and right. And whats really killing it for me, how the road turns off screen so that theres mostly just green on screen instead of road. Feels like the "camera" should be shifted to one side more to keep the vanishing point close to the center of the screen.

Real men already played PC VGA (even CD-ROM) games in the early 1990s, not kids' toy home computer games. The racing games I played at the time were like from a different planet compared to these 80s style Amiga games. Such as Indycar Racing, Formula 1 Grand Prix or Stunts.