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I was the lead designer on Midtown. Fun to look at it again :)

I played this for hours and hours, just exploring. Trying to find every building that you could get into.

Who else was driving the bus around acting like a bus driver

Swimming with the fishes ;). people who played this will know

i played this game for years... no wait... i played the demo for years...

Who tried to run over a pedestrian and never succeeded 😂

This game was my life when I was younger I literally played the shit out of it I would pretend to be a bus driver or cop sometimes following traffic rules or else jumping draw bridges like a nut. Nothing felt better then unlocking that GTR1.

"Sleeping with the fishes"

Childhood memories... Midtown Madness was (and still is) the bomb. Thanks for the review.

I remember playing this on my dad's Win98 PC in like 2003.

My brother realized early on that because cars in this game were so delicate, he could just use a city bus for the checkpoint races, take some shortcuts and position the bus across the course in just the right way so that the other drivers would just crash right into his bus at high speed. Once all of the computer drivers had wrecked their cars to the point of not working anymore, he would then finish the race at his own pace in the bus. Also, because the number of points you got depended on how fast your car was in comparison to the others, he got maximum points for doing this.

That mannual Transmission with dashboard cam was gem!💎

First game I've ever played. The memories....

I remember playing this when I was like five and six and seven and being in awe at how cool the crashes were. Especially because I live in Chicago and my dad worked for 93.1 xrt the radio station, and knew Marty lenertz (the narrator) I got to meet him numerous times and remember talking about the game with him. I lost it when I was seven and I was heartbroken, and it gradually went into the back of my mind. Nine years later, I saw it on Wikipedia and it all came back. I bought another copy and was hooked all over again. Unfortunately I was too young to appreciate the multiplayer when it was still up and running, and now I think im gonna go and add some mods to it. It's great to hear that the game had such a following and still kind of does. One of the defining racing games leading into the new millennium. Btw I live your references and understanding of Chicago. I lived there for most of my life (in the suburbs now) and was able to relate to everything you said. The Da bears and the cubs works series joke had me laughing really hard

lol I love the Cubs world series joke, but now they won XD

This was my first PC game, and my favorite car was the Cadillac Eldorado.

My time as a kid with this game lasted for hours upon hours. My dad back then was incredibly strict, and the only way I was allowed to play was in the Cruise mode, obeying traffic laws and such, not being allowed to do the races figuring I'd grow up to be a reckless maniac. I felt so cheeky when he wasn't around and I could play however I wanted.

once again, thanks for reviewing these games. so much nostalgia! :D

Man that is nostalgic... I grew up playing this game along with Beetle Crazy Cup were the first 2 racing games I played on my PC and both are blast to play

The game looks really good, honestly. We have the fake 8 bit sprite based games, why isn't there a genre for 3D games that look straight out of the late '90s/early 2000s?

Like, the only 3D game that worked on my computer at the time!

This game was like GTA, just focused 100% on driving! Such a fun game!

Chicago people had the ability to super dive or stick to walls ,to avoid collision.

The graphics were way to advanced for it's time. Got to play it first around 2003 and it still blew me away

This game started a lifelong love affair with Chicago. Took the train there in 2006 to go to Lollapalooza and it was amazing to finally visit some of the places I had crashed a city bus into

The open world premise blew me away. I cruised around for hours exploring the city. I loved how you can change the weather and time as well.

holy crap, this game was like, half of my childhood. totally forgot about it until I saw this video in my feed.

Would love to see a Midtown Madness 2 review! This was great

This made me miss 90s games and my childhood :(

This was the first open-world 3D car game I ever played. A friend of mine had it, and when he showed it to me, I went crazy about it, and played it all night at his house. I feel kinda bad about taking over his computer for hours now... but the game was so cool at the time, I couldn't help it!

I can't tell you how wonderfully nostalgic it was to revisit this in the form of a quite extensive review. Thank you.

thanks a lot for the video, there was this childhood friend i used to have and i completely forgot about him but know i remembered him again because i once played this game at his place.

Such a nostalgia trip! Spent many many hours with this game back in the day.

I remember having this and Midtown Madness 2 for my old custom desktop back in the day, Used to select the city bus in cruise mode & plop a James Taylor LP on my record player, driving around, pretending to pick up passengers.. Man I was a weird kid. (Nothing's changed!) Thanks LGR for your awesome uploads. Every one is a gem !

I love your knowledge of Chicago in this review!

This was always a great game. I have it still. It's a nostalgic game to me.

Great review. Yes, I remenber this old Microsoft classic. This game is still a blast.

A video of cool installation screens NOW!

What a very eloquent and beautifully concise review, I enjoyed the words coming out of your mouth my friend.

First ever game I played on a Computer...looking back this is wild and epic in many ways I can't explain

Reminds me of Midnight Club 2.

So after the cubbies won the series did the physics get better?

I still remember having a Midtown Madness demo and playing on the small part of the map for months. Then after a year or so I got the full game and it was... amazing. Great memories. Thanks for the review!

I remember playing this game back in 2005. It was the Atari re-release, though. I've always had trouble with some of the complicated races, but this game was/is still fun to play.

Is it just me that's weird, or does anybody else here like to spend time just playing older games like it was the 90's (or whatever year) again? For example, I sometimes decide that I want to spend the week only playing video or computer games from a specific year.

Omg I used to play this game all the time. Thanks for bringing me back to my childhood!

Now that is a great review Mr. LGR. I love this channel. Have a great Day/Night

i remember whenever i crashed into the canal.... the game tells me "no time to drive with the fish"... and at the time i was around 8 years and this thing cracked me up so badly that i loved falling in the canal again and again.... and the pedastrians had one single dialogue to yell at you if you tried to run them over - "what are you doing".... it was so fun to play XD

Fantastic review LGR, this was one of my favourite games too. This game definately got me into the Midtown Madnes series. You must of done a really great job to get most of the vehicles including the Panoz GT and Freightliner. May I ask how you recorded most of the content for this? I tried with Fraps, but the sound is mute. thanks =3

This game popped into my head today, and this is the first video I clicked 🍻 lets gooooooo memories

Reminds me of my love for in-game environment. Thanks for sharing. I remember this has option to adjust the weather settings which was so cool and amazing.

As someone who lives in Chicago, this is killer. Thanks for covering this.

Graphics are so nostalgic back when I was 4 I used to play a arcade style monster truck game on pc and a normal racing game I never tried to win races I prefer to crash the cars more

This is so beautifully GTA lookalike!! I remember playing this game only to do top speed tests with the Panoz Roadster!

Thanks for reminding me of my childhood. I was so addicted to this game back then.

dude!!! thanks for the memories. i remember my father buying an acer laptop (400 mhz celeron, 64 mb of ram, 2mb of vram, and 20gb hdd. this game was pre installed! i loved it. :) you are brilliant!

Used to play it on Intel celeron 256mb ram. Xp windows. No gfx. Can't play on i3-6th gen, 8gb ram, 2gb graphics (game lags) WTF!

Man, this was my childhood

Midtown madness 3 was my childhood always been meaning to go back and play it and the ones like this before!

This was my first game ever, nostalgia hit hard. Thank you for this review, new Sub.

Man... my first game. I remember when my dad came back home one day with this on disk after he let me play the demo on his computer. This game was (and still is) so cool! In fact, to this day I still have it installed on my everyday PC :)

I got the game on a very gray CD-Rom. I also played it on a very gray computer (wasn't set up for color) with no sound (wasn't set up for audio). It was like silent theater racing.

My city born and raised. One of my favorite KZfaqrs talking about my favorite city.

Great review! You have earned a sub! I'm waiting for a Midtown Madness 2 review.

The day my dad bought pc and had this installed I was so crazy abt this game reminds me of my childhood

Please make a video on creative installers! :D Great video, dude!

My friend got Midtown Madness back in the day, and I loved it so much that I used to go over to his house after school just to play it since barely anyone had a computer at the time. I played it for 2 days straight the first time I tried it.

It was my first game, u brought me to my old days. Thanx give it up

MY CHILDHOOD.. AAAAHHHHH

this game looks so gorgeous back then...

I subscribed simply because I was smiling through the whole video. Oh man, those times.

I found a copy of this game here in India in early 2000s. Having a PC or newer games was very rare here back then. I didn't know anything about Chicago (or America) but got hooked instantly and played it all the way until late 2005. Still one of the fondest memories of any racing game I have ever played.

Only game in which peds escape every time when you try to run over.

my cousin and I would play this at my grandpa's house and fall out of our chairs laughing at the crashes we would get into.

Taking the opportunity and the space to thank not only LGR for reviewing a game which made my childhood, but the creator of the Archipelago Mod too. Boy, that was a heck of a add-on to the main MM1 game, a beautiful and well worked new map, even for today's standards. I remember countless hours browsing and downloading stuff from MM2 Extreme.

6:18 You had me there. Precious Memories.. always

I can still hear "what are you doing!?!?"

I had Midtown Madness 2 when I was a lot younger, I think it was the first video game I had played, and I played it a lot. It did annoy me how there was basically nothing at the end of the Golden Gate Bridge though :P

so much memories are there in this game. This is my first game which i played for the first time when i was just 4 years old. So nostalgic😢😢

Literally my first PC game on my first PC that my parents bought in 2000 may be. I got goosbumps when I saw the title cuz it reminded me of my childhood. Time flies fast

And don't forget Rockstar San Diego was a co-developer on a little game called Red Dead Redemption. In fact, looking at the gameplay here, it looks like Rockstar San Diego worked on the driving mechanics in the GTA series.

That Cubs World Series joke though.

Ahhh...the memories...got this for Christmas '99, best Christmas ever ! Played this on a P200 MMX + 4MB Diamond Monster 3D. Ran pretty good on reduced details. In my opinion, this is still the best game of the series. Great review, Clint ! Never made it to the Panoz race car, but your video really gets me in the mood to try again :)

I want to stop watching your vids but you keep pulling me back in. Keep pulling. :)

Please do a video on creative installers!! I love those!

Any plans for a video of "Speed Busters"? its been staring at me in a couple of your videos haha.

a really nostalgic game for me, great video!

MAN does this bring back nostalgia.

This is one of those games that should be redone on a modern game engine and modern hardware in mind. If they ever get around to it, they should expand it to cover a bit of the 'burbs as well.

Member Midtown Madness? Yeah! I member!

I still love this game and suddenly the title popped up in my mind, Happy to see a review of this game in 2014 and what a great review haha! :) And you've got a original great disc in your hands that's great!

My first pc game on my Windows XP, back in 2008 i was just 8 years old then, pc games and NES were my childhood.

"Voodoo 3 AGP" - Oh, those were the days. I still have to build a PC for my old 3500 TV though :)

it was my generation game cause i was born in 1991 so obviously i played it obviously i liked it and obviously i miss it... thanks for the video... :)

Wow so many of your reviews are games I played the shit out of. Love it!

Man, this brings back memories I had a serial steering wheel and pedals on my windows millennium Compaq Presario that I played this on for years I hadn't thought about this in years thank you for bringing back good memories LGR.

Next LGR: Motocross Madness or Monster Truck Madness. Please. :D

I freaking loved that game, played mostly for police chases. Guess what, I was stuck with the demo.. I never knew about the cop n robber mode and most cars

I remember fanging around the city in the A Team van. Good times