Another note about the 2003 Hot Wheels: World Race game: it still has an active speedrunning scene to this day, which is absolutely worth investigating if you're interested in seeing just how utterly broken it can get. There was also a GBA version which more closely resembled the original Mario Kart than its console / PC version.

A moment of silence for the card tower and watermelons. They truly were a set of monuments ahead of their time

First hotwheels game I played was Stunt Track Driver… I was in elementary, and we had competitions to see who was the best. That was a lifetime ago.

Hotwheels Velocity X was such an amazing game and so ahead of its time. Had open world exploring with hidden keys and gears, races, minigames, and freaking lore. That game made my entire childhood. Wish that game got more attention.

Do a shot every time you hear “funny flips”.

can we have more of your random hyperfixations turned into videos, this was great

Oh wow i remember playing "Hotwheels: Beat That!" on PS2 with my cousin when i was a little wee boy, good times 😌

Velocity X on the PS2 was my childhood. Unlocking the hidden cheats and driving around doing whatever I wanted on it really amused me as a kid. Undoubtedly my favourite HW game of all time, and I think it deserved more attention

Planet HotWheels takes me back. I remember there was a chat room feature when World Race came out; the other races you could play... There was a mini-game I was obsessed with too; the one where you were playing as a shark trying to eat other creatures and defeat a different shark... ugh, those really were the days.

This is hitting me right in the nostalgia. I grew up with Turbo Racing, Hotwheels Crash, and the Stunt Track Driver games

There was actually effort and research put behind this video. Splendid, you have earned my like mr polygun doggonut

I adore Hot Wheels Unleashed, I bought a copy for my Switch, and because of it, I started collecting Hot Wheels. I now have nearly 200 in my collection.

This is a certified polygon donut classic 🥺🥺🥺

0:49 holy shit you just unlocked a childhood memory, I MUST DOWNLOAD NOW

Surprised you didn't mention the Hot Wheels crossover stuff in the Forza Horizon series. FH is already an open world racing game with a track creator/editor and an insane amount of vehicle customization. A few popular Hot Wheels cars like the Boneshaker and Twin Mill have appeared in the games as fully customisable cars, and FH3 and 5 both have fully Hot Wheels themed DLC expansions.

Seeing people talking about their passion, why does that feel so good

Seeing hot wheels planet was like a nostalgia knife stabbing you right in the heart, knowing you can't ever get it back.

I remember playing some of the hot wheels flash games on their website, some that I remember and that you didn't show in this video are: A game based on the wall crawlers cars that had you moving things in the enviroment to get the car to the exit. It was only 3 levels long and had 4 different cars to choose from. They made a sequel to this one and I couldn't get far in that one. A game were you drive on a road on a cliff to gain speed and dodge obstacles to get to a stadium guarded by a robotic t-rex. You played as a monster truck and it was similar to the sled racing in Club Penguin. A game based on the hot wheels netflix show. You played as the kid in the yellow car and you chase down a giant bird on a beach.

Unleashed is an amazing, just unfortunately held back a bit by the atrocious monetization. Also, shoutout to the plug and play, had that as a kid and it was just simply fun. I had probably played some others and avoided the mobile games, but those two came to mind the most for me.

I had World Race and Stunt Track Challenge for PS2. For some reason I was thinking I only had one Hot Wheels game growing up, but I recognized both of the covers while browsing IGCD a while back, and now watching this I recognize the gameplay from both games as well.

this video unlocked the long lost memory of playing games from cereal boxes with my sister... i think we managed to collect the whole hot wheels series but no idea where it might be now thanks for the nostalgia donut

I remember playing these cereal box games back then. I had two: Baja and Street drift. They were a bit scuffed but overall fun to play. Since then I unfortunately lost both discs :(

I remember playing these games as a kid they were so fun, especially the flash games. You didn’t mention it in the video but they did release a version of Hot Wheels: Stunt Track Driver on Game Boy Color. I played that clunky game boy game so much as a kid.

If i remember correctly, i actually played Turbo Racing, Velocity X, Stunt Track Challenge, Beat That, Track Attack and World's Best Driver. Beat That is probably the first one i played, and i was only just a kid. Nostalgia intensifies. Issue is, all of the games were either downloaded online or emulated, which is why i played Velocity X and Stunt Track Challenge only last year.

I remember playing planet hot wheels as a kid every morning before school. Suddenly it just vanished and I never knew why. There’s other HW games in your video i played in the early 2000’s. Thanks for this great video.

I am a proud owner of a DvD that is: MotoX (if I find the DVD I could provide a video). I was a bit young to understand what the heck was going on, but despite that I had a lot of fun playing it. If I remember correctly, this is what the game had to offer: 1-3 available maps, (I always played on some sort of sand map so I'm not sure) Some customization to the bikes, And a cool promotional car. Despite being stale, it was a good time waster and had an actually pretty cool car. Considering the fact that it came from a cereal box, you get what you paid for.

bro, hotwheels games bring me back to the good days of internet culture

THANK YOU for talking about Hot Wheels Racing Circuit. I have seen way too many videos of hot wheels video games that just skip over hwrc like it doesn’t exist, it doesn’t even have a Wikipedia article. I remember having a blast with the game when I was younger, so thanks for mentioning it here. Btw: The guy who asked the question at 10:55 has a working offline version of hwrc with a download on their channel. You can’t change tracks, and in order to change cars you have to mess with the games files but you can play it!

It's actually so weird to hear "They are so rare" and owning all three of them but not being able to play the cereal games because they REFUSE to start up at all.

I was devastated by the loss of Planet Hotwheels. That was my life for what seemed like years of my early life. I’ll never forget the “Planet Hotwheels Under Construction” sign in the summer of 2004 when I tried to show my family. So disappointing. I’d like to know how to get access to the mini games and the tracks from planet hot wheels, how can I find them?

Hot wheels Velocity X was my childhood obsession. So many good memories trying to find all the gears on each level to unlock cars.

I’ve NEVER played a hot wheels game. When I was a kid, my mom thought hot wheels wasn’t for me. In which, I wish I could have gotten a hot wheels track. They look really fun! Also the only Hot Wheels game I DID play was a arcade one at Amazing Jakes. This was a interesting document on Hot Wheels, and tbh one of the best I’ve seen. I didn’t get bored in the middle of it.

3:51 "The first game only had 12 cars but this one has 13!" I'll take that as improvement

Just a quick note on the Planet Hotwheels World Race track. The under water portion is actually from one of the pack in comics that came with the cars, specifically it details how the team learders got to pick their teammates

10:11 funny enough, you can actually use it as a gamepad while emulating other games. Many fond memories playing Sonic Adventure with it

I really like how you still remember Highway 35, old kids from 2000s forgot about them.. hope Mattel brings this series back

I'll admit it, Hot Wheels: The World's Best Driver (the 3DS version specifically) is my guilty pleasure. I loved to drive around the hubworld as it expanded, mainly due to the features that unlock. Plus racing as each of the different cars, seeing how each fared on the sections of the hubworld made me play the game normally just to unlock the hubworld features, and then just play around for hours, paying no attention to the actual missions, or challenges. Plus, I actually liked the voice lines after getting used to them.

I grew up playing the PS2 Hot Wheels games, it’s what grew my love for cars and now I’m in college for game design! I’d love to work on a Beat That: 2! at some point

Ok hold up…THERE WAS A WORLD RACE MULTIPLAYER GAME!?!? How am I just now learning about this!? It looks like the game I’ve always wanted! One that was more closely based on the actual movie. I gotta find out more about this! Dude, mad props on your research!! Seriously 👍

For years I have been trying to remember that one singular Hotwheels game I played as a child, I just could not remember it, I only remembered part of a song and the car I used. It just so happens that in this video you complemented the soundtrack of one specific game, and when looking for it, wouldn't you know it, it was the one I remembered. Thank you for making this video :')

6:21 OH NAW PONGON DUNT HAS DEM SWAG GLOVES 😭😭😭

12:44 I used to play that game so much

God why do I always miss out on the greatest stuff, I never knew there were hotwheel games

Loved this video! I got pretty hyped when you mentioned the Fat Bax appearance because those silly cars were what got me into HW when I was 9. But just a brief correction: The Fat Bax were unpopular, but they are by no means rare. Last time I checked, you can easily buy all the cars for relatively cheap. Heck, the Fat Bax Silhouette you showed in the video is selling for $3.00 on ebay right now. It's not so much that they are rare, it's just that nobody wants them... except me!!! Why not, some context: In 2004, HW went a bit nuts, releasing all sorts of crazy cars (such as the Hardnoze, Blings, Tooned, and more) in a great number. Never before had a company released 100 new models in a single year. However, this discouraged a lot of the more "serious" collectors. They knew why Mattel was doing this. They needed to cater to a new generation being raised by Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon. Whacky and Xtreme were in, and if you didn't sell that, you were out. So, for the OG collectors, it was like "Really? Now I have to worry about spending money on over 100 cars to finish my collection? 100 unnecessary, ugly, cartoonish cars? WTF Mattel??" It worked, though. I fell in love with Hot Wheels specifically after laying my eyes on 2 Cool, a Hardnoze version of Evil Twin - I thought it was just the coolest thing ever. Started collecting since then. Glad to see other fans making content!

I may be late, but this brings back a ton of nostalgia. When I wasn't in the children's hospital, I was on my dad's PC playing the Stunt Track Driver games, Micro Racers, and a ton of the flash games that existed. And in the hospital I always got as many chances as I could to play the World Race game on the Gamecube in the playrooms, and spam-watching the Highway 35 and Acceleracers movies whenever I got the chance. And then the Beat That! game and Track Attack followed suit. Ah, fun times and great memories. Thank you for bringing me back to the past again, funny flips guy!

Ocean Vista in the World Race was supposed to be a part of the movie. It was replaced by an Ice Level in the final film due to budget constraints.

I have some really good memories with the DS version of Beat That!. That version actually lacked the bowling stage, and the car selection was slightly different, almost giving the feel that the devs wanted version-exclusive cars.

I remember once playing this flash game about this one play set called “dr bones colour lab”, where you travelled around a top down environment, and the terrifying dr bones was wandering around the map trying to hunt you down. Idk what the objective was because when my 6 year old ass first saw him I closed the game and went up to my room to do something else because of how much he freaked me out.

The wave of nostalgia I was hit with when you showed the mobile game was insane. Fortunately I still have the game and will be returning to it.

Beat That on PC was my entire goddamn childhood. the nostalgia was so strong that I recently found the game and have been replaying it... god, it REALLY brings me back and is still so fun!

I remember playing World Race, Stunt Track Driver 1&2, Beat that, Track Attack, and several flash games on the website, man HotWheels was my shit back then. Also for the World Race game, some cars were licensed so they replaced them with existing HotWheels cars, while some would do well on the track like the Red Baron, and I recall the creator of world race mentioned that a water realm was considered, but the budget never was finalized so the comics and the game adapted it I think

You forgot one little small detail, Infinite Loop was also closed down.

Polygon Is trying to introduce a new whole part of the internet. i respect that

And now hot wheels unleashed 2 is being released later this year! One thing I have to mention is that World Race, Stunt track challenge and Velocity X where above their time, absolute masterpieces in my eye. First games I got ever. Will forever appreciate

Came here in hopes to find one of the first games I've ever played as a kid. Thank you! 2000's Hot Wheels Micro Racers 😁 Great video as well🤣

My favorite was Hotwheels beat that because I remember getting back from elementary school every day and just playing it and always screaming “BEAT THAT!!!” At the top of my lungs when the game loaded.

Always breaks my heart when a website dies so young in such a nostaligic time

I remember being like 8-9 years old going to a thrift store and seeing 2 in the package planet hot wheels cars, that came with the CD’s on both and one of them being the deora 2 and the other one being the “chemical energy car” and it had 4 of the hot wheels games you showed and seeing that again was a real nostalgia trip. definitely subscribed.

The Hot Wheels Battle Force 5 Game Honestly Felt Quite Interesting as It Feels Like Something That Could Be a Special Arc of The Series... There Aren't any Replacement Voice Actors... The Cutscenes Uses The Show's Animation... And You Could Do Funny Flips if You Try...

One game that I still count because it was made in the dark age, is the official HotWheels Roblox game. Its an open world with many upgradable cars and variations of each, all of them having different stats. Theres multiple biomes, and you can also race other players in designated tracks. The goal is to buy and complete sets of specific cars, with money you get as you drive and win races, and no, there are no funny flips (but I guess you can still try if you abuse the roblox physics engine enough)

Shoutout to the lostwave song that turned out to be an original composition for a Hotwheels game.

Pongon could literally make a 16 minute long video on the different types of grass and we’d all listen

wow epic hotwheels video AGAIN also... THEY COPIED SUNIC THE HEDGOHUG RINGS!111!!!!11111 6:49

8:25 I think I had this game as a really really young kid. I can’t remember much about it but I definitely remember using a similar wheel so that might’ve been the hot wheels game I had that I’ve been looking for as a now adult

Bruh at 14:19 when I saw the Audi Quattro with the initial d paint I had a stroke thinking it was an actual 86 😭😭😭

I really enjoy watching your videos they make me feel happy

I played one of the hotwheels flash games not that long ago. Its still playable, but I forgor 💀 the name of it, and flashpoint (the program I found it on) removed the racing games play list it used to have.

If I had a Dollar for every time you said “Funny Flip”, I’d buy some of these games.

Stunt track Challenge was one of the many shovel ware games I had as a kid, yet at the same time was not only one of the few games I liked enough to finish but one of the only 3 games I've ever got 100% completion in.

It's rare that I subscribe to channels, much less halfway through their first video. I knew by then I needed it all.

I loved Stunt Track Driver 1 & 2. I had a lot of fun with Velocity X. Had endless fun with Crash. I remember renting World Race once or twice but never getting very far. And my only experience with Micro Racers, Mechanix, and one Hot Wheels World (which you didn't cover), is a demo on some Planet Hotwheels disks my uncle gave me. I still have the disks, but they're completely useless.

11:26 I remember playing these, i had most of them, i still might have them laying around somewhere but a few years ago i searched for them and didnt find them :( Edit: I also didn't remember the name of the games and thought im going insane but no apparently not! (which is good i think) I searched and found 3 people selling them for cheap and i might buy and play them

9:18 i used to play this game as a kid and nearly 100%d it too but then i stopped playing it was a really good game ngl edit: i did revisit it recently and - there was no bowling alley, never was one either - the car select screen looked different - more so either i had a different version of the game or it had something to do with the fact that my mom thought that buying ds games legit was cringe

the way you say "funny flips" has a real drink-spitting quality to it.

Always knew about Hot Wheels, not an actual fan. And this vid is well made. You´re not wasting viewer time. And it was funny. Subscribed.

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You missed the "Hot wheels computer cars" series of floppy disc games that I wasted so much time playing as a kid before Turbo Racing turned my world upside down.

your fast paced format and the overall goofiness of the videos that you make makes your content beyond amazing. i would love to see you make another one of these on something like radiohead or cave story

The hotwheels battle force 5 was basically a vehicle combat game. I recently replayed it and youre darting around beating the villains of the show with its own lore. Basically the Zark, robots, team up with the vandals, the furries, and make this device which somehow combines battle zones, settings for the episodes, and throws the team around

Let's not forget Hot Wheels Rally from 1996, which released on PC with an exclusive Hot Wheels mouse shaped like a car, with working lights and rumble feature. The game doesn't have a lot documented online but this is one I owned and played as a kid. Still own it now, gotta hook up the mouse again. The game wasn't too remarkable to the likes of Stunt Track Driver or Crash that I played at the time. It was a standard rally car and monster truck driving game through dirt roads of 4 contestants. If I could record gameplay, I'd happily upload it online, as little currently exists.

2:18 wait did it use the same explosion graphic as half life 1?

We have funny flips.. So where are the *F U N K Y* flips?

I'm not sure if I just imagined it or not, but I swear to remember some hot wheels flash game from the 2000s. It was story based and you drove around a pretty dark and grim city, with more "mature" themes (mature for an ~8 year old, lol). There were actual human characters whose designs were reminiscent of those from Acceleracers. I lose sleep over this weird criminal underworld hot wheels flash game I haven't seen in over 15 years and I don't even know if it's real or not.

As someone who grew up with Hot Wheels, I can happily say that Unleashed is by far one of the best licensed Hot Wheels racing games out there. And yeah, there is NO EXCUSE for the greedy post-purchase monetization. The Expansion DLCs make sense, but the live service crap was just a stain on an otherwise fantastic arcade-style racer. Heck, some of the cars in-game, I actually have either on my wall or loose for play purposes. It was fun making the "Steam Punk" Art Cars series Rodger Dodger. I was smiling when I was driving my purple Twin Mill around. I have played the Forza Horizon 5 Hot Wheels DLC when it launched *ON MY BIRTHDAY* last year, and I was just floored. It was cool learning the history of these 1:64 scale die-cast cars. And yes, saying it right now: My favorite design is the original Twin Mill. There's no practical reason for a car to have 2 V8 engines in it, but it looks so god damn cool that I don't even care.

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I KNOW WHAT HAPPENED IN 1999 1:37

0:20 track map looks sus

Dog the hot wheels world race outro music got me so nostalgic 😁, great vid

hot wheels beat that was a big part of my childhood ugh the theme alone is such a bop!

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I had Hotwheels Turbo Racing on my ps1 and also had the Extreme Racing, which I didn't notice was a Hotwheels game up until now 😂 I'm not a fan of racing games, but those two were among the very few ones I actually liked playing!

love this video, ive always had a minor hyperfixation on beat that, this was a video i needed to see

Oh wow, that's a flashback to the past with Mechanix. I legit forgot about this game until you brought it up again. That was one of my first games ever.

fun fact from my own personal research: Racing Circuit actually uses the same engine as Planet Hot Wheels and STD 2's track builder! builds of Racing Circuit have been recovered (one from my own old childhood computer lol) and sure enough, it runs on the exact same engine and has a lot of similarities from a filesystem and structure standpoint. really goes to show that it was a successor to planet hot wheels in a way

Guys I think this donut really likes Funny Flips. Seriously though, a cool rapid-fire rundown of some rarities.

10:17 i want that game!!! im a huge fan of battle force 5!!!

I completely forgot about race off. Thank you for restoring that childhood memory