Man, from the bottom of my heart, thank you for this video. It brings so much memories, this game is my whole childhood. I used to grind it so much I finished the championship with every single car. I also used to be active in the NoGrip modding community, which at some point even developped an unofficial sequel "Rally Trophy 2", with totally redone physics, new cars and tracks,...this game got me into simracing, and into coding as well so I have to thank it for my career now ! NoGrip was also my first exposure to the Internet, and where I learnt English...this game also made me fall in love with classic cars. But these memories are also something more personal. See, I used to live at that time in a forest house, with the nearest city 15km away, My Summer Car style. My room was in the basement, by the garage. And the days in that time for me and my brother were filled with modding Rally Trophy and coding, or tinkering with electronics, bikes and stuff in the garage, then trying them in the forest. And the evenings we were reading some 60s car magazines my father got from a friend, and I dreamt about stories of the Coupe des Alpes or classic Safari Rally, listening to the radio and with a cup of hot chocolate on those basement-chilly winter days, while waiting for my x-hours download of a mod on NoGrip to end so I can try it. Those days were so carefree and out of this world tumults of the early 2000s, and I miss them so much I'm trying not to cry typing it.

Fun Fact: Bugbear got Rauno Aaltonen to do the Finnish pacenotes in this game. If that name sounds familliar to you, he was one of the most successful rally drivers of the 1960's.

I had forgotten the existence of this game. This brings back memories!

You should take a look at Rally Championship 2000, sometimes sold as Mobil 1 Rally Championship. It has full-length stages from the British Rally Championships, and a slew of FWD and early WRC cars. They also do something cool in that they let you run the stages in reverse, and then also mirrored, giving even more stage options.

I'd love to see Bugbear make another Rally game, they released a rally tournament mode in Wreckfest recently and put the Russia map from this game in Wreckfest, amazingly big, 6 minutes to get across, I might try and track down this game and give it a play it sounds super fun to play

This title shaped my life pretty much. Got it at 13 yrs old, at 15 started being obsessed with modelling stages for it and learning modelling software, in fact those stages were never finished, but it turned into life-lasting passion and job as well. Looking forward for part 2, the Finnish stages 1 and 3 are my ultimate favorite ones, the flow thru them is just bellissimo.

If you listen closely, the spectator cheering sounds at the start of stages is the same audio as heard in Gran Turismo 5's rally stages.

Oh, wow, I used to play this game quite a bit when I was around 15 or so, but it has been so long since I've heard anyone talk about it. Great to see you giving it some coverage.

It’s so strange to see Bugbear making anything other than a destruction derby game, so this was really awesome to see! Cheers, GPLaps :D

Was the first rally sim I played - I later realized the stage design was lousy, but the car models and physics were magnificent!

Btw, would LOVE to see a career mode of this game. This game looks like it would be fun for an Axelson to take a time out from competition to compete in some rally events. :D

oh yea, keep them rally sims comin'! looking forward to RBR and the likes :)

I loved playing Rally Trophy, unfortunately the first time was on the keyboard, only a few years later, when I already had the steering wheel, I came back to this game and it was a great experience. Greetings from Poland, your videos are amazing!

Dude this is one that slipped under my radar ! Gotta say I love the content on the channel , so much fun to be had in these older titles .

So many memories,especially the main menu theme will stuck in my ears for days now :D. The roads were extremly wide but once you get the hang its fun go flat out trough the fast stages

I love this game so much and i've played it my whole life. It crazy how a 21 year old game can work almost flawlessly to this day!

Love to see another vid like this! Hopefully go for the stage win! So much fun to watch.

Love your videos dude, and the effort, research and style you give to them... Keep doing what you're doing!

One of the greats and very underrated. I did a Saab 96 two stroke for it many moons ago. Great memories.

Great video! I remember playing Mobil 1 Rally Championship from this era, 99 or 00, which was also a great Rally Sim.

My first rally game was Network Q RAC Rally Championship from 1996, still got it in the box.

Can't thank you enough for putting this on, the months of my life I devoted to this game, I absolutely loved it, and modded it do death! And loved every second of it. I even think somewhere all those lost mods might even be on an old HD somewhere? The handling and feeling of speed where exciting for the time, and the selection of cars was brilliant, the Saab, Cortina, and the Fulvia where my favourites,...the Amazon was really good, but heavy. Taken in context, this game was awesome for the time, and as you have shown, still a hell of a lot of fun! 🏁👍

And yet again another great Review to enjoy!

Wow, just wow. Man, you are ticking all the sims of my youth 🥂 This brings back memories. Great game, great fun...the fact of being focused on classic rallying, just pure magic. You should review, Rally Championship Extreme. It had a white Subaru with Sunseeker sponsorship. Thank you again

Thanks for the video! It recalls the enjoyable memory 20 years ago. Lancia Fulvia was my favourite.

This was actually the first game I ever played at 3-4 years old and might be the reason I like rally in the first place! Nice to see a good review, hopefully I can find the disc to this game.

I'm more convinced that you should one day try some rallying on a livestream. As a finn I remember following the development of this game pretty closely from PC magazines and other media at the time. It was at a time when finnish game development was truly on fire, with Rally Trophy and Max Payne being some of the biggest gems.

I could have sworn that I had this game, just went through my old PC box and it wasn't there. I did find GPL and Spirit of Speed 1937! Great video, only found this channel the other day and have spent many hrs watching since.

WOW i didn't know Bugbear made another title before Flatout! I'll have to give this a a try! Thanks for this video!

Absolutely would love to see more!

This takes me back. You can't understand how many hours I played this when I was a kid. And the finnish pace notes were just a topping on the cake.

You picked a stock tier 1 car for a tier 2 championship, of course it's borderline impossible to win - Even with a works tier 1 car (win a championship in a car to unlock the works version) you'd have a really tough time winning anything on the tier above

Brings back lot of memories. More please. I'd like to see the other cars and stages

I used to play Mobil 1 Rally Championship back in early 2000s and loved it. I been thinking of finding another old school rally game to play. To add on to that that it uses only classic rally cars is icing on the cake! Im gonna search out this game ....thank you !

Big nostalgia vibes! You should try Richard burns rally as well. The modding community has done a lot over the years and we already have a pretty big catalog of old cars as well. If you're up to it try the rally sim fans plugin! ;)

Wow I never heard of this. A GPL of rallying sounds perfect!

>7:40am MY MAN ON THE GRIND

I see the intro of the game and hit like. That was so good.😍

it would be great to see you continue this in the future and maybe do other rally games as well

You touched my soul with this video.... I touched my original box copy, of the game, just now :)

I remember this! 😁 At the time, I thought I could jump straight from the Mk1 Escort in Colin McRae Rally 2.0 to the Mk1 Escort in this and be quick immediately. I was very much mistaken!

I wish we could have an updated version of this beauty. I drove many miles in the Cooper S, mainly because my first car was a '67 mini with a massive 850cc engine lol, that I blew up cos I was a noob. I miss my blue mini.

Thanks for sharing this. Would love to see you finish the championship to see how it all works out. :-)

Thank You this was a ton of fun. I Played "Dirt" and i was a blast. You do so good, I'd be restarting so many times. Love you test yourself. Arigato Senpai.

こうやってまあまあ古いゲームを紹介してくれるのはありがたい

This used to be my absolute favorite game for a long time. I haven't played it in years. I might just pick it back up!

I remember when finnish computer magazine did wheel review back in the day they used this car and asked couple of Finnish rally drivers to give their opinion of the wheel and the game.:D I think winner was Logitech Momo

Loved this game back in the day. I especially liked the "feel" of the driving. I still have my copy.

Rented this from hte library at the time. Brought it home, was decent at it, until I tried the Stratos. Went for that after a few hours. Was last seen flying off into the weeds. Fantastic game though, shame my library doesn't rent big box games any more.

Bugbear has just released a rally trophy track for wreckfest. In fact that's the reason I'm watching this video, never heard of this game before.

Used to do this and then got involved in developing cars when they allowed mods, the Austin Healey being one of them. A great game

This on gMotor as well? How many games around this time were using it!? 😅

I rallied an identical brown SAAB some years back. Good cars.

Really like this review of what looks like an awesome rally game I did have Colin McCray rally on PlayStation 2 I found it hard to do though This rally game really looks good and loved the classic rally cars in the game as well

Mobil 1 Rally Championship came out earlier, but I don't recall it having vintage cars. It was really good with some looooong stages.

That’s awesome, the only rally racing I’ve ever done was on the PlayStation the WRC which with a nice wheel it was pretty good. This looks a lot harder I’m sure. And I agree with you for the age of this game it’s held up pretty good.

My favorite pre-RBR rally games were Mobil 1 Rally Championship, Michelin Rally Masters, and Rally Trophy.

This looks good

I think the most impressive aspect of this sim was the night racing in Sweden/snow. It was like nothing else of its day and amazingly immersive.

Rally Trophy and Toca 2, my first racing games. Both great.

I just loved Saab and Volvo in this game. Kaljakoppa, never forget

Loved this game. 20 years...

In my teenage years I spend weeks and months in this game. Love it to this day. One of the best rally games ever made.

Yes, I remember the good old Rally Trophy. So much fun then, so much fun watching now.

I never knew about this game, really interesting

Wow, that background colour and the car contour really looks like CMR 2.0.

Sweet! We're in the lead!

thank god my favorite mod for this game, the fiat 131 abarth was backed up on racedepartment

Man I swear you liked all the same games as me back in the day

YEEEEEEEEEEEHA!! Wreckfest has released a Rally Trophy aniversary paranoia! Im in love!

Man, I remember playing this game quite a bit back then. I also remember that the force feedback effects of the game were absolutely horrific/ broken for my Logitech G25. Not sure if it was incompatibility (that was a state of the art wheel at that time, and came out quite a few years after this game), so wrong settings or what, but the wheel was jerking left and right. I remember I didn't use it much with that wheel, because I was afraid it was going to ruin the ffb motors/gears in it. Might will dig up this game, and see if it can be tuned or modded for modern wheels.

This game brings back memories, although I was only probably 7-8 years old when I played it and had no clue what I was doing, just enjoyed crashing the cars I guess

So thats why flatout has such a realistic feeling for such an arcade game

Glad to see there's an interior view in this game. For the longest time I assumed there wasn't. Hate that sun glare though. Really ruins it. Wish there were a "sunglasses" mod.

They used to put this game into cereal boxes in Hungary

This was and is still a fabulous game

Damn, if a "casual" review is 1h long, I don't wanna know how long a full fledged professional review is.

There was a file you can get to get gamepad (if using) might need for wheel too? to solve the bug where you couldn't map your controller. I also have a DLL file which you put in the system folder on your PC that might work too. The map configuration screen is similar to a problem I had in some other games that I can't remember. I dropped the DLL file into the system folder and solved the mapping problem. But I haven't tried that with this game but I feel it may work. Ah as I wrote this GPlaps stated about the control patch and as linked here. Well done for that.

I love that you let the into movies ride. That used to be so exciting after the long install from CD and you click on the icon for the first time. BTW, I think this game does smoke and dirt better than rF2...

I still play this game pretty often

My dad gave me this game after being included in a bundle from a Portuguese jornal at the time, my 1st racing game and my introduction to motorsport, classic one

I didn't know this game at all, but i have to say that even with your 130 bhp car, the seep sensation is amazing. In dirt rally games, I don't feel that kind of quickness on those type of car. I might have an hand on it !

Where did you get that sim?

I remember playing this as a kid. I don't know if I still have the copy of it though.

Drove the crap out of this game back in the day.

I love this game!

@3:40 I remember using the Mercedes 300 SEL AMG mod.

It's funny that you say the FFB is mostly rudimentary. I remember that back when the game came out, I was blown away by how the FFB was and how you could actually feel the car's suspension working over bumps and such :) It was *the* go-to game for great FFB for me back then :) Guess it's all relative. I should play it again I guess and see how it feels to the slightly older me ;)

I remember finding this game in 2004 in a discount bin at a GameStop. I think I paid $1.99 for it and I got many hours of enjoyment from it. There was quite a bit of downloadable content for the game back in the day.

Ha! I just found a couple of other trailers for this and posted one the other day. :)

I really like how heavy the vehicles feel in this game. in newer titles it often feels like you're driving a twitchy kleenex box (which might be an accurate description of newer cars anyway, but I digress), whereas in this game it feels more akin to driving a boat, where you use the weight of the car more than the tires to maneuver.

Nice gem from the past! I remember driving a lo of the mid pack rwd cars. The rwd volvo and the cortina were pretty fun to drive. The fastest ones were a bit too difficult to drive. Btw. your image is stretched. I'd guess the game doesn't support widescreen resolutions properly. If you look at the gauges for example they are wider than taller.

Wonderful game that I'm still playing from time to time. I even have to installs, one - original game, another - RT2 mod. Atmosphere in game is great visual and audio. Pity you've run rallys in inter difficulty. In Expert mode car is more fragile. You can damged head lights and night stage will become very interesting :) Also in Expert mode there are more stages in rallys. Final stage in Russia is one of my favorites. Fast stage along railroad with super jumps - it's a blast in Ford Escort! Also Fiat 500 Works car is great. Rear drive short wheelbase car is very fun to drive. And co-driver in Russian version of the game is hilarious too! :D

My first sim. Rally Trophy was the reason why I've got myself a wheel. I just couldn't drive anything RWD with keyboard.

This video is super topical with that new wreckfest update

An amazing game I really liked it

I loved this game

Wow I forgot about this game. I played the demo wayyyy too much with my Sidewinder Force Feedback wheel back then.

This game looks great, I wonder if it would’ve required a high end PC and graphics card in 2001. It certainly wouldn’t have run on what I had in 2001 but I would’ve had a blast playing this. One of my favorite racing games is Network Q Rally which came out a few years before this one, and had some similar features like repairing your car between stages and day/night/rain stages.

"I've always had a soft spot for cars." I can't help but laugh because my grandfather used to run a mechanic garage in Australia specialising in Swedish cars and he absolutely loathed Saabs.