This was an absolute treat. Of course it was super fun to hear my music in the video, and of course I am incredibly nostalgic for this game, but bias aside, this video was really well put together! The writing was fantastic, concise, and expressive. The commercial interludes were hilarious, and all in all, it's very clear that you put a lot of heart into this video. Much like the game itself! Absolutely fantastic work, and I'm really happy I was able to be a part of it in some way! Keep it up! The stuff you do is lovely and sure to find its audience eventually.

I loved this game as a kid, it looked like an infinite world to explore and have fun with, it's that mix of light challenges, fun missions, cute moments as well!

You summed up literally everything I love about this game, perfectly. It's such a shame that this never got the recognition it truly deserved. Thank you so much for giving this obscure gem of a game, the justice it deserves.

Spent months trying to remember what game I'd played at a friend's as a kid. Went in circles for ages looking at mid-2000s open-world racing games. Then this pops up in my recommended! You've resolved something rattling around in my head for ages, so thank you. Every shot of this video, new memories flooded back.

One of the most important games of my childhood. So many memories! Loved the smash mouth reference at 13:30

1:55 So THATS why the car physics are so crazy in this game! lol. My childhood makes so much sense now.

This brings back so many memories for me… I spent hours and hours playing this game before I was even old enough to know what I was doing!!

This video made me dig out my old PS2, order an AV to HDMi converter and a copy of the game so i can relive me childhood from over 20 years ago. This was one of the first games i ever remember playing. Thank you for this

Your review is very detailed and very thorough. Road trip (adventure) is one of my favorite games even so many years later and your video did this game justice. Great job!

Every time I see James it makes me happy, I would always swap partners out, but not James, he’s always with me from start to finish every play through. Such a wholesome game

Great review.👍🏻 This now obscure gem of a game used to be one the many aspects of my childhood. In fact it was the very first game on the PS2 that me and my sister owned together but then later on my sister just allowed me to keep it for myself.

If the cars are people, and you have the ability to change out every part, oh God oh God it's the ship of Theseus all over again

This game was a huge part of my childhood and this was such a lovely review. Loved your bottom line thoughts 😂 cause I’m definitely sentimental too

I absolutely loved this game as a kid, and Penny Racers as well. I also loved Gadget racers, which seemed like a bit of a mix between Penny Racers and Road Trip, where its open world wasn't "fully open world" as Road Trips and you definitely did more racing, but still had a similar charm. It's also like it was mixed with ideas from games like Crash Bandicoot and Jak and Daxter in the sense of new areas were locked off by big doors until you got enough of the item that was pictured on the door, along with it showing you how many you needed.

I love this game to death and have thought many times about making a video like this, glad to see some people already have and share my love for this game. This is one of the few games where I don't think I've ever met someone in real life who has also played it. I also couldn't agree more with the end, I miss the time when I could spend hours in some of these games even with no objective, just exploring and messing around in the world.

Superb review, and really reflects my experience with this game. Nostalgia is a hell of a thing! Best of luck on your youtube adventure, you've earned a new sub.

Road Trip Adventure was my first JRPG, and I loved every second of it. I still want to replay it when I get some extra time Amazing video covering all the aspects of the game that makes it such a hidden gem in the vast ocean of video games The only thing that you missed was how amazing the soundtrack is I still listen to The Minute & Sunday on the West Side by The Push Kings to this day

I played this one a lot way back when. "You ever played Road Trip Adventure?" "You mean Rogue Trip?" "No.....no I don't."

This is one of my favorite games and i really wish someone could remaster or even make a sequal!!! You did an amazing job making this video!!!

I have had this game for 18 years… EIGHTEEN YEARS… and I am STILL on my first playthrough. I’m not playing it every day, but I have consistently played it quite regularly for that entire time span. It was probably the second-most played game of my childhood, behind only Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy, and it’s still probably my second most often-played PS2 game (still, behind Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy) and yet I still have plenty of stuff to do every time I go back to it, and I’ve still never actually finished the Grand Prix and become president lol

When my brother and I got our PS2 on Christmas, it also came with like... A HUNDRED GAMES. (They were all burnt discs... but my brother and I weren't old enough to understand that at the time. As we got older, a lot of the games would start to just crash lol.) It was like the best Christmas ever, and this game was one of the games we got. Just a translucent case and a blank disc with "Road Trip" written on it with a marker. We booted it up with our uncle (who bought us an ACTUAL copy of DBZ: Budokai because he was such a fan of the show) and we were trying to do that first race over and over with the shitty starting equipment and our uncle even struggled and was like "Is this a shitty racing game or something? We can't turn or break or do anything!" But then we finally drive around town and start getting gear, and racing over and over, and then we went to save and... We were never bought a memory card! That PS2 must have been on for like a week straight because we kept it on until we had a memory card, which meant that we couldn't even change games during that time (which doubly sucked because that meant my brother and I were forced to taking turns in a single-player game with our brand new PS2 lol) But I get what you mean when you say that it didn't take long to beat, and that things are easily skippable as an adult. It took us FOREVER to fully 100% the game, even just the races. We explored. I installed an emulator the other day just to get this game (and Budokai too, coincidentally,) and it only took me like 3 days to become President. I haven't done all the side stuff yet but I did a good chunk as I explored. I just remember asking myself "Weren't there big wheels in this game? I remember having big wheels but no shop has them!" Now I know to go talk to the coin guy lol. But yeah. I like your flowery language. This game meant a lot, and it's okay to speak of video games like that, at least, this one. The idea that maybe like 200 guys in a studio somewhere in Japan made a game that was successful enough to be converted to english speaking American audiences, and was just the right amount of challenge and love for the target audience of a child like me at the time. So never be ashamed to describe your love for something! Also, HUGE NOTE: Apparently the American version of the game doesn't have the same soundtrack as the Japanese version, and it stole music from some guy called 'Walthius.' KZfaq doesn't let me link anything but there are threads on the Road Trip subreddit that have links to this.

Brilliant video mate, loved the references. Being a Welshman, I am proud to be a Woolly Jumper 😂

Absolutely loved this game! Youre review of it is amazing and spot on encapsulates how it feels to play through as an adult and complete it so quick, where as a kid i never finished any of the Choro Q games. Still always keep my eye out for something more modern to scratch the itch of a CaRPG like this one. Was hoping Circuit Superstars were going to bring outan open world version of their game with their adt style being similiar but modernised to Choro but i am still holding my breath for it. Great video anyways! Love it 👍

I looooved that game and I'm always happy to play again or watch videos. The atmosphere is so chill

this game was so ahead of its time man. and i astound myself that when i was a kid i figured things out that i had to google replaying as an adult. and the car football mode made me look for others, which lead me to Supersonic acrobatic rocket powered battle cars, and then to rocket league. I dont think there has ever been a game i enjoyed more

I'm so glad this got re-released for the PS3. It's still up too on the PS3 store, if I recall correctly.

I really enjoyed this blast to the past. I remember my mom bought me for this when I was 5 (2004) and i just enjoyed driving around, getting better parts and doing all the stamps. Not knowing there was an actual objective to the game. Thanks for the nostalgia!

Wow! I never knew there was so much in this game. Love the adverts😄How do I become a woolly jumper please?🐑🐑🐑🐑

I like it how you didn't spoil what happens if you 100% this game like someone nowdays would have the chance to pick up this game and play. Jokes aside, I think this is the game of all games that deserves a remaster or better even a remake or a sequel. I never liked open world Need For Speed or Burnout games for trying to be a realistic world but only cars driving around. I have really fond memories of completing this game on numerous times. Me and my cousin also developed a duplication glitch of a rare item, using two memory cards with different player profiles on both of them. Alhough the empty roads between cities was a little sad indeed. Wish there were some cars laping around the map to meet and greet on the way.

This game is pure art. It was, and remains, my GOAT game. I know it’s old, outdated, with tinny audio and several bugs, but I goddamn love it even now. If there was suddenly a £60 Remaster released for the PC, I would happily buy it again. I loved it, and I still love it. Even if, by today’s standards, it now hurts my eyes to watch.

Me and my childhood friend played the shit out of this, even back when we didn’t speak a word of english. Such a gem! Great video, mate!

I play this game every year or so because of nostalgia, and this video is the way I feel about it, there is nothing like it!!

Used to love the e-radio music as a kid.

Hol up. Did you speak welsh for a sec in that white mountain ad. Caught me of guard there XD

I was shocked to see a video on a game I love done so well done, I was even more shocked to hear the words ''Croeso'' as a Welshman myself

this reminds me of the movie cars, player one, and mario cart all in one . well said! great video, and you couldn't have said it better... put a tear to my eye remembering the time spent getting lost in the world of cars .... thank you ...

nice video. i hope you also eventually cover hg3(gadget racers) and hg3(choro-q)

FINALLY FOUND IT!!!! I remember this game just forgot the title of it because i used to play it when i was 7 years old

Was just a lil kid when i got my hands into this game....didnt know what it was...i didnt even do a single objective...not a single race...i just drove around all the cities being in awe of the different maps..brings back good memories 🥲

Its past midnight. Why am i Watching this. I'm up this late because i was up playing Road Trip and i just happened to find this vid in the road trip subreddit

Finally had the time to watch this! It's a good video, love seeing these nice review videos about the choro-q series. :) I'm kinda surprised you didn't cover about the controversy of the HG 2 music, but it's not too well known!

i still have a ps2 and this game's disc next to it. i used to play this game so much.

Ahhh this game 😍 couldn’t have been older than 8/9 when I was playing it. I vividly remember driving onto a beach and near/into the sea 🥹 memories ❤

It's the second game of that console generation, not of the series. It started in 1984 on the MSX. But it really started in 1996 on the PS1.

Bought this game today even though I don't have a PS2 to play it on lol can't wait to re-live this absolute gem of a game

Gorgeous gem of a game, and clearly you've put a lot of effort in your video. Keep it up (:

This game was years ahead of its time and sadly hasn’t been ported other than PS3 which has now been removed

I played this game a ton as a kid, such a shame so few people know about it u.u I still play it on emulator all the time

my childhood love this game

I’ve got this on ps2 never tried it might have to now

Lov this game, I played this so much, but there was another game which I played much more, Penny Racers.

SUCH A CLASSIC!!!!!!!!!!

Man… I wished I knew how to reverse engineer this game inorder to give the game a second spin in PC. Still love it on the ps2!

Ahh man I’m happy I’m not the only welshman to have ever played this game!

Back when game devs knew how to pack content into a game!

my favorite game of the ps2

It was beautiful I loved it

Ever played Seek and destroy? Made by the same people but with tanks instead!

This might be the game that started my love of open worlds now that I think on it. The stolen music sours the game for me a little tho.

This is Basically the OG forza horizon

I don't really understand this title tbh. I thought this was going to be some git driving around for 20 min, I reluctanly clicked on it, but I do appreciate the video. As a word of "advice" I would not use the term "Having a Mosey" for a review video/series, it gives off a more exploratory vibe of someone who is just testing something out. Other than that, I like your video, it's better than anything I could make.

This game is almost old enough to be finished with a degree. Time moves too fast sometimes.

This game was amazing but it’s so hard to play again today. I can’t find an emulator file

I like your editing style mate stick to it!

What are the first two themes you have used?

caRPG

How do I play this game again on PC!?

You absolutely hit the nail on the head @ 18:14. Got me emotional a bit because it’s so damn true. I never even completed the game when I was a kid after spending hundreds of hours on it. I bought it last week again after not playing for over 12 years at least, and I completed it within 5 days. Also please can you review Gadget Racers next:) 🥹😒🥹😒🥹 Brilliant video mate👌🏼 subbed