I love how every obstacle was taken in stride. Every bug, glotch, and bit of government interference only served to make the game even more fun and memorable. If only more developers embraced faliure like this.

I loved that when the programming started to break they literally said "It's not a bug, it's a feature"

Carmageddon 1 and 2 were masterpieces. The freedom of playstyle, a precise blend of physics and arcade that dialed the fun of racing to 11, tons of cards with distinct personalities, game mechanics and design that encouraged recklessness and creativity, memorable maps filled with discoveries, and all that to the tune of a killer soundtrack. One needs to be a real pedestrian to not love Carmageddon.

I loved this game - never completed a race by finishing laps, you always just eliminate the opposing racers!

These are always interesting stories, and the framing device of bedtime stories for the imps is the icing on the cake, so good

Whatever gears loosened in Tony Taylor, he's a bloody legend for his development effort. What a man!

The Island of Wight, lol

As someone actually from the Isle of Wight that description is...both accurate but also wrong (for instance we have a pretty amazing music festival once a year). Also, the only Stainless game most people would know other than these games is a few Magic: The Gathering games. I'm aware that's quite the combination

"When one door closes, another one is broken down by a souped-up C3 Corvette" is brilliant!

Holy shit, Carmageddon is way before my time, but now I feel like checking it out just out of respect for the sheer balls on this team!

This game’s development is the embodiment of "limitations breeds creativity"

It's actually interesting how one can go from a licensed game to an entirely different game in the matter of years.

I love how many of the Adventure is Nigh side charters show up in this

LoL 1) it's called the Isle of Wight. Isle isn't an abbreviation. 2) It is a prison island, sorta. It has 4 prisons on a tiny island, (I used to sometimes work in them) including one special one for prisoners not tolerated in the general populations of other prisons.

"Son of a b..." (Splat) ah... childhood memories. And I totally forgot about Tony Taylors' story to it. Also, when cops showed up when they where shooting his stunt, he aparently decided to run away from them but he miss-vaulted over squad car.

This took what had already been a "don't miss" to near the top of my list of favorite channels. Keep up the great work on the weird and wonderful.

I remember it, all right... it even got a sequel, as I recall, and I genuinely ain't sure which of them I actually played the most. I think it was the second one? I mostly just remember that you could unlock new cars by smashing them in a particular way - you had to sideswipe them so you killed the driver without blowing the car up altogether - and all the weird and wonderful vehicles had weird and wonderful first-person views of their cabin. My favorite was the car/WWII aircraft/mole-machine combo with the giant drill on the front. If you're gonna ram someone at 88 mph, you may as well do it in Gurren-Lagann style!

I really hope this series goes over the World 111 Massacre in Runescape one day. Truly a day that lived on infamy in that game back in the day.

2:12 Its rare to see my car in videos but a treat when it happens Actually it appears so much in this video i wonder if its the script writer's favorite car

Pedantic mode on : it's always called the Isle of Wright.

Would love to hear you tell the turbulent history of Troika Games. One of my favorite wild rides in Video Game History.

That was great! I played the heck out of this and it's sequel on PC back in the day!

So I discovered Frost through the KZfaq algorithm. I do love Zero Punctuation. Like most, I love Frost's voice. The more I listen to various media, including consuming all Cold Takes (they're great!), I have to say... the voice is impressive but not why I'm mesmerized. His words are poetic. They're a sort of low key sing-song incantation of ascethically high brow words. There is poetry in those spoken words. I feel comfort, I feel at ease while listening to his every soliloquy, simultaneously feeling more intelligent for having listened. And that smooth baritone voice

They actually turned bugs into features while Bethesda claimed bugs are features.

Haha. The isle of wight. Not Island.

Loved this game so much when it came out.

I would love to hear the story of the ill-fated Dwarf Fortress of Boatmurdered! One of my absolute favorites, and with Dwarf Fortress’ recent Steam release it could use some press attention!

Holy shit, releasing a patch to go over the censorship is brilliant

Imagine you're constantly falling forward and just barely catching yourself in time like "I've gotta make this game run soon or we're burnt." and in comes your FUCKIN MATH TEACHER

You forgot to mention how this caused there to be a rating system created for video games. They weren't required to to have a BFI certificate, they just tried getting one so they could slap an 18 rating on the box.

"when life gives you lemons, freeze'em and throw'em through the windshield. that's the Carmageddon way"

Carmageddon's "Fox and Hounds" multiplayer mode is still the best LAN game I've ever played. I was part of a team working on "Starship Titanic" at the time, and we were mostly powered by games of Carmageddon F&H and Mario Kart 64.

One of my favourite childhood memories was playing the demo over and over. Brilliant game back then, sheer joyful carnage.

As a southern brit, i am simply apopleptic that you referred to the Isle of Wight as the "island of Wight"

I love this series and how it builds on the style of zero punctuation

6:03 AAA DIGITAL BUG RHINOCEBUS JUMPSCARE

Ah yes I remember this game and it's sequel. Very well covered and finally it gets its moment to shine in history.

I genuinely can't figure out if calling it 'The Island of White' was a mistake or a subtle joke designed to annoy specifically me.

A little disapointed that you left out how the bulk of the soundtrack to the game was also a decent portion of the tracks from Fear Factorys 2nd album Demanufacture, sans vocals. A rare find for any fan of the band, and was my first exsposure to them. Didn't find out who they were till much later when freind picked up the sountrack and I recognized the song and I told him "Oh boy do I have a treat for you!".

Funnily enough, the Isle of Wight *is* used for holding prisoners. For such a tiny place, two of the UK's largest and most secure prisons, HMP Parkhurst and HMP Albany, are located there (along with the former Camp Hill prison)

Rarely does a combination of two words bring as much dread as amateur stuntman.

This series is amazing. Never run out of stories!

When life gives you 'carma', make Carmageddon

"Be wary of a man with two first names that does his own stunts."

The head of marketing for the studio thought red cars were faster, because they had a red ferrari and it was fast, so there. I tried to get the rumour that blue was faster, because blue has a higher frequency than red.

I just love this "imp babysitting" premise. I'm always looking forward to that beginning snippet.

If you want to talk about something a bit different, how about Magnasanti, the most dystopian Sim City ever built?

The making of this game was a true "cunning stunt"

1:24 that top hat wearing skeleton game developer is awesome! hope to see 'em again

The hilarity of this is that the Isle of Wight (it is Isle, not Island) does happen to have a high-security prison. And is still way chill.

Love this series!

One of my fav games on my first PC! Such a bless. Thank you for the nostalgia trip.

another banger video in this series. Its like when your favorite teacher in school tangents and tells you about something that they definitely shouldnt

I had no idea that game had such an interesting history.

Never played it myself, but you definitely heard about it quite a bit on the playground!

First series ive ever been happy to see new episodes of besides ZP on escapist. Like it!

Friend of mine still has a Carmageddon poster on his wall. Classic!

I'm loving this "Stuff of Legends" series, and the framing device is genius.

It is not called the island of white, it's the Isle of Wight

Tony Taylor! 0:38

I love the zombie censorship more than the original pedestrians. Makes me imagine a world where a zombie apocalypse happens, and in response people just go racing cars. Really cool shit.

Great video, this series never disappoints!

This is very inspiring. Thank you for sharing.

The thumbnail had me thinking the animation would have Frost being chased This was a great story.

Thanks again

Carmageddon and Conkers Bad Fur Day are my personal favourite games of the 90s. I feel like there has to be a Stuff of Legends about that foul-mouthed Red Squirrel. "Conkers" is the best game on N64, possibly ever (I'm clearly blinded by nostalgia), and it just doesn't get enough love.

Great stuff, I'm loving this series! How about a little bit on Postal? I seem to remember everyone their outrage pumping over that one...

Surprised there was no mention of the soundtrack. The Fear Factory soundtrack was my gateway to metal.

Love the sigmar and mortimer dolls in the room

Great vid

Had no clue this game was meant to be a tie-in for a movie that never was. I'm really liking this series so far, a bunch of info I wasn't aware of and the whole thing just exudes character.

The late 80s and 90s has so many amazing stories of almost guriella game development, turning obstacles into benefits and inventing concepts on the fly

this was great!

I'm officially a fan. What a tight script! Sends shivers down my professional spine

Never realised how awful it would be if it were called the Island of White until you said it out loud. Long live the Isle.

vAdditional focus should be given to the Physics Engine!!! As a fan of the game I played almost all of the sequels and many other games like it. And let me tell you, the PHYSICS ENGINE is what makes the game! No other game, not even sequels, came close to emulating the feel of the original.That math teacher must be a hidden genius! I hope they make it open source eventually so we can have a look at that mystic brilliance!

"Island of Wight" xD

That's wild. I remember hearing about some of this stuff.

Good work.

I love this series.

Damn, that was a ride.

I absolutely LOVED this game, it just broke all conventional rules, kicked open the door, and mic dropped 100 hand grenades walking away with two middle fingers in the air as gamers looked on amazed. My favourite car was the lightning blue car with the propellers, so many pedestrian kills lol.

Daddy Frost telling us a bedtime story about Development Disasters was not on my 2023 bingo card but here we are

Massive respect for not using the same old: "it's not a bug, its a feature" EA meme when you were referring to redesigning the game around bugs ;)

Ah, Carmageddon. If only GrayStillPlays and KZfaq had existed back then. Carmageddon, for those who haven't played it, seems like a somewhat violent racing game. But beyond the races, the open world format has just oodles of absurdly hard challenges, such as one that has you jumping progressively higher in a series of skyscrapers. Just dozens of these littered about the world with little to no map markers to indicate where to go or that exploring is even a goal, yet at least half the game's depth is off the beaten path. I played a bunch of it in LAN multiplayer and even then probably only scratched the surface of what was in there. What a weird game. The sort of weird that you just don't get these days. If a modern triple-A had made it, say Ubisoft, it would have been such a different beast.

I remember playing Carmageddon 20+ years ago on a Mac and the graphics were rudimentary. But it was still a blast. A modern version on today's gaming rigs the gore and violence would be glorious!

I grew up a hundred or so miles north of aforementioned retirement island. It's weird hearing the Isle of Wight get referenced by non - British media at all, it's so aggressively tepid

Actually sounds like a wha happun story but you guys have the edge of having a smooth dulcet voice

Best thing escapist has made in ages (excluding zero punctuation)

I'm really enjoying this series!

Really liking these guys a ming history videos

I am entirely unable to focus with Paul Harrell's theme playing in the background.

As someone from the UK all i can say is- Holy fuck you hit the nail on the head about Isle of Wight

Oh man! I love this game!!!! played it nonstop as a kid and plaster its name on every army vehicle i drive!

The Carmaggedon Splat pack was probably the first patch I bothered to get for any game. Was absolutely *necessary*. Cool to see footage from the Prat Cam guy. I never saw him in game, big fan of Die Anna! Oh, and a quick Google: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ft16h8iolq3PYpc.html here's her cam.

It's the Isle of Wight, not the Island of Wight, thank you very much. Love, an Isle of Wight native who's just happy to have their island of origin mentioned~

Never played this, only heard of it cuz it's the father of all racing games. What a wonderful story.

I love the Adventure is Nigh! stuffies all around the bedroom

If this man narrated audiobooks, I would buy every one that he VA's for.

It was a great game, its greatness in large part to the bugs being reworked into features - all of them very fun and central to the identity of the game decades later.