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Fun fact about Big Rigs (and presumably Midnight Race Club): if you continually reverse for a little under an hour, you'll eventually reach 12.3 *undecillion* (that's 36 zeroes) miles per hour. At that point, you will automatically win the race, as you're going so fast the game registers you as being everywhere at once.

"LJN" *_and every AVGN fan screamed in terror_*

I remember the Yaris game at Evo 2007. There was a contest to get the highest score. Of course, being full of fighting game players, an exploit for infinite points of found by the end of the first day. Don't kill the final boss, & the game goes on forever.

"The Yaris! It's reliable, but watch out it might have tentacles" That's a truly Japanese product.

One glitch that you missed in Big Rigs, if you go through the starting gate then reverse through it, you'll instantly win

That rat blowing into the balloon animation is killing me. Hilarious 😂

Remember how in the Worst Plug & Play videos, the first console had "Boat Race", which was just a visual hack of "F-1 Race", and then the sequel console changed it to "UFO Race", and then again into "Bicycle Race"? Midnight Race Club is basically just that to Big Rigs, except they didn't even bother to change the backgrounds to make it look as if it were a different game.

Fun fact about _Big Rigs._ The version they played? Actually a later version. There was an earlier version, that I _think_ was available on retail shelves, where you only had one playable truck, and the opponent vehicle never moved at all. It stayed on the start line forever.

I adore the little storyline for the ghosts in this episode, it's funny and feels real, this is their lives for sure lol.

What's even badder and sadder about Race Drivin on the Snes is that there's a homebrew mod that makes it an impressive visual showcase of a game, and shows what could have been with some added hardware and better coding. I'm really surprised that you didn't feature it it your video, since it really makes the unmodded version look even more goofy.

Could this be a larger chapter of an overarching story about the money ghosts attempting to actually make Shane and Adam stop the Just Bad Games series?? One ghost tried in the Dog Football episode. Is that perhaps a taste of what's to come??

The Yaris game reminds me of those "stories" my younger self would come up with playing with various different, unconnected toys at the same time.

To be honest, that rat and balloon joke is gonna live rent free in my head for the rest of my life and I have to thank you for that.

Midnight Race Club Artwork effort : 99% Actualy game developing effort: 1%

A long episode with multiple money ghost animations and lore? You’re too good to us. I love these lil’ colorful spooks. ❤

06:53 the passenger cannot see the speedometer. I distinctly remember a coworker who had a Yaris saying, "It's great! My wife can't comment on my speed now!"

I'm totally here for a “ghosts of money spend on bad games” mini series 😂

Big Rigs actually did have a selection that would crash your game every single time. The game got multiple releases, you only played the last one In the first release, one of the stages would always hard crash the game every time you selected it (on top of the AI driver not even moving until the last release... That was a thing that happened)

38:50 the “YOU’RE WINNER!” From Big Rigs Over The Road Racing was fucking hilarious! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

It’s a Just Bad Multi-pack of Madness. I think you guys should do more stuff like this in the future

The Yaris game just REEKS of Late 2000's hyper-modernism

I really enjoyed Yaris. It was a fun little arcade-style game, and I'm one of the the VERY few people who actually completed 100% of the achievements in it.

Wow. I came in expecting reruns of previous episodes, but this was fifty minutes of new content! It was like It's Just Bad: The Movie!

I love how the Ghost of the money we wasted on bad racers interact with themselves

"The speedometer is in the center." This made me laugh so hard because that is a good way for an accident to happen.

Spirit of Speed screen shot box arts was having me salivating in my youth, I never had the pleasure to buy and play it. A real "retro" driving experience was a thing I really wanted. Then I quickly forgot about it until today. Thanks for your hilarious honest review "a couple of years too late". Cheers and thanks for saving me some money, i probably saved enough back then to buy a beer at the pub today!

23:52 I actually think the music sounds OK, but that gag is hilarious. I'll never be able to listen to this music again without thinking about that rat. 😂

'Sounds like a rat's choking on a balloon' That whole bit had me laughing so hard I'm in tears!

It should be noted that LJN was already long gone by the time that one racing game came out. They closed down in 1994. I'm guessing their parent company Acclaim didn't want their logo on it, so they used the LJN branding on it. Also, LJN's branding came back last year. It's being used by Jazwears for their All Elite Wrestling Unmatched line of action figures. Also also, if you want to know what really killed LJN, look up a line of toy guns called Entertech.

An interesting thing about Big Rigs and Midnight Race Club is they weren’t meant to be released in this state. But GameMill Publishing wanted them on the shelf as soon as possible, even if it meant releasing them in a pre-alpha state. The producer of the games even stated he had no input on the games, and didn’t even get to have a say in halting production.

I think I read somewhere that the company behind Big Rigs was required under contract to release a game, so the game shipped as it was.

Fun fact: "Big Rigs" and "Midnight Race Club" were originally being developed (and were supposed to be released) as one single game, but GameMill, the publisher of not only these two games, but all of Stellar Stone's catalogue except for "Taxi Racer" (if anyone cares to ask, "Taxi Racer" was published by a Dutch company named BestBuys Interactive), split it into two, taking away the trucks from "Midnight Race Club" into their own separate but exactly identical game (only without collision detection, and I'm assuming this was because "Midnight Race Club" did not have collision detection at the time, either), and shipped the end result in what we now infamously know as "Big Rigs". Not that this makes Stellar Stone any less guilty of their crimes against gaming, though. Also, like another user said before (thanks, Verdant Range), LJN was long dead before "Spirit of Speed 1937" came along. Its brand was just brought back by Acclaim for just this one title. I don't know if it has ever been confirmed that it actually was because the game was of such poor quality that Acclaim didn't want to associate themselves with it and hoped that, by putting the LJN logo on it instead of theirs, no one would notice it was actually them, but it's the most popular rumor. In any case, great video, as usual!

With the infinite reverse speed glitch in Big Rigs it's funny (and a bit sad) that developers nowadays STILL forget to implement "negative caps". Trackmania 2 hilariously had a very similar glitch where Nadeo while implementing a maximum reverse acceleration forgot to put in a reverse speed CAP. Meaning if you had enough space to reverse and the right skills to steer you could beat some tracks fast driving in REVERSE.

I keep hearing "A gun? In my YARIS?!" and it reminds me of that one meme. You know the one. With the Free PC check today! That one.

The thing you need to remember about "Donkey" is that this was all done in a night! Back then, to have graphics and sound, let alone a functional game was unheard of. The demo's and games from Apple and Atari took weeks if not months to program, they're hardly comparable!

Just in time! It's almost Halloween! And now we are getting a bunch of horror games! Oh these aren't horror games? Could have fooled me!

That Daytona USA jingle part paired with San Francisco Rush actually made me bust out laughing.

Great video, fellas! It's always a good day when you post this madness of investigative and fun work. Thank you! By the way, while it was every bit as funny as ever, 35:10's last "yah!" killed me on the spot 🤣🤣

The animations and edits in all your videos bring me such joy, please never stop

I’ll always treasure the moment when The Nerd discovered the reverse button in big rigs. That was a once-in-a-lifetime thing

The takeaway I get from bad games is that good game design is not actively noticed (which is not a bad thing because you should be able to settle in smoothly for a good experience) but bad game design is very noticeable.

Ah yes, Big Rigs… I remember seeing Yogscast play it. “…Can you tell me what’s wrong with reversing?” “What’s wrong with reversing?” *tries it* “Pfft, hah, fuck’s sake… it’s faster than going forwards? …Oh my God. Oh my God! OH MY GOD! WHAAAAAT?!”

38:50 the phrase “YOU’RE WINNER !” is so funny to me

The speedo in a yaris is in the centre for cheapness. It means they don't have to make another dashboard for markets like the USA from Japan who drive on the otherside of the road. They just move the steering wheel. You'll probably find holes for pedals in the passenger side already there also lol.

I’m pretty sure the 1937 game intends for you to downshift on the turns for reasonable handling like you do in real NASCAR, but that doesn’t excuse hitting the wall and SCREEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Ya know something? LJN died before the new millennia but it continued to live on in spirit. It’s founder Jack Friedman went on to found THQ which had the same kinda business model as LJN and didn’t collapse until 2013. By the way, ever wonder what THQ stood for? Toy HeadQuarters. Also, Spirit Of Speed 1937 wasn’t published by LJN as it was shut down by Acclaim five years earlier. They just used the branding here for some reason.

Nice one also when you were talking about big rigs when you said about the gravity stuff I remembered wipeout it was the good anti gravity ships so yeah

I couldn't stop laughing at the Quint ghost at 33:17 when he told everyone why he was making that noise - PURE BRILLIANCE

The balloon rat destroyed me, thank you for that laugh 🤣 Didn't expect a whole pack of games in this vid! Also, the nostalgia bomb that was seeing Star Raiders, holy crap.

fav quote:"AI with the mental fortitude of a box of cornflakes"

Dude, my kids introduced me to your channel about a year ago. I'm bringing a bunch of your videos I haven't seen before while I relax today. You crack me up with some of your jokes on comparisons. The rat choking on a balloon in this one was great. Also, I was tickled to see you talk about that FORD game for DOS. I had that way back when!! (Steering with the arrow keys was a bitch! Lol)

Impressive to somehow include Microsoft, Apple, IBM, Atari, Mattel, Intellivision, LJN, Toyota and Big Rigs into one episode. lol

Something that I like about Rerez that they prioritize quality over quantity. They maybe doesn't upload much, but the content worth to watch.

Ah Sergey Titov. After Big Rigs he tried to make a Zombie MMO called The War Z copying another game DayZ. That also failed. He went into "no refunds" mode and the rest was history - gaming youtube unanimously called him a con man and a fraud.

Monster Truck Rally was the original name of both the NES and Intellivision versions. They have the same feel as Motorcross Madness, a motorcycle racing game for the Intellivision. That was released in 1982 or thereabouts. INTV tried to shift with the times and add NES releases to their catalog, but they were too slow to shift.

Well, this is just great. I think Spirit of Speed might be a touch more interesting to fans of the genre (by all accounts actual races back then were nearly that crazy) but the overall presentation and storyline was most excellent. More of these genre collections, please? Can only imagine what the Ghosts of the money wasted in, say, Barbie games would be like.

You bring me more fun than giant Hollywood productions with multimillion dollar budgets, and I cannot thank you enough, guys.

I thought after that monster truck nonsense there was no way it could get worse but I, of course, had forgotten about big rigs. It's absolutely mind blowing that this was a game that got released and SOLD at stores for actual real life money.

Spirit of speed 1937 hurts to watch since a racing game set in the 30s/40s has so much potential

Hey Shane, funny thing about Big Rigs : Over The Road Racing is that you're playing the fixed version of the game. The original release of Big Rigs : Over The Road Racing was buggy even more than the version you're playing as the fourth track crashed the game when selected and your opponent does not move at all.

Ahhhhh, glad this episode was made. I remember hearing about the LJN game on the Dreamcast but I could never remember what it was called. Also, seeing Donkey makes me really happy to be born in 1995 and raised on a Genesis and SNES.

Cool to see a story with the money ghosts, and yeah, the fact that Big Rigs got updated a few times yet got stuck with all of those issues is just so astonishingly weird. Awesome to see Just Bad Games having a new episode.

Someone on reddit found that the highest speed possible in Big Rigs is 12.3 undecillion MPH. Which is, yknow, a wee bit quick.

I love the aesthetic of the Yaris game. Makes me feel so oddly happy

Fun fact about Yaris, or at least the car: the Yaris is also known as the Vitz in japan and Europe. Vitz ironically translates to "joke" in german!

33:16 This would make a good ringtone. Again, great reporting on these games. I do like that you do acknowledge when the game was released and certain limitations of that time still made the game good for example Race Drivin Arcade Edition.

“It’s not about car, it’s about the driver.” Dominic Toretto

0:55 I caught you reusing voice lines for the ghosts of wasted money 🤣

Loved the video! You guys are at your BEST with videos 40+ minutes long! Best channel on youtube! I can't wait for the next Just Bad Games! I'm not a bot.

Can we just talk about that IBM advertisement that shows Donkey running on the system? The guy _clearly_ uses the Enter key to interact with Donkey when the screen _clearly_ tells you to "press Space bar"! It's just one button and you can't even get _that_ right, it's the biggest button on the damn keyboard!

Gotta do more of these animated segments in the future, love them!

I loved the intro! A wonderful mix of moody atmosphere and comedy, not to mention the amazing segue into the actual video. I have a good feeling about this episode!

Always enjoy hearing about the racing games we all loved to hate- Good video! :)

Excellent episode. I'd love to see more more worst of genre episodes in the future

Midnight Race Club, the Big Rigs sequel/duplicate at the end, is even weirder and more confusing when you remember that Big Rigs had a rerelease in between the two release dates, a very slightly edited version that had the opponent actually able to finish the race. I remember seeing it in another review a few years ago. So they fixed one of the problems, only to put it right back in again in midnight race club

Fun fact: When i had my Xbox 360 back when this game came out, i had it set to auto download free games or titles and that includes demos. Yaris was one of them back on the old blade style dashboard. And that game is still available to download on the xbox servers today IF you had the game in your library at any point that you had your xbox account as it shows as a purchase. Unfortunately it is not available as a new download as i can tell, but i am sure the Xbox Soft Mod community has uploaded or kept it archived for those that are curious about games in the past that are no longer available through conventional methods. But overall great video! I did like the Yaris game back in the day.

This is such a good format. There must be tons of games out there that are worth showing but may not have a whole episode's worth of things to say.

Actually, the PC version of Spirit of Speed was published by MicroProse. LJN was acquired by Acclaim Entertainment, who basically used them and other labels to crank out multiple titles. Acclaim was still active at that point, so chances are they used LJN as a shell label because they didn't want their name attached to that game, of all things.

I appreciate that these are new segments with a framing device and not just a compilation of videos we've already seen before that's no different from watching a playlist.

“It’s like we’re actually driving a truck- filled with bees!” I didn’t even notice that text before. 😂

4:34: The Ouroboros is also used for the design of the Golden Key from “Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland”.

As a Paranormal investigator I can attest this is 100% true about the ghosts of wasted money.... ...I have many

What bothers me is that the team from Mafia probably saw Spirit of Speed 1937 before they made their game and still did almost the same thing in one unskippable story mission which plagues the game... Also this (23:47) is HILARIOUS !

You guys should make a compilation for all the ghost segments from all the videos!

Ahhh man I love the just bad games videos. Hope there’s more too come 👍🏻👌🏻

I really hope the 'choking baloon rat' make others appearances in future videos, it made me sincerly laugh!

I lost it at the rat choking on the balloon 🤣

As someone who drives an 07 Yaris. I died when you complained about the speedometer. You get used to it pretty fast lmao.

The rat part got me in stitches XD, Jesus, you guys were trying to kill me :D

Of course, we all remember that Steve Jobs and his company took what they learned from how bad Donkey was to become paragons of computer based gami*SNRK!*

I bought a bunch of SNES games from a friend who was saving up for a N64. Just a whole big box of games, some were good, and then... there was Race Drivin'. So glad you mentioned it here, it definitely belongs here!

You guys are absolutely hilarious. Love the ghosts anytime they appear in your videos. So much fun.

As bad as Spirit of speed is it actually has some sort of historic accuracy. The race cars of the 1930s were incredibly difficult to drive. Auto Union's cars from the time had engines with up to 600 horsepower, mounted onto a frame that was basicly two steel beams. ANd th esuspension wasn't that different from what you would find on an old VW Beetle (Ferdinand Porsche was heavily involved in both). When modern drivers have tried to drive them they have all been very clear that the cars were both incredibly difficult and scary to drive. And they required a lot of physical effort. The unfairness of the grid also happened back then. The rulebook was much thinner back then, and cars that would be placed into different classes now were just lumped into the same race and sent off. If Mercedes and Auto Union showed up the other teams could just forget about the top positions. Both Mercedes and Auto Union got governmental support at the time. The angry guy with the mustache who was in power was very interested in cars, and was very pleased with the fact that Mercedes was the worlds first professional racing team. The people in the team all had matching suits, everybody knew exactly what their job was, and they had a trained pit crew just like we see in F1 racing today. This was completely unheard of at the time. The guy with the old paintbrush stuck under his nose decided that the only thing that was better than one German team who won everything, was two German teams who left everyone else in the dust and took turns winning. So then the Auto Union racing team was founded (a collaboration between DKW, Horch, Wanderer and Audi). The two teams for the most part dominated racing from 1935 to 1939, and they were far ahead of everyone else, with Rudolf Carraciola and Bernd Rosemeyer being two of the most accomplished drivers. The cars they were driving then could probably still have been competitive in the 1950s. In the 1935 German Grand Prix an Italian racing driver named Tazio Nuvolari managed to beat both Mercedes and Auto Union in an outdated Alfa Romeo P3. Nobody had expected that a non German car would win so nobody had brought anything else than the German national anthem to play at the victory ceremony. But that was no problem. Because Tazio Nuvolari always travelled with a 78 recording of the Italian national anthem in his suitcase. The full story is very entertaining and worth looking into if one is interested in racing history.

37:41 love the comedic timing of pointing out an error in the game when you say "ashphalt" (never heard of ashphalt before). Excellent video for a collection of games! Love your content and knowledge in these videos

That pink ghost is probably a dead Chip Alvarez from Spiderman Sinister Six "Some folks really dislikes anything to do with this logo(LJN)" ,I think I just heard AVGN cursing

I love this format. Hope you guys do it with fighting games.

I first saw Big Rigs covered on X-Play way back in the day. I remembered the episode vividly. First time I thought a game would get a zero out of five.

Next up, Rerez's full review of the actual Yaris

You killed me with the Ballon addicted Rat 🤣🤣 The Ghosts are Perfection. The concept of a racing game with only pre-WW2 era race cars is fantastic. P.S. 29:29 That is not a Dune Buggy nor a Sand-Rail, that's a SXS