one of the best in its genre, it's amazing how progress has gone in inrah over the past 25 years, just one generation. Now it is a complete and absolute old school, which in a sense, and its charm. By the way, my son also loves to play this game, and has repeatedly seen teenagers or younger ones play it. The game, if not for the graphics itself, is very exciting.

5:24 Overall I preferred Lotus II, but I still played this quite often as a kid just to hear the killer soundtrack by Patrick Phelan.

@xenorac

2 жыл бұрын

I was going to say this too, Lotus II for imho for better!

Track 2 was my awakening of the love for metal haha

Absolutely delicious, far superior music than PC sound card (but pc speaker had something special because they achieved that with a such limited audio device)

@pasromano75

3 жыл бұрын

Yes , with pc speaker was a trick........ varying very queekly volume it was like sampling a digital wave

@thoreberlin

Жыл бұрын

With a decent midi card it was good on PC too and much clearer, but without the samples. Just sad that there were no sound effects.

If only Horizon Chase Turbo also had obstacles like this game. That game is so one dimensional compared to this.

I loved the tracks on the PC version, this just up the ante! Awesome!

LOL I love those fake names. Alain Prosphate, James Haunt, Ricardo Pastry 😂

Amazing music, such a glorious thing!

Amiga perfection!!!😀

23:38 ah yes, checkerboard racing. There's nothing quite like it.

Okay, I have gone WAY too long not knowing the "Desert Loading" tune from Lotus III is the Tooting Common arrangement featured in Zool's SNES port. And props on finishing with Space Ninja, easily his most recognisable tune thanks to the gremlin ninja too. Lotus III was just a banger OST from start to finish, Phelan did not hold back for this game. What a bop.

The Lotus Esprit Turbo Series is one of the Games that makes Today still Fun.

@newsbender

13 күн бұрын

It does what now?

@ingos.263

13 күн бұрын

@@newsbender It makes still Fun. I think you already Understand what I mean.

@newsbender

13 күн бұрын

@@ingos.263 haha yes, I was making fun of you 🙂

great soundtracks on these games

On the Amiga, these tracks rocks!

@katpuss6564

Жыл бұрын

Composed by Patrick Phelan.

Yeah, brings back some serious memories! Thanks!

Thankyou, !! my first boxed game and it was 94? ... I was 5 at that time and the Amiga600 was mine =3

I've always liked Lotus cars - whatever their problems, they're just the automobile equivalent of my local footie team - and that attachment honestly started with game. My favourite part about it though was not the music, or RECS, or even the actual cars - it was the title screen! The way it just filled up the whole monitor couldn't help but stun me every time I loaded the game. It promised that you were about to play THE ULTIMATE CHALLENGE, and aged 7 years old, I believed it.

@_portsmyth

Жыл бұрын

Lol you just did a complete play by play of my thoughts and feelings of this game. I can track my love of cars and games back to this single game series - watching the intro screen gave me full on goosebumps when that engine sound revs up.

By far the most gorgeous menu interface in any game ever. So simple and clean, perfect sprites and usage of colors. One of the top games from my childhood.

Emulator name? Can't capture Amiga video out in a digital format except for a video camera recording the CRT which would give a lot of flicker/distortion and other artifacts... There are no slowdowns in Lotus 1 2 or 3. Except in split screen mode - local PvP (Don't remember which one) but that's because the system has to render twice the graphics per video frame. I had a recording somewhere, but I probably deleted it because my video camera ran out of storage. I will try to dig it out from one of my SD cards. I'm using an accel (50MHz 030 GoldTop on A1200), but it doesn't speed any games up. They run at their original speeds.

I remember playing this game against my brother in the 90ies on Amiga. I almost beat him, but then suddenly on a hill he switched into a stronger gear and overtook me. I never drive with auto-transmission since then!

As a kid I was always wondering - WTF is going on with these white stripes?!

Coll Gorgeous Game.

I would like to add a timestamp for when the game starts, but i can't find it.

The music in 43:00... It sounds too familiar, i know i heard it somewhere else.

@AL82RetrogamingLongplays

5 жыл бұрын

Patrick Phelan did the music for several Gremlin games - it might be why it sounds familiar 🙂

@Imgema

5 жыл бұрын

@@AL82RetrogamingLongplays haha, i finally found where i heard this! It's the music in uLoader for the Wii XD

@PacGuy765

4 жыл бұрын

It's from Zool

@mountainbearoutdoors

3 жыл бұрын

yes its totally trrue, ripped about half speed to lotus with some slightly different effects but otherwise the same

@soundspark

Ай бұрын

It's based on Rock n' Zool.

Lotus 2 was the best as you said. I had the demo version and later the complete game. As for the slowdowns, yes it has in the whdload version while it runs better with the disks :-/

@AL82RetrogamingLongplays

5 жыл бұрын

I did try running with an A1200 68020 config, but I got guru meditation errors on the main menu ☹️

Developed by _Magnetic Fields_ 😎

So simple graphics but this game was put into one floppy disk: 1,44MB was more than enough for this entire game

@retrofan7164

3 жыл бұрын

*880 kb floppy disk

@elmariachi5133

2 жыл бұрын

@@retrofan7164 We don't really know, as it was a NDOS format disk, wasn't it? So they probably squashed more onto the disk as usual with custom formats.

Cheeky tbt 😍

Fantastic game! The intro sound, several years after, heard here: kzread.info/dash/bejne/kaZ5k6qho8-rZrg.html at about 40 seconds...

whos here just for the music? xD

Out Run Test Drive mix

3rd track is the best

purple car maxim speed 242km , turbo zone map maxim speed 292km

I swear the genesis version of LOTUS 2 had more metal in its soundtrack.

Is it me or Lotus 2 has more fluid animation

@meshugeah

3 жыл бұрын

on PC you sacrifice awesome soundtrack for better fps

@themanmaschine

2 жыл бұрын

Of the trilogy, I think lotus turbo challenge 2 was the best one.

@elmariachi5133

2 жыл бұрын

It was important to put the Amiga in NTSC mode (using custom bootdisk or freezer or bootmenu on the ECS+ Amigas) for maaany games! the additional 20% FPS really make a big difference!

oil is fully for 4lap.. finishd

yeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaa live for eveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr my gid my friends my power my life

Request for Project X play-through on Arcade difficulty. Good luck! Project X the video game.

@AL82RetrogamingLongplays

Жыл бұрын

Already done it :) kzread.info/dash/bejne/kYWH06yDl9avitI.html

@thomaslaskowski5434

Жыл бұрын

@@AL82RetrogamingLongplays Envy. Lol. I think I got past the first level then my eyes went out of sync.

@thomaslaskowski5434

Жыл бұрын

The A1200 would explain no slowdowns I suppose. That's why I'm saving up for an A600 for OSC/ECS - NO AGA. Out of the number of demos and games that I've tested (6GB HDD image of software) several have AGA related glitches. Sushi Boyz - Ghosttown for example. It just doesn't look right on AGA amiga. There is no workaround in software. Right around the part "insert coin" the graphics looks all messed up. Many others. I just don't have a list. Is it possible that the games run too fast? I have not been able to time the frames (most are 50HZ PAL).

No SFX??

Damals viel gespielt auf dem Amiga.

1:52:30 You almost failed.

Albeit not like in real hardware i can see the crawl! And when was telling to other people in other longplay comments they did not believe me! ^^

this is emulated and it slows down. fuck this...

@bubbanstix2536

4 ай бұрын

? It means the emulation works properly. This game had a low framerate on an A500. It was a flaw of the original game. Emulation isn't there to correct it (even if it can).

@kukkapurkkiteam

4 ай бұрын

@@bubbanstix2536 if that's so then my bad. usually people set the cpu speed too slow on dos box and it stutters but as this is amiga it's propably different.

@bubbanstix2536

4 ай бұрын

@@kukkapurkkiteam Lotus III was disappointing for its lower framerate and many fans considered the second game better for that reason. Still, it's on amiga and I'm not sure the framerate was very high in the second game either.

I speedrun this game and this game is much better feeling in PC than Amiga. I don't know why

I honestly find it annoying how if the difficulty is above 90 on a Sprint Race, the AI are unbeatable like the one at 1:42:34 a nearly perfect performance and you barely held onto 8th

@AL82RetrogamingLongplays

3 жыл бұрын

It's a common problem with racers from that era. Jaguar XJ220 on Amiga is one of the worst offenders - virtually impossible to beat the AI on certain tracks.

This lotus III is not the best, Lotus 2 has superior smoother animation and with better feels of speed, they just overloaded too much useless things on this Lotus III, they should have kept it simple as it was in Lotus 2. Sometimes, i dont understand people who made a thing very good orignally and destroy it into another series, keep quality damn!!!

Not FXo, or Fxs but not music. An sorry, Top Gear 2 in Snes is best option.

music is so ugly

The intro needed to be as breathtaking as the second part. Sadly that’s what let it down and didn’t do as well as a whole.