Two things everyone who played this game remember, Molly Hatchet “Flirtin’ with Disaster” and the paintball cheat code 😂

This one was actually really solid for an early PS1 NASCAR game. NASCAR Thunder 2003 and 2004 on PS1 actually did quite good upgrade for the hardware limitations. But NASCAR Thunder 2004 on PS2 or NASCAR Dirt to Daytona on PS2 are where NASCAR peaked on consoles (Dirt to Daytona being my personal favourite).

One thing I learned by playing NASCAR on Gran Turismo 5, it's about surviving and being there on the last lap.If you fell behind the pack and out of slipstream (or drafting), you're going to finish last, there's no catching up. 5:33 Lol on Cedar Woods.

@Adam_OldRacingGames

6 ай бұрын

Makes sense!

Great to see you're still uploading man

@Adam_OldRacingGames

6 ай бұрын

Thank you! I see you've done a Nascar 98 season in the past as well!

@TPL-Motorsport

6 ай бұрын

@@Adam_OldRacingGames Sure have! Was awesome for the time but I wouldn't come back to it personally. The later Thunder games on PS2 just did everything so much better.

I used to play a lot of NASCAR 98, 99, 2000 and CART World Series on my PS1. This was a nice trip down memory lane.

@FenderBender2

3 ай бұрын

I'm playing CART world series in this on my ps1 now in 2024 I love it

Mark Martin finishing 2nd in the championship is the best part of the video lmao @slapshoes got another episode of your apologetics series

This game looks really familiar. I feel like I must have visited some family friend as a kid and they had this game; this was back before I had video games of my own, so it was always a treat to visit someone and have them pull out a game system and let me play it. For completeness's sake, some of these tracks are completely fake (particularly all but two of the road courses, the real ones being Sears Point and my home track of Watkins Glen), the season at the time was more than thirty races long, Bristol really is a wreckfest and that's why people like it, OF COURSE MARK MARTIN FINISHED SECOND IN THE CHAMPIONSHIP STANDINGS AGAIN, and NASCAR really did do at least one, possibly two, exhibition races at the shortened Suzuka. ...Actually just looked up the '98 season on Wikipedia and apparently they raced at Motegi that year instead. It also astounds me that this game didn't have the Daytona 500. Someone didn't grease quite enough palms, it looks like. How in the world do they make a NASCAR game without Daytona?

@Adam_OldRacingGames

6 ай бұрын

Haha didn’t realise they’d been making up tracks 🤣

i also recorded a nascar 98 video on my channel around this time. love ur video dude!

@Adam_OldRacingGames

6 ай бұрын

Thank you!

Hit start then hit all 4 top bumper buttons at the same time......paintball mode!!

@Adam_OldRacingGames

6 ай бұрын

Haha didn’t know about that!

@jacobkelley7762

6 ай бұрын

I can't remember the button to shoot them but I believe it's triangle. Try it at Bristol

NASCAR 98 on PS1 was the first racing game I ever played. This was a nice short review. You should definitely give Dirt to Daytona a shot, that was the peak of NASCAR games at least on console. You get to start out as a dirt track driver and have to work your way up through the ranks and different NASCAR series'. It really gives you a look at the grassroots motorsports in America around that time.

Great video man, youtube decided to randomly bless me with this. Definitely earned a sub

@Adam_OldRacingGames

6 ай бұрын

Thanks!

@raysharamadaniindonesi7947

2 ай бұрын

​@@Adam_OldRacingGamesgood afternoon from Indonesia I have a request for your next video what about you play another old F1 games it's called super Monaco GP 2 it's brought you by Sega

@Adam_OldRacingGames

2 ай бұрын

@@raysharamadaniindonesi7947 Yeh I'll have to see if I can track it down!

@raysharamadaniindonesi7947

2 ай бұрын

@@Adam_OldRacingGames actually the game Is mr senna production of the video game he is the supervisor super Monaco GP 2 is a sequel from the second video game super Monaco GP 2 without Senna in 1990 The First version of the video game was released on 1989 but this is 1992

@raysharamadaniindonesi7947

2 ай бұрын

@@Adam_OldRacingGames oh yes I forgot to say once again apologize for my English ability I'm still studying but i'm try my best to translate actually I'm study English since I was a Kid by self-taught and also when I was a kid I was a big fan of MotoGP and F1 but it was back then Now I just want to focus translating

If you do watch a race, i would recommend you start with the one that effectively put the series on the map in America: the 1979 Daytona 500. It genuinely had all the drama and excitement, including a fight at the end! The NASCAR official youtube channel uploaded it; I'd recommend you skip forward a bit (about 20 minutes) after driver lineups, though.

@Adam_OldRacingGames

6 ай бұрын

Thanks for the tip!

Bro you got to review NASCAR Rumble and Rumble Racing. They’re loosely connected, but they’re cult classics; especially the latter. It was ps one and ps two respectively. It’ll blow you away, yank.

I have great memories playing this game with my dad when i was a kid

5:06 there actually is no Podium finish for 2.nd or 3.rd in Nascar, there is only place for the winner in Victory Lane. And the best NR games are definitely Thunder 2004, but also 2005 Chase for The Cup and 2006 Total Team Control. Anything after that was either o.k., mediocre or very underwhelming.

@Adam_OldRacingGames

6 ай бұрын

I did wonder why it was only me stood up there 🥈

games that everyone who wants to learn about NASCAR should play include anything from NASCAR 98 all the way up to and including NASCAR 08 on the playstation 1 and 2, NR2003 if you want full simulation style, and Dirt to Daytona if you want one that has everything you could imagine. NASCAR 08 on the PS3 and xbox 360 are absolutely garbage and I recommend playing them on the PS2 for that reason. another one to check out is NASCAR Racing by Papyrus on the playstation as well. glad you seemed to enjoy this one as it's one from my childhood as well.

Nascar 98 was pretty decent for ea's first attempt on the ps1 I highly recommend nascar thunder 2004 on ps2 because the career mode is amazing However I wouldn't recommend actually watching modern nascar because the points system is so hilariously bad and the races are just 500 mile demolition derbys

America, fuck yeah!!!😂😂😂

try nascar thunder 2004. probably the best racing game ever. surely the best nascar game ever. yes, even 20 years later. 2005 was ok, but from there it went downhill quickly. to the nascar 21 game literally being a meme.

@Adam_OldRacingGames

6 ай бұрын

Maybe one day 😉

nascars are tougher than those other cars over across the pond just dont take it into the grass

@Wreckedftfoxy

6 ай бұрын

watch the cot series or anything from 2000-2015

The greatest motorsport ever!!! Enough of that open wheeled shit brother. Some other good NASCAR games to check out imo are NASCAR Thunder 2003, NASCAR Thunder 2004, NASCAR 2011: The Game, NASCAR 09 and my personal favorite Dirt to Daytona.

@Adam_OldRacingGames

6 ай бұрын

Haha I still like the open wheel shit too! I think I might have had Nascar 2006 at one point many years ago, but I remember nothing about it.

@Goatlowski

6 ай бұрын

@@Adam_OldRacingGames the best NASCAR expedite for retro gaming is Dirt to Daytona. I think it came out in Europe but the Thunder games did not.

@TPL-Motorsport

6 ай бұрын

@@Goatlowski Pretty much every NASCAR game from 01 to 05 never released internationally. Convenient that they start releasing them worldwide again only when they start to get worse lol

😀 Promo-SM

But there’s no podium in nascar. Only the first place gets to celebrate.

@Adam_OldRacingGames

6 ай бұрын

I can celebrate second if I want to 🤣