This was the first NASCAR game EA made after the death of Dale Earnhardt, so they decided to put that little homage to him by showing his #3 before the EA Sports intro. Really cool stuff from them.

@CEO100able

7 жыл бұрын

Mm-hmm. That's why they no longer featured Dale Earnhardt's #3 car from this game on.

@alexandredaigle8479

7 жыл бұрын

They didn't feature it as a normal because nobody ran the number 3, and Sr. is actually in every game after this, as an unlockable or buyable thunder plate

@dewaynewhite2928

4 жыл бұрын

Teresa would sue!!

@Supersonicspyro

3 жыл бұрын

@@CEO100able Earnhardt was in 03-07 as a special unlock lol

@CEO100able

3 жыл бұрын

@@Supersonicspyro I didn't realize that until after I posted my other reply here. My mistake. Thanks for informing me that though!

*Turns off Sweet Home Alabama*

@LAZERLUKE109

2 ай бұрын

Fans: Everyone disliked that

I have the PlayStation 2 version. It's strange this game was never released on the PC.

@1BYEBYE1

Жыл бұрын

That's because we got nascar 2002 season by papyrus which is one of the best nascar games of all time.

@purwantiallan5089

11 ай бұрын

NASCAR THUNDER 2002 also has very good visuals. Way better than even PROJECT CARS 3 and GT7.

This was my game on ps2 when i was 7 or 8.

@reeceschrock396

6 жыл бұрын

same bro

@YungMoney420

4 жыл бұрын

Same bro

@Complicate2k

4 жыл бұрын

Ong

@dylanrodriguez8219

3 жыл бұрын

you have kids now

This was my first NASCAR game I ever played back in 2003 and seeing this brings back so many nostalgic memories!

@purwantiallan5089

11 ай бұрын

Me too man. Setsuna Yuki still owned a copy of NT2002.

2023, NASCAR THUNDER 2002 still is one of the GOATED NASCAR Games. Even miles above Gran Turismo 7!

This was the first video game I ever paid for with my own money. It was $19.99 at Toys-r-us, the good ole days.

It does my heart good seeing you pick Jeff Burton 😌

@babystrawberries6629

2 жыл бұрын

You the man

Ward and Jeff Burton are from the same town as I am, my mom actually went to school with Jeff when they were kids

Thinking bout getting out my old og xbox and playing these bad boys.

Nice brow!! Wicht nascar from ps2 do you prefer?

Holy crap... I think this was the one I played. I couldn't remember the name of this for SOOOO LONG!!!! I only played this like, once back in 2012, & never knew of how old this game was. Back in 2012, you could've TOLD me this was just released in 2012, & I would've believed you! It took me until THIS FREAKIN' LONG to find out that this game came out in 2001!

THERE ARE 2 MICHAEL WALTRIPS

RIP Dale/Dael it's been 20 years now #3forever

Lol i had this when i was 6-8 and all i really did was wake up in the morning for school eat Spaghetti O's for breakfast in my room, boot up ps2 and Play a round with a car i created with fire and max speed and shit lol.. Little do you know i knew nothing about racing at the time, so all i did was go the opposide/wrong way, and crash into other cars at full speed XD theyd go on fire and everything went crazy XD

@jptwentyfour887

3 жыл бұрын

I was playing nascar 98 on ps1 when I was 8. Going back those cars looked like absolute pancakesbut I did enjoy the nascar thunder series the best

Sure let's give Bobby Labonte 9 different skins but let's not give a second one at all to Mark Martin...

@williamfreeburg1038

3 жыл бұрын

It’s all about the licensing and they couldn’t even put his primary sponsors logo (Viagra) on the car.

@qb1578

3 жыл бұрын

Or Coors Light sponsor for Sterling Martin

@emobassist

2 жыл бұрын

@@williamfreeburg1038 at least after this they got smart and put pfizer on the car

@emobassist

2 жыл бұрын

@@qb1578 as a kid who played these back in the day it really suprised me to see alcohol sponsers in nascar heat

Wish the cars sounded like this in 2003 and 2004 instead of that weird underwater sound.

hey i cant not find download iso this game

Almost 20 Years Later and I'm still wrecking the competition because screw etiquette, it turns oval racing into a boring midday slog of rush hour traffic. Filthy racing makes oval races exciting and entertaining.

@purwantiallan5089

11 ай бұрын

No doubt. Worth 100 bucks.

Always thought it was odd, these games always had the #43 & #45 but never the #44

@BigSmith2448

2 жыл бұрын

Kyle Petty drove the 44, his son drove the 45 and then he died in a crash. Didn’t Kyle move to the 45 to carry on his sons memory? I could be wrong but I thought that’s why the 44 wasn’t run for awhile.

@ChiChiWoo

Жыл бұрын

buckshot jones and christian fittipaldi ran the 44 car before. maybe due to licensing issues.

First video game I ever played.

I still have this game in ps2, but I have a problem playing the Tallahassee track car. It always freezes the game. It might be because of the disc.

Wow 200 mph has never looked slower.

@purwantiallan5089

11 ай бұрын

Yep. 217mph also.

como hago para jugar en formato dvd y no en cd ya que lo ise prueva en dvd y no funciona

How are you playing this. I need to play this game agian on my ps1

@emobassist

2 жыл бұрын

This is the ps2 version the ps1 version sucks

this game looked like it had cell shaded graphics a bit

Where’s Victory Lane?

What's your specs?

@xTimelessGaming

7 жыл бұрын

i7-4790k 12gb ram Gtx 1070

@brandonthornton9136

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks

rip dale sr

How did you get this in hd

@xTimelessGaming

6 жыл бұрын

Emulator.

@CEO100able

5 жыл бұрын

@@xTimelessGaming I personally prefer to use real hardware.

@whatsupbossanova

4 жыл бұрын

FrAnky Cee even with component cables PlayStation 2 video output looks messy, this type of quality is more accurate to getting component cables for the Xbox version

@jordanclark5360

4 жыл бұрын

Gyros.Cheese what are component cables? Like I just got a ps2 slim to play these games and I was wonder what I have or what I need?

@realone3602

4 жыл бұрын

@@whatsupbossanova with free mc boot memory card and gsm it can upscale your tV to 1080i. Looks beautiful on my 50 inch HD TV. People freak out when they see ps2 quality on my HD TV lol

N2SC4R like this videogame, but he's not playing on Emulator.

Car models looked like crap compared to 2001.

@scottylewis8124

2 жыл бұрын

PS2 graphics had limitations. Plus, this game came out in 2001.

@rdaws73

2 жыл бұрын

@@scottylewis8124 Miss took what I meant. NASCAR 2001 the game looked better than NASCAR Thunder 2002.

@scottylewis8124

2 жыл бұрын

@@rdaws73 oh...