Motocross Madness 25 Years Later: An LGR Retrospective
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- čas přidán 3. 08. 2024
- A nostalgic review of Microsoft Motocross Madness from 1998! Rainbow Studios is well-known for their MX vs ATV series and related offroad video games, but years prior there was MCM for Windows 95 and 98 PCs. And it was excellent. That invisible out of bounds cannon never gets old!
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00:00 Motocross Madness, an introduction
02:17 Unboxing the big box
02:48 The dang game! And menus
05:11 Mad gameplay
07:46 Dolby Surround & Microsoft Freestyle Pro
10:07 Stunt Quarry, Baja, National Race, Supercross
12:55 The track editor
13:37 It's still good
14:13 Sequels, ATV Offroad Fury, MX vs ATV Unleashed
15:18 Outroduction
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the out of bounds feature had me and a group of friend all around a single computer laughing hysterically. and yeah... that sparse but large open world BLEW OUR MINDS
Same! Me and my brother were dying!
The same feature is in ATV Offroad Fury on the PS2. I'd nearly pee myself laughing when the rider gets flung back. *"Aaaaauuuuggghhhhhh...."*
It's also in MX vs. ATV All Out.
I'm so glad me and my buddy weren't alone in this. ^^
They kept doing that out of bounds feature in later games. MX Unleashed had it and so did early MX vs ATV games, I haven't tested if Legends has it or not.
Best feature in a game ever
The out of bounds cannon, those sounds bring me back. Best world boundary invention ever. More games needs this
MX Unleashed had it too
@MireGoji yeah, saw that in the vid. Never played it tho
ATV Off Road Fury 1 - 3 had it also.
I knew that from ATV Offroad Fury on my PS2. It was endlessly amusing as a kid
I think pretty much every off-road motocross game has had this feature.
My dad grew up with the lead designer for this game, Robb Rinard. They were best friends for years, and stayed in touch all the way up until Robb passed away around a year ago or so. He sent my dad development pre-release copies of all the games he worked on, and the one I remember the most was MCM2.
RIP Robb, thanks for the fun
I think Robb is the one narrating this video:
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He was fairly active in the mcm2 forums with us back then, didnt know he passed away, RIP.
RIP Robb. Thanks for the fun experiences you unknowingly sent the way of a solitary Indian teenager in the 2000s who had no friends other than his computer in his room.
That Microsoft opening animation of their games at that time was awesome.
Yup brings back memories of MIDTOWN MADNESS.
@@DimitriosChannel brings me back to flight simulator 98 lol
No doubt I saw that playing Age of Empires 1 but wonder if it was still being used when I was playing Allegiance and Crimson Skies in 2000.
@@bothellkenmoreCrimson Skies had it in 30FPS.
Got this in a double pack with Midtown Madness when I was a kid. Truly all I ever needed
My copy came with a sidewinders motion controller thing
I came to post that all 3 madness games were awesome! Monster Truck, Midtown, and Motocross!
Midtown Madness was mint!
And Monster truck madness. Got the cops called on me and my friend in my apartment as we were playing late and night and laughing too loud at a glitch that would cause one of our trucks to fly off into the sky.
Amazing
I'll never skip an LGR intro segment, not ever 👍👍
Right? I was like "who the hell skips the manual??"
@@brianmckinley4141 Bad people, that's who
@@brianmckinley4141 40% of viewers are sinners!
SUCH NOSTALGIA. Insane-speed huge jumps from the top of the cliffs kept teenage-me occupied for HOURS. Thank you for the feels.
This was easily one of my favorite games at the time. Glad it's not been forgotten.
Thank you for including the PRACTICE MOOODE. Such a classic.
Going at it alone
Made my day to see practice mode
For a kid who didn't care about extreme sports at all, this game really captivated me. Just getting to crap around in the sandbox was such a new concept I'd never really experienced. When I discovered the out of bounds 'minefield' as I called it, I was in awe, it felt so mysterious and weird. I thought if I tried hard enough I could avoid the mines and get further in the map.
Shared experience here lol, as a young child I always played the sandbox mode, and also thought the upper area was a minefield, spent countless hours trying to dodge the invisible mines lol. To also note, that sidewinder just collected dust, it kinda sucked
This and Moto Racer were my favorite bike games at the time. Rigorously played with keyboard, because the flight stick I had was accurate, but the dead zone was abysmal, having to steer all the way to turn (at the time I didn't want to risk with setting and I had no idea what a dead zone was).
In PC shops I always saw the Sidewinders (especially the FF types, can't remember if the pad had any) with envy. Good thing nowadays all you need is XINPUT and every pad has force feedback...as much as two rolling weights in the pad's handles can give as feedback.
I was ten in 1998, how could this possibly NOT captivate me completely? This game blew my mind and was a sign of things to come. I just loved my PC so much.
Same year as Trespasser. My first PC was a 400MHZ Celeron.
Same age as you, played on a Pentium 1 133mhz with a voodoo3, it had a 1gb 5.25 hard drive and the classic 56k modem noise indeed. Still a MX addict to this day (2 ktms right now)
@@Frank88Workz I remember having a pc with a pentium 1 133mhz processor too and at one point I think my dad upgraded it to like 400 mhz. I also remember going to a friends house and being wowed at his pc cause it had a pentium 3? With 800 mhz.
I was 9 and played the demo for hours and hours.
Thanks for this video! I was hired by Rainbow in 2004 and got to work as a programmer on the entire run of original MX vs ATV series (Unleashed thru Alive). Untamed is my favorite simply due to all the great memories working on it. So many talented people worked at that studio and went on to do amazing things!
Do you still work in the industry or did you move on after Rainbow?
Wow nice, Unleashed and Alive are my favourites
Thank you for reflex!
That beginning - Clint really knew what was the best part of that game
something i love about this era of games that just had seemingly endless barren landscapes, as a teenager playing these the sense of freedom compared to previous generations of games was something ive not experienced since
Smuggler's Run comes to mind. There was this level set in Russia my brother and I would play and you could go into the mountains and even go onto this giant frozen lake
Beamng Drive brings back most of that nostalgic exploration for me. It even has a cannon, but you can go as far out of bounds as you like on some maps. Tons of user created addons, and no arcade physics.
The only downside is that it is pushing me to upgrade my CPU to be able to handle more than 4 vehicles at once (ai, or multiplayer)
@@sjeses 2015 isn't nostalgic... Also by 2015 video games could easily include huge open worlds.
@@norkshit I don't know how to put it but back in a day open world games or even the ones that were linear still felt more open and full of life then compared to today's games.
One example, I still to this day find San Andreas the ''biggest'' GTA ever because on top of lots of features the map aka world is full of attention to details and is well designed. GTA5 falls flat, it have allegedly a big map but feels more like I am exploring a neighborhood and not 4 cities so as wilderness. Everything is so linear and stupidly designed. The most you drive on are highways and main roads, there was always zero reason to go anywhere else. Plus the limited speed of vehicles feels like I am driving a Fiat500 and not a sportscar ... Everything about GTA5 it is just dumb.
SA might be clunky by today's standards but it actually have damn content and a world to play with...
The modern indie game scene has kept the "fun before realism" spirit alive. The Madness game's oversized maps reminded me of a weirdcore indie game called "Juice Galaxy". It has a giant world, tons of secrets with lots of ways to completely break the game.
Also I can second the recommendation for BeamNG drive.
THIS GAME was my everything back when it came out! Motor Madness 2 even better. Oh yea practice mode, no time just yourself...the best. I remember specfically playing it on an awesome Toshiba Laptop(that i adored) my pop had bought me for my bday. I was 13 and life was so much different obviously, wish i could go back so much. I could go and on about all things related, instead rather just watch and reminisce of times i long for so much. Love you Pop, miss you so much.
12:58 Seeing you open the track editor through the old start menu awakened memories I didn't know my brain stored
Exactly hehe
Oh man, this brings back memories! The demo of this was included on Windows 98 SE alongside demos of Monstertruck Madness II, Age of Empires: Rise of Rome and Microsoft Pinball Arcade 🥰
Yes! That might've been where I got the demo, I'm not sure. The timeframe matches up though and I very much enjoyed those other demos, too.
From this, to solitaire and pinball space cadet on XP... to preinstalled candy crush and tiktok on W10/11.. how times have changed 😓
Yes! I still have my old 98 SE disc from the Dell Dimension XPS 450 that my parents got way back in 1998/1999 or whatever. The AoE:RoR demo was just three campaign scenarios that actually never made it into the full game as far as I'm aware, but the second one could be played as a sort of 1v1 map due to how it was laid out, so long as you didn't mind the AI not really being smart enough to attack you.
Between the AoE:RoR, Microsoft Pinball, and Motocross Madness demos, my early teen years were set until I ended up using my allowance to buy Unreal Gold, followed by Unreal Tournament 99 and The Sims, among others, all of which I also still have the original CD-ROMs for. Lost the boxes in my last move, but I saved the parts that count most.
Played those demos so much, my mom was able to get all the Windows releases from her work, 95/98 used to come preinstalled with so many games it was great
@@7-8-7 truly, we live in a dark timeline
I remember as a kid trying to stay up late as I physically could and recall seeing some of those insane stunt compilation ads, they usually aired shortly after the Girls Gone Wild commercials 😂
Funny how quickly times change… now you get that stuff anytime of day!
Oh yeah Girls Gone Wild, my dad had a lot of those DVD’s.
I found them very boring even as a young man.
@@casedistorted weird flex but ok
It's amazing how this channel keeps unlocking childhood memories.
And it also makes me realize all the free time I had as a kid and how lucky I was. I could play sports, go to school and still find tons of time for games. Piracy probably helped in that regard (sadly officially licensed games were super rare and expensive in most of the third world) but damn I did try many, many games.
Makes me realize I just complain I don't have time to play nowdays. I have It's just that mindless scrolling on the phone or watching streaming services with my couple takes up more time than it should probably. 😂
I played this with the Microsoft Sidewinder Joystick and it was still to this day the most exhilarating fun I've had in a game.
I love you covering these late 90s games when there was so much crazy stuff around, everything seemed possible and having fun was the #1 concern.
This and Monster Truck Madness were my go to back in the day, freaking loved them!
Same, I never really got into games, but these were my 2 favorites also.
" is doing it, in the air!"
holy crap, yeah!
“Hey, I’m still in here!”
I have fond memories of playing _ATV Offroad Fury_ with my brother on our aunt's PS2, bumping to "What's Golden" by Jurassic 5 on its soundtrack as we would get into "chases" with the trains on a few maps, compete with each other to see who can launch themselves farthest via the out-of-bounds launcher, or just exploring every nook and cranny we could find. Good times.
I sunk an ungodly number of hours into ATV Offroad Fury and Jeremy McGrath's Supercross World as a kid ._.
That is it, that is the game I was thinking of!
Watching this whole video, I had Blazin Trails and ATVOF4/Pro on my mind the whole time. Turns out, Rainbow made ATV1 and 2!
We played so much of this back when I was in 7th grade. Kazaa and Limewire on the school computers, Age of Empires, MM, learning HTML. Truly a golden age of computing and what IT would let slide.
I just started playing the Rise of Empires mobile game about a year ago, an MMO based on all age of empires stuff with added features and i have been absolutely obsessedddd.
Another one of my big favorites was the Heroes of Might and Magic series. Particularly 3, of course.
I spent a MILLION hours playing this game when I was a kid! MCM2 absolutely blew my mind when it came out, it was such a huge upgrade.
Could never get into 2. Seemed horrible to control compared to 1. Never had anywhere near as much fun with it
I remember playing this for hours at a time, almost exclusively doing massive jumps in the quarry. It had some sort of serene tranquility to it and it was almost meditative to play at times. It didn`t have much, but it had that one thing that really stuck with me. Loved the video Clint, you always have me remember the ”good old days” with a rose tinted view.
Back then I was very impressed with the smoothness of the terrain and the long draw distance.
i spent so many hours on this game as a kid. glad you're bringing light to it. hidden gem.
I spent hours on the demo version. I definitely ran up the sides of those cliffs. Did you ever find the little mini copy of the course while you were exploring? If you search around the desert, you'll find a familiar-looking depression in the ground that looks just like the main course with all the features... just in a tiny scale.
I used to play with the demo too I totally forgot about this game before playing the video
I also only had the demo but it felt like a whole game. I played it with a Sidewinder Joystick, worked superbly well. And yes, the mini copy. Man 25 later and I still remember the layout of that course.
Man, these 90's games make me cry from nostalgia. I was a newlywed E-5 in the Army stationed in Vicenza with a kid on the way. I picked this up from the PX back then. TY for the trip down memory lane LGR.
The cannon shot back in bounds awoke so many good memories within me. Thank you for featuring this great game.
OMG, this is one of those games that I've played for hundreds of hours back in the day but had totally left my memories afterwards. Never thought of it again. Until I saw (and HEARD!) your intro. Amazing. This is why I follow your channel :)
I'm surprised by how good this game looks 25 years later.
Yeah, there was another game in 1998 that could boast of large open environments (Delta Force which also contained buildings, grass and trees), but the trade-off was blurry voxel-based graphics.
@@IsmailofeRegime Another game of that era that gives me good vibes. Still felt open enough at least in the turn of the millennium.
The 90's nostalgia is so strong I can smell it! I feel like I'm in high school again.
the nostalgia, i used to play this game constantly when i was younger. the cannon was always hilarious for me and my mates, i wish games brought that back as an way to prevent gamers leaving the game world.
Can't believe it's been 25 years! I LOVED this game as a kid. NOSTALGIA!!! 🤯
I remember putting on the Offspring and playing this. Really fit. I think it was the Americana album. Oh the teenage years.
Man, if there was a band that wholly encompassed 2000-2010 high school, it was The Offspring.
Welcome to a-meri-cana...that was their best album.
matrix moment while reading this comment, the previous song on my playlist just seconds ago was "gone away"
I played this for years. I had the three pack and got it for Monster Truck Madness 2, but this was the gem I didn't know I needed. Spent days in the editor make tracks were you jumped into each other.
Same here, was extremely excited as a child.
Clint, I’ve watched your videos for years. Most of this stuff came out before I was even born. Always enjoyable though. Thank you.
Hell yes! Love the Retrospect on the Madness series. There's still an active community behind the Madness games (Madness Crew!)
1000000% recommend this comment if anyone loves these games as much as we do!
Oh the nostalgia! I got this back in 1998 bundled with the Sidewinder! I'm so glad you covered both the game and peripheral! That's why you're one of my alltime favorite youtubers!
Me too. The motion controls on the Sidewinder Freestyle Pro were pretty neat in 1998. And it had this weird USB adapter in addition to the game port interface.
Damn this is what I had too. I think it came with our gateway PC but it might have been separate.
You just brought back a huge wave of nostalgia. I played this as part of the holy trinity back in the day. This one was probably my favorite out of the 3. I remember spending countless hours in the track editor making the stupidest tracks and causing the AI to crash into each other.
Wow you really brought me back with this one. My dad wasalways bringing home big box PC games for me to play, and these sounds take me straight back to sitting in my dad's home office while he worked and played this game for hours (along with Monster Truck Madness and a variety of others). Loved this game and nothing beats that out-of-bounds effect.
Awesome to see another video review on a Madness Series game! There is still a very active player base behind all of these games in a community called “Madness Crew!”
wow, I've been asking for this since you reviewed midtown madness for the first time
glad you got around to it man
My brothers and I sitting around our PC all taking turns playing this game. Good memories! Soon after, playing the Fury games on the PS2 was a normal Saturday morning ritual with my brothers.
Awesome review! Thank you for always bringing awesome nostalgia PC content to today, appreciate your work!
Loved this game! Out of bounds was EPIC when you first discovered it!! Then became one of the favorite parts of the game....hours of enjoyment!!!
The fact that you opened with the one thing I did over and over for hours just filled my heart. Endlessly tossing buddy never got old.
This was one of the coolest demo pc-game I had as a kid.
Man reading these comments is great. To know there were so many of us in the 90’s all over the world just out bounds cannoning for the hell of it is awesome
I haven't been able to remember the name of this game for years! I'm incredibly happy to have discovered your channel so I could relive this part of my childhood 😁
Played just the demo for hours on my family’s Gateway computer. Pure nostalgia.
Oh god, this was one of the first games installed on my very first PC. It was just a demo, but little dumb me had a blast with it! Such a nostalgia trip, thank you!
Motocross Madness always felt like my gaming secret. I played it as a kid when it came out and have been pulling it out to surprise people with it ever since. Great review!
I played the heck out of this game! This brings me back, you nailed the review. Baja and Stunt Quarry were the best, and there really was something meditative about riding the practically endless feeling maps.
2:48 Oh that intro is just instant nostalgia for multiple games. Alongside early EA's "It's in the game"
Age of Empires 1 had the same Microsoft intro, IIRC. Saw it so many times.
I miss ea from those days. My favorite was "challenge everything"
EA now: "It's in the microtransactions"
Oh man, waves of nostalgia are washing over me like sweet wine
Thank you clint for bringing this up. So much nostalgia playing this game during teenage years
*_Crusty 1 - 4 are legendary MX films. A must watch._*
i played the heck out of this when i was younger. what a blast from the past.
MX Unleashed was a big part of my childhood. I liked flying the helicopter and biplane. The soundtrack of the game is great.
ahhhh another fabulous trip down memory lane. i was addicted to this and the 2nd. loved going oob and yeeting as well. good show!
I really want to play this again! Thanks for the upload LGR
I played this at a computer show in '98 when I was 12, and it blew me away. I'm kind of shocked at how good the shadows still look, too.
OMG THIS... THIS was such a large part of my Childhood! Thank you for the hit of Nostalgia.
Thanks for this great video! I used to play this in my childhood and watching the video made me feel again the same sensations the game was giving me at the time. Remembering how it was to be a child it's been an heartful experience.
Oh man thanks for bringing those memories!
I played that game non stop when it came out, it was my absolute favorite!
HOW DID I FORGET ABOUT THIS GAME???!!?!
I seriously had this tucked away in some deep part of my memories until now. Man, this game brought back a flood of fun times I had playing this game with my brothers.
I always loved the delightful "woah!" the riders yell when they fall.
Awesome! My childhood! Thx man! Keep on making videos 🙏
man.. seeing this awakens parts of my brain that have been dormant for decades. played this so much when i was a kid
the Out of Bounds cannon is being kept alive today by Descenders, a procedural generation mountain bike game that you can tell has a lot of MCM love behind the team
I remember playing this demo long ago. And I remember I used to edit the texture file in Ms paint and being able to see it in the game. Loved this and midtown madness.
I love the nostalgia. Thank you for sharing brother.
Thank you! I’ve been wanting to play this and forgot the name, I had such great memories. That sound of the bike is so nostalgic.
Man this brings me back! I got a copy of this with a Microsoft Sidewinder Freestyle game pad. My brother and I would make crazy tracks where the paths would criss cross over each other and laugh whenever we would crash into bikes that were way ahead or behind us in the standings. So much fun!
As a kid I definitely enjoyed motercross madness 2 quite a lot, that one really takes me back.
Thank you! This was honest-to-god one of my favourite games of all time! : D
Running it into the sky like you did in the intro was literally my favorite thing to do LOL. So glad I am not the only one.
I had this, midtown madness, and monster truck madness as a kid. They’re still some of the most fun I’ve ever had with games.
True, and the OSTs are brutal
I used to love Motorcross Madness 2 as a kid. I remember keeping up with the AI felt impossible in races back then, but I didn't care as I would just go off track and explore the huge maps for hours.
Same for this one, the AI was brutal but the open-ended map was welcoming. Great times just riding around doing basically nothing!
@@LGR is your clone still alive?
^only during December
I spent so many hours on this game, monster truck madness and midtown madness 1 and 2. Can't wait for your review on those titles as well.
Btw I love the unboxing section, brings back so many good memories.
Thanks again for a great blast from the past. Hope 2023 is going well for you and hope no more water issues lol. Really hoping for a tour of the house and all that sweet sweet wood grain. Really need to get a picture of the old dresser had a crazy halfman halfpig face in the grain really freaky lol
this was the coolest thing ever as a kid, computers, games and motocross all in one.. pure heaven.
Played this game for months when it came out. Me and my brother had a blast with this. Love these old game Reviews from you. Cheerz
The sequel was the one I played and I loved the hell out of it. Would love to see you cover that as well.
I loved going out of the map bounds and being flung, thank you for bringing back the nostalgia!
I love your game reviews. Super comfy
So much nostalgia, I want to download and play this again
This game was ground breaking when it came to graphics. The large open maps but mostly the hills being ROUNDED. That was a huge leap forward at the time where every surface in all games were very basic polygons.
oh my god thank u LGR!!! I had so much fun with this game as a kid and I don't think I've ever met another person who had it as well
I never played 1, but I must have put hundreds of hours into Motocross Madness 2 in the early 2000s. So much fun, great review!
It’s been years and hearing “Practice Moooooode” still makes me laugh!!
Honestly, that xbox 360 motocross with the avatars was pretty dope, I played that game so much as a kid and would vibe in the freestyle mode for hours, cool to see where that actually started
Finally just got into it with my kids after having downloaded it as part of Xbox gold many, many moons ago
Microsoft Motocross Madness Trial - I shall never forget you. Thank you for the childhood memories
glad to see you opened with the out of bounds thing. I loved that about this game when I was a kid, it was always hilarious
this series was a fond part of my childhood
Love this game! I remember playing the trial version alongside Monster Truck Madness 2 and Age of Empires. All thanks to Combat Flight Simulator. Wish it was on Steam. There was a sequel and the 2008 version on Xbox 360, but it’s not the same.
I'm always amazed at how much my taste and yours overlap, LGR, and how we gravitated towards the same games. I doubt we'll ever meet but if I did, I feel like we could talk forever about gaming! The way this video starts proves it.
happy to see you reviewing this