The computer I had didn't have the sound card required to play the music or the sounds properly, so I was limited to the inbuilt PC soundchip, which could only generate one sound at a time. Therefore the music that played was just the bass line, and you could hear the engine, the squealing tires, _or_ the sound of impacting the wall, but not more than one at a time.
As a 7/8 year old in the early 90's playing this on DOS, as soon as I found out you could smash into other cars and watch an instant replay of loads of debris and pixels go flying everywhere, I thought AWESOME. So every time I played this game I just used to smash into other cars and go the wrong way. It was so much fun. Never completed one lap hahahahaha.
Seriously, this theme send chlls to my spine when I hear it for first time!! Can't remember the exact date, but was circa 1991, we brought a Sound blaster pro pack, which came with a Cdrom X2 drive AND two or three games (can't remember which games) but one of them was this, Indianapolis 500. I already played this game with a pirate copy, on our XT with Hercules (I DO remember that in that version the car view was fixed, the wheels wouldn't turn at all), By then we had a 80386 DX 33 with 4 mb ram. We were used to the pc speaker sound... Then we installed the Sound blaster pro and installed this game. When this music came it was just... awesome!! it was feeling that the EXPENSIVE sound blaster pro really worth its money and would change our lives!! (which indeed, did), if I recall the second game we played on this setup was Megarace.
Fantastic! This game was so important on my life. Good memories. At that time, I remember that the graphic of the game was wonderful. The level of the game It was very difficult it was necessary to have many skills. Had one more two cars in the game, the red and the yellow, they were left out of the video. Thank you so much for the video!
I used to play this game in a secure government facility in Australia when I was a kid, I would go into work with my dad and find an office not being used. Best game ever lol
anyone else remembers this crashing all the time? felt like almost 50% of the time it would freeze during the Intro. And then during gameplay, you never knew when it suddenly stopped working. back in the day, it was something you accepted with PC games. sometimes they crash. but i distinctly remember, that this game was particularly bad.
Since there is no save game feature, I drove the 200 lap race only once. Qualified second row in the March (blue car). Didn't have a fast race setup. Would have gotten lapped more than once, but I took advantage of yellows to pit whenever I could. Some of the fast cars dropped out or crashed, while I made up ground on others when they had to pit under green (the AI did not have good pit strategy). I won by about 25 seconds.
Wow, when you switched to the blue car I immediately got a jolt because the blue car is the fast one. Funny that I got that back flash 28 years later. I used to bicycle to the library because that was the only place with access to this new curious thing I stumbled upon one day in the library. This computer which was fascinating by itself back in 1989. This computer though has some strange library of files seemingly coming from nowhere or some friendly librarians had put it there. It was bulletin board systems. I found a ton of fun games including Indianapolis 500 back then, copied them out to a stack of floppies and rode my bike back to my PC with my loot hoping that one of the floppies hadn't died causing data loss during my feisty journey. I even shoplifted Doom and rode my bike over to him so he could copy it because we didn't have any internet. I am so ashamed of it but I was a stupid geek kid. This was the early days of being a pirate, ARRRRRR!!! This game struggled a bit when entering the crowd area when I ran it on my 8086 CPU and the sound is clearly not the same as a 1989 computer speaker. Back then sound-cards and graphics-cards hadn't even been considered yet for PC's because even PC's were a new thing back then.
Yes, what you see in this video would be a dream set up. Ahoy matey salute from a fellow adventurer of the bytestream oceans arrr (I got my copy from a friend of a friend who had access to a BBS) Update: in my defense, where I lived this game wasn't even for sale, you couldn't have it any other way. Update 2: still wrong and I am now a dumb kid anymore. Stay in school. Drink milk. And uhh be nice 👍.
You were not alone. Everyone's first experience with this game was... "Wow, this is HARD". then there was a choice, get good or drive against the flow and smash everybody else
I had this back in the day on my 486 25MHz Packard Bell. Didn't remember I had played it until I saw an LGR video where it was bundled free with a Sound Blaster Pro 2.0.
i never get the grasp of what the 2 levers on the left are for ... only now i understand that they are for dynamic change rollbars stiffness, correct? or move ballast, i don't remember.... i hate to race and have the cpu car poke inside my car and spun me out in the barrier... as i kid i usually last 30 laps before crashing in someone,put her in the wall or being spun out... i hate that i have to use keypad to drive it... my little kid finger always mess up between the keys (i always prefer the arrow keys,more manageble ) . ahhh how the time fly by...
When I was a kid like 10 year old I had only a C64 at home. So for a few weekends I broke into the JuniorHighSchool building to play Indianapolis 500 on the PCs there. I didn't damage anything, I simply knew a secret way through one of the windows. I would go crazy if my sons would do anything "criminal" like that today - kind of unfair I guess.
Curious, how expensive would the PC to play this well have been back in the day? It's half melted Ice Blocks to us now, but I'd imagine this was fairly high-end in 1989.
Did you use the keyboard to drive or the mouse? I was told by someone that using the mouse was much better for the curves... but I've never managed to use it... only with keyboard. I might have taken thousand laps on this game as well, it was awesome for its time.
+Olavo Dias Joystick CH Flightstick but with bad potentiometers though, so cannot calibrate stick corretly, as you can see it was hard to keep on curvers here in this video, but with my better joystick i can make more perfect laps.
Its nuts. Looking back the graphics are so poor (I think quick for the time though) yet I played it for ages. Didn't have many games on the 386. I'd drive the wrong way though to cause massive pileups.
I know I did a 233... but maybe my memory is confused. I remember using the red car to qualify though and the yellow to race. I finished no higher than 4th in the 4 o 5 times I was able to run the full 500 mile race.
I found this on the school computers in 1990. My time was faster though. You gotta - tune that car right. - drive carefully. - not carry too much fuel. Drive 1st lap to get to speed when entering 2nd lap and only carry enough fuel to get through 2nd lap. I serioisly forgot how great the game was to play and how bad the graphics are.
I don't remember playing this game with sound. Maybe I was using the PC speaker. The game and the music is great but that engine sound gets annoying so quickly :p
I liked to drive against the flow and cause major accidents :-)
Me too
Lol as did I!
Same here, and hear those funky glitchy sounds
Doesn't everybody else?
yeah, I did it too dude LoL
That music hit me like a time machine! Like a Stargate! I was 28yo when I first played this. Geez, that would make me 60!
26 and just played it again. Last time I played it was when I was 6.
The computer I had didn't have the sound card required to play the music or the sounds properly, so I was limited to the inbuilt PC soundchip, which could only generate one sound at a time. Therefore the music that played was just the bass line, and you could hear the engine, the squealing tires, _or_ the sound of impacting the wall, but not more than one at a time.
I'm 28 and just playing it since i was 6.
I was 8 with our PC 80286... In 1990...
As a 7/8 year old in the early 90's playing this on DOS, as soon as I found out you could smash into other cars and watch an instant replay of loads of debris and pixels go flying everywhere, I thought AWESOME. So every time I played this game I just used to smash into other cars and go the wrong way. It was so much fun. Never completed one lap hahahahaha.
i remember going the wrong way on nascar 2000 haha. funny times
@@n0m0repa1n haha. Sure was man.
I did that a lot in NFS 1 and 2, hhahahaa... Kids being kids i guess...
@@sophiacristina yeh man was awesome.
I used to play this game just about everyday when I came home from school! The early 90's were a great time as a kid haha
ohhhhh yes
Same🤣
Anyone else drive the wrong way on the track after a while just to cause huge accidents 😂
@@RobertNES816 I was, video games didn't have black flags back in the days 🙃
Yes it was. So many cool inventions and no cell phones. Kids actually interacted with each other!
The PC speaker sounds used to drive my mother nuts. Fun times!
lol only God knows how many hours i have spent with this game :3
The crashes! I spent so many fun hours just turning around and going the wrong way :D
Me too!
That was extremely good simulator. Nothing similar at that time.
@@DannyPeck That was the only way to win a race (10 laps...) I completed only once 60 laps...
A masterpiece. 5 years ahead of its time. Still holds Up today.
I don't know about all that still holding up today.
When cars crash head-on the debris is incredible.
Eight Virtues that's all we used to do playing this game back in the day and then watch the replays
Seriously, this theme send chlls to my spine when I hear it for first time!!
Can't remember the exact date, but was circa 1991, we brought a Sound blaster pro pack, which came with a Cdrom X2 drive AND two or three games (can't remember which games) but one of them was this, Indianapolis 500.
I already played this game with a pirate copy, on our XT with Hercules (I DO remember that in that version the car view was fixed, the wheels wouldn't turn at all), By then we had a 80386 DX 33 with 4 mb ram.
We were used to the pc speaker sound... Then we installed the Sound blaster pro and installed this game. When this music came it was just... awesome!! it was feeling that the EXPENSIVE sound blaster pro really worth its money and would change our lives!! (which indeed, did), if I recall the second game we played on this setup was Megarace.
Fantastic! This game was so important on my life. Good memories. At that time, I remember that the graphic of the game was wonderful. The level of the game It was very difficult it was necessary to have many skills. Had one more two cars in the game, the red and the yellow, they were left out of the video.
Thank you so much for the video!
OMG I used to LOVE this! Played it for hours.
I was addicted to this game.
Super souvenir ! J'en ai passé du temps sur ce jeu !
I used to play this game in a secure government facility in Australia when I was a kid, I would go into work with my dad and find an office not being used. Best game ever lol
anyone else remembers this crashing all the time?
felt like almost 50% of the time it would freeze during the Intro.
And then during gameplay, you never knew when it suddenly stopped working.
back in the day, it was something you accepted with PC games. sometimes they crash. but i distinctly remember, that this game was particularly bad.
Yup, that happen with some PC's, i remenber with the Red Baron (i love that game) my PC used to sound like an engine and the game sometimes crash
no, just cooking my engines mostly.. from memory the lola was fastest, but overheats easy
my god i must have done 1000's of laps great game for the time
Used to love this a a kid, often kept cooking my engines though.
Thank you for sharing this video. I used to play this for hours on end as a kid.
Since there is no save game feature, I drove the 200 lap race only once. Qualified second row in the March (blue car). Didn't have a fast race setup. Would have gotten lapped more than once, but I took advantage of yellows to pit whenever I could. Some of the fast cars dropped out or crashed, while I made up ground on others when they had to pit under green (the AI did not have good pit strategy). I won by about 25 seconds.
This is my childhood babysitter
joguei muito, sdds
Wow, when you switched to the blue car I immediately got a jolt because the blue car is the fast one. Funny that I got that back flash 28 years later. I used to bicycle to the library because that was the only place with access to this new curious thing I stumbled upon one day in the library. This computer which was fascinating by itself back in 1989. This computer though has some strange library of files seemingly coming from nowhere or some friendly librarians had put it there. It was bulletin board systems. I found a ton of fun games including Indianapolis 500 back then, copied them out to a stack of floppies and rode my bike back to my PC with my loot hoping that one of the floppies hadn't died causing data loss during my feisty journey. I even shoplifted Doom and rode my bike over to him so he could copy it because we didn't have any internet. I am so ashamed of it but I was a stupid geek kid. This was the early days of being a pirate, ARRRRRR!!!
This game struggled a bit when entering the crowd area when I ran it on my 8086 CPU and the sound is clearly not the same as a 1989 computer speaker. Back then sound-cards and graphics-cards hadn't even been considered yet for PC's because even PC's were a new thing back then.
Yes, what you see in this video would be a dream set up.
Ahoy matey salute from a fellow adventurer of the bytestream oceans arrr (I got my copy from a friend of a friend who had access to a BBS)
Update: in my defense, where I lived this game wasn't even for sale, you couldn't have it any other way. Update 2: still wrong and I am now a dumb kid anymore. Stay in school. Drink milk. And uhh be nice 👍.
So. Many. Memories. I was so terrible at this game, but loved it.
You were not alone. Everyone's first experience with this game was... "Wow, this is HARD". then there was a choice, get good or drive against the flow and smash everybody else
I had this back in the day on my 486 25MHz Packard Bell. Didn't remember I had played it until I saw an LGR video where it was bundled free with a Sound Blaster Pro 2.0.
Back in the early 90s I played this game on my first computer. Such great memories.
386 4Mhz 4Mb RAM here. It ran quite slow on mine. I upgraded to 486 16Mhz and suddenly a whole new world opened up.
My fave PC/DOS game - esp bumping into others and its a chain accident
This and 4D Boxing... wonderful DOS 3d graphics.
Now you check the thumbnail of F1 2017 and you don't even know if it is a game or a still from the tv
Caraca, esse foi o primeiro indicar pra PC?😮😮
Wow, they graphics look great! Looks very similar to Stunts, I wonder if they share the graphics engine partially?
Imagine this on the SNES using the Super FX chip or on the Megadrive using the SVP chip.
Minha infância aí.... indi, gp3m prince of persia.... obrigado meu Deus
i never get the grasp of what the 2 levers on the left are for ... only now i understand that they are for dynamic change rollbars stiffness, correct? or move ballast, i don't remember....
i hate to race and have the cpu car poke inside my car and spun me out in the barrier... as i kid i usually last 30 laps before crashing in someone,put her in the wall or being spun out... i hate that i have to use keypad to drive it... my little kid finger always mess up between the keys (i always prefer the arrow keys,more manageble ) . ahhh how the time fly by...
I got this game for free when I bought an old sound blaster pro 8 bits.!!!
mee too
That's how I acquired it too...lol
oh, that's where it came from! thanks...
whoa
I never saw this in color
When I was a kid like 10 year old I had only a C64 at home. So for a few weekends I broke into the JuniorHighSchool building to play Indianapolis 500 on the PCs there. I didn't damage anything, I simply knew a secret way through one of the windows.
I would go crazy if my sons would do anything "criminal" like that today - kind of unfair I guess.
I used to drive around in the wrong direction trying to make head to head impact with the other cars for the cool particle effect
Loved this!!
Maybe i am wrong but you could also get a flat tire if you didnt do the pit stop?
Удивительно, как они смогли распределить вычислительные ресурсы. Современным разработчикам такое и не снилось.
Curious, how expensive would the PC to play this well have been back in the day? It's half melted Ice Blocks to us now, but I'd imagine this was fairly high-end in 1989.
Did you use the keyboard to drive or the mouse? I was told by someone that using the mouse was much better for the curves... but I've never managed to use it... only with keyboard. I might have taken thousand laps on this game as well, it was awesome for its time.
+Olavo Dias Joystick CH Flightstick but with bad potentiometers though, so cannot calibrate stick corretly, as you can see it was hard to keep on curvers here in this video, but with my better joystick i can make more perfect laps.
No Mouse back in those years
Only used keyboard. Superhard to master. But dit wheels exist back then?
@@tvanwestrenen Probably not.
Had anyone done a remaster of that intro music? 🤔
Its nuts. Looking back the graphics are so poor (I think quick for the time though) yet I played it for ages. Didn't have many games on the 386. I'd drive the wrong way though to cause massive pileups.
I played this game I was about 7 yo. Now I am 38.................
Found my old lap record: 38,84 sec. average 231,71 mph
Please your set up car
I know I did a 233... but maybe my memory is confused. I remember using the red car to qualify though and the yellow to race. I finished no higher than 4th in the 4 o 5 times I was able to run the full 500 mile race.
My record was 235 and change in the Buick. I had the car so fast the speed was pegged the entire lap
I guess THIS is where SEGA got the idea of "Virtua Racing"!
Caraca, esse jogo tinha umas senhas infernais que enchiam o saco para acertar...ficava horas tentando....wolfstein, Prince of Persia, Master System
This game looks awesome
Nice backward compatibility from DOS era 😀
Used to play this on a black & white Windows 3.1 laptop hahaha
I cant remember ever finising the full race, but I tried a lot.
jesus chirst :DDD this game ive finally found it. the graphics... :D
Same LCD display as NEW Yamaha R1
nostalgia!!
I found this on the school computers in 1990. My time was faster though.
You gotta
- tune that car right.
- drive carefully.
- not carry too much fuel. Drive 1st lap to get to speed when entering 2nd lap and only carry enough fuel to get through 2nd lap.
I serioisly forgot how great the game was to play and how bad the graphics are.
I loved this game...but I sucked so bad at it! Lol. God, I miss Papyrus Racing Games
See you on Iracing, my friend. Just google it. Best racing sim ever.
Is this fourth gear ratio of 4.10:1 as used by the March faster than the 4.30:1 ratio used by the Penske?
That's the gear ratio I always used with the March and yes, it is faster. I like the dial gauges better also.
I never played this very much as a kid because my drunk dad thought 2:20 was a name entry screen
Man I can't setup a car to save my life.....Would have been more fun if I could.
2024 Here
engine sounds be like 'nin nin nin nin nin nin nin nin nin' good old midi sounds lol...
Hola , alguien sabe donde puedo descargar o jugar on line este juego?? gracias Maximilano
Online? Seriously dude...
Nice boy faster like me
My drunk dad thought the copy protection was a name entry screen
I don't remember playing this game with sound. Maybe I was using the PC speaker. The game and the music is great but that engine sound gets annoying so quickly :p
The Amiga version had better engine sound as I recall
That is the sound of the pc speaker :)
This game needs just 1 floppy disk ☺
*POV: You're Guy Champion, and you keep losing to a little turbo snail.*
I remember that awful engine sound.