Test Drive III

[Fritters87]

Ah I used to love running the chickens over in this game...

[subbookkeeper]

Bah I cannot get rid of those awesome game tunes out of my head. Played it 20 years ago on 386dx with Trident VGA.

[westridgemattlyman]

holy crap I remember this

[TheBugleBum]

The Diablo on the intro was the first time I ever saw a computer display a photgraph, funny how you remember stuff like that. Would seem so trivial to kids these days.

[Ch1Frequency]

@TheBugleBum I remember playing this when I was 4

[emadof007]

first 3D game i ever owned i was shocked the first time it ran so amazing

[djansi2]

Thank you so much for changing to the country station! Damn I miss that tune!

[LeondP]

Thank you so much for uploading this! I remember sneaking to my daddy's computer at night, looking for the floppy disk and playing... great! This game was so awesome!

[FallGuy82]

When I played, I loved the invincible cow's glare of death when you crash into him.

[FADRIELE]

Horrible graphics ? No way, asshole. Horrible music ? Install a MT-32 or Lapc-I and you gonna fall asleep thinking you are in heaven.

IT IS FUCKING BRILLIANT. IT IS FUCKING BRILLIANT.

[tod4y]

Was this released before or after Stunts? Both was in 1990...

[Neslakim]

Ahhhh, i remember playing this! Good times! :D

[horacio1464]

wow, did you hear that mighty V8 bi-urbo :DDD

[brebzz]

boing! boing!! boing!!!

[mateush998]

1990 - 3D graphics! Many boys cum in their pants when were playing in this game :)

[FraueleinAspirine]

I miss the PC speaker version

[Buckcityremix]

thanks for uploading this lol throwback memory forreal, just the music.

[nicolasverdi]

So much cowbell!

[toyotasupramaster]

i think i played this game while i was 5 years old but i didn't knew it was that game, maybe i'm wrong

[haspro235]

its so very ..hahaha. sorry i must laugh hahaha very cool

[alternativdj]

jump jump baby :) incredible sound

[KanadaiLacibacsi]

sweet 90`s

[LittleBIGRacer]

Sounds like Tron.

[gatzad]

Man, this brings back so many memories, thank you for posting this. This was probably the first game I ever played that wasn't on rails. I used to spend hours setting up epic crashes for the instant replay.

BTW, did anyone ever see the flying pickup truck? It always happened in the same area, a grey pickup truck would drive off a decline in the road and continue driving in the air for miles. You could still see it following the roads, despite being 30 ft in the air. It was pretty funny.

[bluemotion1905]

awesome car engine sound !!!

[Pederzen100]

Woooo, memories!

[DtRockstar1]

I just saw the Corvette CERV III in person a few weeks ago!!! Absolutely stunning car!

[Manimal347]

Must have looked amazing at the time, but sure didn't hold up. Fast framerates and good physics are IMHO far better than tacky and extremely dated look at me-type 3D. Oh, and it runs about a billion frames a second even on an early Pentium. Whoops!

[hotelvictor]

@Manimal347 That's something I don't quite understand, PC has hardware makes it easy to make time run at correct speed.. Otherwise TD3 was a nice one.

[NIDORAX]

lol at the instant replay

[Plywalker]

I still remember how them chickens running around would mess up with the steering haha! Good old days!

[Quazatronn]

AH ah ah! Nice Crash over the police car! Now you're BUSTED!

;)

Good old times, my friends! I still remember it! One of these day I'll play it again!

[tidiz]

Great game and I remember playing it when I was a young kid. Is there a video where the second song in the radio is played? I mean the song that plays a little while in 1:55 - 1:59? It sounds like The Sounds's song Goodnight Freddy :D

[kleke84]

music is like in sim farm hehe Ave Old games :)

[fakex]

it did had some kind of level editor.. so, we got addicted creating really crazy levels, like really really high jump ramps and the results were hilarious... most of the times the car was flying for minutes and sometimes it even stuck there forever. nice times..

[rlinfinity]

Haha i played this game so much! Pininfarina Mythos!!!

[TheMikahil]

I remember running over chickens in this game ten years ago

[TheViolenceMan]

wow those car pics in the beginning are awesome

[badsectoracula]

Yeah, that is exactly how i was playing it :-P

[BiGTiMeNeRD007]

So this is what it looks like in color. My computer back then only had black and white. Something like 20 years ago?

[solemperor]

Man, replay and you can change sound when in race. Must be one of the first game to do that.

[Corbyn664]

2:43 Sounds like a policecar

[saiiad737]

@Corbyn664 thanks now are my ears raped

[KarriKoivusalo]

This game was far, far ahead of it's time. In 1990, I don't recall any other car game having operational headlights, windscreen wipers, "radio stations" (though it was just three equally out of place background tunes) and free roam / sandbox game areas. The Test Drive games that appeared since were, to me at least, huge letdowns. Tracks were back, and gameplay was terrible. The first Test Drive I consider a worthy successor to TD3 is Test Drive: Unlimited.

[MarkVIILSC]

If you're going that slow, let the cop go. He will accelerate and shoot off into the distance. You probably won't encounter him again. Perhaps, you need to increase the speed on Dosbox a bit. It seems to be going a bit faster than 286 speed. It was faster than that on my 486sx. I wish it had better sound. In actuality, I actually prefered the PC speaker for that particular game.

[rixxxer]

OMG, a lot of memories whit this game, seriously a found more funny this kind of games than the new ones, and in fact this game its revolutionary, had day & night, freedom to drive everywhere, rain, inside look!!! yeahh Gran turismo 5 whith the power of ps3 doesnt have all cars, very sad. only the premiums that sucks

[livardo]

Back then with these games, there were no video settings to configure. No 4xAA, no trilinear vs anisotropic, no vsynch, no dx11 textures, You just played at 320 x 200 and that was that. If your computer could handle it, then it played. If your computer was too powerful, there were no frame limiters and you had to press the "turbo" button on your 486 to make it work. Ah, those were the days.

[fristytron]

this music (and many other tunes) will allways have reserved a special part in my brain.

[TheDragonlee128]

Doesn't look much worse than Forza 3 to be honest.

[Lightwader3338]

they should remake some of these old racing games as internet games.

[tudy000]

doesnt count how shitty the game is now,some of us loved it when was 5 and thanks to this we play nfs hot pursuit 2010 today

[Hummer2SUT]

I Loved This Game!! :D I Played The Most with The CERV III, 'cause it Looked Metallic Blue... The Music Sounds so Funny and Weird with This MIDI Thing...

[nagged55]

fart sound

[Human1league]

The music is just FUCK YEAH!

[TheGaijinPunch]

I used to play this game when I was 6 years old for hours on end. I love that it was completely open concept, so I would always go on the train tracks and drive on them until I ran into a train haha. And there were different weather conditions from what I remember as well.

[07blkprdtr]

wow... thats awesome! this game is how old and knows it only has so many gears. some games made today have infinite amount of gears mx vs atv (cough cough)

[hmshector42]

i love this i remeber i thought the graphics were so realistic

[TheCreep1972]

I know only TD 1 and 2. Nice video. Thx.

[bmxsodasmash]

horrible graphics, horrible music, horrible game

[plavins1]

@bmxsodasmash

its actually pretty good game!

[MEGALA85]

omg lololololol

[shakenbacon77]

One of the greatest racing games ever. =) I remember playing this when I was about 8 years old. (22 now.)

[RobertaIBetti]

@shakenbacon77 We're the same age and we both used to play TD3 when we were 8 years old. Any other similarities? :)

[tomp2008]

i was disappointed with this game, i always thought it was the worst in the test drive series. i thought test drive 2 was much better, still have fond memories of this though

[BNS206]

STUNTS!

[alenson00]

I remember this game to be quite enjoyable, but still I'm unable to configure DosBox properly to handle it. The timer, even at your video, along with the game, is going too fast. When you start playing, video time is: 2:00, game timer is: 1 s.,after 56 s. game timer shows: 1:11 - I know, I'm picky and I do not remember if game was clear of this issue on real 386. Nice video anyway! :)

[FADRIELE]

Not quite.

Same problem here on my 386 sx 33mhz (the timer is faster than normal)

and turbo off results in poor fps ( stutering, not fluid).

Hell ! Ahhhhh I hate it. Tried Dosbox. No way Jose.

[alenson00]

So it is just bad programming if real hardware or emulation can't do the trick. Worst part is that if you lower visual details, game works too fast again. I guess developers found 5-10 FPS playable so adjusted internal timer for that framerate. It is really shame, e.g. Indianapolis 500 works without emulation on P200 properly.

[FADRIELE]

@alenson00

Here is the thing. This game is not real time clock and very speed sensitive.

The Lazy guy from Lazygames review (he is a cool crazy guy even reviewing Atari games) said this game will work properly at 16mhz..

I am positive.

How in the hell i´m going to find that museum ?

My motherboard accepts am386 SX33 or SX25 via CPU speed selection jumper.

I´ll give it a shoot (underclocking), but i have a SX33. Can i do that ??

[FADRIELE]

Damn it. The problem will happen again at 25mhz.. I can feel it.

Do you know if dosbox 0.73 or 0.74 comes with good LAPC-1/MT-32

emulation ? I have a Sound Blaster Live! and it sounds great, although some instruments appear to be missing (never had a real MT-32 to compare).

And selecting mt-32 on TD3 setup will play music, but not audio effects. Strange...

Could you please explain how to lower visual details ??

Thanks Alenson...Im a fricking DOS gamer and i just like MIDI a lot .

[alenson00]

@FADRIELE

In TD3: (in game) F1 - screen size (useless) / F2 - Visual Details

Shame that even underclocking did not helped, I can guess that 16mhz may be a proper speed, but as I wrote earlier, I think that low FPS is a must to fix the timer. In other words, timer is dependent on the frames per second - more frames means faster timer, so if you lower visual details, game will gain some frames and timer will accelerate...

I will write priv message due to the char limit :).

[FADRIELE]

@alenson00

I dint do anything about underclock...not yet

Well. I am starting to believe in your theory about FPS and timer dependences and bad programming. Besides, Dosbox is super cool (not perfect of course...but just wonderful).

I ll be waiting for lazyguy review. CYA

[jedipudu]

Sweet overtake of that block of pixels...I mean car.

[doubletap85]

I loved finding all the hidden places. I'd drive into the barns and run over the chickens. Best game ever.

[thanatossassin]

This game was too fun back in the day:D Was this the first game to have open road racing- err, driving?

[jookiyaya]

omg... i remember when i was like 12 ... and thinking this game would be amazing.... do anything you want kinda thing... and that was my dream... to crash into cows and drive away from police... escape from reality dreams at that age... wow.... strange.. ^_^

[stelioss7]

technology develops rapidly

[Ajanek]

Heh I remember I was marveled by the raindrops on the windshield :D So exciting back then in mid 90s :D

[Drummertist]

I remember this on the first computer my family ever owned. We had to access it through DOS and I was too young to understand I was racing. I would just try to hit the cows and then crash.

[chromehounds2]

test drive changed the racing and driving games forever

[sonnysho]

Geez, this takes me waay back. I remember playing this thing for hours on end. I guess it was the first real 'sandbox' style game I ever played, where I could pretty much go anywhere [in a car anyway.] Good times, good times.

[itswholewheat]

sounds like a rc car

[BoltaVS]

:D i remember my brother,sister and me playing this game for hours,and sounds were so cool :)))

[berezin99]

I remember playing this game. I only had one meg of ram and a 386 25 mghz and I had to play it at the bare minimum settings.

[sushbone]

Was fun to play!

[r8qt7]

I remember I couldn't play it because we hadn't a 386 and vga ... a friend (richy rich) had one. what a sucker

[pak47mm]

part3suckz

[fatgamer176]

Holy crap I found it!

I've been trying to find out the name of this for years. I didn't recognize it until that key wheel prompt at 1:47.

Funny thing is, I don't really remember anything else about this game except for that key wheel cop dude. I always got stuck at that screen and my dad did it for me.

[alpha202ej]

Oh man, this game was more of an off-roading adventure for me. Did anyone else find the airport with the X-Wings??

[pascalbrax]

@alpha202ej i did! and i loved to kill the chickens! :)

[flygon4life]

is there just a cruise mode?

[WiadroPiwa]

I had so much fun with this game when i was a kid! And it had so many features: headlights, windscreen wipers, insects crashing on the windscreen, odometer, radio stations (XD the music was great), level crossings with moving trains, police and tickets, crashes... and many more! I just loved this game!

[jahildebra]

Man, I LOVED this game! Now that I look back on it the sounds seem a little Ear-Rapish though. XD

[Mauricione07]

I LOVED IT! So much freedom. I used to drive around looking for special things like those x-wings in hangars. Memories!

[mizukami999]

I enjoyed I could travel across the island, used to follow the train in circles... impressive freedom.

[BlitzWing00]

This brings back memories, the music was awesome in this game.

[MrBrander]

PS. I just SO Loved the menu music. I usually stayed there a long time before even playing the game. ^^ So awesome.

Also I just loved to drive over the chickens in barns and all those poles and signs next to the road. :D And then my car started to drag to one side. :D

And all those jumps and all those sounds. So awesome from start to finish. :)

[Buckcityremix]

@MrBrander exactly! i loved the barns, remember you could drive into them and ramp off the roofs if you got a jump off a hill, lol, that game was awesome to the core

[MrBrander]

Man. I used to play this game a lot as a kid. I just loved to do some crazy stunts with the car by driving down from cliffs or driving up hills and then down. :D

Awesome game.

[leknightcluber]

1990 if I am not mistaken this is the same people who did the stunt, the test drive I, II

dsi software and accolade that beautiful moments that happen in my childhood

games now as I am amused that time

or taking the tdu, shift DIRT2

[Antarath]

@leknightcluber Sounds correct. The first Test Drive came in 1987.

Stunts was my fav tho, and Street Rod.

I remember I discovered a technique in Stunts to make the car go fast as hell (old school speed hacking hahahah)

[Dafimujpies]

WoW !!! 3D ;O || ;P

[Gunwoo]

loved this game because you could just drive off and explore the map

[honziiikkk]

OmG this game i play with 5year lool =DD

[GalvaWalken8]

Should have rammed the train.

[grafleinsdorf]

I loved it in those days, but oh my god, THIS MUSIC!!

[ItsallaboutwatIthink]

Never played it, but it looks like a cool game. LOL, nothing like racing with the policemen. Great background message, Don't drink and drive. Miss those days. =/

[MrThestig8]

ladies and gentlemen i give you... TEST DRIVE UNLIMITED 80s Style

[BONGoz187]

it workes on 386!

[DOSRetroGamer]

I could never play this as it ran much too fast on a 486

[V0ree]

Haha, yes! But there is a program that slows your PC down somehow, and U can play with older not real time games.

[cassavaeater]

I used to play this game. Now I'm go with 18 wos Haulin.

[pincherman]

How nostalgic. I used to play this too much when i was 8. Now i notice it's a well done game!

[ryujisan]

omg, i remember running over a cow on the road, and there was a time when i fell off a lake i lol'd o much.. i miss this game..

[JohnnyMidnight1]

DOSBOX for some reason runs this game too fast... anyway to correct that?

[cassavaeater]

can you tell me how to run the dosbox?

[JohnnyMidnight1]

ask google, i'm not tech support

[LieorDie24]

looks like need for speed undercover lol thats a joke ok

[Gamecube26]

I remember playing this when my mom when I was probably like 5 or 6 years old...(and I'm 20 now). Good times...How I miss those days. Not a care in the world...What I would give to have my childhood back...

[Gamecube26]

Whoops, meant to say "with my mom..."

[xtrmxtcxtrm]

I remember playing this game when I was 12 and I'm 31 now! Truly nostalgic!

[shogunjosex]

same age, same games....regards

[Gandarme1991]

You are right ! I rememver playing it when I was 4 and I am 18 now. Good old times.....

[sic6664]

Yess!!! This game rules!! Played it so much as a kid!

[sampsondog04]

this brings back so many memories. I used to play this on a Gateway 2000 that my dad bought back in 1991 for $7,000 dollar. That computer was a 386 and it did not have a CD ROM drive. There was the hard drive and a 5-1/4'' and a 3-1/4'' floppy drive. Things sure have changed a lot in the computer and video gaming world. I now play with a Mac Book pro and a PS3.

[Providenceangle]

OUCH! $7000 dollars!? You could build a monster for that much now'a days.

[shogunjosex]

yeah dude i remember my atari 2600, my uncle brought back to me from usa to spain...i was the king in my school!!!!

[NFM18]

I loved this game, I love to step over the chicken and hear it whine and to go into the barn LOL

[biboKralle]

music is fucking awesome!!!!!

good old days

[tedwoe]

That was the bad thing about this game I remember, was the steering was very touchy. We never could keep the damn car on the road! lol

[TheCommanderNZ]

lol what? You can go flying over hills and stuff but if you touch a cop you crash... Awesome.

[KRIEGi556]

holly crap, i remember playi'n it when i was 'bout 6-7 years old, shiit :)

[icbm235]

lol

[LuxeXx]

obviously accolade felt the major threat to test drive was hard drivin'.

[reinoreiness]

when i launch this game on grandmas computer it runs like 32x faster

[MiracleKD18]

The game is good, the graphicsa are also good, but the music is just horrible...

[MiracleKD18]

Nice graphics...

[gullwing14]

why you chose a corvette over a diablo i'll never know, but still, looks like a great game!!!!!

[gerodinis]

OK. I thought "WTF could one do with such an ancient computer in 1999?".

[gerodinis]

LOL nice computer for 1999...

[andshiga]

I liked the PC Speaker soundtrack LOL

[toejam119]

that was either Adlib or SoundBlaster, not PC speaker.

[chinchinga222]

DEAR GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! DX

[Poszukiwacz86]

Ahh... there was the airport, an X wing and... Btw why race the first level? Just turn around jump the bridge and cross the finish line :)

And yes there was Acura Nsx, Dodge Stealth and a second set of tracks to race. Dunno if it was an addon.

I broke every last bone in my palm playing that game :D

[WadulaTheWogal]

Test Drive 3 is still the best racing game made!!!!! you can do anything in that game and it was made in 1990 so far ahead of its time. I still play it ROFL

[01DOGG01]

LOL even back in the day it used to go super fast on my PC... i can only imagine now...

But you're right. WAY AHEAD OF ITS TIME. I once drove offroad to the airport and there were planes there... that's detail! Full offroad...

[fronti28]

still the best racing game? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHH­AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH­AHA

u crazy...

[Nintendavin]

I play it too and I wasn't even born when it came out.

It's so much better than all of the new Need For Speeds. Especially NFS Carbon.

[ABittenfeld]

2:53 lol

[porschediary]

Really love the music. Bring me back lot's of memories... i usually drove that NSX to the airport area where you could see planes taking off and landing...

[WadulaTheWogal]

There was no nsx you must mean the chev

[nascar241993]

The select menu music is better than the racing music.

[AlexGTA3ITA]

i have a game like this maked whit Game maker

[Nintendavin]

Good lord with GAME MAKER?

Fuck that's a terrible game engine.

[vaos]

This was the best game in its time! Especially the "photo real" intro sreen had all my friends "ah"-ing... lol

[spiffitz]

The music combined with the driving antics makes it feel like a comedy show.

When I first got this game I thought the 3d was awesome and was disappointed that my computer was too slow. When I finally upgraded I realized the game ran just as crappy no matter what system you had.

[SiD3WiNDR]

yeh, and a pity that once you got a faster computer the game sped up as well, making it virtually unplayable on any pentium :/

[Petrick69]

Use dosbox?

[SiD3WiNDR]

There was no such thing 10+ years ago ;)

[rof670]

WTF :O . The music...............

[disracenboi336]

That racing music is going to haunt me forever...

Sounds like funky fresh hip hop barney.

[aceyage]

Not too shabby for a DOS game! Really good graphics for the time. Horrible sound, I agree, but considering that this was all done in FM synthesis (unlike the Amiga, PC soundcards wheren't using sampling at that time) it's not too bad!

Does anyone know if there was an Amiga version? I don't think the Amiga could have handled the 3D graphics all that well

[aceyage]

Ahh, nevermind! No Amiga version. I just did my homework.

[pdennis93]

nope, only PC. and you're right. it's pretty good for a game that came out in 1990. this was the first game i ever played with VGA graphics and sound that didn't come from a PC speaker.

[fivebythree]

wow i miss this game, bird poo and all...

[CCMedic09]

I used to play this game when I was real young over at my grandfather's house. It seemed so advanced and ahead of its time lol Seeing videos of this game makes me think of those times. Thanks for posting.

[Zanik99]

That car sounds like... eh... well... I don't know! It sounds like a strangled cat I think?

[biomed007]

I remember spending nights after nights playing this game. It would start raining, police would come, and I just remember wondering when the road will ever ever end!!! CLASSIC!

[Usumgallu]

remember running over chickens and then having some serious steering problems

[KarlderHeinz]

lol, die mucke^^xD

[CHABBO]

Oh God those horrible in-game songs. ;)

Did anyone have one of those "Play disks" ?

Was there extra cars? extra tracks? Could you play this via dial up?

I remember the best way to play this game was to turn off graphics detail. So there were no trees on the side of the road. So you can just gun it and not have to worry about crashing! :)

[pdennis93]

i've got the play disk with the stealth/nsx on it. i had to order it from accolade back in ~ 1997. i originally got TD3 in 1990 but it wouldn't run on our old epson computer because it had a CGA screen

[kl061087]

damn I still have this on my computer until now... tsk tsk... time to upgrade......

[tuxipopers]

ahh the memories! really good game... I even feel some elements from this 19 year old game are missing in today driving games... I think Test Drive 5 Is the closest today with this spirit... even tough is limited to a island only...

[tuxipopers]

sorry, correction: TEST DRIVE UNLIMITED.