Road & Track presents The Need For Speed (DOS) - Gameplay

Road & Track presents The Need For Speed is a car racing game developed by Electronic Arts Canada and Pioneer Productions and published by Electronic Arts, Inc. in 1995.

This is the first game in EA's Need For Speed series. It has made appearences in other gaming systems as well and was decided with Panasonic as the launch title for their very expensive 3DO gaming system. In this case, the DOS version is shown.

Unlike CuteFloor's videos that he only recorded the demos, this is the full version, downloaded from abandonia.com. However, it was only downloaded for the purpose of this video. And there is a problem; you can't view the showcases of the cars because the files that hold the showcase are missing.

In this video, I am showing three races: a 4-lap single race with "The Pack" as my opponents in Rusty Springs with the Porsche 911 Turbo, a two-lap single race against 7 red Toyota Supras in Vertigo Ridge with the Acura NSX (in which I quit when I crashed at the fourth turn because there was no point in catching up one of the opponents with me being so slow) and the first segment of the Costal route in a Toyota Supra against a yellow Mazda RX-7.

The video has been recorded directly on DOSBox with the CPU set at 67,500 cycles. I'm still sorry that I crashed several times, this is because the frame rate of the game playing while it was being recorded was low, it was lagging and it made my real-time thinking go out of sync, so braking and turning would necessarily go all over the place.

Thanks to CuteFloor, this is my first DOS-based gameplay video where the frame rate of the game does not drop 6 or more minutes to recording. Alternatively, I could use HyperCam 2, but the problem is, when the game window changes resolution, the recording window will not change to fit with the game window, unless you have a Pause button for DOSBox.

Well, enjoy the awesome 3D-realistic sport-based racing. Just don't do it in the public! You'll be earning speeding tickets if you do that.

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[jorgearnes]

Can you help me?, I have the game data to install it, open it and install DOSBOX, but no where in the installation menu of the game, not an option to choose the path of installation: (

[Bammer2001]

@jorgearnes What do you mean, "no where in the installation menu of the game?"

[jorgearnes]

@Bammer2001 You could install it, but not which file you need to move DosBox to open the game D:

[Bammer2001]

@jorgearnes I think the program file to move to the DOSBox icon on your desktop or in a directory folder visible to Windows Explorer is TNFS or NFS, I think there are files that have longer file names than that. They execute the same program, but they're designed to support different sound cards. If you have NFSSB16, the program would run with the settings for Sound Blaster 16 enabled.

[jorgearnes]

@Bammer2001

Thanks!