Game:

Test Drive 4 (1996)

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After Ridge Racer I will now show you another racing game that I played when I grew up: Test Drive 4 from 1997. :)

There are 5 tracks in the game: Keswick, San Francisco, Bern, Kyoto and Washington. My favourite track was always San Fracisco, followed by Washington. These two also have the best music. :P (some of the menu music is awesome as well)

The cars in the game are a mix of some older American cars and some (at the time) modern cars from everywhere. When I was young I always used the old Corvette that you can see here.

The fastest car in the game is clearly the Jaguar XJ220. As you can see I have no chance to catch the AI driver with it on the highway part in the beginning (unless it crashes there, which sometimes happens).

I practiced this track for quite a few hours yesterday to set a fast time on it and this is the best that I managed but there is definitely still room for improvement. I think a 2:53 should be possible for sure if I take the corner before the big jumps like I do in the first blooper. The jumps themselves can also be taken at full speed but then you need a lot of luck to avoid the side traffic.

However, apart from this infamous side traffic the game is actually very fair. The normal traffic can almost always be avoided when your reaction time is good enough, which makes it far less frustrating when you crash than in many of the newer NFS titles because you know that it was your own mistake. I probably restarted this track more than a hundred times when recording this video but I still enjoyed my time with it. :)

It is also possible to play without traffic or time limit but I rather did it the default way here. You can also unlock reverse versions of all the tracks, which have a different weather or daytime.

System: PlayStation 1 (emulated with ePSXe190)
Game: Test Drive 4
Track: San Francisco 1, USA
Car: 1969 Chevrolet Corvette ZL-1
Transmission: Automatic
Controller: Logitech Precision (d-pad only)

PS: No, I did not do the wallrides yet when I was a child. You can blame EA for teaching me that... :P

Edit: Sorry for the abrupt video start. Looks like I forgot about that part during editing. :/

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