It was the first video game I ever played and I kept on playing it everyday for the next two years. This was in the mid to late 00's. Was a very popular game in my country but outside of it, I never see people discussing about the game. I never see it on any lists or videos. Why is that? It's not like it was made by an obscure company.
EDIT: I'm talking specifically about Roadrash 1994 pc.
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I loved it on n64. Rented it a lot of times and even my dad liked to play. We had tons of fun. Especially with the taser/cattle prod causing the rider to put their arms out to the side
I had it on the Sega Jemesis
I had it on the Game Gear and maybe PS1, thought it was one of the coolest racing games ever.
I’ll always remember that glitch where you could fall off your motorcycle then run backwards towards the screen and your character would just keep growing and growing.
It was pretty popular on the Genesis. Even the 3DO version is highly regarded.
Road Rash is one of my first ever PC gaming memories along with Dark Forces. Loved it, played for countless hours.
I had Road Rash III on Genesis and played it constantly. I still remember taking down a police helicopter somehow (it was some kind of glitch, but so cool).
Road Rash was originally released on Sega Genesis and very popular in the early 90s. Played it all the time and I’m in US. It was during a time when Sega was popular alongside Super Nintendo.
[Road Redemption](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_Redemption) was developed by a different studio as a “spiritual successor” to Road Rash. I’ve never played it, but it might be worth it to check out.
EDIT: Looks like it’s on sale for $2.99 on the Steam store right now.
It was very popular
Road Rash and Skitchin were why my friends had a Sega genesis
Played the shit out of it on Sega Jemesis.
Gonna break my rusty cage!!! And run…
When I was a child I remember playing Road Rash at a neighbor’s house and it made me want to get a Sega Genesis. I eventually did get one. I remember nintendo being more popular than Sega at school but road rash was an unanimously appreciated game at the time.
I remember the Sega Genesis trilogy, played those all the time, especially when I had a Sega Channel subscription. The PS1 port was pretty cool, aside from all the micro load times, like the options menu took forever, I’d want to get to the music selection and pick the songs I liked best, like Monster Magnet and Soundgarden, but it felt like forever to get there. The PC version, I’d play in more recent years of course runs so much better, there’s abandonware sites with it, but all the licensed music is removed. I just wish at the time, they had the capability to have the licensed music play during the races. You wouldn’t see that until the Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater games.
But it’s owned by EA, so they have zero interest, especially when they don’t publish budget titles, and nobody would pay $70 for a new Road Rash that’s full of microtransactions and DLC.
OP, your post makes it seem like you are surprised nobody knew Road Rash in like 2008. People had just moved on by then. Im old enough to remember: Road Rash was popular when it came out.
This and Skitchin’ was my introduction to games outside of Super Mario and the Donkey Kong Country series.
i loved it, not as much running to the finish to avoid the bike exploding but yeah
I played the hell out of this game when it came out. We didn’t get consoles like the SNES/N64 unless we earned the money ourselves. Buuut my dad was a little bit of a nerd and let me tinker with computer stuff and he got one for “work” and let me use it. I think about that game from time to time.
I played the hell out of it on my childhood computer.
I had Road Rash on the ps1. Such a fun game when you were winning and kicking everyone off their bikes
I played the hell out of 1 & 2 on the genesis
Road Rash had a certain amount of notoriety and popularity stateside, but not enough to give it a lasting cultural impact.
It came out on 3DO, where it made a bit of a splash, but that platform died quickly; the later ports (including the one to PC) had to compete with the huge jump in graphics technology created by hardware 3D acceleration. Racing games on the original PlayStation, and eventually car combat games like Twisted Metal, stole much of its thunder.
On the PC, hardware acceleration lagged a bit but 1996 was a landmark year: Diablo, Daggerfall, Duke Nukem 3D, Barbie Fashion Designer (no, for real: it sold an absurd number of copies for the time), and most importantly Quake created a clean break between “modern” games and anything that came before. It didn’t help that Windows 95 had also created another harsh delineation a year or so previously.
Ohhhh thanks for reminding me of the name! Loved tf out of this game and used to play it with my dad growing up
i was the only one i knew with a pc in ’94 so i’m going to go with probably not.
plenty of versions of road rash were very popular though on consoles.
I remember it being pretty popular. It wasn’t, like, Sonic popular, but it was successful and people liked it.
It was popular enough that they included it on one of the Sega Genesis Minis a few years ago.
It was also a selling point for the 3DO (and that thing needed all the help It could get).
Loved that game and its sequels, my limit was always after getting one of the top bikes and flying half the map after a crash
“Gonna break my rusty caaaage!”
I fuckin loved road rash…played it on genesis all the time
Road Rash, Altered Beast, and Mutant League Hockey were the only 3 games I’d ever play when I went to my uncle’s house.
I was really into it
Sega Saturn version was awesome… especially with the banging soundtrack led by Swervedriver and the song “Last Train to Satansville”
I spent hundreds of hours playing that on PC back then.
Yessir, I had that and skitchin in the early 90s on genesis
I used to play the hell out of it on the Genesis haha
I think the one I played was on playstation?? Or N64? Was cool though lots of bike choices
I played it on PC. Those cutscenes and that music… plus the campaign mode and buying faster bikes… I loved it.
Loved this game, had so much fun with it back in the day.
Played it lots in Canada and It actually did decent in India too. I keep meeting Indians that played that one as a kid
My main memory was playing it a couple of times and enjoying it but my parents took the game away when I was fighting cops. They thought that was too much for 8 year old me at the time.
Played 1-3 here in the states
It was popular. It got a sequel.
I thought it was made as by EA as a Sega exclusive so it died off with the Saturn getting released ahead of its time, but I imagine they could bring it back if they wanted.
A buddy of mine (the *actual* motorcycle rider) made this game his religion for a year or so. He was the first of us to achieve true Sega Zen.
I played that game constantly. Well, road rash II.
God I loved Roadrash. All those vehicular battle games were so good. Twisted Metal games too.
Why is there no VR version of road rash yet?
What a great game this was.
One of the first games I can remember playing on the Genesis. Loved that game
I loved Road Rash so much! Had it on the PS1 (UK).
It wasn’t really known in the Netherlands, but during a trip to Chile we got to know and learnes to love it.