I've never played it. What makes it so good?

NO I hated this game as a kid.

Suuuch a frustrating game.

What is there to hate about Hydro Thunder? This game was awesome in arcades that had like 8 of them hooked together.

Fuuuuuug this game pooned on Dreamcast! What good times.... wish I still had it.

I have it on Midway Arcade Treasures 3, it's awesome, every once in a while my dad shouts "HYDRO THUNDER!!!" For no reason.

"I have it on Midway Arcade Treasures 3, it's awesome, every once in a while my dad shouts "HYDRO THUNDER!!!" For no reason."

I have never heard of this game but it has a kickass name!

This game was the shit back when I played it on the Dreamcast. An arcade in my area has the 2-player machine with the seats and its AWESOME!!

"This game was the shit back when I played it on the Dreamcast. An arcade in my area has the 2-player machine with the seats and its AWESOME!!"

I use to play this game all the time at the arcades.

I LOVED this game.  I actually imported a Dreamcast in early 1999, but Hydro Thunder is what convinced me to buy a US region Dreamcast as well, heh.

The Dreamcast port was like 70% as good graphically as the arcade version, there has never been a 100% port of HT to home.

I would come into arcades and get tons of free plays due to my mastery of the Dreamcast version, noone could beat me and I had ALL the #1 times in the arcade.

Someone needs to make another game with this style with as good gameplay as the original, none of those spinoff titles like Arctic Thunder were nearly as good.

The console versions were dumb-ed down compared to the arcade version IMO. But that might be my childhood memory kicking in.

" I have it on Midway Arcade Treasures 3, it's awesome, every once in a while my dad shouts "HYDRO THUNDER!!!" For no reason. "

Whats with all the year old thread bumping recently?

4 Wheel Thunder is just as awesome. Not the arcade version, the Dreamcast game, which wasn't actually developed by Midway, or intended as a Thunder game until they decied to publish it. It kinda showed that not all levels were made with the speed boosts in mind but overall it looked amazing, run @ silky smooth 60 fps, and had awesome feel to the cars as they bounced up and down with the road bumps. Basically the complete opposite of the mediocre arcade game by Midway.

I had this game for PS.  Great game.  Nothing's better than jumping a boat on to land grabbing a boost or two, skidding back into water into a short-cut.  Clearly where SSX got all their ideas ;)

I played the crap out of this game back in the day on the Dreamcast. 
 
I got another copy about a couple of weeks ago. It's just as great as I remember.