Demo Derby: PlayStation Underground: Volume 1 Issue 1

I never get tired of Jeff's encyclopedia brain for games. "Remember this one obscure light gun game called Point Break?" "Point Break. Or Gun Bullet in Japan". Crazy every time.

It's one of the three I gave Drew. ;)

Hopefully they get to it soon.

It was still an era where "cheat codes" were a big deal. Finding hidden stuff was fun. When I was running the fan site, it was like a race for some people as they would try to find all the stuff and send in what they found to get it added to the site. If you want some spoilers, I have them listed on the PlayStation Underground page.

Also, the weird caricature that Drew found was of Michelle Vercelli. She was a member of the marketing team.

I just want to say Carnage Heart is one of the best games on PS1. I'm glad Draw sounded as excited as I hoped he would.

And of course, it still is, but now we gotta deal with wierdos freaking out when they found out something was hidden, ruining it for the rest of us due to publishers listening to the squeaky wheels. :(

tops as always

and, the timberwolf IS a great ride at WoF, probably my favorite in the park, except at this point it feels like you need a mouthguard just to survive it with all your teeth...

This was a great iteration, so many hilarious bits. Thanks dudes!

I thought that behind the scenes video on the Twisted Metal ad was legitimately interesting too, even thought it's basically an ad itself.

Hot Kimi Raikonnen reference around 18:30

Good old JURRASIC PARK

REQUESTING ORIGINAL XBOX DEMO DERBY!!! thanks gentlemen this is a great series on a fantastic website.

These are NEVER not fantastic.

@jeff@drewbert@danryckert The lead singer of the Urge, Steve, has a really good hot dog place in town now. http://steveshotdogsstl.com So if you're ever in STL. Also the Urge still play shows around and put out a new album in 2013.

Woo! New demo derby!
I hope they do a Saturn Demo Derby next, so they can open the next one just saying "Saturn sucks" xD

So here's a cool secret tip for the Rage Racer demo. Start driving backwards and if you drive long enough the time of day will eventually change.

Blew my fucking mind.

Interstate `76 was such a good game, great music

I always love the retrospective on 90's culture in these videos

edit: also, after MGS, please do Drewsident Evil

I love these... they bring back so many good memories. Damn I miss the 90's

Demo Derby's have to be my favorite thing on the site now, so good.

Miller: Cipher sent us to the underground...but we're going even deeper!

Snake: Kaz...I'm already a code-demon...

Demo Derby is fun both as a historical artifact (Jeff knows a lot about old games, turns out) and as something to make fun of when it inevitably leads to the worst parts of 90s culture.

Resident Evil 1.5 is pretty crazy. A pretty incomplete build of that game leaked onto the internet a few years ago and it seems like the team that is trying to "restore" it is still working on that. I wouldn't be surprised if that shows up eventually.

That's actually not a particularly deep cut by Jeff's standards. I love it when he brings up obscure rappers from the late 80s/early 90s.

I always felt that the much more superior mech game of the time was the Earthsiege series and the first Starsiege (before it became a Tribes FPS). These guys never talk about it...seems like Mechwarrior was way more popular...is this the consensus?

Also, Dan is wrong. Tomb Raider 1 & 2 were glorious (before it all went to poop), but I did play it on PC.

First grappling hook I've seen when driving was in Batman:The Movie for the Amiga (it was released for C64 as well but I can't vouch for the grapple being in that).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEPb57bOWe4

Driving sequence starts at 04:14, first grapple left at 04:33 and then grapple right after 04:42.

That interview with "Dave" Jaffe is real silly in spots, but it's really cool.

@devitiffany: Between Drew's glee and Dan's dumbfoundedness, I think Carnage Heart was the best hidden gem of the Disk.

We used to have one of those mech places Jeff was talking about here in Vegas. I remember being amazed by those things. It was really immersive, there were a ton of random buttons and flashing lights, they even had a door that they'd slide closed on the side so you really felt like you were in a cockpit. I think that particular location had some sort of training program you had to go through in order to use the full functionality of the pod, otherwise you just had the joystick and maybe a throttle? Man...I feel old. Thanks Jeff.

Did they really timelapse the breakdown at E3 at the end of that segment? That looked like the build up footage in reverse.

The Crew's reaction to Jet Moto was PRICELESS.

Edit: Yep I did miss it sorry?

Sorry if I missed it but Playstation Underground had MS3TK riff on the opening cut-scene for promotional material later on.

01:01:35

Holy shit, that's the same Playstation Bandicoot Jean Jacket that one duder wore to PAX! hahaha If I wasn't lazy I'd hunt down the video and time stamp and link it.

It doesn't matter how gritty and apocalyptic your backdrops are or how public domain your ironic cartoons are, there is NO WAY to make trombones look cool.

As a new user, is there any way to sort these Demo Derby videos?

Seems like there's no specific category for them, and I would love to have them ranked by latest uploaded.

Jet Moto is the best

Man that Dave Jaffe feature was the nineties-est nineties thing ever, and it was glorious. Also, Jet Moto is awesome

I said "cool," not "the most glorious thing on TV."

Hell yeah, cardboard divider! My brothers were screen lookin' bastards.

@hasitleaked: This is a very, very late reply, but qlcrew.com is an easier way to find and sort videos on Giant Bomb than using the site itself.

@entireties: Thank you so much. It's such a pain to go through the site to find a series I want to watch.

@taintedkane: Yeah the site really needs a redesign, or at least some kinda re-evaluation of categories. Really every show should have a category, instead of some of the Premium shows like Demo Derby and Mario Party Party being hidden away like that. Meanwhile shows that haven't been added to in ages like TANG still have a category in the dropdown menu, maybe they should make a new super-category for archived content?

That "A" is definitely messed up in Jurassic Park.

The Urge are still around! I cut a promo for my college station when they were in town at the end of last year. All Washed Up is good, but Too Much Stereo is probably my favorite.

The music that plays during the E3 montage at 55:06 was also used in Nintendo Power's Starfox 64 VHS promo around the same time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPsAoxLAhCk#t=2m38s

Yeah Marino!

I'M WATCHING THIS FROM THE FURTURE! DONALD TRUMP BECOMES PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES! YOU HAVE TO STOP HIM!

I'd love to hear Jeff's explanation as to why Twisted Metal 2 specifically would not work nowadays. I can't really see why something like that wouldn't work nowadays.

Who would have seen Jaffe becoming a washed up asshole 20ish years later.