Remember The Game? #379 - Road Rash II

Buddy, I thought my notes and all the comments and everything were gone, and I was like, "Oh, [bleep] this then." Oh, man.

I would've lost my mind.

We're back, 379.

I got my notes.

Uh, and this week I'm crossing my '90s console war enemy lines and talking some Sega Genesis with Road Rash II from Electronic Arts.

If you remember a time when EA wasn't just instantly associated with greasy and gaming, your back probably hurts when you wake up in the morning.

There was a time where EA Sports, it's in the game.

Or even just seeing the Electronic Arts, like, name on a box, like with Road Rash II, didn't instantly just make you think, "Well, this is gonna [bleep] suck." They were good.

I know you younger listeners aren't gonna believe me, but I tell you, there's a time where EA was good.

Uh, I didn't play this one growing up.

As most of you know, I was a Super Nintendo kid.

I didn't play a lot of Genesis in my youth.

I did play a pretty sizable amount of Road Rash on my friend's Panasonic 3DO.

There was a kid that lived across the street from us that had a Panasonic 3DO, and I'd go over there to play Road Rash.

And if the day ever comes where we're gonna cover a 3DO game here on the show, it will be Road Rash.

I thought it was about the coolest [bleep] game I'd ever seen, I tell you what.

And then, uh, my friends and I used to play a lot of Road Rash 64 in high school as well.

We'll probably end up doing a Remember the Game about that at some point as well.

But I never played the OGs, like the Genesis Road Rash, until a couple weeks ago when I fired this one up on my Genesis Mini.

I was looking for a Sega game, uh, to toss in the pan while I work my way through The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess.

And, uh, I put this one in.

I've been wanting to get to it for years.

And I'm not gonna bullshit you, my friends, I have put probably over 15 hours into it at this point, and I still can't get past the third set of races.

There's five sets, and I still can't finish the third ones.

But it doesn't even [bleep] matter.