When I entered YouTube and saw you upload one of my favourite racers of all time, I didn't expect you'd hate it too much 🤣.
Everyone has his own opinion, but for me this game, along with Xtreme-G 2 & P.O.D for WIN98SE were what saved the racing genre. The oldies mario-kart like were fun but too simple. The Need for Speed franchise is too realistic, latter developed into Fast & Furious game clone (people don't really know that the first movie of this thugs car racing series, actually plagiarize the awesome 1991 Point Break film).
There are few more racing games I like such as Re-Volt. I've also like FUEL from 2010, and I forgive it for being realistic because it's Open World (and yes I know the single-player sucks). For MegaRace trilogy, I've never tried the 1st one. As for the 3rd one, although I've got the GOG version, there are a lot of graphic glitches when racing (maybe problems with my rig.) And yes, I've never tried any of the Carmageddon games (don't throw tomatoes at me 😵).
Well I do understand it's hard. I myself never reached the last Bronx race (always knocked out at final round in Bayou). Had to see how the last level & the ending looked, and there wasn't even one English longplay on YouTube (the only longplay i've found is in German, but it sufficed 🤣). As for the the camera maneuvering giving head aches and nausea, can't argue with it, I know people who looks at Salvador Dali's works and get the same feeling. But I must say for the splitting roads and alternative roads, that these are what makes the game so great (and If you want to win the Moonbase 9 easily, just shoot red rockets at the highly bombed-blocked barrier at the begining, and drive through there, you'll be elevated automatically to the 1st position while there.) It adds non-linearity to a genre which is linear by its essence. And non-linearity is pretty much crucial for a game being a game (either by secret areas / room / levels, alternative endings, open-world games, walking freely from zone to zone (walking simulators). Hell, almost all Arcade games of the 70s is anything but linear, and they were the first video games). So, Kris, just play Xtreme G-2 to see alternative roads at its finest, and most imaginitive way, if you haven't already. (There is no camera maneuvering problems, and the difficulty curve is reasonable. And you'll need genuine WIN98 machine with Voodoo card to play it. It will not run on XP nor WIN7, even on virtualized WIN98SE on VMware, i've tried. If you don't have one, just grab the N64 version and play with an emulator, they're the same.)
Anyway, Glad everything is about to be fine at real life. Looking forward for next Wednesday episode.