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[quote name="pinback"]I went back to watch a video of this, and I instantly realized... Whoa, I played this for ten BILLION hours at one point. And I know what point that was. You see, there was a time I was as big a NASCAR fan as your dad. I don't admit that to anyone now, so forget you read this. The races were more exciting, the personalities were more entertaining, and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6o2jrbhDIo">look at this video of the game.</a> NASCAR gets made fun of because it's just a "bunch of rednecks turning left", which is true, but it's a bunch of rednecks turning left at the exact same time, two feet from one another, going 230 miles per hour. That is an experience no other form of racing provides, and so the experience of NASCAR 4 is similarly one that no other form of racing game could provide. I've played plenty of racing games since then, but they all feel quite tame in comparison to bolting down the backstretch of Pocono going three-wide around a high-banked corner. The only thing I ever knew about cars I learned from watching NASCAR on TV, and playing this game. And it appealed to experts and neophytes alike. You could play it like an arcade game, or you could fiddle with the numbers and "put another round of wedge in." That's about the limit of what I knew/know about cars. If it's too loose, put another round of wedge in. They probably don't do that anymore. [/quote]