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Introduction

Test Drive is a series of driving games that introduce the concept of car touring, as opposed to racing. Test Drive III: The Passion (1990) is also arguably the first open world driving game, where no boundaries are defined. Instead the (at the time) vast map circles around itself.
In this movie I finish the Pacific Coast - Yosemite course using the Corvette (fastest car) as fast as possible.

Software + Hardware

Emulator

  • EmuHawk 2.11 (Core: DOSBox-X)

ROM

https://www.goodolddays.net/en/diskimages/?id=1137 (ID: 3367)
nymx: Claiming for judging.
nymx: I should have accepted this one at the same time as #9931: eien86's DOS Test Drive III: Road and Car in 05:36.028, since it was pretty much the same game.
Accepting to Standard.
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Posted: 9/29/2025 4:10 AM
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This topic is for the purpose of discussing #9930: eien86's DOS Test Drive III: The Passion in 05:40.314
Posted: 9/30/2025 9:26 AM
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I really like how this game looks, I especially love all those details in this cockpit view. This must have been the coolest driving game to people in 1990. The TAS does a great job showing the game off, the driving looks super fast, that's an easy "yes" vote from me!
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Posted: 10/29/2025 6:16 AM
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This movie has been published. The posts before this message apply to the submission, and posts after this message apply to the published movie. ---- [6792] DOS Test Drive III: The Passion by eien86 in 05:40.314
Posted: 10/29/2025 12:18 PM
KusogeMan
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just wanna say how cool it is Eien86 is tackling all those classics for DOS, really inspiring!
I want all good TAS inside TASvideos, it's my motto. TAS i'm interested: Megaman series, specially the RPGs! Where is the mmbn1 all chips TAS we deserve? Where is the Command Mission TAS? i'm slowly moving away from TASing fighting games for speed, maybe it's time to start finding some entertainment value in TASing.