This trilogy of madness contains some of the games that jumpstarted the new revolution in the racing genre. It contains Motocross Madness, Midtown Madness, and one from the big truck romper series called Monster Truck Madness 2.

Most game stores have this pack on sale, so that makes it a pretty cool find if you’ve been slacking off of late, or it just slipped your mind because you really wanted to get one or the other game at some point. I’ve found it priced at under $30 most places and even under $20 at a couple more. Such a deal!

I don’t want to get too deep into these games as they have all been reviewed and re–reviewed and analyzed to death, and I hope that a lot of you have played one of these titles at one time or other. If not, then what planet have you been on?

When Motocross Madness was released it caused a lot of sleepless nights for this editor, with waaaaaay too much online racing and downloading hundreds of new tracks. With the release of Midtown Madness the insanity continued in a more urban atmosphere, only with cars and trucks this time. Next came MTM2 and its really big rigs, which made all those good ol’ boys really happy to get their own sequel. These games also started a stampede of online racing sites along with hundreds of teams and home grown track designers battling it out for bragging rights for the top position within the online racing world.

Track editors made all the difference when racers found out how to build their own deranged courses. Then we had to get huge hard drives to collect all of the hundreds (and still counting) of new courses that popped up.

All of these games still rock in either single race or the more typical online competitions. Even though there are more sequels out for these games, there is still some major interest still going on for these leaders of the change.

It really pissed off a lot of racers when I finally figured out how to do some crazy flips on the bikes and stomp the landings after engaging in long hours of tweaking the controllers. No, we won’t tell you how either, as in MCM2 you can do some great cork maneuvers as well as flips. You just need the right controller and then a little bit of time to configure your I/O device for sick tricks.

All I can really say is that if you don’t have one of these games and you want to find out what started all the racing commotion, then pick up the trilogy and find out for yourself. It’s a nice collectors item. Just make certaine you have enough room on your hard drives and a 50 gallon drum of coffee hooked to an IV to keep you awake all night for online racing. Play them either as a single race or multiplayer online, it makes no difference — it’s all fun. Now where did I put my Kevlar armored race suit. Live to race, Race to live!