Famous and incredibly successful F1 driver Lewis Hamilton has one of the best careers in racing history, with Records for most career wins, most pole positions, most podiums, most career points and most laps led. But even this experienced racer can’t beat the level of the opening tutorial driver on the Original PlayStation. It’s okay, we’ve all struggled with this, Mr. Hamilton.
Published in 1999, the original driver was a critically acclaimed semi-open world driving game inspired by famous Hollywood car chases. It was older Grand Theft Auto IIIwas the jump into the 3D world and, for many players, the first chance to explore a modern open-world city with police chases and car crashes on a console. It would emerge an entire franchise and in a strange way too led to the creation of Watchdog. However, today driver is probably best known for its incredibly difficult opening tutorial. In this level, players must complete an extensive checklist of driving moves in a short period of time. Many struggled for hours to complete this opening level. Some never did. Lewis Hamilton, world-famous and extremely successful F1 driver, is one of these people.
In a video uploaded to the officer Mercedes-AMG Petronas Formula 1 team On the YouTube channel, Hamilton sits down and plays some old games on a PS1 and a CRT TV. It’s a cute video where the driver talks about how hard he worked to get his first PS1 and the old F1 games he used to play. But at one point in the video he also boots up driver and struggles to make progress.
“Oh shit, I didn’t do a good job,” Hamilton said. Then, after a few more tries: “Damn, I can’t get past this first stage,” Hamilton admitted with a laugh.
No shame for Hamilton. The opening level of driver It sucks and is way too harsh and unforgiving, especially considering it’s supposed to act like a tutorial. Watching him fail at this level makes me feel better about how terrible I was driver as a child. For showing us all how hard the opening level is driver was, I say thank you to Lewis Hamilton.
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