It pains me to say this, because it means that I’m getting old, but the street-racing game Need For Speed Underground 2 is 21 years old. It’s old enough to drink in the US. It doesn’t feel like it was that long ago that I was tearing through the city of Bayview in neon-clad, nitrous-injected sport compacts. That game, and its predecessors and successors, definitely fueled my dreams of building up my own tuned cars. My own Mazda Miata has some mild body modifications, aftermarket wheels, and it’s supercharged. Though I’ve skipped the underglow, at least for the time being. I’m far from the only person inspired by the games, though. Another person is Andy Valentine of the YouTube channel Garage Tinkering. He went above and beyond to bring the game to reality with custom graphics for his instrument screens that match those in the game.
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