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* AluminumChristmasTrees: Yes, [[http://youtu.be/PqLbNTptasw?t=20s monster trucks really can drive on water]], if not quite in the "differently-textured floor" way the game handles it.

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%% {{Mayincatec}}: The "Excavation" circuit.

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%% {{Mayincatec}}: * BigBoosHaunt: "The Graveyard" has this aesthetic, taking place in a rainy graveyard.
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The "Excavation" circuit."Voodoo Island" and "The Excavation" tracks.
* NostalgiaLevel: Apart from the OldSaveBonus below, the track "Crazy '98" is "A Crazy Eight" from the first game.


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* ShiftingSandLand: The "Sidewinder Canyon" and "Tumbleweed Flats" tracks.
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but if the custom title doesn't show up, does it matter


* RecycledINSPACE: The game's new multiplayer-only tracks all boil down to the concept of professional wrestling WITH MONSTER TRUCKS!

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* RecycledINSPACE: RecycledInSpace: The game's new multiplayer-only tracks all boil down to the concept of professional wrestling WITH MONSTER TRUCKS!
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huh, that's really the canonical capitalization


* RecycledInSpace: The game's new multiplayer-only tracks all boil down to the concept of professional wrestling WITH MONSTER TRUCKS!

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* RecycledInSpace: RecycledINSPACE: The game's new multiplayer-only tracks all boil down to the concept of professional wrestling WITH MONSTER TRUCKS!
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* MadLibsDialogue: 'Army' Armstrong's dialogue is AnnouncerChatter assembled from smaller voice clips.

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* MadLibsDialogue: 'Army' Armstrong's dialogue is AnnouncerChatter is assembled from smaller voice clips.

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* BrandX: [[AvertedTrope Averted]]. All the major real-life monster trucks from the late '90s are here and drivable by both players and the AI.



* GameMod: A wide variety of user-made maps and trucks exist for both games.
* MadLibsDialogue: 'Army' Armstrong's dialogue is this whenever he talks about any of the game's monster trucks.

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* GameMod: A wide variety of user-made maps and trucks exist for both games.
* MadLibsDialogue: 'Army' Armstrong's dialogue is this whenever he talks about any of the game's monster trucks.AnnouncerChatter assembled from smaller voice clips.



* RacingGame: With monster trucks.

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* %% RacingGame: With monster trucks.



!!The orignal ''Monster Truck Madness'' contains the following tropes:
* AluminumChristmasTrees: Yes, [[http://youtu.be/PqLbNTptasw?t=20s monster trucks really can drive on water]]. No, you can't take a stock monster truck, [[DontTryThisAtHome drive it into a lake]], and have it float.
* BonusMaterial: The on-line manual (read: electronic offline help system) comes with interviews with actual monster truck drivers and engineers, footage from monster truck rallies, and a video of a modified Bigfoot monster truck [[AluminumChristmasTrees driving on water]]. It also contains, among other non-game-related items, a history of the Bigfoot monster truck and stats on all the monster trucks featured in the game.

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!!The orignal original ''Monster Truck Madness'' contains the following tropes:
* AluminumChristmasTrees: Yes, [[http://youtu.be/PqLbNTptasw?t=20s monster trucks really can drive on water]]. No, you can't take a stock monster truck, [[DontTryThisAtHome drive it into a lake]], and have it float.
* BonusMaterial: The on-line manual (read: electronic offline help system) comes with interviews with actual monster truck drivers and engineers, footage from monster truck rallies, and a video of a modified Bigfoot monster truck [[AluminumChristmasTrees driving on water]]. It also contains, among other non-game-related items, a history of the Bigfoot monster truck and stats on all the monster trucks featured
water]], if not quite in the game."differently-textured floor" way the game handles it.



* {{Mayincatec}}: The "Excavation" circuit.

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* %% {{Mayincatec}}: The "Excavation" circuit.



* RecycledINSPACE: The game's new multiplayer-only tracks all boil down to the concept of professional wrestling WITH MONSTER TRUCKS!

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* RecycledINSPACE: RecycledInSpace: The game's new multiplayer-only tracks all boil down to the concept of professional wrestling WITH MONSTER TRUCKS!
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* OverturnedOuthouse: The announcer will yell "Hey! I'm in here!" if the player knocks over a port-a-potty with their truck.

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* WreakingHavok: For starters, trucks can knock down road signs and push traffic cones.



* [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Mayincatec Mayincatec]]: The "Excavation" circuit.

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* [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Mayincatec Mayincatec]]: {{Mayincatec}}: The "Excavation" circuit.


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* ShowsDamage: Trucks get deformed once they go tumbling.
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* RacingGame: With monster trucks.


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* Mayincatec: The "Excavation" circuit.

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* Mayincatec: [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Mayincatec Mayincatec]]: The "Excavation" circuit.
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* Mayincatec: The "excavation" circuit.

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* Mayincatec: The "excavation" "Excavation" circuit.
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* Mayincatec: The "excavation" circuit.
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* ProductPlacement: For Wrestling/{{WWE}} (then known as WWF). Aside from adding WWE-themed monster trucks to the existing roster, several WWE-themed, multiplayer-only track types were added.

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* ProductPlacement: For Wrestling/{{WWE}} (then known as WWF). Wrestling/{{WCW}}. Aside from adding WWE-themed WCW-themed monster trucks to the existing roster, several WWE-themed, WCW-themed, multiplayer-only track types were added.
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* ProductPlacement: For {{WWE}} (then known as WWF). Aside from adding WWE-themed monster trucks to the existing roster, several WWE-themed, multiplayer-only track types were added.

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* ProductPlacement: For {{WWE}} Wrestling/{{WWE}} (then known as WWF). Aside from adding WWE-themed monster trucks to the existing roster, several WWE-themed, multiplayer-only track types were added.
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* BonusMaterial: The on-line manual (read: electronic offline help system) comes with interviews with actual monster truck drivers and engineers, footage from monster truck rallies, and a video of a modified Bigfoot monster truck [[AluminumChristmasTrees driving on water]].

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* BonusMaterial: The on-line manual (read: electronic offline help system) comes with interviews with actual monster truck drivers and engineers, footage from monster truck rallies, and a video of a modified Bigfoot monster truck [[AluminumChristmasTrees driving on water]]. It also contains, among other non-game-related items, a history of the Bigfoot monster truck and stats on all the monster trucks featured in the game.

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* MadLibsDialogue: 'Army' Armstrong's dialogue is then whenever he talks about any of the game's monster trucks.

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* MadLibsDialogue: 'Army' Armstrong's dialogue is then this whenever he talks about any of the game's monster trucks.



* AluminumChristmasTrees: Yes, [[http://youtu.be/PqLbNTptasw?t=20s monster trucks really can drive on water]]. No, you can't take a stock monster truck and [[DontTryThisAtHome drive it into a lake]].
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The only game in the series to have events which actually resemble your typical monster truck rally and allow monster trucks to [[AluminumChristmasTrees drive on water]].

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* AluminumChristmasTrees: Yes, [[http://youtu.be/PqLbNTptasw?t=20s monster trucks really can drive on water]]. No, you can't take a stock monster truck and truck, [[DontTryThisAtHome drive it into a lake]].
lake]], and have it float.
* BonusMaterial: The on-line manual (read: electronic offline help system) comes with interviews with actual monster truck drivers and engineers, footage from monster truck rallies, and a video of a modified Bigfoot monster truck [[AluminumChristmasTrees driving on water]].
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The only game in the series to have events which actually resemble your typical monster truck rally and allow monster trucks to [[AluminumChristmasTrees [[RunningGag drive on water]].



* ProductPlacement: For {{WWE}} (then known as WWF). Aside from adding WWE-themed monster trucks to the existing roster, several WWE-themed, multiplayer-only track types were added.

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* OldSaveBonus: If you own the original ''Monster Truck Madness'', the sequel will let you import and play the original tracks.
* SecretLevel: [[{{Hell}} The Pit]], only accessible by finding the hidden entrance on one of the regular tracks.
* ProductPlacement: For {{WWE}} (then known as WWF). Aside from adding WWE-themed monster trucks to the existing roster, several WWE-themed, multiplayer-only track types were added.added.
* RecycledINSPACE: The game's new multiplayer-only tracks all boil down to the concept of professional wrestling WITH MONSTER TRUCKS!
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* ConvectionSchmonvection: The only thing driving across magma fields or the lava-filled insides of a volcano does to your truck is slow it down like it was on dirt.
* GameMod: A wide variety of user-made maps and trucks exist for both games.


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!!The orignal ''Monster Truck Madness'' contains the following tropes:
*AluminumChristmasTrees: Yes, [[http://youtu.be/PqLbNTptasw?t=20s monster trucks really can drive on water]]. No, you can't take a stock monster truck and [[DontTryThisAtHome drive it into a lake]].
*EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The only game in the series to have events which actually resemble your typical monster truck rally and allow monster trucks to [[AluminumChristmasTrees drive on water]].
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!!The ''Monster Truck Madness'' series as a whole contains the following tropes:
* AnnouncerChatter: 'Army' Armstrong, who narrates everything from trucks jockeying for position to spectacular crashes to insane jumps. His narration often crosses into LargeHamAnnouncer territory:
** ''(Truck goes off-track or crashes through barrier)'' '''GRAVE DIGGER''' ''is looking for a detour!''
** ''(Player truck starts leaning on two wheels)'' '''''Lean''''' into it!
** ''(Truck starts driving on water)'' '''MONSTER PATROL''' is ''walkin' on water!''
* BrandX: [[AvertedTrope Averted]]. All the major real-life monster trucks from the late '90s are here and drivable by both players and the AI.
*MadLibsDialogue: 'Army' Armstrong's dialogue is then whenever he talks about any of the game's monster trucks.
-->''''Army' Armstrong''': [Monster Truck 1] is doing '''''it in the air'''''!
!!''Monster Truck Madness 2'' contains the following tropes:
*ProductPlacement: For {{WWE}} (then known as WWF). Aside from adding WWE-themed monster trucks to the existing roster, several WWE-themed, multiplayer-only track types were added.
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''Monster Truck Madness'' is a monster truck racing PC game developed by Terminal Reality and published by Microsoft, in 1996. A sequel, ''Monster Truck Madness 2'', was released in 1998.

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