History Trivia / NeedForSpeedUnderground

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Neither of the games ever got a digital re-release so the only way to legally obtain the game is buy used retail copies from second-hand market.

* {{Abandonware}}: Neither of the games ever got a digital re-release so the only way to legally obtain the game is buy used retail copies from second-hand market.

* Abandonware: Neither of the games ever got a digital re-release so the only way to legally obtain the game is buy used retail copies from second-hand market.

** The prologue of ''Underground 2'' supposedly shows the player racing around Olympic City (the setting of the first ''Underground''), but rather than actually recreate Olympic City, the game obviously uses as background the same city set as Bayview.

** ''Underground 2'' would have a HotterAndSexier intro scene, that is scrapped (but [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CLXi1al9zA leaked]]) as the scene alone would jack the age ratings up.
** Rachel's car in ''Underground 2'' was originally supposed by a red Mazda [=RX-8=], as evidenced by the cutscene of the player pulling into the garage with Rachel's car showing them sitting inside such a car. The idea was repurposed for the next game, ''Most Wanted'' (2005), where such a car is driven by Mia.

For trivia relating to the games' parent franchise in general, click [[Trivia/NeedForSpeed here]].
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*** In slightly later screenshots, the HUD looks more like the [=PlayStation=] 2 demo, except the track map is still dark blue.

*** Shaking effects were much more intense during drag races.

* YouLookFamiliar: Sharon Alexander, who voices Samantha, also voiced the County Dispatch officer in ''VideoGame/NeedForSpeedHotPursuit 2''.

** For the first ''Underground'', it was announced in the April of 2003 with planned release date of April 2004, but was pushed back to November 2003 just in time for the 2003 holiday season. The following reasons could have been that was shown in the earlier builds of the game but were scrapped or changed in the retail version:

** Rachel's car in ''Underground 2'' was originally supposed by a Mazda [=RX-8=], as evidenced by the cutscene of the player pulling into the garage with Rachel's car showing them sitting inside such a car.

** Playing Melissa in the first ''Underground'' game is one of only two roles that actress Amy Walz is known for (or in fact, is known to have ever played), the other being "Blonde in Bar", the [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin blonde in a bar]] that Dr. John Nash uses to explain the Nash Equilibrium in ''Film/ABeautifulMind''.
** Model Cindy Johnson, who provided her likeness for Samantha, in known to only have appeared in two video games: ''Underground'', and as [[TheDanza Cindy J]] in ''[[VideoGame/DefJamSeries Def Jam: Fight for NY]]'' (also published by EA).

* FakeAmerican: British model Kelly Brook plays Nikki Morris, and speaks with an American accent while playing her, although sometimes she slips off and results in some aural UncannyValley.

** Rachel's car in ''Underground 2'' was originally supposed by a Mazda [=RX-8=], as evidenced by the cutscene of the player pulling into the garage with Rachel's car showing them sitting inside such a car.

* ReclusiveArtist: Unlike later ''Need for Speed'' games, which cast relatively well-known actresses as the player's female companion, the actresses who played Samantha and Melissa in the first ''Underground'', Cindy Johnson and Amy Walz, were two models that pretty much dropped off the radar shortly after the game's release. Among the very few things known about them is that each appeared on at least one other work aside from ''Underground'' (Johnson in the video game ''[[VideoGame/DefJamSeries Def Jam: Fight for NY]]'' and Walz in the film ''Film/ABeautifulMind''), making them {{TwoHitWonder}}s.

* InMemoriam: In the Beacon Hill area of ''Underground 2'', you'll find the Brad Lawless Memorial Park, and a statue dedicate to him. Lawless was an EA developer who died six months before the game's release, and the park was named in his honour.