Not the same phyics, but a similar story. We used to play the original motocross madness(Not the whole thing, I think we had a demo disk with one level) and while there were "tricks" you could do with a key input we did not care about that, the real fun was the tricks you could do with the physics engine.

The single best thing about motocross madness the first was that the stage was surrounded by a large wall, but if you could get up that wall to keep you from going out of bounds the game game would yeet you with great force to the center, it was glorious.