I like the Road Rash games on Genesis a lot.
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San Francisco rush extreme racing 64.
- Single player: Stunt Car Racer on the Amiga
- Multiplayer: Super Skidmarks also on the Amiga
Stunt Car Racer can have two players on two Amigas with a serial cable connecting them.
Now I’m jealous! Back when I was a kid, I loved it on C64 and pressed every single button to find some secret two player mode.
I think it’s cross platform too, to Atari and DOS
try XJ220 on the Amiga for sense of speed
Ridge Racer 4 on PlayStation. Such great mechanics. It’s genuine fun.
Top Gear on SNES is pretty sick.
Cruisin’ USA was pretty great too.
Top Gear’s Las Vegas music is amazing: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iwC7qpzpTUU
re-volt and quantum redshift
Road Rash and Skitchin are great. The Ayrton Senna games too, but I played those on Master System.
Network Q RAC Rally Championship on DOS is as good as it gets. Not the sequel International Rally Championship, which is far worse.
POD on Windows 9x. It has not held up and doesn’t look so good no matter how you get it working now. But if you played it back then those memories will live inside you forever.
Badlands on Commodore 64.
Moto Roader 2 on PC Engine.
NFS Porsche Unleashed/2000 (whatever they called it in your region) is the best NFS game.
I had a demo version of POD and I played it a lot. Now I’m afraid to look it up lol. Is it really that bad?
It’s maybe not so bad, but I spent ridiculous hours in POD, playing every track and in reverse, and with every car, and split screen multiplayer.
I’ve never been able to get it to work with dgVoodoo, so the 3dfx crispness isn’t there. And I think it’s limited to 800x600 (but I remember it being somewhat prone to crashes above 640x480, this was about 10 years ago though). I also had a lot of audio popping which I couldn’t figure out what was wrong.
It was such a great looking game to show off the Glide graphics on a 15” svga monitor, but for me it didn’t scale well on a 24 - 27” hi res screen.
Love road rash!!
Have you tried Old School Rally?
It’s on my wish list.
Along with some of the other throwback racers/rally games recently, I wish some dev who idolised Rally Championship was giving them a go. They all seem to want to target Sega Rally with a bit of Colin McRae sprinkled in. Which is still good, I love rally wherever I can get it.
Probably F-Zero GX. Though I’m older than that, I wasn’t playing racing games a lot before that. An older game I’d enjoyed a bit was POD (: Planet Of Death).
I’ve played Mario Kart quite a bit, starting back with super, but I can’t really pick one as my favorite retro racing game, because the one I like the most is 8. Though Wii came close.
You know, when I read retro racing I immediately thought of NFS and Pod, it’s surprising to find someone who still remembers it.
It’s so satisfying when you get good at knocking out other racers. I remember as a teenager I would set my top speed to high and whittle down half of the other racers on my way to the front of the pack.
It’s easy to get in the top ten when you drop the racers count down fifteen places.
Hell yeah. And then you’ve got one of those crazy hard story mode challenges where you pretty much have to destroy as many opponents you can to have enough juice to win. The one with Michael Chain and his gang.
That story mode was unhinged difficult. Don’t think I got much further than that.
It was such a cool level. I remember that was the only story level I beat in first couple tries~
I did some of it, enough to unlock a few of the AX characters and some machine pieces, but yes, incredibly hard.
Among the unlocks, Daigoroh was cool. Ultra-light, but enough energy to boost most of the time with a crazy spark effect.
If Sonic & All Stars Racing Transformed has become retro then it’s that lol.
Someone already beat me to Topgear, but I’m not seeing Mario Kart? Also GT2 on the PSX was great fun.
Yes! another vote for Wacky Wheels
Gaelco’s World Rally Championship (1993)
For me it’s Rad Racer on NES. Just very nostalgic! I love the sounds and the graphics just scream 80s/early 90s
And you can press select and everything goes to anaglyph 3D…
A random piece of trivia you can use to blow certain people’s minds is that Rad Racer was developed by Square. Yes, that Square.
I had no idea to either of those!
You’ll be scouring cereal boxes for a pair of red/blue 3D shades in no time.
I suppose crash team racing would be considered retro now.
I spent countless hours finding all the secret paths and shortcuts
I guess it depends on the definition of “Retro”. I never got into racing games until Jet Moto and Wipeout on the original Playstation.
I was going to say SNES Mario Kart, but really I think it’s GC Mario Kart: Double Dash.
