I like the Road Rash games on Genesis a lot.
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I suppose crash team racing would be considered retro now.
I spent countless hours finding all the secret paths and shortcuts
Sonic the Hedgehog for Sega, Super Maro Bro for the NES, along with Zelda, and Hotwheels micro racer. Blaster Master waa also a super fun game that I am on the hunt for. Far as Road Rash loved the PS1 version. Also play the shit out of Cruising the USA for the Nintendo 64.
Lots of great ones mentioned here and while I don’t know if it’s my favorite, I have a deep soft spot for Super Off-Road. It has an incredible spatial sense and fluidity for its time and still holds up at any barcade.
Yeah, fair. Me and my brother definitely played alot of that.
Lotus III or Micro Machines probably. Maybe Road Rash (either version).
I hate that I can call this “retro” now, but 100% INITIAL D arcade machine or PSP game.
SPEEDY SPEED BOY
GASOLINE’S BURNIN’ IN
Super Cars (Amiga) Also have a fond memory of Death Rally
Outrun, especially Outrun 2. I like arcade style racers the most.
Also in that vein, San Francisco Rush.
Yeah, rush 2049 was my favourite from the SF Rush series.
Ridge Racer for the PlayStation
Radical Psycho Machine (RPM) Racing for the SNES!
Fun fact, this was one of the few games that played entirely in the SNES’ High Resolution graphics mode!
F-zero, Mario kart 64, diddy kong racing, rush 2049, cruisn USA, that game at the arcade where 3 people can play and its on one screen with an isometric view
Ridge Racer 4 on PlayStation. Such great mechanics. It’s genuine fun.
Mario kart is the only racing game I’ve ever been good at.
So, I’ll take Mario Kart 64 as my best retro pick.
Rock and Roll Racing
Excite bike
Excite bike
We had endless hours of fun back in the day using the track builder and figuring out the exact spacing and combination of ramps to make your little dude crash out in a manner that flung his tumbling corpse the absolute maximum amount of distance. (Okay, so you never really die in Excitebike, but you know.) You can achieve significant hang time if you do it right.
Random unsolicited video game trivia: First run editions of Excitebike were actually Japanese Famicom cartridges bodged into Famicom-to-NES cartridge converters. They’re literally Japanese copies of the game, verbatim. This includes the theoretical ability to save out your track to the Famicom Data Recorder, which has only the minor wrinkle of never having been released in the US. This was baffling to us at the time, not understanding why the option was there when it self-evidently didn’t work (but your Zelda cartridge could save just fine).
Somehow my dad figured this out using the early Internet or Usenet or something, and then I had the actual answer. Still not actually being able to save, mind you, but at least I knew why you couldn’t. Except nobody in the schoolyard would believe me.
(I do know!)
Honorable mentions
Micro machines (that pool level!)
Cobra Triangle
Rock & Roll Racing is top tier.
The first that come to mind are, in no particular order:
Need for speed hot pursuit (PC)
Sonic drift 2 (game gear)
Monaco F1 (mega drive)
Death Rally (PC)
Big Red Racing (PC)
Ballistics (PC)
WipeOut (psx)
The racing game in the Sega 4in1 pack (game gear)
Virtua Racing (mega drive)
Micromachines (mega drive)
Penny Racers (psx)
All very different from another.
Almost forgot: carmageddon!
Also another one that’s totally different from the rest: Sonic R (PC)
I guess it depends on the definition of “Retro”. I never got into racing games until Jet Moto and Wipeout on the original Playstation.
