What is your favorite retro racing game?

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• twocupsofsugar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  re-volt and quantum redshift

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• synapse1278@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Crash team racing on PS1

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• cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  rc pro am and super off road give me so much nostalgia from my childhood.

  I also have mega nostalgia from rad racer :)

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• Canuck@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Jet Moto series on PS1

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• Thcdenton@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  wipeOut

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• Lemminary@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Re-Volt but also all the Crash Bandicoot were fire.

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• __nobodynowhere@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Rollcage

  Revolt

  Star Wars EP 1: Racer

  NFS

  NFS2

  NFS Hot Pursuit

  NFS Underground

  Death Rally

  Crash Team Racing

  Hydro Thunder

  SSX Tricky

  San Francisco Rush 2049

  Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing

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• wanderwisley@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  San Francisco rush extreme racing 64.

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• calavera@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Not my favorite, but I really liked Buggy Run from Master System

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• hyhachi@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Rally Cross Beetle Adventure Racing Outrun

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• steal_your_face@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  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

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  • Bacano@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    F zero gx specifically is the goat

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    • steal_your_face@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I grew up in the original so that’s what has a special place in my heart. GX is sick though

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• daytonah@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  In nokia n-gage (the og and not the 2nd smaller version) there was a rally game, really good one… Then I like rally 3.

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• Defectus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Super Cars (Amiga) Also have a fond memory of Death Rally

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• ouRKaoS@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  A game that no one I know IRL knows exists without me telling them:

  Eliminator Boat Duel on NES.

  Basically Super off-road meets Cobra Triangle.

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• MrTHXcertified@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Road Rash is still one of my favorites! I plan to play through the PSX version at some point since I only ever got the chance to play the Genesis ones as a kid.

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• yarr@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Colin McRae Rally for PSX/PSP still holds up really well.

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Is Burnout old enough to be considered retro? 🤔

  Because otherwise I, too, would have to say Road Rash. Or possibly that super old arcade Star Wars racing game I only ever got to play once. The game wasn’t special though; what made it rad was the arcade machine because it was one of those sit-down ones with a gyro so that shit gave you a realistic feeling of being on a speeder bike.

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• Varyag@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Gran Tourismo 2 and 4, Ridge Racer Type 4, Burnout 3 Takedown and NFSU2/MW. I like a lot of racing games but these are my favorite retro ones.

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• Jarix@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Rock and Roll Racing

  Excite bike

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  • cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    excite bike always reminds me of visiting my grandma in daytona beach :)

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    • Jarix@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That’s kid icarus and al uncer jrs racing for me.

      I remember my grandmother playing those games with us and she was exactly the person who would gesture with her hands as she was trying to play the game. Why the character turned out jumped, her hands would do the same thing, she fling the controller out of her hands at least once that i remember trying to jump to a new platform in kids Icarus

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  • Jarix@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Honorable mentions

    Micro machines (that pool level!)

    Cobra Triangle

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  • ouRKaoS@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Rock & Roll Racing is top tier.

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  • dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    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.

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    • Jarix@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      (I do know!)

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• Fredselfish@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  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.

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• specialseaweed@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Rc Pro Am was pretty great.

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• finkrat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Super Hang-On is a comfort game for me, if I need a pick up and play racer I often choose that

  If I wanna get more technical while staying retro I’d play Gran Turismo 2

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• Strayce@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Not sure it’s my favourite, but Wipeout XL/2097 deserves a mention.

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  • InFerNo@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Looking for a good t shirt with one of the team logos on it

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• AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  No clue whether people consider the wii retro yet, but it’s a tie between Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity on wii (since that’s how I experienced it) or Cartoon Network Racing on PS2 (same reason). I’m fairly certain PS2 is technically retro by now, as insane as that sounds.

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• daggermoon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Ridge Racer for the PlayStation

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• heavydust@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Stunts was the best. You could draw your own circuits.

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stunts_(video_game)

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  • meathorse@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yes!! This and Fatal Racing was my entire early teens!

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• InFerNo@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  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.

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  • InFerNo@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Almost forgot: carmageddon!

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    • InFerNo@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Also another one that’s totally different from the rest: Sonic R (PC)

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• Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  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

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• deus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Top Gear 3000. It’s the main reason why I have a SNES emulator installed on every device I own lol.

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• HipsterTenZero@dormi.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  F-Zero X

  I crave speed and murder

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