I like the Road Rash games on Genesis a lot.
Outrun, especially Outrun 2006. I like arcade style racers the most.
Also in that vein, San Francisco Rush.
What is your favorite retro racing game?
Submitted 1 year ago by Zombiepirate@lemmy.world to retrogaming@lemmy.world
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PlasticExistence@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Tarquinn2049@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yeah, rush 2049 was my favourite from the SF Rush series.
EvilBit@lemmy.world 1 year ago
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.
Tarquinn2049@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yeah, fair. Me and my brother definitely played alot of that.
hakase@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
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!
Twig@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
Lotus III or Micro Machines probably. Maybe Road Rash (either version).
Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Grand Prix on Atari was pretty fun.
SailorMoss@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Diddy Kong racing.
B0NK3RS@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s a close call between Super Hang-On, World Rally and Colin McRae 2.0.
Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
It makes me feel old to admit it’s retro, but Gran Turismo on Playstation.
TheMadIrishman@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Rock n Roll racing for the SNES. Absolutely adore that game.
Tarquinn2049@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yeah, RnR, as well as SF Rush 2049 were basically my entire childhood… so much so that I have been using this user name ever since. Though, if I could somehow also add in a tokyo extreme racer reference too without it getting too long or complicated… or culturally insensitive… I loved thise games too. Not enough proper Racing RPG games any more. You never start from the bottom and work your way up. Modern racing games just have you win cars in the lottery…
TheMadIrishman@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
SF Rush was an absolute riot!
sic_semper_tyrannis@lemmy.today 1 year ago
Hydro Thunder on Dreamcast!
Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
The announcer shouting Hydro Thunder is so iconic
f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
The arcade version also has him yelling, “Press your boost button to start!” One of the first x86-based arcade games I can think of.
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 1 year ago
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.
hydrashok@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
I was going to say SNES Mario Kart, but really I think it’s GC Mario Kart: Double Dash.
uninvitedguest@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
itsathursday@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Gaelco’s World Rally Championship (1993)
GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Someone already beat me to Topgear, but I’m not seeing Mario Kart? Also GT2 on the PSX was great fun.
jordanlund@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I guess it depends on the definition of “Retro”. I never got into racing games until Jet Moto and Wipeout on the original Playstation.
Coldmoon@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
For me it’s Rad Racer on NES. Just very nostalgic! I love the sounds and the graphics just scream 80s/early 90s
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 1 year ago
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.
Coldmoon@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
I had no idea to either of those!
48954246@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I suppose crash team racing would be considered retro now.
I spent countless hours finding all the secret paths and shortcuts
BlueSquid0741@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
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.
InFerNo@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
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?
BlueSquid0741@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
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.
Twig@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
Have you tried Old School Rally?
BlueSquid0741@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
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.
Coldmoon@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Love road rash!!
brsrklf@jlai.lu 1 year ago
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.
Damage@feddit.it 1 year ago
You know, when I read retro racing I immediately thought of NFS and Pod, it’s surprising to find someone who still remembers it.
Wetstew@lemmy.world 1 year ago
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.
brsrklf@jlai.lu 1 year ago
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.
Deebster@infosec.pub 1 year ago
- Single player: Stunt Car Racer on the Amiga
- Multiplayer: Super Skidmarks also on the Amiga
Tehdastehdas@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Stunt Car Racer can have two players on two Amigas with a serial cable connecting them.
Dicska@lemmy.world 1 year ago
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.
Twig@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
I think it’s cross platform too, to Atari and DOS
Num10ck@lemmy.world 1 year ago
try XJ220 on the Amiga for sense of speed
Bump@programming.dev 1 year ago
If Sonic & All Stars Racing Transformed has become retro then it’s that lol.
maxprime@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
Top Gear on SNES is pretty sick.
Cruisin’ USA was pretty great too.
Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
Top Gear’s Las Vegas music is amazing: m.youtube.com/watch?v=iwC7qpzpTUU
MisterMoo@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Ridge Racer 4 on PlayStation. Such great mechanics. It’s genuine fun.