Retro racing

[Wiseguy2001]

Spent many hours playing this game, edging away the seconds. This is about the only racing game I'd love to see remade. I can't believe the game company that made this went of business.

 

[Razzy]

Surprised no one mentioned MegaRace

I bought my first cd rom drive for this game lol

$250 for a 4x read only drive and when I loaded it I thought I had hacked the Gibson or something.

 

[VCS2600]

Loved 720 degrees at the arcade back in the day!

 

[Lateralus]

r.c.pro am
Quarantine (not racing , but somewhat racing.. )
whiplash
carmageddon
rocknroll racing
destruction derby 1 , 2 was way better.

somewhat in that order.

I'll go ahead and post again since this thread got necro'd, but Quarantine is one of my favorite PC games of all time. Up there with Doom and System Shock 2. I'm not sure why. I played it when it came out in the mid 90s and it just struck so many chords with me. The gritty, oppressive, futuristic environment. The music. The sawblade that you could mount to the front of your taxi cab. The plethora of blood that would splash on the windshield when you ran over someone. It was almost like the dark spawn of Carmageddon and Crazy Taxi and Twisted Metal 2. It was righteous.







I wouldn't expect anyone who missed it to pick it up and be wowed by it these days (it still has tons of charm but the graphics and production values are nowhere near today's games and last I tried, it ran way too fast to be enjoyable), but it definitely had a cult following. If you were a kid, teen or adult who gamed in the mid 90s, you probably heard about Quarantine. It also came out for 3DO, but that version wasn't as good as the PC original. I played the hell out of it on both systems.

The Destruction Derby games were great, too.



More flashbacks...































All of the games in your list were really fun to play...

 

[MrAgmoore]

Chase HQ ( arcade ):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5p4cswI3tdI

and the sequel ( which had rocket launchers ):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_yhRcsrYTY

I never got to play Road Rash on the Sega Megadrive ( Europe's Sega Genesis renamed ). I really wanted to punch people in the face:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skrvFHg-ONw

 

[NoxTek]

RoadBlasters

Gameplay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0WoHef9puQ

Roadblasters is tied with Outrun (below) as my number one 'Pre 3D accwelerated' racing game of all time. There is just something about the music that I totally dig.... the part at the end of the race where the car slides into the finish still gives me goosebumps whenever I hear the music.

Outrun (on the Sega Master System)

Gameplay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSbPM4Hjchg

You'll notice I linked to the Sega Master System version of Outrun, largely because that's what I grew up with.... for some reason we didn't have any arcade's with the game. To me even the SMS/MD version is so close to the arcade that it's really a blast to play.


Pole Position & Pole Position II (Atari Arcade)

Gameplay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4lujbhWmZA

I couldn't get away from a thread like this without mentioning Pole Position. When I was just a young brat (age 6 and onwards) I would go to the local gas station / convenience store with my aunt and watch her play a Pole Position upright unit they had... right next to a Galaga machine. Keep in mind this was in 1982 or 1983 so this was pretty impressive stuff back then. It didn't take me long to learn how to play and that machine got lots and lots of quarters from me for the next few years at least. The sound effects and music were awesome... and holy cow, a talking arcade game??? With a real voice? And there were product placements in the game which blew my poor little mind... Pepsi, Tang, Marlboro, etc...

I include Pole Position II in with the original game because they really were nearly identical.