I like the Road Rash games on Genesis a lot.
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Top Gear on SNES is pretty sick.
Cruisin’ USA was pretty great too.
I was going to say SNES Mario Kart, but really I think it’s GC Mario Kart: Double Dash.
F-zero, Mario kart 64, diddy kong racing, rush 2049, cruisn USA, need for speed underground, that game at the arcade where 3 people can play and its on one screen with an isometric view
Edit: super off road
F zero gx specifically is the goat
I grew up in the original so that’s what has a special place in my heart. GX is sick though
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.
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.
Yes! another vote for Wacky Wheels
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.
- 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.
try XJ220 on the Amiga for sense of speed
Rc Pro Am was pretty great.
It makes me feel old to admit it’s retro, but Gran Turismo on Playstation.
Stunts was the best. You could draw your own circuits.
Yes!! This and Fatal Racing was my entire early teens!
If Sonic & All Stars Racing Transformed has become retro then it’s that lol.
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.
Rollcage
Re-Volt
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
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!)
excite bike always reminds me of visiting my grandma in daytona beach :)
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. When the character turned or 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
Honorable mentions
Micro machines (that pool level!)
Cobra Triangle
