What is your favorite retro racing game? (lemmy.world)

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I like the Road Rash games on Genesis a lot.

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[-] Lemminary@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago

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

[-] __nobodynowhere@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

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

[-] steal_your_face@lemmy.ml 6 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

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

[-] Bacano@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

F zero gx specifically is the goat

[-] wanderwisley@lemm.ee 2 points 6 hours ago

San Francisco rush extreme racing 64.

[-] calavera@lemm.ee 2 points 6 hours ago

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

[-] hyhachi@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 hours ago

Rally Cross Beetle Adventure Racing Outrun

[-] Defectus@lemmy.world 4 points 9 hours ago

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

[-] daytonah@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 hours 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.

[-] MrTHXcertified@programming.dev 6 points 13 hours 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.

[-] Kolanaki@pawb.social 5 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Is Burnout old enough to be considered retro? 🤔

Because otherwise I, too, would have to say Road Rash.

Not much of a fan of racing, which is why my picks are what they are; Burnout has the awesome crash mode, and Road Rash is basically just a beat 'em up on wheels.

Although, I also really like Wipeout.

[-] Varyag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 14 hours 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.

[-] Jarix@lemmy.world 6 points 14 hours ago

Rock and Roll Racing

Excite bike

[-] Jarix@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago

Honorable mentions

Micro machines (that pool level!)

Cobra Triangle

[-] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 6 points 14 hours 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.

[-] Jarix@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago

(I do know!)

[-] yarr@feddit.nl 3 points 13 hours ago

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

[-] specialseaweed@sh.itjust.works 5 points 17 hours ago

Rc Pro Am was pretty great.

[-] Strayce@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 19 hours ago

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

[-] InFerNo@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 hours ago

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

[-] heavydust@sh.itjust.works 7 points 20 hours ago

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

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

[-] meathorse@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago

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

[-] InFerNo@lemmy.ml 6 points 21 hours 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.

[-] InFerNo@lemmy.ml 3 points 20 hours ago

Almost forgot: carmageddon!

[-] InFerNo@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 hours ago

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

[-] finkrat@lemmy.world 3 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours 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

If I'm in a "I need the arcade experience" mood I'll play Daytona USA

[-] BlueSquid0741@lemmy.sdf.org 19 points 1 day 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.

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[-] maxprime@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 day ago

Top Gear on SNES is pretty sick.

Cruisin’ USA was pretty great too.

[-] brsrklf@jlai.lu 14 points 1 day 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 3 points 18 hours 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.

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[-] daggermoon@lemmy.world 3 points 20 hours ago

Ridge Racer for the PlayStation

[-] hydrashok@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 day ago

I was going to say SNES Mario Kart, but really I think it’s GC Mario Kart: Double Dash.

[-] PlasticExistence@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Outrun, especially Outrun 2. I like arcade style racers the most.

Also in that vein, San Francisco Rush.

[-] Tarquinn2049@lemmy.world 4 points 23 hours ago

Yeah, rush 2049 was my favourite from the SF Rush series.

[-] HipsterTenZero@dormi.zone 5 points 1 day ago

F-Zero X

I crave speed and murder

[-] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 2 points 20 hours 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.