Racing games, where players have the chance to drive a powerful car, have been a staple in the video game industry since the early days of arcade gaming.
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Racing games, where players have the chance to drive a powerful car, have been a staple in the video game industry since the early days of arcade gaming.
NASCAR Racing, released in 1994 for DOS, was the first game in the NASCAR Racing series developed by Papyrus started in 1994. The series continued with NASCAR 2 and ended with the release of NASCAR Racing 2003.
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Micro Machines 2: Turbo Tournament is the second game in the popular racing series created by Codemasters featuring toy cars. This time there were also some different kind of vehicles, like hovercraft and helicopters.
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Screamer is an arcade-style racing game developed by Graffiti and released by Virgin Interactive for MS-DOS in 1995. Inspired by Namco's Ridge Racer, the game was released around the same time as EA's The Need for Speed.
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Hi-Octane is a racing/vehicular combat game developed by Bullfrog and released in 1995 for the PC, PlayStation, and Sega Saturn. The game is based on Bullfrog's Magic Carpet engine.
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Grand Prix II, also known as Formula One Grand Prix 2, is the second Formula 1 racing game in the series created by Geoff Crammond. It was published by MicroProse in 1995 for MS-DOS.
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Whiplash (aka Fatal Racing) is a 3D stunt racing game developed by Gremlin Interactive and published by Interplay Entertainment in 1995 for DOS. Like most racing games, the point is to reach that finish line first.
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F1 Manager 96 is a Formula 1 management simulation developed by the German software house Software 2000 and released in 1996 for DOS. You start selecting your team and then you wil...
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Death Rally is a top-down combat racing game developed by Remedy, published by Apogee, and distributed by GT Interactive Software. It was released in 1996 for MS-DOS, but in 2009 it was re-released for Windows as freeware.
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Destruction Derby is a vehicular combat racing game developed by Reflections Interactive and published by Psygnosis in 1995 for DOS and PlayStation. Of course, it later made its way onto other platforms, including Android devices.
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Carmageddon is a violent and destructive racing game developed by Stainless Software and published by SCi and Interplay in 1997. It was released for DOS and Mac (ported to other platforms in later years).
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Stunt Track Racer (Stunt Car Racer in the UK) is a racing videogame developed by Geoff Crammond and published by MicroStyle in 1989. It was released for the Amiga, Atari ST, MS-DOS, ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, and Amstrad CPC.
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Super Cars 2 is the sequel to the racing game Super Cars created by Magnetic Fields. Published by Gremlin Graphics, Super Cars II was released only for Amiga and Atari St, in 1991.
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SEGA Rally Championship is a racing game originally created by SEGA as an arcade release in 1994. The game was also released in 1995 for SEGA Saturn and in 1997 for Windows. Severa...
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Virtua Racing is a 3D arcade racing game created by SEGA in 1992. Due to its fantastic success, the game was also ported to the SEGA Mega Drive/Genesis, thanks to an additional chip (SVP) added to the cartridge.
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