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.
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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Micro Machines is the first game of the popular series of racing simulations featuring toy cars, developed by Codemasters. It was initially released for the NES in 1991. The Amiga,...
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Wacky Races by Hi-Tech Software is the videogame adaptation of a famous animated series. Do you remember Wacky Races, the cartoon by Hanna-Barbera, with Dick Dastardly, his dog Mut...
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Test Drive is the first racing sim created by Distinctive Software for the Commodore 64 and Amiga. It was initially released in 1987. Later it was ported to Apple II and MS-DOS. Ev...
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Vroom is a racing arcade/sim developed by Lankhor and released initially for the Atari ST in 1991, then Amiga, and finally MS-DOS. The game, inspired by the coin-op Pole Position, was born originally on the Sinclair QL.
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Speed Buggy (Buggy Boy in the UK) is an arcade racing game created by Tatsumi, initially released in 1985. From 1987 to 1988, several home computer versions were created, including...
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Badlands is a racing arcade created by Atari Games in 1989 and ported to Amiga, Commodore 64, Atari ST, and ZX Spectrum by Domark. It is the spiritual successor to Super Sprint but with a post-apocalyptic theme.
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Skunny Kart is a nice racing game clearly inspired by Super Mario Kart. It was developed by Copysoft and released in 1993 for MS-DOS. The hero of the game is Skunny, a squirrel, t...
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Harley-Davidson: The Road to Sturgis is a driving game officially licensed by Harley Davidson. The game was developed by Incredible Technologies and published by Mindscape in 1990 for PC, then ported to Amiga and Atari ST.
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Knight Rider is a game based on the 1982 television series starring KITT, the hi-tech supercar, and David Hasselhoff as Michael Knight. The game was created by Pack-In-Video and published by Acclaim in 1988 for the NES only.
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Overdrive is a top-down racer developed by Psionic originally for the Amiga and published by Team17 in 1993. Not the best game of this genre, but it features a fantastic soundtrack...
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Hard Drivin' II: Drive Harder is a sequel, for computers only, of the famous arcade by Atari, one of the most popular in the history of video games. Hard Drivin 2 was released in 1990 for the Amiga, Atari ST, and MS-DOS.
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Wacky Wheels is an arcade-kart racing game released by Apogee Software in 1994 for MS-DOS only. In this game, you can play any of eight wacky animals. As you can imagine, Super Mario Kart strongly inspired the game.
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Hard Drivin' is a famous 3D racing coin-op created by Atari and released in 1989. The conversions for home computers, Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, MS-DOS, ZX Spectrum, and Mega Drive, were managed by Domark.
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