Retro racing

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What racing games, arcade & console, would you say were the great games prior to Gran Turismo? Pole Position and Bump N' Jump are pretty legendary.





Bump N' Jump Firebird

[NJDevils17]

I was a big fan of Cruisin' Exotica in the arcades.

Mario Kart is always good too.

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Super Sprint started out as the black & white Atari arcade game Gran Trak 10, and eventually got more sophisticated in color and ended up as one of the most popular games on NES. They were simpler times, they were better times.

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The legendary arcade game Death Race. Based on the Roger Corman classic 1975 movie Death Race 2000 (David Carradine, Sylvester Stallone) you race around and fatally knock over pedestrians for points. Parents got the game banned in 1976.



Death Race by Exidy

[NickDoh]

bump n jump was a favorite as a child even though i never got past the first city back then.

off road always ruled.

[thruby]

Off-Road and Pole Position!

i also had a game called Rad Racer (i think) for NES that was 3-D!!! eat your heart out Sony!!!

[bustoff]

For ps2, Saturday Night Speedway was a good dirt track game. Had sprints, late models and stock cars. Was addicted to that game for awhile.

[RetardedChimp]

Never played gran turismo because it looked boring.

But Rock N' Roll Racing and Super Mario Kart for the SNES were probably my favorite racing games of all time. To me a racing game isn't interesting unless you can physically attack other vehicles in ways besides just ramming them.

The only 'racing simulator' that I played regularly was called F1 Race and it was for gameboy. I didn't have many gameboy games.

[NJDevils17]

I agree RC. I'm not big on racing simulators either (I do like Gran Turismo and Project Gotham Racing though) but I like more of the arcade type ones like a Mario Kart.

Not a racing game, but Twisted Metal 2 is my favorite game where you drive a vehicle.

[RetardedChimp]

Originally Posted by NJDevils17

Not a racing game, but Twisted Metal 2 is my favorite game where you drive a vehicle.

My friend had that for his playstation and we would crack out on it for hours after school. Such a great game. I remember when we figured out how to shoot the flame mortors and stuff just by using button combos instead of actually picking them up, we really started to dominate.

I like those type of vehicular combat games in general, BattleTanxs for N64 is one that I used to rent fairly often - in the future (2001 haha) a global virus has wiped out pretty much all the chicks on earth, and now there are roving gangs that drive tanks fighting for superiority.

[NJDevils17]

Originally Posted by RetardedChimp

My friend had that for his playstation and we would crack out on it for hours after school. Such a great game. I remember when we figured out how to shoot the flame mortors and stuff just by using button combos instead of actually picking them up, we really started to dominate.

I like those type of vehicular combat games in general, BattleTanxs for N64 is one that I used to rent fairly often - in the future (2001 haha) a global virus has wiped out pretty much all the chicks on earth, and now there are roving gangs that drive tanks fighting for superiority.

Good call with BattleTanx. My neighbor had that on N64 and was a pretty good substitute for Twisted Metal.

I remember learning how to shoot the freeze stuff in Twisted Metal 2 which allowed the single player to become easier. Minion is still a pain in the ass to beat on the Amazon level though! That game in general just had some neat features like being able to knockdown the the Eiffel Tower and destroying that windmill in the Holland level.

It's too bad the series started to get worse once 989 Studios took over the series. Twisted Metal 3 was alright but it didn't have the same feel that 1 and 2 had. I didn't like Twisted Metal 4 at all though. However, Twisted Metal Black on the PS2 was very good and more of a throwback to the first two games.

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Originally Posted by NickDoh

bump n jump was a favorite as a child even though i never got past the first city back then.

off road always ruled.

When the NES was riding high in 1988 a version of Bump N' Jump was released for it called Burnin' Rubber. Same game as for the Atari 2600, but with much nicer graphics.

I loved Sega's attempt to cash in on the popularity of Happy Days with their arcade game The Fonz.

Also, Namco's F1, distributed by Atari in America. This projector style game was very loud. Someone aptly described it as like having a UFO land on your head, true say! Both 1976 games.

Sega The Fonz

Atari/Namco F1

[The Woodsman]

Many have already been mentioned...

But one of the best was left out:

[bengino]

this was the shiznit!

[RetardedChimp]

Originally Posted by The Woodsman

Many have already been mentioned...

But one of the best was left out:

Don't worry dude, I mentioned that in my first post. One of the few racing games I found fun. Holy Toledo!

Playing as Olaf from the Lost Vikings after you used the 'secret code' was a cool feature, especially since he had 3 points instead of just 2.