Racing games
From the arcade cabinet to the kart track: race the clock or a friend.
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- Out Run (Arcade, 1986, Sega): Cruise a convertible down sunny coastal roads, picking your route at every fork.
- Super Hang-On (Arcade, 1987, Sega): Race a superbike across four continents, leaning into the turns and hitting turbo.
- Turbo Out Run (Arcade, 1989, Sega): Race across the USA from New York to Los Angeles with a turbo and a rival Porsche.
- Power Drift (Arcade, 1988, Sega): Buggy racing on roller-coaster tracks with jumps, banks and wild drops.
- Chase H.Q. (Arcade, 1988, Taito): Chase down criminals at high speed and ram them off the road before time runs out.
- Hang-On (Arcade, 1985, Sega): The superbike racer that started Sega's Super Scaler era.
- Neo Drift Out: New Technology (Arcade, 1996, Visco): Rally racing on gravel, snow and mud with a top-down chase camera.
- Super Monaco GP (Arcade, 1989, Sega): Formula One racing around Monaco, shifting gears through the famous circuit.
- Super Mario Kart (Super Nintendo, 1992, Nintendo): The kart racer that started it all: grand prix cups, item battles and the famous Rainbow Road.
- Mario Kart 64 (Nintendo 64, 1996, Nintendo): Mario and friends race in 3D across sixteen tracks, firing shells and dropping bananas, with split-screen races and battles for four players.
- F-Zero (Super Nintendo, 1990, Nintendo): Hover cars race at blistering speed around Mute City, Big Blue and Port Town, in the Super Nintendo launch game that showed off its Mode 7 3D.
- Road Rash II (Sega Genesis, 1992, Electronic Arts): Race motorcycles on open roads from Hawaii to Vermont, punching rivals and swinging chains while dodging traffic and the police.
- Diddy Kong Racing (Nintendo 64, 1997, Rare): Diddy Kong and friends race karts, hovercraft and planes across Timber's Island in an adventure mode against the space wizard Wizpig.
- F-Zero X (Nintendo 64, 1998, Nintendo): Thirty hover cars race at once around twisting, looping tracks at a smooth 60 frames a second, with a Death Race and four-player split screen.
- Enduro (Atari 2600, 1983, Activision): Race through day, night, fog and snow in a cross-country endurance race, passing enough cars each day to keep going.
- Excitebike (NES, 1985, Nintendo): Motocross on a side-scrolling track: manage the engine's heat, land jumps square and dodge the pack, then build your own course in the editor.
- Micro Machines (NES, 1991, Camerica): Tiny cars race across pool tables, breakfast bars and sandboxes, best with two players, in Codemasters' unlicensed NES racer.
- R.C. Pro-Am (NES, 1988, Nintendo): Radio-controlled cars race isometric tracks, picking up missiles, bombs and speed-ups, in Rare's early NES racer.
- R.C. Pro-Am II (NES, 1992, Tradewest): The sequel adds racing against friends, cash to spend on engines and tires, and challenge stages like tug-of-war between races.
- Rock N' Roll Racing (Super Nintendo, 1993, Interplay): Armed cars race isometric tracks across alien planets to covers of Paranoid, Born to Be Wild and Bad to the Bone, with an announcer calling the wrecks.
- Top Gear (Super Nintendo, 1992, Kemco): Race 32 tracks across eight countries in split screen, managing fuel and nitros, to Barry Leitch's roaring soundtrack.
- Top Gear 3000 (Super Nintendo, 1995, Kemco): The series goes to space: 48 planets, cars upgraded with money won and the DSP-4 chip drawing the forking tracks, in split screen.
- Road Rash (Sega Genesis, 1991, Electronic Arts): Race motorcycles through California traffic while punching and clubbing the other riders off their bikes, earning cash for faster rides.
- Road Rash 3 (Sega Genesis, 1995, Electronic Arts): The Rash goes worldwide, from Brazil to Japan, with bikes to upgrade, weapons to steal mid-race and cops who chase harder than ever.
- Virtua Racing (Sega Genesis, 1994, Sega): Sega's polygon racer at home thanks to the SVP chip in the cartridge: three tracks, four camera views and split-screen two-player.
- Dragster (Atari 2600, 1980, Activision): Shift gears and dodge a blown engine on a quarter-mile drag strip, chasing the perfect start, in Activision's first cartridge.
- Grand Prix (Atari 2600, 1982, Activision): A side-scrolling road race against the clock through four courses with other cars, oil slicks and bridges to time right.
- Beetle Adventure Racing! (Nintendo 64, 1999, Electronic Arts): Race Volkswagen Beetles over huge tracks full of shortcuts and secrets, with a Beetle Battle mode for four players.
- Cruis'n USA (Nintendo 64, 1996, Nintendo): Race coast to coast through fourteen checkpoints, from the Golden Gate to Washington, in the arcade racer brought home.
- Excitebike 64 (Nintendo 64, 2000, Nintendo): Motocross with physics that reward timed jumps and stunts, a track editor and the original Excitebike hidden inside.
- Rush 2: Extreme Racing USA (Nintendo 64, 1998, Midway): Stunt-filled street racing through New York, Las Vegas, Seattle and more, with a crash-happy physics model and a stunt track for showing off.
- San Francisco Rush: Extreme Racing (Nintendo 64, 1997, Midway): Leap San Francisco's hills in shortcut-filled street races, with the arcade's glorious crashes and hidden keys to find.
- San Francisco Rush 2049 (Nintendo 64, 2000, Midway): Cars with wings glide over a future San Francisco, with stunt and battle modes for four players, in the N64's last Rush.
- Snowboard Kids (Nintendo 64, 1998, Atlus): Big-headed kids race down mountains collecting coins to buy items that slam the pack, with shots and tricks, for four players.
- Star Wars Episode I: Racer (Nintendo 64, 1999, LucasArts): Podracing at impossible speeds across Tatooine and beyond, with Anakin, Sebulba and twenty more pilots, and an Expansion Pak high-resolution mode.
- Driver (Game Boy Color, 2000, Infogrames): Undercover cop Tanner takes getaway-driving jobs in Miami, San Francisco, Los Angeles and New York, outrunning police in an overhead car-chase game.
- Mickey's Racing Adventure (Game Boy Color, 1999, Nintendo): Mickey and his friends race go-karts on Disney-themed tracks and explore a small world between races to unlock new cars and secrets.
- Mickey's Speedway USA (Game Boy Color, 2001, Nintendo): Mickey and friends race across the United States, from Los Angeles to New York, to rescue Pluto from the Weasels.
- Star Wars Episode I: Racer (Game Boy Color) (Game Boy Color, 1999, Nintendo): Anakin and rival podracers speed over desert and ice courses across the galaxy in an overhead racer, on a cartridge that rumbles.
- Asphalt: Urban GT (Nintendo DS, 2004, Ubisoft): Street racing through real cities in licensed cars from Lamborghinis to Hummers, upgrading them between races and outrunning the police.
- Mario Kart DS (Nintendo DS, 2005, Nintendo): Mario and friends race through new courses and favorites from earlier games, with items, a mission mode and balloon battles.
- Need for Speed: Most Wanted (Nintendo DS, 2005, Electronic Arts): Race your way up Rockport's blacklist of street racers, tuning cars and escaping police pursuits.
- Ridge Racer DS (Nintendo DS, 2004, Namco): Namco's arcade racer on the DS: drift through classic Ridge Racer courses, steering with the D-pad or the stylus.
- TrackMania DS (Nintendo DS, 2008, Atlus): Race stunt tracks full of loops and jumps against the clock, and build your own with the track editor.