Racing Games Through the Years

[Paul Jeffrey]

Aye you might have a point

 

[quicksilver384]

I have just thought of another one that should be on the list (there was a port to the sega mega drive 32x addon)
Every time I went to Belgium and Luxembourg I had to have go on it at the Cactus Shop.

1992 Sega Arcade Machines - Virtua Racing

 

[quicksilver384]

That's because this is more interesting to us oldies and veterans of sim racing.

<<<< not an oldie Speak for yourself lol im only 31

 

[AndrewBo]

I'm not OLD....... maybe a bit vintage,,,but NOT OLD....lol...

 

[Andy_J]

I still have a boxed copy of this and Indycar Racing 2.

 

[Paul Jeffrey]

Virtua Racing

This one used to annoy me because you had to reach checkpoints if I remember rightly? I always used to crash on the tight mountain bit at the end of one of the tracks. Never did get that bit right...

 

[Idylhours]

I use to play Pole Position on a TI-99/4a. One of the first games I ever played.

 

[Paul Jeffrey]

Can anyone remember the good old ZX Spectrum Plus 2? That was a beast of a machine

Good times indeed

 

[Paul Jeffrey]

10p a game at the car boot sale. Used to love scratching around in a random box see what I could find back in the day.

Looking back now it feels like it was yesterday. Must have been at least 20 years ago now, if not more. Time really does fly...

 

[Rupe Wilson]

That little hole in the tape deck of the ZX sepctrum... So important to get that squeal to the right pitch.. i remember that trick.

 

[Andy_J]

Can anyone remember the good old ZX Spectrum Plus 2? That was a beast of a machine

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Good times indeed

I still have my old Spectrum, still boxed in the loft, together with an Atari st520, Commodore C64, Amiga 500, Amiga a1200 and an old 486dx pc. All my old games are also up there causing a fire hazard I suppose. Can't bare to get rid of any of it. Gawd knows how many old joysticks, graphic cards etc are also up there.

 

[David Wright]

Much as I love Grand Prix Legends, it didn't look like the image in the OP in 1998. It looked like this

Grand Prix Legends was perhaps the last sim where modders really raised the graphics to a whole new level. Proof if any were needed that graphics do matter to hardcore simracers.

 

[Paul Jeffrey]

I still have my old Spectrum, still boxed in the loft, together with an Atari st520, Commodore C64, Amiga 500, Amiga a1200 and an old 486dx pc. All my old games are also up there causing a fire hazard I suppose. Can't bare to get rid of any of it. Gawd knows how many old joysticks, graphic cards etc are also up there.

Man you are sitting on a gold mine with those Andy! Seriously. I was in CEX the other day and they were telling me about N64 games. Some of them with boxes fetch over £60 each! For a game!

You might have some fun just checking out prices on the site for some of the stuff you have... the woman in the shop said this guy came in with a bag full of old stuff and walked out with £500... for stuff I would have thought worthless and just tossed in the bin!

Because I'm a nice fella I'll only charge you 10% finders fee if you make the sale

 

[quicksilver384]

This one used to annoy me because you had to reach checkpoints if I remember rightly? I always used to crash on the tight mountain bit at the end of one of the tracks. Never did get that bit right...

Yes I was never any good at it lol but yes you did need the checkpoints.

10p a game at the car boot sale. Used to love scratching around in a random box see what I could find back in the day.

Looking back now it feels like it was yesterday. Must have been at least 20 years ago now, if not more. Time really does fly...

Apparently we had ZX but I dont remember it as I was too young the first computer I can remember was our NES I still remember going to toys r us with me dad to get it with SMB + duckhunt. Was awesome.

 

[Lars Hansen]

Well this is blinkin' typical.

I write a nice and well thought out article about my visit to Simbin, take some nice pictures and spend ages trying to get the right "feel" of the piece and get 23 comments.

In this one I thrown together a bunch of old pictures that require literally no thought and half an hour on Wikipedia and boom - nearly 60 comments in an hour!

Bloody marvellous

It's the internet.
Given the choice between reading and looking at pictures, the pictures will win any day of the week

 

[The_Grand_Duchess]

HA! I actually used to own NASCAR Racing Season 1999 and NASCAR Racing Season 2003 (which I still have on my PC right now) and even got to play one of the games that came in between. Feels a bit silly to have a screenshot of 1999 but not of 2003

 

[marcocale]

Revs and Revs+ by Geoff Crammond on C64

 

[sogoku]

My first racing game:

 

[Paul Jeffrey]

My first racing game:

I remember this! Ha awesome!

 

[DaVeX↯]

Even if I had still a copy of it, I bought a new one just for the cover...

I had this too (somewhere)

Superleague Formula by ISI!!