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February 22, 2019 4 Responses

Mario Kart 64

Developer: Nintendo EAD Publisher: Nintendo Released: February 12, 1997 Genre: Racing The Nintendo 64’s early months were rough. After a record setting Christmas the reality of the system’s anemic release schedule hit early adopters. Aside from March 1997 you were...

November 2, 2018 4 Responses

Super Mario Kart

Developer: Nintendo EAD Publisher: Nintendo Release: 09/01/92 Genre: Racing Super Mario Kart really is an amazing game when you think about it. With its crude Mode 7 terrain and honestly plodding pace it should fail as a racing game....

September 12, 2018 No Responses

Virtua Racing

Developer: Sega AM2 Publisher: Sega Release: 03/14/94 Genre: Racing For as much as we revere Sega for their creative and original output their arcade releases were just as brilliant. I would even say that they were pioneers of arcade...

July 18, 2018 No Responses

Outrun

Developer: Hertz Publisher: Sega Release: 1991 Genre: Racing My experiences with Outrun are a bit odd compared to everyone else. I did not play the arcade game at first; my first exposure to the series was actually the Master...

June 18, 2018 No Responses

Cobra Triangle

Developer: Rare Publisher: Nintendo Release: 07/89 Genre: Vehicular Combat Sometimes I miss the days when a game could come along and genuinely surprise me. True, I could completely avoid all information on titles that I am even slightly interes...

February 23, 2018 2 Responses

F-Zero X

Developer: Nintendo EAD Publisher: Nintendo Release: 10/27/98 Genre: Racing The Super Nintendo launch brought a number of ground breaking titles. Pilotwings was an excellent showcase of Mode 7 with its simulated 3d environment. But F-Zero was th...

November 24, 2017 2 Responses

Extreme-G

With the advent of home console 3d the racing genre literally exploded in the late 90s. It isn’t like today where we are lucky to get a few sim racers and maybe an arcade racer a year. Racing games run...

August 25, 2017 2 Responses

Wave Race: Blue Storm

Developer: NST Publisher: Nintendo Released: 11/18/01 Genre: Racing In terms of sheer number of hours I have probably spent more time playing Wave Race 64 than the vast majority of games in my thirty seven years. Of course a large...

August 18, 2017 2 Responses

Diddy Kong Racing

Developer: Rare Publisher: Nintendo Released: 10/31/97 Genre: Racing Mario Kart 64 was one of the biggest releases of 1997. As the long awaited sequel to the original SNES game the move to 3d did wonders for its track design. While....

August 7, 2017 3 Responses

Chase H.Q.

Developer: Taito Publisher: Taito Release: 01/26/90 Genre: Racing Sometimes the simplest ideas hit big. Chase H.Q. is basically Outrun gussied up with a cops and robbers theme. Except instead of pulling them over you instead ram into criminals...

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