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...
Tag: racing
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...
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....
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...
F-Zero
Developer: Nintendo EAD Publisher: Nintendo Release: 08/23/91 Genre: Racing For as much as I like racing games I will admit that most of the 8-bit titles in the genre did nothing for me. There were valiant attempts that...
Wave Race 64
Developer: Nintendo Publisher: Nintendo Released: 1996 Genre: Racing Every new console has one or two titles designed to showcase the new hardware. The NES had Super Mario Brothers, the PlayStation 2 had Tekken Tag Tournament and the Ga...
Super Off Road – The Baja
Developer: Software Creations Publisher: Tradewest Released: 09/93 Genre: Racing Out of all the genres that were active during the 16-bit era racing games are perhaps the hardest to revisit. Polygons finally allowed developers to create the kind...