Given Screamer’s 1995 release date, comparisons to Namco’s Ridge Racer — which came out two years earlier — were inevitable. And I doubt developer Graffiti (today known as Milestone) were complaining, either; their game being regarded as the closest thing … Continue reading Screamer: Much more than a Ridge Racer ripoff
The Sheffield-based Gremlin Graphics put out some of the most fondly-regarded games of the 16-bit era — including some absolutely cracking racing games. Ask any Atari ST and Amiga fans to name some of their favourite racers and doubtless Gremlin’s … Continue reading Full Throttle All-American Racing: Gremlin’s forgotten racer
As someone who enjoys both retro and modern games, there’s one retro title that I find myself returning to more often than any other — a game that I absolutely devoured back on its original release, and which I still … Continue reading 5 reasons Ridge Racer Type 4 is still the best racing game of all time
You know, I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone talk about Excite Truck for Nintendo Wii. And you’d think as a spinoff to one of the NES era’s most beloved games — Excitebike — more people would be aware of … Continue reading Excite Truck: delightfully absurd off-road arcade racing
A lot of classic arcade games have had numerous rereleases over the years — both in compilations such as Namco’s excellent Namco Museum series, and as standalone downloads like Hamster’s never-ending Arcade Archives franchise. One that we haven’t seen for … Continue reading It’s time we had a new port of Pole Position
There are a few games over the years that have purported to be a “driving simulation” rather than a “racing game”, and the first I was aware of was Atari Games’ Hard Drivin’ from 1989. This always struck me as … Continue reading Midway Arcade Treasures: Hard Drivin’
Today’s 10 of the Best Tuesdays list looks at racing games! Racing games are probably the genre of gaming that has undergone the most significant upheaval as technology has improved — though there are still plenty of developers today deliberately … Continue reading 10 of the best “vanishing point” racing games
Racing games are one of those genres that have undergone numerous changes over the course of gaming history — and this was particularly true in the early days. These days we tend to think of a hard divide between “arcade … Continue reading Midway Arcade Treasures: Super Sprint
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