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What racing games, arcade & console, would you say were the great games prior to Gran Turismo? Pole Position and Bump N' Jump are pretty legendary.




Bump N' Jump

ARG! What was that retro game called?!?!?! *smacks head*

outrun? Waah I can't rememer..

Basically you raced around a dirt track with obsticals. Around the edges of the course was red and white borders.

Quote:Basically you raced around a dirt track with obsticals. Around the edges of the course was red and white borders.

I think it was Ivan Stewart's Super Off-Road for NES?

Well, if you belive me, Square did a racing game before Final Fantasy that, i believe, was the precursor to the basic physicis engine. You'd actually skid off the road if you took a turn too fast!
Anyway, the game was called Rad Racer, but I can't seem to find a screen shot of it.

The game Road Blasters showed how powerful the 1989 Atari Lynx handheld was, not far off the graphics of the NES screenshot below.

Wow 8bit, you really know your old style games!

My favourite was this really lame amiga game that basically involved little race cars going around a circuit and you could just drive like a maniac and smash into them, just for fun. Don't even think of asking me for a name on that one though, really testing my memory now! :S

lol, them pictures look like damn gd graphics, but they may just be cause i decided to get out my Atari 2600....

The car racing genre was probably popular early on with programers because it was easy to make the simple shape of a car go around a top down viewed track, lol.

I liked the buggies in Rock N' Roll Racing for Genesis & SNES.

Rock N' Roll Racing