legacy style racing

[8bit]

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

[Ria]

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.

[8bit]

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?

[Emrys]

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.

[8bit]

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

[Lee-yoshi]

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

[Robo Jay]

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

[8bit]

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