I like the Road Rash games on Genesis a lot.

  • BlueSquid0741@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Road Rash and Skitchin are great. The Ayrton Senna games too, but I played those on Master System.

    Network Q RAC Rally Championship on DOS is as good as it gets. Not the sequel International Rally Championship, which is far worse.

    POD on Windows 9x. It has not held up and doesn’t look so good no matter how you get it working now. But if you played it back then those memories will live inside you forever.

    Badlands on Commodore 64.

    Moto Roader 2 on PC Engine.

    NFS Porsche Unleashed/2000 (whatever they called it in your region) is the best NFS game.

    • InFerNo@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      I had a demo version of POD and I played it a lot. Now I’m afraid to look it up lol. Is it really that bad?

      • BlueSquid0741@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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        1 day ago

        It’s maybe not so bad, but I spent ridiculous hours in POD, playing every track and in reverse, and with every car, and split screen multiplayer.

        I’ve never been able to get it to work with dgVoodoo, so the 3dfx crispness isn’t there. And I think it’s limited to 800x600 (but I remember it being somewhat prone to crashes above 640x480, this was about 10 years ago though). I also had a lot of audio popping which I couldn’t figure out what was wrong.

        It was such a great looking game to show off the Glide graphics on a 15” svga monitor, but for me it didn’t scale well on a 24 - 27” hi res screen.

      • BlueSquid0741@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        2·
        1 day ago

        It’s on my wish list.

        Along with some of the other throwback racers/rally games recently, I wish some dev who idolised Rally Championship was giving them a go. They all seem to want to target Sega Rally with a bit of Colin McRae sprinkled in. Which is still good, I love rally wherever I can get it.

  • brsrklf@jlai.luEnglish
    13·
    2 days ago

    Probably F-Zero GX. Though I’m older than that, I wasn’t playing racing games a lot before that. An older game I’d enjoyed a bit was POD (: Planet Of Death).

    I’ve played Mario Kart quite a bit, starting back with super, but I can’t really pick one as my favorite retro racing game, because the one I like the most is 8. Though Wii came close.

    • Damage@feddit.itEnglish
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      2 days ago

      You know, when I read retro racing I immediately thought of NFS and Pod, it’s surprising to find someone who still remembers it.

    • Wetstew@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 days ago

      It’s so satisfying when you get good at knocking out other racers. I remember as a teenager I would set my top speed to high and whittle down half of the other racers on my way to the front of the pack.

      It’s easy to get in the top ten when you drop the racers count down fifteen places.

      • brsrklf@jlai.luEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        Hell yeah. And then you’ve got one of those crazy hard story mode challenges where you pretty much have to destroy as many opponents you can to have enough juice to win. The one with Michael Chain and his gang.

  • finkrat@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    2 days ago

    Super Hang-On is a comfort game for me, if I need a pick up and play racer I often choose that

    If I wanna get more technical while staying retro I’d play Gran Turismo 2

    If I’m in a “I need the arcade experience” mood I’ll play Daytona USA

  • Fredselfish@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    1 day ago

    Sonic the Hedgehog for Sega, Super Maro Bro for the NES, along with Zelda, and Hotwheels micro racer. Blaster Master waa also a super fun game that I am on the hunt for. Far as Road Rash loved the PS1 version. Also play the shit out of Cruising the USA for the Nintendo 64.