Retro racing games

[axlon]

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 Firebird

[Justin Bimmer]

excitebike, rad racer, road rash, MARIO KART!

[FAPTurbo]

MARIO KART!

This.

[Intrepidation]

Virtua Racing

[§carlet §wordfish]

This game is still a gas to play.

[axlon]

The infamous 1976 arcade game Death Race, based on the 1975 Roger Corman directed 1975 movie Death Race 2000 starring David Carradine & Sylvester Stallone. You race around, knock over/kill pedestrians and pick up points. Parents had the game banned! But we can enjoy it now. 1976, the future has arrived! BTW there's a good modified C3 Corvette in this film.

Death Race

[the_yellow_dart]

Pole Position I remember. That was good.

I also remember another racing game for the C64, it was racing through traffic that was going both ways with a cliff on one side and a rock face on the other. Anybody know what I'm talking about?

[the_yellow_dart]

Oh! I found it! TEST DRIVE.

Watch the gameplay in the second half of the video. Pretty good for a Commodore!