Which game?

[daan]

Need for Speed was great. I've got it for my Sega Saturn. I might have to dig it out again now...

 

[amp88]

Ayrton Senna's Super Monaco GP2



That was so nostalgic.

Yep, same here 👍

Other games that got me interested would be:

Lombard RAC Rally
Lotus Turbo Challenge
and a dodgy F1 game on the Atari, don't remember the name

 

[Pupik]

Atari 2600: Night Driver.

Ah, yes. I made my first avatar out of that game (back when 64x64 pixels was the limitation).

 

[nissan man]

MARIO KARTS!!!
i know its not a serious game but what the hey!
it was fun

 

[ANK]

There has been quite a few votes for Mario kart. This was a game that i played for months. It was a fantastic game but for some stupid reason i still do not think of it as a proper racing game.

 

[meister_dan]

Gran Turismo One for driving simulations and the original game to get me hooked is Ridge Racer.

 

[xcsti]

I started off on some random rented racing game. It was a licensed game for some driver (maybe andretti) on the snes and had stock cars, sprint cars and open wheel cars of some sort.

Mario cart 64 was the first racing game I owned. I've always been attracted to racing ones, just my parents were against game consoles until I was a teenager.

Edit: It was andretti racing for genesis.

 

[ceiling_fan]

Mario Kart all the way. GT4? Poop compared to the ultimate go-cart simulation!

 

[Azuremen]

Lots of mario Kart here. And F-Zero.

But what really got me into racing games was Project Gotham Racing Which in turn got boring and I wanted more options over cars and stuff, thus GT3, with its tuning and stuff.

 

[sumbodycool]

My racing game history goes something like this...
Excite Bike (I was little, it counts as racing to me)
Pole Position
Need for Speed 2 (?)
Gran Turismo 2
..................... 3
..................... 4

 

[Jedi2016]

You really want to know?

This one:

This is the original Test Drive, for DOS, on the puny little CGA 4-color monitor that we had. Yep. We didn't have the game in proper color.. hehe. This was years before the x86 chip architecture arrived.

My first "real" racing game, comparable to today's racers, was Need for Speed on Playstation. I still love that game.

 

[Saleen Man]

I started off on some random rented racing game. It was a licensed game for some driver (maybe andretti) on the snes and had stock cars, sprint cars and open wheel cars of some sort.

Mario cart 64 was the first racing game I owned. I've always been attracted to racing ones, just my parents were against game consoles until I was a teenager.

Edit: It was andretti racing for genesis.

YES! Andretti racing! That was a great game, the sprint cars were rather challenging though I remember. Or maybe it's because I was probably 7 or 8 at the time. That was the game for me as well. 👍

 

[McLaren]

I'm surprised I haven't seen that one yet. First racing game I recall playing was Rad Racer, with the Ferrari 308 and the Lotus F1 Car, but I wasn't hooked on that one much.

D*mn straight!

Lotus Challenge was also cool.

 

[Event]

It was GT3 for me. I played GT2, but I never really got hooked on it...

 

[daan]

Lotus Challenge was also cool.

Was Lotus Challenge the one with Nigel Mainsail and Ayrton Sendup in it?

 

[Jondot]

Colin mcrae rally on ps1 - that made me realise i wanted a ps1. Then, i got le man 24 hours with the ps1, and a few months later, i had some money and the choice between v rally 2 and gran turismo 2. I chose gran turismo 2, and i don't play anything other than the gta or gran turismo series now

 

[Evolution.]

Atari 2600: Night Driver.

WORD!

I played this on my grandparents Atari when I was like 6 and had so much fun with it.

Once I got my PS2,my first driving game was Spyhunter (or ATV Offroad Fury,if you call it "driving").But the one that got me hooked was either NFS:U (yuck,I know),NFS:HP2 (we miss you!) or GT3.

 

[Small_Fryz]

Stunt racer FX and Nigel mansel F1 on SNES, then GT1 on ps1.

 

[Sambert]

Stunt racer FX and Nigel mansel F1 on SNES, then GT1 on ps1.

Stunt Race FX! My first polygon action at home. Still, I always found myself back at the arcade playing Virtua Racer. I wonder how many dollars that machine gobbled…

 

[smellysocks12]

Prince of Persia

A crappy Grand Prix game


STUNTS

Wait... actually it was a game called "Lotus" before that.

Pac Man

Scorched earth

All on a 286 with a 16 Mb hard drive... and a black & green screen...haha. Crazy times. I'm still hoping for a remake of scorched earth, that game was awesome. Kind of like worms, but better. Crazy killer weapons like the death's head.

 

[Ske]

GT2, but I only got it in like 2000 :S

 

[-Fred-]

Stunts was the **** back then. 👍

 

[Super_Adam]

My first racing game was ridge racer

 

[Carl.]

A lot of the games mentioned here wer really good, especially Stunts 👍, Test Drive I, Test Drive III (also awesome at the time).

One that lasted quite a while for me, Indianapolis 500, made in 89 by Papyrus. Complex setups (more than GT4 in some areas), nice physics, challenging competition, replays and most importantly cool crashes with damage! I think It was 320x240 in 256 colors with crappy adlib audio (or even worse, headache-inducing PC speaker, on school computers).

The grandfather of serious racing sims:

On the arcade, the oldies I really liked were Outrun and Super Monaco GP:

And finally on the NES it was Pole Position, Off Road and Al Unser Jr. turbo racing.

 

[McLaren]

Stunt Racer FX was the shiznit back then!
That game was fun as hell.

 

[-Fred-]

Ahh, yes, Indy 500, another game I totally forgot about. First, and probably only game I've ever seen, that allowed stagger adjustments.

 

[Sharky.]

NASCAR Racing on Win 95

http://www.abandonia.com/games/87/Nascar_Racing/images/games/Nascar Racing6.jpg

 

[slotcarrod]

I played many of the old gems you guys all listed. Arcade, Nintendo, Sega, Atari, but my life changed with GT1 and I can't thank PD enough!

PD

 

[Anderton Prime]

The original. Pole Position, baby!

 

[213101]

Ridge racer 1 on ps1 was my first racing game dam good fun.