/vr/ - Retro Games

Another thing that was huge on the PS1 but stayed complete in Japan was the horse-raising sim. Horse racing is a pretty popular gambling and cultural activity in Japan, though these games focus exclusively on breeding, training, and raising horses for Western-style jockey races. There are shitloads of these games for the PS1, including series such as Classic Road (pictured), Breeding Stud, Derby Jockey, Disc Derby, G1 Jockey, and Gallop Racer.

Usually when one of these games makes its way to America it's dumbed down and marketed as a horse game for teenage girls, but these highly technical sims were clearly designed for a crowd of serious hobbyists, and are generally impenetrable if one doesn't know Japanese.