/vr/ - Retro Games

Screamer 2.
2nd place goes to Network Q RAC Rally Championship and Buggy Boy

>tfw GT2 is now retro :(

>>1899192
F-Zero X, then WipEout 3, then Pole Position.

Runner up: Rock 'n Roll Racing

Crash Team Racing

Ridge Racer Type 4. By a mile. That music. Those amazingly cheesy melodramatic storylines. That ingenious reuse of second of course that always twisted things up in interesting ways. That sense that the PS1 was really being pushed to its limits by people who knew the hardware inside out.

I would also accept SNES F-Zero, Waverace 64, or Sega Rally.

Micro Machines for multiplayer push-the-other-guy-off-the-screen antics, or Daytona arcade for straight racing. Single player would probably be the Wipeout XL just for the sheer number of hours I plowed in to it or Outrun for that joyful Sega feeling.

Megarace 2, Re-Volt and Rollcage Stage II

Rollcage needs a remastered version with state of the art graphics!

>>1899418
>Re-Volt
My RC nigga.

I still have a dreamcast memory card entirely full of custom tracks.

1. Virtua Racing
2. Top Gear
3. F-Zero/F-Zero X
4. Ridge Racer Revolution
5. Star Wars Episode I Racer

This.

Tokyo extreme racer on dreamcast.

>>1899503
3 isn't retro faggot

>>1899387
Are you me?

This and the first Gran Turismo are my favorite pre-2000 racing games

>that yellow car with it's random warp speen capabilities

Turbo (1981, Sega)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NvNtqv0sKo

Pole Position II (1983, Namco)

No Second Prize (1992 Amiga game)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkqFOwqca4A

F-Zero (SNES)

The first two games really need an arcade cabinet (preferably enclosed, sit-down type) with steering wheel, gear shift, pedals, etc. to get the best experience. I used to play Night Striker in same type of cabinet and that really kicked ass! (but it's shooter, not racing game...) Unfortunately the arcades closed down long ago, and my MAME setup with gamepad just doesn't cut it...

The Amiga game is played with a mouse (strangely that works very well...) and has a sweet intro music / demo.

>>1899778
Forgot: Quake Rally, an old Q1 mod released in 1997 (I think).

>>1899501
thats hardly a racing game tho lol
It's my favourite car game, too, probably but I wouldn't call it a racing game. Yeah you can go round and complete the checkpoints if you like, but the other cars won't even race you really iirc.

>>1899790
Wow, that looks fucking ridiculous. Is it still playable?

>>1899778
>No Second Prize
My man.

Would have never expected to see this show up on here. What a game. Looked lovely for the time and really rewarded patience and practice. Those mouse controls, man. Loved the learning curve between battering off every corner like a drunkard to eventually gliding high-speed through turns that would have seemed impossible.

Pretty sure I got it free on a copy of Amiga Power, too, which made it even more awesome.

>>1899520
It is fucking great, though. But XG 1 is very good too. Too bad the second game sucks.

this

>>1899387

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMZ872rsa90

>dat intro

>>1899665
NFS5 had such a delicious retro-Euro motif.

And the soundtrack was fucking awesome.

>>1899501
I grew up playing this game, started when I was 5 and still play it today, both on pc and andriod phone and the new remake! Good times!

>>1899373
>>1899501
>>1899665
>>1900128

Mah niggas has good taste

F-Zero, F-Zero X, San Francisco Rush, Top Gear

As much as I like Gran Turismo 1 and 2, I think racing simulation games are ones that actually improve with more advanced hardware, so I prefer Forza and the newer Gran Turismos

>>1899968
XG2 would probably be a good game if it didn't have such terrible framerate issues.

I wish more developers in the 5th gen focused on simple graphics and speed like F-Zero X.

Got a copy of GT2, only the sim disc. Is it really that great? Played some GT3 and it was okay, but I wasn't blown away

>>1900601
Not retro, I know, but check out Outrun 2/2K6 if you haven't already. Beautiful game, great soundtrack, and really captures the magic of the old arcadey racers when it was about fun rather than being a car bore.

As for old stuff: Another vote for R4. highlight of the series for me and a game where everything just seemed to come together perfectly.

No Micropose F1 in cga? Boo hiss etc.

>ctrl+f
>Formula One: Built to Win
>No results found.

sad frog.jpg

GT2, no doubts for being my favourite. As second runner, Ridge Racer series.

"I'm Paul Page. From Papyrus, this is Indycar Racing 2"

>>1900128
>93% by PCGamer
I'm scared by what they would give it now.

>>1901769

>>1899192
Cruis'n World is still my favorite.

>>1899501
Carmageddon 2 still has the best car damage model I've seen in any video game.

>>1903212
I absolutely loved this back in the arcades. One time I managed to use a combination of winning tracks, extra continues, and mashing Start on the continue screen so others can resume the race, to beat the Cruisn' mode. I don't remember which levels I actually ended up winning other than Australia (one of the hardest levels), and Florida (the last level, won that by a mile, managed to boost myself to 1st place in the first 5 seconds of the race with the boosters, then just smooth cruised the rest of the level). And the ending, holy shit.

Just BARELY fitting the into the age of what's considered "retro" (1999), Crazy Taxi. I played it at the movie theater where they had a sit down arcade machine. I then got it for the Dreamcast, later on the PS2, PS3, and my iPhone. I fucking love that game.

If /vr/ thinks Crazy Taxi is a bit too young *insert pedo bear joke, here* I'd go with Outrun or F-Zero X

>>1903351
Is the n64 port decent or just as shit like Cruisn USA?

>>1899192
Wave Race and Rock 'n Roll Racing

NFS: Porsche

>>1904485
never played WAve Race until Wave Race Blue Storm, is the original any good?

GT2
Super Hang-On
Virtua Racing
Wip3out Special Edition
Kawasaki Superbike Challenge

Gran Turismo 1.

While GT2 improved the gameplay, it lost GT1's atmosphere and felt so goddamn bland.

GT1's music made for 90% of it too.

>>1907253
Thank you based Super Hang-On friend. The music in that is GODLIKE.

I recently got a new car, a manual convertible. Waited for sunset and took a long ride down the coast line while blaring outride a crisis.

Boners were had.

P.O.D. http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TVQ1Vev33s8

And starcommander deluxe are my favs

If retro, Rush 2: Extreme Racing USA.

Midtown madness and the sega nascar game.

Street Rod 2
Rad Racer
Also:
>>1899486
>>1903212
>>1907307

NFS3, Colin Mcrae Rally, Carmageddon
oh, and Stunts

seems that a lot of people share my sentiments around here

Tokyo Street Racing on dreamcast.

Gets forgotten a lot but still a great (looking) racing game.

/vr/ you deceived me
you forgot the legend

>>1899192
yes GT2 is great, I play it on emulator when my wife use my PS3

>>1899526
Mein neger. I'm just so glad the game survived in the form of PGR.

>>1907959
dice's best ever product, how far they've fallen since

>>1904365
I was planning to buy Crazy Taxi 3
It has the same map but does it have the same "feeling"?
Even the music/characters?

>>1907973
Driver isn't exactly a "racing" game. You drive a car, but you're not racing.

This being said, I fucking loved Driver as a kid. Remember how everyone complained they couldn't go passed the parking learning session? Fucking casuals... Anyway this kind of "hardcore parking training" would NEVER even be considered if the game was made nowadays...

I did 45mins in survival mode once, beat me.

This little gem right here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfnLcrFnx88
And I don't even think it's that much nostalgia goggled: dat music, dat gameplay, dat tunable cars... One could argue if it's really a racing game with a top view though.
Second place goes to SNES Mariokart.

>>1908114
>how far they've fallen since
>Mirrors Edge
>BF 3
I see no problem here.
Also, San francisco rush 2049 SE - best arcade stuntan racan ever created. Unfortunately there is no home version.

>>1909203
>Fucking casuals...
It IS hard, the whole game is hard, and I am impressed with myself how I could get to the mission where you chase an helicopter in 2 in Rio de Janeiro/Brazil as a kid. Even with the cheats you can unlock within the last 2 cities, it IS hard still.
Aren't the cars RWD? They're certainly not your typical arcade driving controls.

>>1899192

Agree on the GT2. Every time I start a new game, I play to win all the races then when I'm done I make hybrids. It's hilariously good fun trying to control a car with 2000+ horsepower.

Somewhere in my top ten is Rush 1&2 for N64. A bit too arcade-y for my usual tastes but still great fun.

>>1909375
>Also, San francisco rush 2049 SE - best arcade stuntan racan ever created. Unfortunately there is no home version.

All the cool stuff from Rush 2049 whilst including my favorite Rush track (Alcatraz).

It is a real pity.

>>1907307
>tfw GT2 will never have all the GT1 races
I think you could still play them but I was so disppointed when they (nearly) didn't use the GT1 maps in the 2.

Special stage R* , trial Mountain (this one is used a bit), Deep Forest were all so great

I'd love to play the arcade version

>>1909375
sorry for being that guy but, what game in the pic ?

>>1909709
If I had to guess, Test Drive 5.

That car looks like the "Behold The Mighty Maul!", which was a personal favorite that I drove.

>>1909726
Thanks anon

Is CMR 2.0 retro? Because that game most certainly had the best car controls of ANY game on the PSX and probably all other consoles. Nothing like getting your white Lancer dirty as fuck while driving through a rainy british outback.

also dat intro
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIRluy2OHys

There's nothing faster than this

>>1899848
Yup, I've got it working using the Steam Quake release using winquake mode.

The handling is really unique, as you move the camera, not the car, which then turns to catch up. Sort of like how in some Tank games where the body takes time to catch up to the angle of the turret.

http://quakeone.com/files/4-mod-files/137-quake-rally/

>>1909726
It's PC version of NFS IV: High Stakes running on Glide API.

>>1899848
There's also a Quake 3 racing game around, it was updated to be standalone.

>>1899681
fucken eh!!

>>1900536
love it but gotta give the edge to this one

>>1910419
best thing about this one was the forever burn outs and dounuts

did anyone care or even try this ???

>>1912346

Non retro, but it's Gran Turismo 4 with bikes, there's no other way to describe it. I'm not so into bike's psychics to say if it is really accurate, but the little time I've spent on it was fun.

>>1912353
>u
cool man thanks, sorry for the none retro thing

>>1912346
I always wanted to play Tourist Trophy, or have something like this on PC, and hope it is easily emulated eventually.
Also wish there were more bike games in general (modern and retro), although MotoGP13 has spoiled me with dat cockpit view.
Sorry for the non retro discussion though.

Also wished Super Hang-On career mode was available on some other version because Genesis has choppy framerate.

>>1912637

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDKOqgHrI_w

2:15 from this video. You can try use an emulator where you can change the clock speed, I use Megasis to play some unplayable low fps games like F-22 and Zero Tolerance, worth a try.

>>1903184
7/10 it's okay.

Should really be a retroactive 99% for the fact that it is still the basis for almost all good F1 mods, that physics engine is finally showing its age but it took much longer than most

>>1899192
DAYTONAAAAAAAA

Ignition was fun as shit.

>all these correct answers
there's hardly anything left to post

>>1899518
Agreed. Smashing into walls to turn should be a mechanic of every racing game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-y7fk8mvH4

This was all I had growing up

>>1905937
Original still has the best physics in a jet ski game.

>>1908095
Did any of the PGRs have Richard Jacques do the OST?

Sega Super GT/Scud Race hands down.

>>1899379
This

>>1914402
My dick there isn't.

>>1914684
Wipeout and 2097 (or XL for amerifats) are 10/10 games. Sucks that only the Sega Saturn version of 2097 has the cold storage soundtrack. I understand why they wanted trendy techno artists like Chemical Brothers and Prodigy on the release, but having one guy do the soundtrack makes it feel way more unified. Plus the songs were catchy as fuck.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GE89Y0crBZY

>>1914684
>You will never get Wipeout 3 Special Edition

>>1914693
Don't be like that, nigga.

>inb4 ants

>>1914697
fuck off, jon.

>>1914689
I think the Pc version got that soundtrack too? It was a great port, but I'm not sure how easy it is to get running on a modern OS.

>>1914427
Hahaha it hurts me how accurate this is

>>1899387

Wave Race 64 is one of the most underrated videogames ever.

Still, I'd go with GT2 for the exceptional simulation disc.

The only game that could best GT2 was GT4..

I fondly remember playing F-Zero X
Instead of trying to just win the races I always attempted to throw every other vehicle off-track or slam them into the sides so hard that they got obliterated. Great fun.

Went into my loft earlier today and found my PSX and PSone, I was pretty shocked as I thought I didn't have them anymore and that it was my first console. Anyway, sorry for blogging, these are some of the games I found, I need suggestions on what to play
Test Drive 6
World's Scariest Police Chases
Micro Machines V3
The Italian Job
Wipeout
007 Racing
Need for Speed: Road Challenge
Gran Turismo 2
Ridge Racer
Colin McRae Rally 2.0
London Racer II
Lego Racers

>>1915719
Lego Racers.

Top Gear
>dat soundtrack

Okey...
Bump N Burn - Atari 2600
Supercars II on the Amiga.
Turbo Outrun (with the big wobbley chair) in the arcade.
Crazy Cars (Speccy)
Indy 500 (amiga)
Rock N Roll Racing (SNES)
Is Gran Turismo old enough to be called retro yet?

>>1900148
the tracks seemed double-sized though

>>1915719
>World's Scariest Police Chases

now that was a surprisingly great game. who would've though

>>1919448
>what is google i'm a retard

Also Spy Hunter.

>>1914328
this cracka know what's up

>>1907959
I so fucking want to play Motorhead again but I can't fucking get it to wrok on Win 7 64bit.

>>1919448
>Bump N Burn - Atari 2600

Bump n Jump I think you mean

>>1899192
Them freaking endurance races... <3

Never again

>>1920243
They round about 2 hours. Some are even less.
That's nothing.
Plus with a good car you can win if you drive around consistently without taking risks.

>>1920405
2 hours isn't even as long as a real race.

They did add real endurance races in the PS2 games that lasted over 24 hours, If I remember correctly.

>>1907973
Most batshit insane cops to ever chase you in a game.