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Riff Racer (Drive Any Track) is a game similar to Beat Hazard and Audiosurf that lets you play with your music. It creates a track based on a song from your music library.

In this video I race to First! by Gazebo. It’s a 2 star difficulty track. I was using the car Monaco.

The Gameplay Channel

Split/Second: Out With A Bang Ep 12 Airplane Graveyard Air Revenge

January 7, 2017August 25, 2017 J.A. Laraque 0 Comments featured, pc games, racing games, Split Second

Here is an Air Revenge event in Airplane Graveyard for Episode 12 Out With A Bang in the game Split/Second.

Pure Gameplay

Split/Second: Midway Pass Ep 6 Port Bridge Air Revenge

November 7, 2016August 25, 2017 J.A. Laraque 0 Comments featured, let's play Split Second, pc games, racing games, Split Second, Split Second gameplay, Split Second videos

Here is an Air Revenge event in Port Bridge for Episode 6 Midway Pass in the game Split/Second.

Pure Gameplay

Split/Second: Scorched Rubber Ep 9 Dry Docks Race

August 22, 2016August 25, 2017 J.A. Laraque 0 Comments pc games, racing games, Scorched Rubber, Split Second, video games

Here is a Race in Dry Docks for Episode 9 Scorched Rubber in the game Split/Second.

Arcade Arcade Games

Chase HQ Arcade

September 22, 2014October 8, 2015 Ian 0 Comments Amstrad CPC6128k, arcade, chase HQ, classic games, racing games, retrogaming

Of course it all seems so quaint now, bloated as we are on fancy graphics and plasma tellys. Why, the arcade itself now struggles to compete with home consoles, relying on ever more elaborate and expensive gimmicks to try and get people to fritter their pound coins away as they once did with their 20ps. Ahhhh, ’twas a different time. At the time my brother and I were proud owners of an Amstrad CPC6128k (with disc drive, and I’m sure it was spelt disc not disk back then). Now the Amstrad CPC version of Chase HQ was never going to be arcade perfect. Even at 10 years old I knew that.

N64

Diddy Kong Racing

September 15, 2014September 15, 2014 Adam R. 0 Comments classic games, diddy kong, Diddy Kong Racing, donkey kong, Mario Kart 64, n64, nintendo, racing games, retro gaming

It featured a similar set-up to Mario Kart, with racing through colorful themed tracks with power-ups to use. The cast didn’t feature Diddy Kong’s famous uncle, but original characters. Most notable would be Banjo the bear (who would later star in Banjo-Kazooie) and Conker (the star of Conker’s Bad Fur Day) the squirrel.

PlayStation 3

Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed

July 20, 2014July 20, 2014 Adam R. 0 Comments Mario-Kart, ps3 reviews, racing games, sega vs nintendo, snes, Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed

Like Mario Kart, Transformed is a simple go-kart (sorta) racer with power-ups that either help you or slow down your opponents. While I wasn’t terribly familiar with the original, I can tell the new feature in the game is the ability for your car to morph. It can fly in the air as a plane or ride the waves as a boat.

Arcade Games

Burnout

November 7, 2013March 12, 2014 Simon Lethbridge 0 Comments acclaim, arcade, Burnout, criterion games, racing games

There are a total of fifteen named courses through the game but only five of them are wholly unique – Interstate, Harbor Town, River City, Hillside Pass, Gridlock USA – the others are made up of sections taken from these courses, sometimes reversed or at different times of day (or night). Although they’re all comprised of public roads, there’s still a reasonable variety of types and features. Their names should give you a good idea or what they’re like but you can expect to tackle inner-city areas, motorways, coastal roads, quiet country lanes, and various others featuring undulating surfaces, tunnels, long sweeping corners, sharp right-hand turns, bridges, and lots of other stuff.

Atari Lynx

Checkered Flag

July 10, 2013March 12, 2014 Simon Reed 0 Comments Atari lynx, Checkered Flag, driving games, racing games

You also run the risk of making contact with a piece of off track scenery if you don’t take a corner well enough, and this results in the same major sap of speed. Collisions are given a Space Invaders-esque explosion sound effect though. That’s quite cool. As is your wing mirror getting cracked when you crash too much.

TurboGrafx-16

Victory Run

April 14, 2013March 11, 2014 Chris Bucci 0 Comments classic games, hudson soft, Paris-Dakar Rally, racing games, turbo grafx 16, Victory Run, video game reviews

Racing fans always wanted to get their hands on a game that allowed them to challenge themselves on real life racing tracks. As games began to come out featuring them, fans wanted more and more. Enter, Victory Run for the Turbo Grafx-16. It was released in 1989 by Hudson Soft and was one of the first racing games to depict the Paris-Dakar Rally

Hardware

Logitech G27 Racing Wheel Review

November 19, 2012March 3, 2014 Honorabili 0 Comments c64, Chase HQ arcade game, codemasters racing games, DiRT 2, dirt 3, dirt showdown, F1 2010, f1 2011, f1 2012, Grand Prix Legends, grid game, how to setup logitech g27, Logitech, Logitech G27 Racing Wheel Review, logitech gaming hardware, Logitech review, Lotus racing games Amiga, Need For Speed game, NES, pit stop game, playseat, playseat chair, playseat gaming chair, pole position, racing arcade game, racing controller, racing games, racing simulator, racing wheel, racing wheel for gaming, racing wheel for PC, racing wheel for ps3, RC Pro-AM, rfactor, snes, Top Gear racing games, trackmania, trackmania nations, trackmania united

The shifter is both soft and sturdy. I would compare it to using a shifter in a manual Japanese car like Honda Prelude or Nissan Skyline. The wheel itself has flappy paddles which can be used to much like in a real Ferrari or Lamborghini. It is a matter of personal preference and the G27 provides both the flappy paddles and the normal manual shifter. The wheel part has an LED tachometer, which is color coated green, yellow, and red, which makes using a manual gearbox a more viable option in your game.

Editorials

Top Five PlayStation: Racing Games

April 27, 2011November 15, 2011 Simon Lethbridge 8 Comments Classic Gaming, Colin McRae Rally, game reviews, Gran Turismo, obsolete gamer, playsation, Porsche Challenge, PS1, racing games, retro gaming, Ridge Racer Type 4, top five, Total Drivin

I’ve always been of the opinion that fancy graphics are far less important than a well-designed game. I think my continued love or retro games and enduring disdain for modern gaming is evidence enough of this, but there’s always been one exception – driving/racing games. Try as they might, developers in the 80’s and early 90’s were rarely able to fashion both a playable and convincing into-the-screen racer outside of the arcades, and I can probably count on the fingers of one hand how many I personally liked.

SNES

F1 ROC: Race of Champions

March 4, 2011March 12, 2014 Simon Lethbridge 3 Comments driving games, exhaust heat, F-Zero, f1 racer, F1 ROC race of champions, grand prix, mean machines, ocean, racing games, snes, Super Nintendo

Well, in real F1 I guess you can change wings, tyres, engines, etc, but I’m pretty sure they don’t use nitrous oxide! For yes, the cars here are able to employ the use of nitro’s amongst other things, and very useful it is too. The customisation options are actually pretty extensive for an arcade-style racer, allowing you to alter front, middle, or rear downforce, add faster/lighter components, change brakes, chassis, fill up the nitrous tanks, and install more powerful engines. This all costs money of course, which must be earnt by doing well in races (or by doing badly many many times).

Arcade Games

Chase HQ review

February 17, 2011March 11, 2014 Simon Lethbridge 2 Comments amiga, Amstrad CPC, arcade, Atari ST, black Porsche 928 Turbo, chase HQ, chase hq review, Classic Gaming, commodore 64, Game Boy, Game Gear, game review, Hiroshi Miyauchi's immortal tunes, Master System, MSX, NES, obsolete gamer, Outrun, pc engine, racing games, Raymond Broady, retro gaming, Taito, Tony Gibson, Wii Virtual Console, X68000, zx spectrum

Before the days of polygons, it was pretty rare to find a decent driving game. Even in the arcades they were pretty rare. If you asked any gamers around my age to name their favourite, most would probably say OutRun, and with good reason – it was a revolutionary game that made a huge impact. There was a few other good examples from around that time as well though, and one was Chase HQ.

PlayStation

Ridge Racer

February 17, 2011March 12, 2014 Simon Lethbridge 2 Comments namco, playstation, racing games, Ridge Racer

Overall, Ridge Racer was an enjoyable arcade game, but is unsuitable as a home game without a radical overhaul, which this conversion has not received. There really is very little to return to here, after the first few days – the desire to improve lap times is something that prolongs the lifespan of most driving games, but when that game only has one course, it’s not nearly as attractive a proposition.

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