A List of Every Racing Game I've Ever Played
In this list there's a pretty good story about an N64 cartdrige and the effects of the full weight of a Hummer 2 on it.
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This might have been the first racing game I've ever played, and if it wasn't then it was something else on the first night I got an N64.
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I was once the top contributor to Diddy Kong Racing's Giant Bomb Wiki Page.
- Ken Ward 1993-2013
If Diddy Kong Racing wasn't the first racing game I played on the N64, then it was the racing game I played the most on the N64.
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If George Lucas only threw podracing into Episode I so they could sell this game, then fine, because it was worth it. This game holds up all these years later.
Also, shout-out to the GBC version of the game.
Also, double-shout-out to the SEGA Arcade version of the game.
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I never exactly tried to win this game, and in fact me and my brother spent most of our time playing this game by crashing two stock cars, head-on style.
One day, when I was dumb and 18, I let a friend drive over a Nascar 2000 cartdrige with his Hummer. The chip still worked and you could still play it, but the plastic casing was blown to bits.
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This game was just a rental for me, but still, I played it so it goes on this list.
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I rented this game. I thought it was shit.
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I think I had nightmares about this game, so I didn't play it for like, the last 3 days of my rental. I'd be interested in finding a copy and seeing what made me so unsettled about it.
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All I can remember about this game is that there are pennys in the cars and I might be wrong about that.
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I know I rented this game, but all I can think about is how it was pretty much not Hot Wheels at all, and the 7 to 8 year old me was probably pretty bummed by that. Also, totes the N64 version.
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But while I'm here, I'll jump consoles for a bit to talk about how THIS is a real Hot Wheels game. Like. Orange tracks in living rooms and all. Catchy music, diverse cars and most importantly, it's frickin' hotwheels. Miniature car racing on the GBC.
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Now, this whole list is almost just N64 games but I think its probably imporant to say that, this is NOT the N64 version of the game. Like, dude.
Anyways, the arcade version of this game kicked ass. I mean, like there was something way cooler about driving boats on stupid courses than driving stupid little cars on real tracks.
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I'm talking about you, Cruis'n USA. I mean, I'm pretty sure you're the arcade game that let me KILL DEER with my CAR, which is pretty cool considering that in real life that a situation in which both me and the deer die, but still. You were SUCH a rip-off. Not worth the quarters.
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And while I'm in the Arcade, quick shout out to Arctic Thunder. It was a much harder game to find in my experience, but that probably made each time I did find one that much better, because otherwise its probably a mediocre game.
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If there was ever a game that made me jealous of the friends that had Play Stations, this was it. I don't know why, but there was something about looking at and playing this game that made me jealous that I was stuck with N64 racing games.
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So, when I got a PS2 and I had this to show off to my PS1 friends, it was pretty satisfying. Because hey, spawn in the desert. Get on top of that train, or get hit by that train, or go drive into an invisible barrier that sends you flying football fields away from the barrier.
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Another game that graced my first year of Playstation-2 was Gran Turismo 3. The musical and aesthetic choices in that game will always be embedded into my nostalgia banks, but never the gameplay. It wasn't the type of game for the type of kid I was, ie I was a kid and wanted arcade racing.
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Though I never owned this game, it was rented time and time again from the local hollywood video. I loved this game, stupid arcadey shit that looked cool was all I cared about - and this game delivered it in droves.
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