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Steemit
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Top 5 Arcade Racing Games of the 1980's — Steemit
February 27, 2019 - While its not the first or the best, I'd argue that Pole Position is the most important racing game of all time. Hitting in 1982, the game managed to present the first solid behind-the-car racing game of the arcade era. The iconic fanfare that preps you for a race, paired with the scratchy ...
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Top Gear
topgear.com › car-news › gaming › 20-our-favourite-retro-racing-games
20 of our favourite retro racing games
May 19, 2021 - Provided superb multi-player fun, ... the pre-race music was a synthed-out version of the "I love what you do for me Toyota" jingle. Probably the earliest first-person racing game in history, you had to put a plastic car at the bottom of your cathode ray telescreen before tumbling forward between two rows of white dots. It doesn't sound it, but this was genesis. Massively difficult, but became hugely famous in 1980s arcades for being ...
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MotorTrend
motortrend.com › features › best-car-racing-video-games-1980s
The Best Car and Racing Video Games from the 1980s
January 30, 2020 - ... The arcade cabinet forIvan "Ironman" Stewart'sSuper Off Roadis definitely a confusing thing to behold. There are three steering wheels waiting for players—but four tiny trucks bounding around a tight dirt course on the screen.
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Goodwood
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The five best racing games of the 1980s | FOS Future Lab | GRR
May 3, 2024 - Racing games really found their feet in the 1980s, with legendary titles like Pole Position and Out Run setting trends for the next four decades of games...
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Reddit
reddit.com › r/retrogaming › 2 of the best arcade driving games of the 80s!
r/retrogaming on Reddit: 2 of the best arcade driving games of the 80s!
February 18, 2022 - When the Arcades were still around I played the Sit-down version of those iconic games and one day i was playing Chase H.Q..
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JBR Capital
jbrcapital.com › home › classic car articles › electric dreams: arcade cars of the 80s and 90s
Electric Dreams: Arcade Cars of the 80s and 90s - JBR Capital
November 12, 2025 - Long gone are the faux 3D workarounds of Outrun or Spyhunter. This racing simulator launched directly on the console, rather than taking the usual arcade to home computer route. Ridge Racer helped launch the Playstation.
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Jalopnik
jalopnik.com › the-top-ten-arcade-racing-games-of-the-1980s-5866636
The Top Ten Arcade Racing Games Of The 1980s - Jalopnik
June 18, 2013 - With nuclear annihilation, Reaganomics and Midnight Oil it's no surprise so many in the 1980s fled to the arcades to live out their F1 fantasies in sparklingly low resolution. According to Jalopnik readers, these are the ten greatest coin-op arcades of the Me decade.
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Reddit
reddit.com › r/tipofmyjoystick › [arcade game][1980s/1990s] sitdown racing game where you drove a red hyper-cart through a tube.
r/tipofmyjoystick on Reddit: [Arcade Game][1980s/1990s] Sitdown racing game where you drove a red hyper-cart through a tube.
June 16, 2023 -

I can't think of the name and my Google-Foo is failing me. (it keeps showing me things like Outrun and other driving games.) This was a sitdown game that was fairly unique at the time. The "car" was more of a futuristic cart and you raced down a tube. You could go rotate all the way around the tube (upside down, etc), and there were glowing red "boost" spots that you would aim for.I loved this game but kind of forgot about it.

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Retro Game Boards
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Arcade-style racing games - Video Games - Retro Game Boards
June 21, 2022 - Racing games that take place in “realistic” environments, but don’t necessarily follow real-life physics and take on a more arcade-style whimsical approach. Some of my favorite series of such games would have to include: OutRun Burnout Midnight Club FlatOut Top Gear Rush Cruis’n Asphalt
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Arcade Museum
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Best Racing Games from 70's and 80's? | Page 2 | Museum of the Game® & International Arcade Museum® Forums
July 19, 2009 - have you ever topped 10K?? I would love to try a Pro Monaco GP one day.. you still up for a trade?? that was you I spoke to about 4 years ago right? Yup! That was me. :) I was on the fence about what to do with it. I fixed the sound (somebody plugged the sound board in backwards) and I...
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Reddit
reddit.com › r › outrun › comments › 1dpwccu › retro_racing_game_im_working_on_inspired_by_1980s
retro racing game I'm working on inspired by 1980s arcade ...
December 16, 2023 - This forum is dedicated to the modern revival of the 80s aesthetic. Welcome to the land of neon-soaked sunsets, fast cars, and pulsing synthwave beats.
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80's OVERDIRVE
80soverdrive.com
80s OVERDRIVE - Retro-awesome racing game.
6 retro supercars of the '80s such as Penetrator GT, Intruder Turbo and De Loan. Players will be able to upgrade engine, chassis and tyres to improve top speed, acceleration, handling and braking. Car can be also equiped with police radar and nitro boost. Handcrafted, pixel art graphics and 18 synth/retrowave music scores. ... Career mode in which racers are competing against each other on various, point-to-point style tracks or do special missions.
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Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org › wiki › List_of_racing_video_games
List of racing video games - Wikipedia
1 month ago - The following is a list of notable vehicle racing video games. The genre first emerged in the mid- to late 1970s.
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Reddit
reddit.com › r/nostalgia › 80's pure analog car racing game simulator 🚘
r/nostalgia on Reddit: 80's pure analog car racing game simulator 🚘
May 7, 2023 - Thrill Drive was an arcade-only racing game released by Konami in 1998. Races would start off as a typical sunny car racer, but every time the player crashed, it would play a screaming face along with showing the driver getting injured, and ...
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Reddit
reddit.com › r/arcade › 80s arcade game - racing
r/arcade on Reddit: 80s Arcade Game - Racing
December 14, 2023 -

Hi, I was chatting recently about early arcade games from the 80s. In the UK i can remember a game that seemed to be projected on to a screen and you moved the car from left to right. It was very 2D ... If you hit an obstacle the car spun and a heavy rock track played.

My questions are what was the game called and can anyone remember the music that played after a crash... an ACDC riff has been mention but we a not sure...

Many thanks.....

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Petrolicious
petrolicious.com › journal › the growing nostalgia for classic racing games
The Growing Nostalgia For Classic Racing Games - Petrolicious
March 21, 2025 - It was inevitable that the arcade manufacturers, once the technology was available, would turn their attention to making racing or driving games. The first, Atari’s Gran Trak 10, was primitive, but others followed throughout the ’70s and ’80s.
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Videoamusement
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Road Blaster Arcade Game - Classic 80s Retro Game Party Rentals
August 24, 2022 - The players can continue the race as many times as desired unless they run out of fuel. Road Blaster Arcade Game was released in two versions: stand up arcade and sit-down arcade. We have only a stand-up version available for rent.
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Pinterest
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80s arcade racing games – my top 5
November 7, 2019 - First Video Game · Arcade Video Games · Star Wars Empire · Video Game Systems · School Videos · Classic Video Games · Retro Video Games ·
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Reddit
reddit.com › r/retrogaming › what was the best 90’s arcade racer?
r/retrogaming on Reddit: What was the best 90’s Arcade Racer?
May 1, 2024 -

Just thinking about all the different arcade racing games we got in the 90s like Daytona, Cruis’n etc and I wanted to get people’s ideas on the definitive game of that decade: