Arcade racers, please come home

[Troublegum]

60 FPS over the top arcade racers are something I miss. Ridge Racer, Daytona, Burnout have all bitten the dust. Stodgy Need For Speed games are no substitute to the high octane insanity of something like this...



That is R-Tuned: Ultimate Street Racing, a 2008 Sega arcade game that runs on 10 year old PC hardware. It is obviously mad, could trigger epileptic seizure within nanoseconds and very exciting.

It's Japanese NFS Underground with everything turned up to 11 and I want it in my home so I can annoy my neighbours with obnoxiously high BPM dance music and dumb sound effects.

Sega is sitting on a goldmine of great arcade games from the last ten years or so that will probably never be playable at home until they are emulated 10 or 20 years into the future.

Sega Race TV is another completely bonkers racing game running on the same hardware.



Evocative of Outrun 2's style, but again, even more bonkers.

More crazy arcade racers is what the world needs so everybody buy 90s Arcade Racer when it eventually comes out.

 

[menace-uk-]

Decent arcade racers are very few and far between. I wouldn't even consider those you state in the OP as good ones.

Burnout was obviously great, but the switch to open-world wasn't for me. It was also the last outing for this series

Need for Hot Pursuit on 360/PS3 was good. Very reminiscent of the good old days.

Motorstorm, a Playstation eclusive off-rad arcade behometh. Easily one of my favourite games of last-gen. Unfortunately, this gen got the meh looking Driveclub instead

Forza Horizon 2 is awesome though. It is crazy & hectic, and has a crap tonne to do in the huge open, beautiful world.

 

[Troublegum]

Decent arcade racers are very few and far between. I wouldn't even consider those you state in the OP as good ones.

Burnout was obviously great, but the switch to open-world wasn't for me. It was also the last outing for this series

Need for Hot Pursuit on 360/PS3 was good. Very reminiscent of the good old days.

Motorstorm, a Playstation eclusive off-rad arcade behometh. Easily one of my favourite games of last-gen. Unfortunately, this gen got the meh looking Driveclub instead

Forza Horizon 2 is awesome though. It is crazy & hectic, and has a crap tonne to do in the huge open, beautiful world.

Paradise was good but a terrible racing game. It was a fun open world with enjoyable Road Rage races but the fact that they didn't restrict and close the courses when entering a race proper was a terrible decision.

NFS Hot Pursuit I was so disappointed in. At last, I thought, a 60 FPS NFS game from Criterion that will be as fun as the Burnout games... it wasn't and it wasn't.

Forza Horizon 1 and 2 are decent but that's not the 'style' of racer I'm yearning for. Crazy 60 FPS Japanese style arcade racers with cheesy music is what I yearn.

 

[Viktor]

I'd love a new Ridge Racer. Unbounded was good and a nice change of pace, but wasn't a true RR. Also wouldn't mind a new Midnight Club or even a Test Drive like the old ones, although Unlimited was good as well.

 

[Lucid Rifter]

Sorry, couldnt resist.

 

[Intellivision]

Sorry, couldnt resist.

LOL. I bet the guy never even played it.

 

[Troublegum]

The PSP Ridge Racer games were absolutely brilliant. In fact Rage Racer, Type 4, 6 and 7 are all great.

I have been playing 6 again, realised I got to point a last time where you have to have a perfect run and block every move your opponent makes while he spams nitrous like a cheat for even the remotest chance at 1st place. Nerve-racking.

I didn't like Unbounded at all.

Namco should make an HD collection of all the Ridge games but they won't because only myself and two people in Japan would buy it.

 

[Spiritech]

Count me also in for the Paradise was fine but an atrocious Burnout game.

I wish someone would step up and make something like Wipeout, SF Rush, Burnout(Not open world), Tokyo Extreme. I actually think it would be cool if for H3 they aped the Boss fights from Tokyo Extreme and made you hunt for them and have the environment get crazy when they appeared and have thier cars have a extra crazy kit, stuff like that.

 

[Intellivision]

For me, arcadey racers can only be played in the arcades. Cockpit, steering wheel and moving seats.... Daytona USA, Indy 500, Virtua Racing, Powershift!

Any of you gamers ever play Indy 500 or Daytona USA being part of those 8 person linked cockpits? Awesome. Those family fun places would even have a clerk (who helps assist people into the cockpit and adjust the seats), help commentate the game. And some of those linked systems would have cameras hooked up to show people watching the race a view of driver's faces. Hilarious. It's a 2 minute game session, but people are trying to concentrate so hard driving well.

 

[Viktor]

We also need a new Jet Moto.

 

[Kerosene31]

We definitely need another Burnout. Either open world or older style is fine with me.

 

[Razzel]

Am I the only one that loved split-second? I really wish we could get a next-gen sequel.

 

[Viktor]

Am I the only one that loved split-second? I really wish we could get a next-gen sequel.

Yea that was a pretty cool game.

 

[DanJiblets]

Am I the only one that loved split-second? I really wish we could get a next-gen sequel.

I liked it, but I remember it being annoyingly difficult....or I just sucked.

 

[Troublegum]

Hey Nintendo and Sega, remember when you teamed up to make this masterpiece?

 

[menace-uk-]

Paradise was good but a terrible racing game. It was a fun open world with enjoyable Road Rage races but the fact that they didn't restrict and close the courses when entering a race proper was a terrible decision.

NFS Hot Pursuit I was so disappointed in. At last, I thought, a 60 FPS NFS game from Criterion that will be as fun as the Burnout games... it wasn't and it wasn't.

Forza Horizon 1 and 2 are decent but that's not the 'style' of racer I'm yearning for. Crazy 60 FPS Japanese style arcade racers with cheesy music is what I yearn.

Yeah, I don't yearn for this stuff. Only game of this ilk I recall really enjoying was Rage Racer on PS1.

It's funny though, I am watching these videos of old racing games and it just illustrates how far we have come. If you described todays racers to me back in 2000, I would've had you committed.

If only we could get a Destruction Derby revival

 

[Mua'dib]

Don't even get me started... I just want an old fashion arcade racer. No customization bulls***,no "street" hip bulls***.

Anyone ever played this forgotten gem?

This game was damn cool because it allowed to create and run your own car manufacturer. Sadly it was released without Live support so it just got lost in the shuffle .