Have Your Say: Your First Racing Game

[Paul Jeffrey]

Everyone remembers their first love, and racing games are no different. With such a wealth of content on offer today, can you cast your mind back and remember the very first?

No doubt about it, "sim racing" has advanced practically beyond imagination since those tentative first days of Pole Position back in the early 1980's. With highly polished graphics, detailed physics, multi car grids, online racing and all the other bells and whistles of modern gaming, a sim racer today is spoilt for choice when it comes to the wonderful pastime of driving digital racing cars.

So for our question today I ask, which game (on what platform) was your very fist foray into the world of racing?

Have fun reminiscing and enjoy the weekend!

 

[Giourg]

F1 challenge 99-02....it was a great game...

 

[Michael Hart-Jones]

Time to feel old.

GPEGA

Followed by Indy 500

PCMR since day 1

 

[Patrick Fournier]

Pretty sure my first racing game was "Pole Position" on Atari 2600.
I think my first proper "simulation" was "Indianapolis 500: the simulation" followed by pretty much all the Papyrus racing games during the 90s, those games just blew my mind at the time, especially Indycar Racing and Grand Prix Legends.

 

[Jefferson Costa]

Everything started with Lamborghini American Challenge on SNES when I was 9 years old.
Fun game and an unforgettable soundtrack.

 

[Rage9one]

My first game ever was Rage Racer on the PS1, and Gran Turismo 1 shortly after

 

[skylineforever]

my first racing game...

 

[shimon.ifraimov]

 

[ThatRacingGuy]

What other game can it be? GT Legends!

 

[Iwan Jones]

Mine was this...

Loved the South Africa track if i remember rightly

 

[lodewijk]

f1 2010, absolutely loved it when i was 10

 

[Marc Goaderoch]

Hello,
for me it was "Pole Position" on Atari 2600, in 1982 !!
I was 11 years old ...

 

[BenCollins]

Grand Prix Legends- the original release and later the 2004 update -still have it on my other older pc.Could never beat Jim Clark until someone showed how to tweak the AI.
Some of todays games could learn a few things from GPLs' AI

Grand Prix Legends took over my life for about 18 months. Used to dream about it. Such an incredibly immersive sim. Each car and each track in my head forever. Wonderful racing sim.

 

[Reinhard Berger]

my first racegames was......speed king, action biker, pole postion and revs.
i was visit a scoolfriend and did sleed the weekend in his home, and this was first time i saw a commodore 64, a older friend of him had endless cassetten (datasette?) of games and we did play the whole weekend,
and this 4 racegames a still can remember that we did drive (but i did not like revs, we did not know how we can drive the car with 11 years, and skip this game quick).

little off topic (nostalgic emotion..) i still can remember very well to this weekend, it was all so new and great, pooyan, commando, manic miner, summer games1 and decathlon (joystick killer) we did play most this weekend. any weeks later i got a c64 too.....perhaps this was the best time of my computer time....

 

[Dejan Vujovic]

Out Run, Commodore 64 1988 (game was released in 1986)

 

[Dady Cairo]

GPL;GPL;GPL........(onPC)
DC

 

[Dady Cairo]

this is first

Uppps,i had this on a AMIGA 500.
Great Sim,äh Game....
DC

 

[Karstenve]

NFS Underground 2 on the ps2. Best way to waste your time. Still no game is comparible to this

 

[mr_belowski]

Mine was chequered flag on the spectrum (god I'm old) and just about every racing game since.

Nice to see NFS porsche unleashed mentioned - great game.

The first proper sim for me was indy500 on the Amiga, and stunt car racer (awesome)

 

[NoThrottleControl]

Vroom on Sinclair QL in 86 or 87! :O (I think I played it before the first Test Drive on PC)

 

[Mitja Bonca]

this is first

Mine too... Oh where are those times.