Have Your Say: Your First Racing Game

Metla · Sep 24, 2017

Mine was Pole Position on the Atari 2600, By my reckoning I was about 8.

Wedsley Dias · Sep 24, 2017

V10v8v12 · Sep 24, 2017

My first racing game was grand prix 2 on pc

tigermilk · Sep 24, 2017

Night Driver on the Atari 2600.

Zenvioux · Sep 24, 2017

Need for Speed Hot Pursuit 2 (the 2002 one everyone forgets)

Jordan Dion · Sep 24, 2017

My fist one was grand Turismo II
But the one i really remember is Grand Prix 3
Was so realistic and fun for that time...haaa good memory

sc4dr · Sep 24, 2017

I can't believe no one has mentioned Sports Car GT! Not my first sim, but the first good one I remember spending hours on. My first one I spent hours on was test drive for the ol' C64 when I was a young Buck.

guidofoc · Sep 24, 2017

By racing game you mean videogame or in general? Because for me the first racing game was Polistil (same as Scalextric) when I was 4 or 5. Videogames, well at the arcade there were quite a few games, I remember one called Sprint 2 where you had wheel, pedals and gears, and the car was sliding all over the place. On my Commodore 64 I think the first was Pit Stop 2, on the Amiga Indianapolis 500, F1GP and Test Drive.

arniesan · Sep 24, 2017

I always dabbled with racing games, but I got seriously hooked when GPL came out, it set me on a road I have never left; sim' racing.
To this day I still play GPL on times and GP4 also.
Another early game I played was "Spirit Of Speed," still got the disk; but can't get it to run on my rig now...for those days it had good FFB.

Mach77 · Sep 24, 2017

my first racing game: Monster Truck Madness
my first racing sim: Indycar Racing II
my first racing sim with a steering wheel: GTR 2
the racing game that made me fall in love with racing: Gran Turismo 3 A-spec

Giovaneveterano · Sep 24, 2017

I had to say, it was PoD (Planet of Death)... so many memories!

JonnySniper · Sep 24, 2017

I think it was probably Forza 1 on original Xbox. I also had Sega GT and Burnout, and Indycar by Codies which was pretty fun too.

My first experience with a simulator was Grand Prix 4 and F1 Challenge 99-02 which my dad owned. I remember how hard I found them as a kid lol. Both fantastic games even today.

(Guy in the video is kind of a bad driver and clearly playing on an easy difficulty, but this was the first result I got)

ShredatorFIN · Sep 24, 2017

Pole Position (1983) on Commodore 64.

Stnry · Sep 24, 2017

My First ever racing Game was Mobil 1 Rally Championship in PS1

but i hardly remember how it was

First One i really played and enjoyed was Colin McRae 04

Edit: i just found an old copy of f1 '98

i think that really has been the first

Beef36 · Sep 24, 2017

Mitja Bonca · Sep 24, 2017

Lotus 3: The Ultimage Challenge
wow, didn`t play this game since 1993, cannot believe it.

wombat999 · Sep 24, 2017

I can't even remember the title but it was 'F1' and I was highly impressed with the recovery cranes that removed destroyed cars (mostly mine) from around the circuit!!!

My first real race sim was the ubiquitous GTR2. which is still on my 'racing' HD today.

DrSmile · Sep 24, 2017

Test Drive for the C64

And when i saw the pic from f355 challenge...gosh i miss my dreamcast

jp chemisky · Sep 24, 2017

Theo Berrekeman said:
Then when i got home, i played my first racegames / racesims for hours and hours on the Amiga 500:

My favorite top 5 on the Amiga 500:

VROOM!

Lotus Turbo Challenge 2

Jaguar XJ220

4. Indianapolis 500

5. Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge

What an era of lovely memories and happy that i've experienced it all from the early beginning.
Hope you like this post!

Amazing ! I spent so many hours on the Amiga 500 exactly on the same games, and classified in the same order ! (Jaguar XJ220 had anyway a very cool feature that you could create your own tracks)
Thank you for the images and this happy memories !