Micro Machines for the Mega Drive, TOCA Touring Cars, Colin McRae Rally, Gran Turismo and Crash Team Racing for the PlayStation were my favourites. Crash Team Racing still stands up today as a really fantastic kart racer!
I played most on this list but I also played Wipeout, Screamer, Carmageddon, Fatal Racing, Sportscar GT and the most standout arcade racer I remember was probably Daytona USA.
Mario Kart on the SNES, had so much fun with that with my brothers & friends, Loved playing Sega Rally in the arcade, That was the 1st time I truly got to experience what it was like to drive a car, awesome. Got Ridge Racer & Destruction Derby when I 1st got my Playstation back in 1997, Destruction Derby 2 is still the most insane and frantic racing game I've ever played, that was just epic, Gran Turismo 1& 2, Colin McRae Rally, V-Rally 1 & 2, sunk hours into those games, Porsche Challenge is another epic game alongside Need for Speed 3 Hot Pursuit, NFS Road Challenge/High Stakes, Rage Racer & Ridge Racer 4, honestly there is so many to choose from but these are among my all-time favourites., Great video, really enjoyed it!
GT1 & GT2 are still timeless classics to me. Not just a simple game but a showcase of all-time favorite, underdog and exotic cars with mostly accurate details and description. The TOCA racing games also introduced me to touring cars. Early NFS games, especially NFS2 introduced me to prototypes and GT1 cars. Some other underrated games I can remember was OPTION tuning battle and Mille Miglia (1930s-1950s cars).
TOCA, Viper Racing, Need for Speed III, Motorhead and... surprise surprise - Death Rally. These were the games I spent thousands of hours on back in the 90s. And then, in 2002, came Live for Speed which changed everything and stayed with me ever since.
GPL was sooooo difficult on a keyboard back in 98. Got my first wheel a few years later for GTR1. But for me it was TOCA that got me into racing sims. I have vivid memories of me and my mate playing two player on a single keyboard.
I still have the PS1 versions of TOCA 1 and 2, although the graphics are dated, they are still great games. I remember completing them on the hardest setting, one of the most challenging moments was racing at Thruxton in heavy rain in the final race of the season, it was a very tense feeling knowing another driver could nudge you off the track and put you in last place.
And many say that it is wrong to say that all past times were better... nonsense! The past was much better! The proof is in the games we played. The best!
Grand Prix Legends was an hardcore game fot its time: you needed a wheel to play it, and even with the wheel was really difficult to drive. In short, there was NO easy mode, only HARDEST
I also loved Race Drivin, Daytona USA, Outrunners, Super GT, Virtua Racing, Cruisin USA, San Francisco Rush, Nigel Mansell, Stadium Cross, and Test Drive 2 The Duel
You should change the title of this video to “My favourite racing games from the 90s” I never thought I’d see the day where OutRun, Virtua Racung or Daytona USA wouldn’t make the cut.
I absolutely adored the original Gran Turismo. It just moved the racing game on so far. Need for Speed 2 was another one I spent lots of time on. Especially with the cheats to play as a dinosaur or a box crate. NFS Road Challenge was probably my absolute favourite of the NFS games.
I really liked Ferrari F355 Challenge on Dreamcast and was the first online multi-player racer I think I played. The first Gran Turismo was revolutionary at the time
F355 Challenge only counts as a 1990s game if you're talking about the arcade version, the Dreamcast version didn't come out until 2000. I still think F355 Challenge kind of deserves to be there for the 3-screen arcade version and for being on the sim-mier side of 1990s arcade racing games but I suppose they didn't want this list to be bottom-heavy with games from the end of the decade and they probably didn't want more than one Sega-developed game on there (hence why Virtua Racing and Daytona USA also are absent).
Can't see your reply in the thread for some reason but Sega Retro lists the Japanese release date for F355 Challenge on Dreamcast as August 3rd, 2000. I can't prove it wasn't released earlier but they're usually more reliable than any other site for Sega release dates.
Formula One '95 or F1 '97 should definitely be on the list. Grand Prix 2 also beats Grand Prix by a long way. Maybe I would also have thrown in TOCA2, Ayrton Senna's Super Monaco GP or Virtua Racing.
I think these are the best ones from this era: - Viper Racing - Gran Turismo 2 - Wipeout 3 - Crash Team Racing - Need for Speed High Stakes PC - Colin McRae Rally - Toca 2 - Sega Rally 2 - F1 97 Would've listed Porsche Unleashed and Colin McRae Rally 2.0, but both of those were released year 2000.
Midtown Madness (1999) definitely needs a mention, as it was one of the first games to have a fully fleshed out open world that you could just cruise around the city and cause chaos. Also a huge modding scene.
Sega Rally is my all time fav Arcade game. I also have console versions on Dreamcast & Ps3. Formula One 95 was revolutionary when it came to F1 games. It still holds up today especially with Murray Walker's one liners.
I started all the way back with both the first gran turismo and colin mcrae rally games, still playing the modern iterations today, but my dad had grand prix 1 and 2 on his pc and I also played those
F-Zero X on the N64 is still a favourite. Isn't it about time Nintendo considered giving us a new F-Zero, and how about another Wave Race too while they're at it?
I remember playing road race and lotus and when I go back and look at reviews of the games it brings tears to my eyes because something's I just forget about and they brought it back to my remembrance
Grand Turismo was my fave. It was the first time I came across a game that with each car felt different to drive, with oversteer, understeer, 4wd, front wheel drive, rear wheel drive. Where as games prior all felt the same to drive. Road rash was fun, Colin McRae I spent a lot of time on too. Mario kart I had a ton of fun with too. I played ridge racer too.
No, GPL wasnt a flop! it wasnt a major success because of the difficulty level but a flop is too harsh. Gaming Magazines praised it for its physics. I fell in love since the demo came out...
@@11NetNet11 yeah I think it was rated even worse on Dreamcast, but I got it recently. It’s so fun driving formula cars from the 30’s (edit) whoops I guess I meant Spirit of Speed 1937.
Enjoyed both v rally and Colin McRae rally in the 90’s but there’s no way v rally was better, codemasters effort was an absolute game changer for rally games. The toca series and the original f1 series by psygnosis on PlayStation are also glaring omissions!!
Agree; the original is still a great game. For example picking tyres for two stages which are totally different; on the Monte one stage is dry tarmac, the next is wet snow/ wet tarmac....Similarly in NZ there is a dry gravel stage, the next is wet. Even now, some rally games don't do this.
I don't know if it's just me, but thinking back to Lotus Turbo 2, I'm convinced they had The Prodigy doing the music. Oh, and the cattle prod in RR3 cracks me up 🤣🤣🤣
Great list but 2 games I think that are missing are Sega's Virtua Racing and Sega's Daytona USA. Those 2 games just blew my mind when I saw them for the first time in the arcades.
It's a highly modded game with loads of tracks, up dated graphics and physics even support for triple screens. Still have my original boxed copy. The manual is insanely detailed.
Automobilli Lamborghini on the N64 was one that I got a lot of use out of. I had a Mad Catz Steering Wheel for it and would spend hours playing on Expert mode trying to get the perfect lap (Expert made it very easy to slide). Top Gear Rally got a lot of my time too - but most of it I'd spend in the paint shop designing a pixel-perfect paint job for the car of my choice. I think the best of all time for me was Need for Speed 3: Hot Pursuit though; it had my favourite car as a download (Lamborghini Diablo SE30 Jota), was highly moddable (tracks, cars, performance, etc.) and the police chases and music really set it apart. After the 90s the best racing games for me were GT-R 1, GT-R 2 and GT Legends. I couldn't believe how people were calling Gran Turismo a "Driving Simulator" when those games would utterly wipe the floor with it on a realism front! Running a long race in the GT-R series was a physical and mental challenge but so rewarding once you pulled it off. What I'd want to see is a GT Legends: Hot Pursuit! Classic hypercars and muscle cars vs the police with complete immersive realism. Imagine something like a long, free roam map where you'd run an hour long point-to-point Cannonball Run and that's what I have in mind! No Hollywood special effects, no dramatic music, just you and the sounds of the car for company.
I expected to see IndyCar Racing 2 from 1995 but saw Mario Kart instead. Then I remembered it's "racing games" not "racing sims" but then I saw Grand Prix Legends, so who knows?
A Goodwood video game would be so great, its the closest most people will get to the festival and being able to drive all of the rare and historic cars.
I don't blame you at all. I still kinda miss weekends from about ten years ago when I used to race with couple friends for few hours virtually every weekend. Our favorite titles were GPL of course and LFS. From rally games I used to love RBR and it caused so many angry moments. Maybe I should buy wheel again after all these years 🤔
I started off with Lotus Turbo Challenge, Super Mario Kart, and Gran Turismo but had I known about GC's Grand Prix I would've been on it. I did get to play the PS1 Formula 1 game though.
If you have a PS2 or a pc that can run the emulators, Ridge Racer is a series you have to try. The physical games and dirt cheap and the series really pioneered what an arcade racer is. Ridge Racer 7 or Ridge Racer type 4 are must plays.
my first racing game was Lotus 3 or 2 at 6 years age old, than Stunts (not mentioned here, but really important racing game) and Road Rash, and then CMR1 and Vrally2 on PS1, and also sadly only DEMO of Grand Prix legend on PC which I played for months :D still in racing games till now on PC and steering wheel with H shifter :)))
It took 10 years to get the competition near Gran Turismo for PS1. They kept getting better until GT4...then Forza was so close that it was splitting hairs...
1998 had a game called "Gran Prix Legends" for PS1, but it was the modern F1 cars. It was incredibly hard to drive, but was probably the best F1 game of the era. It was the "iRacing" level game of the time.
Glad to see my favourite franchises (NFS, Gran Turismo) here. Including V-Rally 2 was a great decision, because Colin McRae Rally and some other rally games had huge soap effect, which always pisses me off, and V-Rally 2 didn't have much of that effect. 4th NFS game (High Stakes, PS1) is the best, physics had optimal balnce between arcade and simulation. The only game in whole NFS franchise that could give you same amount of excitement is NFS: Porsche Unleashed for PC. Also, in my opinion, Gran Turismo 2 should be included in this video instead of the first one: it has more content, looks better, has hp limits in some races, which makes it bit more challenging, and tbh first Gran Turismo has a problem with too much oversteering vehicles, and the second one got rid of that problem and has better physics in general.
I used to spend a lot of time playing GT1 and 2 and Colin McRae Rally 1 and 2. Crash Team Racing and Rally Cross 2 which was great because you could make crazy custom tracks to play with friends. Also, Max Power!
I can't begin to estimate how many hours my friends and I played V Rally 2 on PS1. I'm not a fan of Rally games, but this one kept drawing me back. Fantastic 👍
True, that was an amazing game. The only other rally game ever to catch my attention was Microsoft's Rallisport Challenge 2 on the og Xbox, which was in every way a vastly superior game
Need for speed was my first console game. Gran Turismo 1 and 2 probably my fav. Lotus game was great fun. TOCA Touring cars and TOCA World touring cars also great Super Cars was always great on Amiga. Destruction derby 1 and 2, also Driver came out in 1999 and although not a racing game - one of the best driving games of its time
Making a list of the best racing games of the 90s, without even mentioning the importance of the VIRTUA RACING and DAYONA USA games, automatically makes the list invalid. Well, nice try ^^
Grand Prix Legends was a milestone for todays sim racing games. I was about 12 years old, when i played it - and it felt different (in a positive way) on so many levels. But at the age of 12, I could not handle the difficulty - but I could unterstand, why people loved it.
Great to see racing games/ sims getting some coverage on this channel. Sega Rally is still amazing to this day. I’m still not bored of this and will happily put a pound coin or two to have a go. I’ve got versions on Saturn and PC. The PC version plays really well with the Microsoft Sidewinder Force Feedback wheel, which was pretty amazing back in the mid 90s.
Which games did you play in the 1990s?
Micro Machines for the Mega Drive, TOCA Touring Cars, Colin McRae Rally, Gran Turismo and Crash Team Racing for the PlayStation were my favourites.
Crash Team Racing still stands up today as a really fantastic kart racer!
I played most on this list but I also played Wipeout, Screamer, Carmageddon, Fatal Racing, Sportscar GT and the most standout arcade racer I remember was probably Daytona USA.
Screamer, Nfs, Toca, Destruction Derby, Carmageddon..
Mario Kart on the SNES, had so much fun with that with my brothers & friends, Loved playing Sega Rally in the arcade, That was the 1st time I truly got to experience what it was like to drive a car, awesome. Got Ridge Racer & Destruction Derby when I 1st got my Playstation back in 1997, Destruction Derby 2 is still the most insane and frantic racing game I've ever played, that was just epic, Gran Turismo 1& 2, Colin McRae Rally, V-Rally 1 & 2, sunk hours into those games, Porsche Challenge is another epic game alongside Need for Speed 3 Hot Pursuit, NFS Road Challenge/High Stakes, Rage Racer & Ridge Racer 4, honestly there is so many to choose from but these are among my all-time favourites., Great video, really enjoyed it!
I still play GT2 now and then. No idea how many copies I've worn out!
GT1 & GT2 are still timeless classics to me. Not just a simple game but a showcase of all-time favorite, underdog and exotic cars with mostly accurate details and description. The TOCA racing games also introduced me to touring cars. Early NFS games, especially NFS2 introduced me to prototypes and GT1 cars. Some other underrated games I can remember was OPTION tuning battle and Mille Miglia (1930s-1950s cars).
Mille Miglia on PS1, as well as the Kaneko made ones on the arcade is cool. Spend hours playing it as a kid.
TOCA, Viper Racing, Need for Speed III, Motorhead and... surprise surprise - Death Rally. These were the games I spent thousands of hours on back in the 90s.
And then, in 2002, came Live for Speed which changed everything and stayed with me ever since.
I'm 53 years old. I played nearly all of these games, ESPECIALLY Gran Tourismo but never heard of Gran Prix Legends. Now I am on mission...
There's a huge community out there and the game now has very impressive visuals. For an in depth install guide check out GPLaps recent UA-cam video.
Pretty much half my childhood wrapped up in this one video... What a nostalgia trip!
GPL was sooooo difficult on a keyboard back in 98. Got my first wheel a few years later for GTR1. But for me it was TOCA that got me into racing sims. I have vivid memories of me and my mate playing two player on a single keyboard.
I still have the PS1 versions of TOCA 1 and 2, although the graphics are dated, they are still great games.
I remember completing them on the hardest setting, one of the most challenging moments was racing at Thruxton in heavy rain in the final race of the season, it was a very tense feeling knowing another driver could nudge you off the track and put you in last place.
I still love the 3rd TOCA for the PS1. For me it was ahead of most games. And it's still better than most modern racing games.
And many say that it is wrong to say that all past times were better... nonsense! The past was much better! The proof is in the games we played. The best!
The beauty of 1990s. You can play any games in splitscreen.. two players at the same computer lol.
Grand Prix Legends was an hardcore game fot its time: you needed a wheel to play it, and even with the wheel was really difficult to drive.
In short, there was NO easy mode, only HARDEST
There was a DOS game called Screamer. It was pretty much the most impresive racing game for PC at that time (I think it was the year 95)
ToCA 2 is my favourite racing game of the 90s.
I also loved Race Drivin, Daytona USA, Outrunners, Super GT, Virtua Racing, Cruisin USA, San Francisco Rush, Nigel Mansell, Stadium Cross, and Test Drive 2 The Duel
Screamer and outrun and also super hang on come to mind.
You should change the title of this video to “My favourite racing games from the 90s” I never thought I’d see the day where OutRun, Virtua Racung or Daytona USA wouldn’t make the cut.
I absolutely adored the original Gran Turismo. It just moved the racing game on so far. Need for Speed 2 was another one I spent lots of time on. Especially with the cheats to play as a dinosaur or a box crate. NFS Road Challenge was probably my absolute favourite of the NFS games.
A man of culture
Gran Turismo has the crown. hands down. Changed racing games over night.
Without a shadow of a doubt!!
Midway released Hydro Thunder in 1999, one of the first games to use water tessellation with realtime collision
Very cool of you to use my recorded footage on V-Rally 2 section without asking any sort of permission from the original source.
Try contacting them or something, hopefully they'll add the attribution.
I really liked Ferrari F355 Challenge on Dreamcast and was the first online multi-player racer I think I played. The first Gran Turismo was revolutionary at the time
F355 Challenge only counts as a 1990s game if you're talking about the arcade version, the Dreamcast version didn't come out until 2000. I still think F355 Challenge kind of deserves to be there for the 3-screen arcade version and for being on the sim-mier side of 1990s arcade racing games but I suppose they didn't want this list to be bottom-heavy with games from the end of the decade and they probably didn't want more than one Sega-developed game on there (hence why Virtua Racing and Daytona USA also are absent).
Can't see your reply in the thread for some reason but Sega Retro lists the Japanese release date for F355 Challenge on Dreamcast as August 3rd, 2000. I can't prove it wasn't released earlier but they're usually more reliable than any other site for Sega release dates.
Formula One '95 or F1 '97 should definitely be on the list. Grand Prix 2 also beats Grand Prix by a long way. Maybe I would also have thrown in TOCA2, Ayrton Senna's Super Monaco GP or Virtua Racing.
yes the real racing simulator it was TOCA especially the 2.
@@gastonhernandez2666 It's not from 1990 right?
@@gastonhernandez2666 TOCA touring cars was a true gem 👌🏻
@@projetodefibrasil 1997/1998
It's ridiculous how the include a flop like Mario kart instead Screamer or Daytona USA
Psygnosis' first F1 game for PSX is missing, to this day there hasn't been a better F1 game than that one for console.
I'm glad Geoff Crammond's Grand Prix and Grand Prix Legends aren't forgetten.
I think these are the best ones from this era:
- Viper Racing
- Gran Turismo 2
- Wipeout 3
- Crash Team Racing
- Need for Speed High Stakes PC
- Colin McRae Rally
- Toca 2
- Sega Rally 2
- F1 97
Would've listed Porsche Unleashed and Colin McRae Rally 2.0, but both of those were released year 2000.
@@Braindizruptor Dunno enough about it. Might put it on the list if I did.
@@Braindizruptor Yeah, awesome game right there!
GT2 was awesome. I miss it.
For me it was Indycar Racing 2 and Nascar Racing by Papyrus that heavily influenced my love for racing video games.
No Daytona or Virtua Racing?
Midtown Madness (1999) definitely needs a mention, as it was one of the first games to have a fully fleshed out open world that you could just cruise around the city and cause chaos. Also a huge modding scene.
This is such a perfect list, containing arcade titans like Roadrash and NFS while also remembering legends like GPL and VR2. Amazing job guys!
Gran Turismo 2 has the perfect size to just play it through any other year
The fact you put the first Need for Speed but not III: Hot Pursuit or High Stakes is ridiculous
Nice! Grand Prix 2 (1996) is the one that got me truly hooked.
Sega Rally is my all time fav Arcade game. I also have console versions on Dreamcast & Ps3.
Formula One 95 was revolutionary when it came to F1 games. It still holds up today especially with Murray Walker's one liners.
F1 95 and F1 97 on PSX. I've played it hundreds of hours.
Gran Turismo 2 was simply the best racer of the decade.
TOCA Touring Cars, Colin McRae Rally, F1 97, Destruction Derby. My go to games after school.
I started all the way back with both the first gran turismo and colin mcrae rally games, still playing the modern iterations today, but my dad had grand prix 1 and 2 on his pc and I also played those
F-Zero X on the N64 is still a favourite. Isn't it about time Nintendo considered giving us a new F-Zero, and how about another Wave Race too while they're at it?
I remember playing road race and lotus and when I go back and look at reviews of the games it brings tears to my eyes because something's I just forget about and they brought it back to my remembrance
Geoff Crammond Grand Prix was an amazing game back in the day. Great video showing all the great games I grew up playing.
Grand Turismo was my fave. It was the first time I came across a game that with each car felt different to drive, with oversteer, understeer, 4wd, front wheel drive, rear wheel drive. Where as games prior all felt the same to drive. Road rash was fun, Colin McRae I spent a lot of time on too. Mario kart I had a ton of fun with too. I played ridge racer too.
....Where is Daytona USA, one of if not THE greatest arcade racing game ever made? It blew Sega Rally out of the water, and FAR more people played it.
you missed out Toca Touring cars, Micro Machines, Screamer, Test Drive, Hard Driving, Formula 1 97, think they all more influential than V-rally 2 .
No, GPL wasnt a flop! it wasnt a major success because of the difficulty level but a flop is too harsh.
Gaming Magazines praised it for its physics. I fell in love since the demo came out...
GPL was indeed a major success but was sold poorly when it was release.
Even in wikipedia it was mention that the game was a commercial failure
@@11NetNet11 i think one of the reasons might be, that most Games of that time were Arcade. While GPL was one of the best Racing Sims at the time
@@11NetNet11 yeah I think it was rated even worse on Dreamcast, but I got it recently. It’s so fun driving formula cars from the 30’s (edit) whoops I guess I meant Spirit of Speed 1937.
Toca2 on pc is in my opinion the best racing game from the 90s.
You missed Daytona USA, definitely a classic from the 90s!
Grand Prix Legends is a real masterpiece
Granturismo is still to this day unbeatable! What a racing franchise, I really like that GT has some glimps of every game that came before it.
The Project Gotham Racing series had a great vibe and graphics too
Enjoyed both v rally and Colin McRae rally in the 90’s but there’s no way v rally was better, codemasters effort was an absolute game changer for rally games.
The toca series and the original f1 series by psygnosis on PlayStation are also glaring omissions!!
Agree with this. Colin McRae was a legendary game, V Rally 2 not so much!
Totally - Colin McRae was leagues ahead of V rally.
Agree; the original is still a great game. For example picking tyres for two stages which are totally different; on the Monte one stage is dry tarmac, the next is wet snow/ wet tarmac....Similarly in NZ there is a dry gravel stage, the next is wet. Even now, some rally games don't do this.
@@BOABModels what i didn't like about Colin McRae Rally was, that there wasn't much Cars and Tracks.
I always had the feel that V-Rally was made for money only, and Colin McRae was done with passion. And I was a teenager in the 90s.
Some missed, Daytona USA, Test Drive Le Mans, TOCA series
vrally 2 is a masterpiece, that intro....
Hard driving and race driving were my favorite arcade games, though they were probably pre 90s.
Hard Drivin' first released in 1989 yes, but Race Drivin' debuted in 1990 and could have fitted into this list.
Race Drivin is still my favorite racing game. I play it on Mame with a Logitech 920 wheel, and shifter.
@@trevagraham1605 That sounds like a much better way to do it then how I've been playing it on Sega Genesis, lol!
@@scottthewaterwarrior The Genesis version is a million times better than the SNES version. That game is depression in the form of a video game lol.
@@trevagraham1605 Oh yeah, even the GameBoy port is more playable then that!
1999 Mobil 1 Rally Championship was a fantastic game too.
GT #1
CMR #2
I don't know if it's just me, but thinking back to Lotus Turbo 2, I'm convinced they had The Prodigy doing the music. Oh, and the cattle prod in RR3 cracks me up 🤣🤣🤣
Many simracers and lovers of modern competitions have begun in their first experience in the 90s'. So fond memories...
Papyrus' Nascar Racing just has to be in this list. It went on to become one of the very best sim racing titles..
Mobil 1 Rally Championship should have been in there when it comes to rally games
Great list but 2 games I think that are missing are Sega's Virtua Racing and Sega's Daytona USA. Those 2 games just blew my mind when I saw them for the first time in the arcades.
Yep Virtua Racing is missing from this list.
100% agree, Daytona was absolutely mind blowing at the time and I think Virtua Racing was the first fully polygonal Racing game in the arcades.
It gives me chills to see such a legendary institution pay homage to the games that fostered my love of cars.
Grand prix legends is still playable now.
It's a highly modded game with loads of tracks, up dated graphics and physics even support for triple screens. Still have my original boxed copy. The manual is insanely detailed.
GP500 should be on the list, is still one of the best bike racing games out there
Gran Turismo 2 no doubt
Automobilli Lamborghini on the N64 was one that I got a lot of use out of. I had a Mad Catz Steering Wheel for it and would spend hours playing on Expert mode trying to get the perfect lap (Expert made it very easy to slide).
Top Gear Rally got a lot of my time too - but most of it I'd spend in the paint shop designing a pixel-perfect paint job for the car of my choice.
I think the best of all time for me was Need for Speed 3: Hot Pursuit though; it had my favourite car as a download (Lamborghini Diablo SE30 Jota), was highly moddable (tracks, cars, performance, etc.) and the police chases and music really set it apart.
After the 90s the best racing games for me were GT-R 1, GT-R 2 and GT Legends. I couldn't believe how people were calling Gran Turismo a "Driving Simulator" when those games would utterly wipe the floor with it on a realism front! Running a long race in the GT-R series was a physical and mental challenge but so rewarding once you pulled it off.
What I'd want to see is a GT Legends: Hot Pursuit! Classic hypercars and muscle cars vs the police with complete immersive realism. Imagine something like a long, free roam map where you'd run an hour long point-to-point Cannonball Run and that's what I have in mind! No Hollywood special effects, no dramatic music, just you and the sounds of the car for company.
I expected to see IndyCar Racing 2 from 1995 but saw Mario Kart instead. Then I remembered it's "racing games" not "racing sims" but then I saw Grand Prix Legends, so who knows?
It's a shame The Need For Speed didn't keep the format of the original.
Ridge racer and sega rally are both still amazing even now. Such depth. 😎👍
A Goodwood video game would be so great, its the closest most people will get to the festival and being able to drive all of the rare and historic cars.
Grand Prix Legends, still the to-go to sim for me.
I don't blame you at all. I still kinda miss weekends from about ten years ago when I used to race with couple friends for few hours virtually every weekend. Our favorite titles were GPL of course and LFS. From rally games I used to love RBR and it caused so many angry moments. Maybe I should buy wheel again after all these years 🤔
Nigel Mansell's World Championship, Ayrton Senna's Super Mônaco Gp, Top Gear...
Gran Turismo 2
Need For Speed 4: Hot Pursuit
Lotus Turbo Challenge
Sega Rally Championship
San Francisco RUSH
Road Rash 2
Twisted Metal
Mario Kart 64
I started off with Lotus Turbo Challenge, Super Mario Kart, and Gran Turismo but had I known about GC's Grand Prix I would've been on it. I did get to play the PS1 Formula 1 game though.
Toca Touring Cars was excellent 👍
Hard to believe you completely missed Toca Touring Cars!
If you have a PS2 or a pc that can run the emulators, Ridge Racer is a series you have to try. The physical games and dirt cheap and the series really pioneered what an arcade racer is. Ridge Racer 7 or Ridge Racer type 4 are must plays.
I would pay a lot to go back in time and relive the 90's one more time. It was the best time of my life
my first racing game was Lotus 3 or 2 at 6 years age old, than Stunts (not mentioned here, but really important racing game) and Road Rash, and then CMR1 and Vrally2 on PS1, and also sadly only DEMO of Grand Prix legend on PC which I played for months :D still in racing games till now on PC and steering wheel with H shifter :)))
mariokart SNES is truley my start of racing games
Colin McRae Rally is one of the best too
Grew up on all these! Love it!
You can't have a list of top 90s racing games without mentioning Gran Turismo 2, ToCA Touring Car Championship or Formula 1.
It took 10 years to get the competition near Gran Turismo for PS1. They kept getting better until GT4...then Forza was so close that it was splitting hairs...
1998 had a game called "Gran Prix Legends" for PS1, but it was the modern F1 cars. It was incredibly hard to drive, but was probably the best F1 game of the era. It was the "iRacing" level game of the time.
Glad to see my favourite franchises (NFS, Gran Turismo) here. Including V-Rally 2 was a great decision, because Colin McRae Rally and some other rally games had huge soap effect, which always pisses me off, and V-Rally 2 didn't have much of that effect. 4th NFS game (High Stakes, PS1) is the best, physics had optimal balnce between arcade and simulation. The only game in whole NFS franchise that could give you same amount of excitement is NFS: Porsche Unleashed for PC. Also, in my opinion, Gran Turismo 2 should be included in this video instead of the first one: it has more content, looks better, has hp limits in some races, which makes it bit more challenging, and tbh first Gran Turismo has a problem with too much oversteering vehicles, and the second one got rid of that problem and has better physics in general.
I think Grand Turismo 2, Need for speed hot pursuit, Test Drive, Driver 1, Colin McRae Rally 2.0 need a place
I used to spend a lot of time playing GT1 and 2 and Colin McRae Rally 1 and 2. Crash Team Racing and Rally Cross 2 which was great because you could make crazy custom tracks to play with friends. Also, Max Power!
amazing video! loved road rash as a kid
I can't begin to estimate how many hours my friends and I played V Rally 2 on PS1. I'm not a fan of Rally games, but this one kept drawing me back. Fantastic 👍
True, that was an amazing game. The only other rally game ever to catch my attention was Microsoft's Rallisport Challenge 2 on the og Xbox, which was in every way a vastly superior game
INTERNATIONAL RALLY CHAMPIONSHIP 1997. Back when I was a kid this game ruled for me.
Need for speed was my first console game. Gran Turismo 1 and 2 probably my fav.
Lotus game was great fun. TOCA Touring cars and TOCA World touring cars also great
Super Cars was always great on Amiga.
Destruction derby 1 and 2, also Driver came out in 1999 and although not a racing game - one of the best driving games of its time
Powerslide was one of my favorites as a kid 😁
Making a list of the best racing games of the 90s, without even mentioning the importance of the VIRTUA RACING and DAYONA USA games, automatically makes the list invalid. Well, nice try ^^
I agree ! ...and without saying Ayrton Sennas Monaco GP too! 😍
The Tokyo xtreme racer series and shutoku battle series are super underrated
Even though I was born in the year 2000 I seem to prefer things from the 90’s
The only one Gran Turismo
I remember Crusin USA, Nascar 98, One of formula 1 season 98 I think.
And NFS 2 of course
Grand Prix Legends was a milestone for todays sim racing games. I was about 12 years old, when i played it - and it felt different (in a positive way) on so many levels.
But at the age of 12, I could not handle the difficulty - but I could unterstand, why people loved it.
The racing game that pushed PSX to the limits was Need for Speed High Stakes
Great to see racing games/ sims getting some coverage on this channel. Sega Rally is still amazing to this day. I’m still not bored of this and will happily put a pound coin or two to have a go. I’ve got versions on Saturn and PC. The PC version plays really well with the Microsoft Sidewinder Force Feedback wheel, which was pretty amazing back in the mid 90s.
Daytona USA, Let’s go away 😜👍🏻
You missed Daytona USA, the most successful arcade in history.
Racing Lagoon got an English fan translation recently, definitely worth a play if a cheesy PS1 racing RPG is up your alley
gran turismo 1 and 2 and In the Rally I played every day as a little boy on ps
I feel so old! I cut my teeth on Pit Stop - the cassette version on OG Commodore 64!
F-1 World Grand Prix
gran turismo
and collin mr
mario 64
probably my favs
I just wanted to click thru the list , but so well done I watched to the end. Content at its best!