What is your favorite SNES racing game and why? This one is mine.
Best racing game on SNES?
What is your favorite SNES racing game and why? This one is mine.
Probably Super Mario Kart. Traditional racers on the SNES and earlier systems don't really do it for me. It's probably the only genre that I think needed to go 3D to become truly great.
I actually felt Super Mariokart was too slow for me. It is even worse today so I really can not stand anything older than the N64 version to this day.Originally Posted by Aussie2B
Yeah, the slowness makes me have no desire to touch its battle mode (also because it's limited to two players, while four-player battle mode in Mario Kart 64 is a blast), but I still like the single-player racing in Super Mario Kart, if only because it provides more of a challenge than pretty much any other Mario Kart.
Without a doubt, it has to be Top Gear.
oh, F-Zero, without question. Super Mario Kart is the popular choice, but F-Zero is a much better game in every way except for multiplayer which of course it just doesn't have at all. I like Mario Kart just fine, but I'll always opt to play F-Zero when given the choice.
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I'm curious how you feel like that about the single player? I find that most of them post-N64/GBA get respectively harder to win as they've more and more converted it into this cheap Mario Party on wheels type game where it's totally random if you actually can win depending if the AI decides to spike shell your ass into oblivion, or the AI like on the DS game is setup on 150cc to keep all 7 characters shooting at you, even not being in first they ignore the AI ahead. The SNES game was the only truly fair one based upon a good bit of driving skill and item use. I think if I had to choose though probably F-Zero because it's easier just to pick up and play into a fast round as Mario Kart while also on a 5 track circuit is slower and more with item tactics involved instead of course mastery and ai car dodging alone (and the sound track is very motivating.)
For me I don't know the answer to this question but it would either be F-Zero or Super Mario Kart. I've not touched Top Gear much but it didn't do much for me so I didn't try the other sequels to it, and Uniracers I never could get into, and I've tried a few times over the years.
Yeah, the later Mario Kart games are more random, but I feel they're still more forgiving, if only for track design alone. Like compare the challenge of the original Rainbow Road to the later ones. 150cc is pretty brutal in Super Mario Kart, and the other racers are relentless with their item usage when you're in the lead. You also have to worry about coin management in Super Mario Kart.
If by "truly fair" you mean "the CPU karts are horrible cheating bastards and Mario will wreck your shit with his infinite stars of doom"; then yes, that is correct.
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I definitely have to give it to Top Gear 2. It does what the first one does, only better.
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I have to give it to Super Off Road. Love that game.
I've never had that problem. I could kill it on 150ccs better than the other versions. Mind you I cleared it using Mario so maybe that's why?
Also that coin management was in the GBA game too, I kind of liked the speed boosts it gave. I did totally forget one racing game, don't have it anymore as the music does it for me not the gameplay but Rock n Roll Racing. I know it's highly appreciated and over the last few years I've gone between owning it on SNES and GBA but never keep it.
Top Gear
F-Zero
Nigel Mansell's World Championship Racing
This is why I hate all the Mario Kart games, the cheap ass AI. F-Zero for me. "Normal" racing games just don't work for me with a D-pad.
It's easy to overlook it, but Super Off-Road saw a fine conversion here.
About the only way it could've been any better is multitap support and including the dune buggy as a vehicle option. Even includes all of the Track-Pack expansion circuits.
Good list
Nice to see Nigel Mansell's World Championship Racing get a mention. It's a fine classic that is usually overlooked. The masters at Gremlin, the developers behind the Top Gear and Lotus franchises, did a great job with this one.
I especially love the 16 bit national anthem renditions. Gremlin Interactive loved putting little details like that into their games.
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Not sure about the order, but my favorites are:
Super Mario Kart
F-Zero
Biker Mice from Mars
Rock & Roll Racing
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I didn't care for any even sort of realistic racing games until Sega Rally Championship on Saturn.
No love for Uniracers, people?
Super Mario Kart, Rock 'n Roll Racing, F-Zero and Top Gear. All for different reasons though.
Amazingly enough I actually have an old plastic tall drinking mug for Nigel Mansell from the 90s games still, it's used to scoop up dog food.
Top Gear 2 tops my list.
I love F-Zero, but Top Gear 2 is fantastic. Great gameplay, great music, full screen (compared to the first SNES Top Gear). Highly recommended.
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