What was the first racer you remember playing?

[Push Upstairs]

Another one for "Night Driver" on 2600.

After that its a bit blurry until playing Outrun and Turbo Outrun. :)

[Proclus]

Turbo (Colecovision).

[Howie6925]

Enduro Racer would be my first one remember playing.

[swlovinist]

Sprint for me as well. I must have only been three or four when I played it. I know that I had to have my older brother help me play it!

[DigitalSpace]

Newer members (and of course, those who missed it the first time around), here's a bump for you.

[Superman]

To the best of my knowledge, Pole Position at the aracade and Rad Racer for the Nes on a home console.

[bangtango]

Pole Position on the 2600, later to be followed by one of the racing games that used the driving controllers. I'd assume it was Indy 500 or something like that.

[PentiumMMX]

I think mine was Dragster (Atari 2600)...but I'm not sure

[Anthony1]

Wow, it's cool to hear that so many of you guys had your first racing experience with Night Driver for the Atari 2600. That was my first too. Or was it Indy 500 for the Atari 2600? I guess whichever one of those was the first to be released. The funny thing about the title, was that they called it Night Driver just to have a freaking black background with white side track markers. GENIUS!, lol.

I'm going to have to pull this game out of the closet and try it again for 5 mins, just to get that nostalgic feeling again.

[Clong]

Rad Racer for the NES. I still love to pull the ol' 3D glasses out and play that game.

[Gandhara]

Turbo > Pole Position 1 & 2! nice early Sega racer

The first car games I played were Head On and Pole Position

[heybtbm]

Arcade: Pole Position
Home: Grand Prix (Atari 2600)

[Sweater Fish Deluxe]

Yep, Grand Prix on the 2600 for me, too. Nice graphics, but the races are too short to get into and the cars are too big for the screen. I didn't have them when I was a kid, but I think the best racers on the 2600 are Night Driver and Enduro.

I really think Night Driver is a lot of fun. It controls very well with the paddle and it's fucking frantic as hell. When I play, I tend to imagine that the screen is depicting something more abstract rather than driving a car since the graphics are so minimalist and the gameplay is totally unlike later racing games, but I totally love it. It's a lot like sfCave/Copter and those games which are another favorite gameplay concept of mine.


...word is bondage...

[Pantechnicon]

At the arcade (more specifically, the roller rink): Sprint I from Kee Games (KLOV entry) (http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?letter=S&game_id=9738).

At home it was Indy 500. Got it at the same Christmas I got my 1st Atari. It was the only game my little brother ever had a chance of beating me at since I schooled him in every other game we owned :evil:

[Apollo]

Excite Bike on the NES

[Policenaut]

Mine are Pole Position and Dodge 'Em.

[Sanriostar]

Sprint 4 in the arcade. I still love the look of the old machine; this huge monstrosity with 4 steering wheels.

[Mason P.]

Pole Position

[ubersaurus]

It was either 2600 Night Driver or 7800 Pole Position 2; it's all kind of hazy and hard to recall.

[idrougge]

Probably Out-run in an arcade, or it was Chase H.Q.

[Gameriley]

First racer I ever played was Al Unser Jr's Road to the Top (SNES)

[shoes23]

Pole Postion on the 2600.

The first racing game that ever got me into the racing genre though has to go to Super Sprint for the NES. Played the hell out of that game for hours on end.

[cyberfluxor]

Pole Position II for 7800. Sometime in the mid-80's. Great game, totally worth it.

[Shrooin]

either Enduro or Dragster for the Atari 2600 around 1990, now those were the days...

[50s Brawler]

Pole Position is what comes to mind for the Arcade scene, but for home consoles the first racing game I played was "Dodge Em" on the Atari 2600.
:popcorn:

[KennyB]

Days of thunder on the NES. But I never finished first. So it wasn't my favorite game :)

[DarthKur]

At the arcade ....Sprint I from Kee Games (KLOV entry) (http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?letter=S&game_id=9738).



That would be the same for me as well I believe. Easily could've been Super Bug http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?letter=&game_id=9875 or F-1 http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?letter=&game_id=7743
I remember really loving F-1 because it was so "realistic". Well, I sure thought so then. :D

As far as at home it was definitely Street Racer for the 2600.

[DigitalSpace]

This thread came to mind recently and I figured that it was due time to give it another bump.

[Drixxel]

Another racing introduction courtesy of 2600 Pole Position. Loved that game.

[Icarus Moonsight]

Sprint... B&W arcade machine. It was awesome back then. Sort of a primitive Super Off-Road for those of you who have never seen one.

I was so small at the time... My father held me up to the wheel and I think he worked the gas pedal for me. The details are so fuzzy. If I hadn't bumped into it in MAME again I might have completely forgotten about it by now.

[Draven]

Ahhh young people. Me, it was Night Driver from the late 1970s! It was nothing but flashing lights streaming down the screen! (PLAYABLE - http://web.utanet.at/nkehrer/JNitedrvr.html )



http://images.webmagic.com/klov.com/screens/N/vNight_Driver.png

SAME HERE!..at home, anyway. Probably played Pole Position in the arcades around then, too, but didn't really get into driving games until Outrun was released.

[genesisguy]

Bill Elliot's NASCAR NES.

[ShinobiMan]

Pole Position for sure. There was a Dairy Queen near my house growing up that had the original "sit in" arcade unit. As a 3 year old, this thing used to blow my mind! Every time we went there to eat I had to at least sit in that beast. I will never forget the music. Cherished memories.

[Sniderman]

Wasn't a racing game, but the first driving game with a wheel I played was Fire Truck by Atari in the arcade.

[Atarileaf]

Ditto on the Night Driver.

[kupomogli]

Pole Position for the Atari.

[Sonicwolf]

Super Mario Kart for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System

[Arasoi]

Rad Racer on NES. Also the first video game I ever owned.

I still play it, the later levels are still challenging and its great nostalgia.

[Howie6925]

oops posted twice on same forum with two different games.
My bad. lol

[Nes4u]

I would have to say pole position, but I like pit stop better.

[Rickstilwell1]

For me, it was R.C. Pro-Am on my babysitter's NES sometime in the late 80s.

What about you?

What do you know? It was the same game as the OP! R.C. Pro-Am for NES.

[shanec86]

Another one here for Pole Position on the 2600 :D

[Oobgarm]

Even though I mentioned Pole Position, it very well could have been Monaco GP in the arcades.

[TheDomesticInstitution]

Another nod, for Pole Position. Although I can't remember if it was the arcade or on the Atari first.

[Sabz5150]

Turbo in the arcades.

[jb143]

I'm pretty sure mine was Pole Position for the 2600 as well but it could have also been Speedway!/Spin-Out! for the Odyssey2.

[thom_m]

Enduro for the 2600. I still love it; it was one of the first games I bought when I finally got an Atari again, last year. Too bad the console's already malfunctioned...:(

[BydoEmpire]

Probably Auto Racing on the Inty. That I definitely remember (spent soooo much time with that game).


Enduro for the 2600. I still love it; it was one of the first games I bought when I finally got an Atari again, last year. One of my all-time favorites as well.

[Leo_A]

Pole Position II

[The 1 2 P]

Pole Position(ugh) on the Atari 2600 and Spy Hunter in the arcade. I still love Spy Hunter but I'd never go pack to Pole Position unless it was a remake with stripper poles.

[SparTonberry]

Pole Position for the arcade.
But I was too young to understand how to play it correctly, so I did terrible and didn't like it.
I think the bad memories have made it hard to enjoy even now. :(
The first I really enjoyed was the original F-Zero.

[obesolete]

f-1 race for gameboy. it was my only game for the longest time....
and i had no one to use my 4 tap with me boohoo =(

I don't think i EVER used it.. i wonder where it is now

[Chemdawg]

super sprint

[Tron 2.0]

Arcade Pole Position then on console endro racer.Though i realy suck at them at frist and i didn't give them a realy good try again,untile games such as sega rally and ridge racer came out.

[Haoie]

There was an old Acclaim game on the PC where you race cars around, I think it was a total of 8 tracks around the world. I had it in the early 90s.

Damn, what was the name?

[Nikademus1969]

It was either Night Driver, or one of the "Sprint" games from the B&W days.

[Hanzaki]

Revs on Commodore Plus/4 and Pitstop on Commodore 64

[Game Freak]

Either Pole Position on the Atari or Top Gear on SNES.

I looooove Top Gear...

[JunkTheMagicDragon]

pole position on ye olde atari vcs.

[Flashback2012]

Pole Position in the arcades I'm pretty sure.

[calistarwind]

For me it was Indy 500 on Atari 2600. That game was so much fun at the time.

I also remember playing a huge table top racing game with dirt race tracks with my cousin at the arcade. I can't remember the name of it though.

[deltoidsteep]

I've never been too into racing games so my first one was on the genesis. Super Monaco Grand Prix

[Ed Oscuro]

The year is 1986 and I am playing "Rally King" on my #1 Popular Game Computer...

[MachineGex]

For me it was Indy 500 on Atari 2600. That game was so much fun at the time.

Indy 500 is still a blast. I think I am gonna have to get the hack repro of that game from Atariage. I played a lot of Spin Out on the O2 and Auto Racing on the Intellivision, but I think the first was Nightdriver on the VCS. Much later came Micro Machines on the NES. That game is a blast. To this day, two of my favorite racing games are Indy 500 & Micro Machines.

[DigitalSpace]

That "your first 3D game" thread got me thinking about this one. Time for another bump!

[tom]

Enduro on VCS
Played it solid until I got the trophy.

[DigitalSpace]

Enduro on VCS
Played it solid until I got the trophy.

I still haven't got the trophy. One of these days!

[Ballermann2D]

A top down racing game on my dad's TRS-80 around 1979.
Not sure whether it was an official game or one of these you had to type yourself off a magazine

[sloan]

Most likely something in arcades like Bump n' Jump, but Night Driver on VCS was early on as well. Boy was I glad when Enduro came out on VCS. It beat Night Driver by a huge margin.

I, too, remember winning the trophy on Enduro, and it wasn't that difficult. Been many years ago though, so don't know how well I would fare these days.

[BydoEmpire]

Intellivision Auto Racing. I may have played something earlier in the arcade or a friend's 2600 or something, but I don't remember. Auto Racing was amazing.

[kaedesdisciple]

Would be Enduro on the VCS for me as well. Now I don't remember if I got the trophy or not, I think I did...

[BetaWolf47]

RoadBlasters on NES I believe. Still need to add that one to my collection.

[NoahsMyBro]

The first thing that came to mind for me when I read the thread title was Turbo, but I know I played Night Driver in movie theater lobbies, pizza joints, and arcades back when it and Breakout were current, so I'm pretty sure my first racing game would have been Night Driver.

[Oldskool]

Night Driver. That's what I meant to say. Don't know where I got Nightracer from.

Night Driver too for me. On a home console of some sorts, not sure which one is was.

[Lerxstnj]

4-player Atari Indy 500 in the arcades.