Originally Posted by
Leo_A
I'm lazy but maybe I'll work a bit harder later on (Racers must compromise about 1/3 of my collection). But before someone beats me in mentioning the best one of them all, Top Gear for the Super Nintendo obviously supports two players.
You'd be much better off making a list of what 8/16 bit console racers don't have multiplayer support. A complete list for this category like you're after is going to comprise ~95% of the titles released in that genre for these consoles. The list for single player only titles on the other hand will be much shorter since multiplayer was near universal for this genre at that time unlike today where local multiplayer is a 50/50 proposition at best.
For titles lacking multiplayer, just a few arcade conversions immediately come to mind like a few 1st party Sega titles, Hard Drivin'/Race Drivin', etc. Even many releases with fancier presentations like Stunt Race FX, Virtua Racing, and the Domark titles supported multiplayer.
Edit: Add F-Zero (SNES) and Power Drive (Genesis) to that group of titles that lack a multiplayer component.