I like the Road Rash games on Genesis a lot.
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rc pro am and super off road give me so much nostalgia from my childhood.
I also have mega nostalgia from rad racer :)
Jet Moto series on PS1
Re-Volt but also all the Crash Bandicoot were fire.
wipeOut
F-zero, Mario kart 64, diddy kong racing, rush 2049, cruisn USA, need for speed underground, that game at the arcade where 3 people can play and its on one screen with an isometric view
Edit: super off road
F zero gx specifically is the goat
I grew up in the original so that’s what has a special place in my heart. GX is sick though
Rollcage
Re-Volt
Star Wars EP 1: Racer
NFS
NFS2
NFS Hot Pursuit
NFS Underground
Death Rally
Crash Team Racing
Hydro Thunder
SSX Tricky
San Francisco Rush 2049
Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing
San Francisco rush extreme racing 64.
Not my favorite, but I really liked Buggy Run from Master System
Rally Cross Beetle Adventure Racing Outrun
Super Cars (Amiga) Also have a fond memory of Death Rally
In nokia n-gage (the og and not the 2nd smaller version) there was a rally game, really good one… Then I like rally 3.
Road Rash is still one of my favorites! I plan to play through the PSX version at some point since I only ever got the chance to play the Genesis ones as a kid.
Rock and Roll Racing
Excite bike
excite bike always reminds me of visiting my grandma in daytona beach :)
That’s kid icarus and al uncer jrs racing for me.
I remember my grandmother playing those games with us and she was exactly the person who would gesture with her hands as she was trying to play the game. When the character turned or jumped, her hands would do the same thing, she fling the controller out of her hands at least once that i remember trying to jump to a new platform in kids Icarus
Rock & Roll Racing is top tier.
Honorable mentions
Micro machines (that pool level!)
Cobra Triangle
Excite bike
We had endless hours of fun back in the day using the track builder and figuring out the exact spacing and combination of ramps to make your little dude crash out in a manner that flung his tumbling corpse the absolute maximum amount of distance. (Okay, so you never really die in Excitebike, but you know.) You can achieve significant hang time if you do it right.
Random unsolicited video game trivia: First run editions of Excitebike were actually Japanese Famicom cartridges bodged into Famicom-to-NES cartridge converters. They’re literally Japanese copies of the game, verbatim. This includes the theoretical ability to save out your track to the Famicom Data Recorder, which has only the minor wrinkle of never having been released in the US. This was baffling to us at the time, not understanding why the option was there when it self-evidently didn’t work (but your Zelda cartridge could save just fine).
Somehow my dad figured this out using the early Internet or Usenet or something, and then I had the actual answer. Still not actually being able to save, mind you, but at least I knew why you couldn’t. Except nobody in the schoolyard would believe me.
(I do know!)
A game that no one I know IRL knows exists without me telling them:
Eliminator Boat Duel on NES.
Basically Super off-road meets Cobra Triangle.
Is Burnout old enough to be considered retro? 🤔
Because otherwise I, too, would have to say Road Rash.
Not much of a fan of racing, which is why my picks are what they are; Burnout has the awesome crash mode, and Road Rash is basically just a beat 'em up on wheels.
Although, I also really like Wipeout.
