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A subcategory of [[Sports Game|Sports Games]]. You are on a course or given a course to take and your goal is to get from point A to point B as fast as you can, usually before your opponents do. Sometimes you're just the car, and you never even see the driver, sometimes you drive nothing at all. |
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Most racing games are [[Driving Game|Driving Games]] and all sit somewhere on a line between "arcade" and "simulation". Toward the arcade end [[Every Car Is Rear Wheel Drive]] and brakes are nearly unnecessary; toward the simulation end, games like ''[[Gran Turismo]]'' and ''[[Forza Motorsport (Video Game)|Forza Motorsport]]'', where brakes are the only thing saving you from skidding head-on into the wall and cars are as close as can be made to their [[Real Life]] analogues. The most popular racing games are the ones that blend arcade style with real-life cars and locations, or ones that feature an already-popular franchise. Stricter driving sims are more the preserve of the PC market, where there are large online racing and modding groups. |
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Simulation-style racing games are generally "no contact" affairs, just as in real life. Most NASCAR and Formula One games involve driving around a track with set rules of noninterference with your competitors. Most arcade racers are "full contact" racing, where you can bump and shove your opponents into barriers or just simply spin them out. |
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If the game has real cars in it, the names and likenesses are licensed from the manufacturer(s). Generally, the terms of the license require that the cars be invulnerable, as auto manufacturers don't want people to think their cars [[The Alleged Car|get damaged easily.]] This just happens to [[Family-Unfriendly Aesop|promote the idea that dangerous driving has no consequences]], but hey, at least our car looks good. |
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Of course, the car drivers themselves are [[In Vehicle Invulnerability|even less vulnerable and you rarely see them die in a car crash]]. Even in games where you are not driving cars, they usually still fall neatly into arcade or sim, though the further they go towards simulation in this case, the less they will play like a driving game. |
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An inordinate number of racing games feature a [[The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard|Cheating Bastard]]. See also, [[Racing Mini Game]] |
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=== Driving Racers: === |
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* [[Insane]] |
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* [[Four Times Four Evolution]] |
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* [[Battle Cars]] |
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* [[Battle Gear]] |
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* [[Beetle Adventure Racing]] |
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* [[Big Rigs Over the Road Racing]] |
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* [[Blur (Video Game)|Blur]] |
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* [[Burnout]] |
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* [[Cars Race-O-Rama]] |
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* [[Choro Q (Video Game)|Choro Q]] - licensed from a brand of toy cars in Japan. |
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* [[Colin McRae Rally]] |
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** [[Di RT (Video Game)|Di RT]] |
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* [[Crashday]] |
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* [[Crash Team Racing (Video Game)|Crash Team Racing]], [[Crash Nitro Kart]] and [[Crash Tag Team Racing]] (spinoffs of ''[[Crash Bandicoot]]'') |
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* [[Cruisn|Cruis'n]] |
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* [[Daytona USA]] |
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* [[Death Rally (Video Game)|Death Rally]] |
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* [[Diddy Kong Racing (Video Game)|Diddy Kong Racing]] |
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* [[Driving Emotion Type S]] ( [[Square Enix]]'s attempt at making a ''[[Gran Turismo]]'' killer) |
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* [[F-Zero (Video Game)|F-Zero]] |
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* [[FAST Racing League (Video Game)|FAST Racing League]] |
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* [[Fatal Racing]] (known in the US as "Whiplash") |
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* [[Flat Out (Video Game)|Flat Out]] |
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* [[Forza Motorsport (Video Game)|Forza Motorsport]] |
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* [[FUEL]] |
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* [[Gran Trak 10 (Video Game)|Gran Trak 10]] |
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* [[Gran Turismo]] |
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* [[G Surfers]] |
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* [[Grand Prix Legends]] |
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* [[GT Legends]] |
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* [[Indy Car Racing II]] |
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* [[Initial D Arcade Stage (Video Game)|Initial D Arcade Stage]] |
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* [[Konami Krazy Racers]] |
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* [[LEGO Racers (Video Game)|LEGO Racers]] |
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* [[Live For Speed]] |
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* [[Mario Kart (Video Game)|Mario Kart]] |
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** [[Super Mario Kart (Video Game)|Super Mario Kart]] |
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** [[Mario Kart 64 (Video Game)|Mario Kart 64]] |
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* Mega Man Battle And Chase (a spinoff of ''[[Mega Man (Video Game)|Mega Man]]'', natch) |
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* [[Megarace]] |
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* [[Micro Machines (Video Game)|Micro Machines]] |
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* [[Midnight Club]] |
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* Midtown Madness |
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* [[Modnation Racers]] |
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* [[Motorstorm]] |
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* [[Need for Madness (Video Game)|Need for Madness]] |
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* [[Need for Speed (Video Game)|Need for Speed]] |
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* [[Nitronic Rush]] |
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* [[Pole Position (Video Game)|Pole Position]] |
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* [[Quantum Redshift (Video Game)|Quantum Redshift]] |
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* [[Racer Free Car Simulation]] |
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* [[Racing Lagoon]] (A [[Square Enix]] hybrid of a RPG and street racing sim, basically their answer to ''[[Tokyo Xtreme Racer]]'') |
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* [[Rad Racer (Video Game)|Rad Racer]] |
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* [[Rally Trophy]] |
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* [[RC Pro-Am|RC Pro Am]] |
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* [[Re-Volt]] |
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* [[R Factor]] |
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* [[Ridge Racer (Video Game)|Ridge Racer]] |
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* [[Richard Burns Rally]] |
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* [[Road Fighter]] |
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* [[Rock N Roll Racing]] |
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* [[Rollcage]] |
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* [[San Francisco Rush (Video Game)|San Francisco Rush]] |
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* [[Sega Rally]] |
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* ''[[Sega Superstars (Video Game)|Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing]]'' |
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* [[Sonic R]] |
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* [[Split Second]] |
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* Super Sprint |
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* [[Super Tux Kart (Video Game)|Super Tux Kart]] |
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* [[Test Drive (Video Game)|Test Drive]] |
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* [[TOCA Race Driver]] |
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** * [[GRID]] |
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* [[Tokyo Xtreme Racer]] |
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* [[Video Game/Top Gear|Top Gear]] |
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* [[Track Mania]] |
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* V-Rally |
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* [[Viper Racing]] |
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* [[Virtua Racing]] |
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* [[Wacky Wheels]] |
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* [[Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune]] |
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* [[Wipeout (Video Game)|Wipeout]] |
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* WRC |
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=== Other Racers === |
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* 1080 Snowboarding |
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* [[Banjo Kazooie]] Pilot |
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* Chocobo Racing (a spinoff of ''[[Final Fantasy]]'') |
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* [[Donkey Kong]] Barrel Blast |
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* [[Excite (Video Game)|Excite]] |
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* [[Extreme G]] |
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* [[Freaky Fliers]] |
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* Heracles Chariot Racing |
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* [[Hydro Thunder (Video Game)|Hydro Thunder]] |
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** [[Hydro Thunder Hurricane]] |
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** [[H 2 Overdrive]] |
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* [[Joe Danger]] |
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* [[Kirby (Video Game)|Kirby]]'s Air Ride |
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* [[Art Style (Video Game)|Light Trax]] |
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* [[Monster Racers]] |
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* Mountain Bike Rally |
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* MX vs. ATV Unleashed |
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* [[Pokémon]] Dash |
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* [[Running Wild]] |
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* [[Snowboard Kids (Video Game)|Snowboard Kids]] |
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* [[Sonic R (Video Game)|Sonic R]] |
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* [[Sonic Riders (Video Game)|Sonic Riders]] |
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* [[Video Game/Sonic Rivals Duology|Sonic Rivals Duology]] |
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* [[SSX (Video Game)|SSX]] |
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* [[Track and Field (Video Game)|Track and Field]] |
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* [[Uniracers (Video Game)|Uniracers]] |
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* [[Wave Race (Video Game)|Wave Race]] |
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{{reflist}} |
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[[Category:index]] |
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[[Category:Racing Game]] |
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Latest revision as of 16:09, 8 September 2019
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