Racing/driving games

[formulanone]

Enduro had many gears (the car sounded as of it had a 20-speed gearbox). Played Pole Position a lot in the arcades, as well as Bump 'n Jump, Turbo, Final Lap, Super Monaco GP, Hard Driving, and a few other obscure ones. Atari also had Dodge 'em, which was ferociously hard, and Night Driver, which was usually rather easy. I recall RC Pro-Am for the NES, but not much else (driving-wise) on that console. Also have Indy 500 by Electronic Arts, which is the only PC driving game I've ever meddled with.

[Billy F 1988]

Up until my NFS, Burnout, Wave Race, and other platform racing games, I was introduced to Super Mario Kart and Mario Kart 64. My first taste of NASCAR racing on the 360 was, I think, NASCAR 05 or 06. Certainly not the Team Control version. That's when I was introduced to the 360. I never played any Playstation type racing games because of the controls. Maybe one, other than that, no. Corvette for PS2 was the only PS console game I played. I love the speedway track going backwards like in Australia. Wish I could still play that game.

[Takumi]

I remember playing Enduro as a child (yep, I had an Atari at my grandparents' house), and NES games like Spy Hunter before Mario Kart.

[AsphaltPlanet]

Mario Kart is a classic.  I think Double Dash for the Game Cube was the best of the series.  The Game Cube was an underrated system.

[1995hoo]

.... Bump 'n Jump ....

I forgot about Bump 'n Jump. We had the Intellivision cartridge and we loved that game. Used to try as hard as we could to avoid smashing any cars so that we could get the 50,000 bonus points per level.