The arcade racer has sort of been left behind. Yes, these are good games – great games in fact – but they can be too hard and technical for the casual gamer. They’re designed with fancy real-life car models and accurate physics over blistering balls-out racing fun. It was a good time.įast forward 25 years, during which times racing games have evolved from arcade fun to as real-to-life as you can get with the likes of Gran Turismo and Forza. Namco’s Ridge Racer had the fancier graphics (and a real Mazda MX5 to sit in if you ever visited London Trocadero) but SEGA’s Daytona had all the arcade thrills and spills you would expect coming from the kings of the arcade. If you’re as old as I am, you’ll also probably remember the first ‘gaming war’ between Ridge Racer and Daytona (and perhaps Virtua Racing before that): these two giants were the go-to racing games for the arcade go’er. If like me you’re old enough to remember the times when arcades were king with large smoke-filled rooms fitted corner to corner with all the latest arcade games was a kid’s paradise, this is a game for you.

Old-school retro arcade racing fun-times comes drifting to consoles and PC in the shape of Hotshot Racing. Old-school arcade racer Hotshot Racing speeds onto Playstation 4 but does the gameplay live up to the beautiful retro graphics? The Finger Guns Review.

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