Street Rod is the sensei of all tuning games and places a huge amount of importance in installing as many performance parts into your rides as you can afford. 9: Street RodThe idea of buying “used cars” and manually replacing parts dates back almost a decade before Gran Turismo to a cult-favourite 1989 MS-DOS/Amiga game called Street Rod (Forza Motorsport wasn’t the first game to allow engine swaps, folks).
Or, you know, the very first lap.Indianapolis 500: The Simulation heavily influenced the path for racing simulators well into the ’90s, inspiring competitors like World Circuit: The Grand Prix Racing Simulation and Grand Prix II, and setting the bedrock for Papyrus’ own Ind圜ar and NASCAR games, as well as its all-time classic Grand Prix Legends.
You could compete up to the full 500 miles in a field of 33 cars but, just like real racing, smack the wall on the 199th lap and you were done. Indianapolis 500 featured just the one oval track but allowed players to tweak down force, tyre pressure, and more. It’s Papyrus Design Group’s 1989 classic Indianapolis 500: The Simulation, however, that is more often credited with truly kick-starting the concept of the hard-core racing simulator. Unlike its contemporaries at the time Revs made an attempt at proper realism, featuring the ability alter wing settings and boasting a cockpit view with an animated tachometer and rudimentary rear-view mirrors, a 3D race circuit, and some crude but effective on-track opponents. 10: Indianapolis 500: The SimulationThe UK Formula Three game Revs (released on the BBC Micro in 1984 and on Commodore 64 the following year) is generally regarded as the first true racing simulator. Not exactly a racing game, but it was a massive milestone for the genre nonetheless. In a lot of ways Driver paved the road for similarly genre-defining racers like the original Midnight Club, also notable for its pioneering use of open world environments for racing rather than predefined circuits.
Durell Software’s largely-forgotten 1986 game Turbo Esprit is rightfully credited as the world’s first free-roaming driving game but 1999’s Driver was a real breakthrough for driving games, introducing the world to all the joy of ripping and weaving through a living, three-dimensional city.
Honourable Mention: DriverNot a racing game in the traditional sense, Driver is nonetheless a hugely influential ancestor of modern, open-world racing. Here's a list of some of the most important and influential racing games in history games that have etched their names in the books as some of the greatest in their field and that have gone on to inspire many, many equally great racers. Whatever your preference is on racing games there's no denying the fact that the racing category is one of gaming's longest-running and most steadfast genres.
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