Vette!

Vette! is a driving game built around the unmistakable spectacle of cruising a high-performance Corvette through San Francisco. Instead of confining you to a neat racing circuit, the game gives you roads, traffic, hills, and the city's famously unforgiving geography. The combination of fast cars and recognisable streets gives it a surprisingly distinctive character for a late-1980s DOS title. Players can race, explore, and attempt to keep their expensive virtual sports car in one piece while dealing with corners and traffic that seem personally offended by speed. The graphics are dated, naturally, but the sense of place is impressive for its time. There is something particularly amusing about watching a blocky digital Corvette hurtle down a primitive version of San Francisco while you desperately try to remember where the brakes are. Vette! is less about sophisticated simulation and more about the fantasy of driving an American sports car through a major city, which it delivers with considerable retro charm.