The most popular racing: car games
Racing games are traditionally car racing games. Players just love driving at maximum speed vehicles on four wheels: Formula 1 cars, 4WD, sports cars and even Micro Machines. Car racing (and driving) games are usually simulations or action games.
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Need for Speed II: SE
Windows XP/98/951997 Electronic Arts
Need for Speed II is a racing video game developed and published by Electronic Arts. It was released in 1997 as the second installment in the popular Need for Speed series. NFS2:SE focused on high-speed racing with exotic car...
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
Windows XP/98/95Mac OS2002protected Rockstar Games
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City is an open-world action-adventure game developed by Rockstar North and published by Rockstar Games in 2002. It's the fourth main entry in the GTA series and serves as a spiritual successor to Grand Thef...
Crazy Taxi
Windows XP/98/952002 Sega
Crazy Taxi is an abandoned driving / racing game developed by Sega and released by Activision in 2002 for Windows and other platforms (it's an arcade conversion). Crazy Taxi is set in a city full of potential passengers: get them ...
Grand Theft Auto
DOSWindows XP/98/951997 DMA Design
In Grand Theft Auto the player takes the role of a criminal who can freely roam around the city (Liberty City) completing tasks for the local mobs: stealing cars, killing pedestrians, all of it while avoiding the police and the ar...
Grand Prix 2
DOS1995 MicroProse Software
Grand Prix 2 is an abandoned Formula 1 racing game designed by Geoff Crammond and published by MicroProse Software in 1995 for DOS. Grand Prix 2 is the sequel to Formula One Grand Prix and was a one-man project (which was uncommon...
Formula 1 Grand Prix
DOS1991 MicroProse Software
Grand Theft Auto 2
Windows XP/98/951999 DMA Design
Grand Theft Auto 2 is the second chapter in the successful Grand Theft Auto series. GTA 2 is an abandoned top-down action-adventure / driving hybrid game developed by DMA Design and released by Rockstar Games in 1999 for various p...
Stunts
DOS1990 Distinctive Software
The Need for Speed
DOS1995 Electronic Arts
The Need for Speed is a first-person perspective racing game developed and published by Electronic Arts in 1995 for DOS. The game immerses players in high-speed races with the primary objective of winning each race across a variet...
OutRun
DOS1989 Sega
Midtown Madness
Windows XP/98/951999demo Angel Studios
Midtown Madness is a car racing game developed by Angel Studios (later known as Rockstar San Diego) and released by Microsoft in 1999 for Windows. Midtown Madness is known for its open-world design, allowing players to e...
Carmageddon
DOSWindows XP/98/951997protected Stainless Games
In Carmageddon, winning a race is just one of three options—the other two involve mowing down pedestrians or wrecking your opponents. It’s the game your parents definitely didn’t want you playing, and that’...
Death Rally
DOS1996freeware Remedy Entertainment Ltd.
Stunt Car Racer
DOS1989 Microstyle
Stunt Car Racer is an abandoned first-person 3D perspective racing game designed by Geoffrey J. Crammond, developed and released by Microstyle in 1989 for DOS and many other platforms. The peculiar tracks are what makes Stunt Car ...
Micro Machines
DOS1994 Codemasters
Micro Machines is an abandoned racing game developed and released by Codemasters in 1994 based on the Micro Machines toy line. Micro Machines was published for DOS, but also for Amiga, Game Boy, Game Gear, Genesis, NES, SEGA Maste...
Axelerator: Have a N.I.C.E. day!
Windows XP/98/951997 Synetic
Ah, the late '90s: when cars exploded for no reason and acronyms made everything cooler. Axelerator: Have a N.I.C.E. day! is a 1997 Windows racer that asks, “What if racing was less about realism and more about chucking miss...
Grand Prix Circuit
DOSMac OS1988 Distinctive Software
The Duel: Test Drive 2
DOS1989 Distinctive Software
Sega Rally Championship
Windows XP/98/95Windows 10/111995 Sega
Street Rod
DOS1989protected Magic Partners
Hard Drivin'
DOS1990 Atari
Quarantine
DOS1994 Imagexcel
Quarantine is a futuristic racing/driving game released by GameTek in 1994 for DOS. Quarantine is set in a dark dystopian futuristic city where the player drives around in a taxi cab, picking up passengers and killing everyone els...
Days of Thunder
DOS1990 Argonaut Games
Days of Thunder is a 1990 racing video game based on the film of the same name. Developed by Argonaut Software and published by Mindscape, the game was released on several platforms, including the NES, PC (MS-DOS), Amiga, Atari ST...
Lotus: The ultimate challenge
DOS1993 Magnetic Fields
Lamborghini: American Challenge
DOS1992 Titus Interactive
Lamborghini: American Challenge is a racing video game that was originally released in 1992. It was developed by Titus Interactive and is part of the Crazy Cars series. The game is known for its fast-paced, illegal street racing s...
Test Drive 3: The Passion
DOS1990 Accolade
Power Drift
DOS1990 Sega
Whiplash
DOS1995 Gremlin Graphics / Gremlin Interactive
Interstate '76
Windows XP/98/951997protected Activision
Interstate '76 is a vehicular combat video game developed and published by Activision. It was released in 1997 for Microsoft Windows. The game is set in an alternate history 1976, featuring a stylized 1970s atmosphere with a uniqu...
Fire and Forget
DOS1988 Titus Interactive