In 1900, an English company called Automatic Sports Company produced the world's first electromechanical racing game, "Yacht Racer", and since then, arcade electric racing games have become popular.

As one of the most outstanding products in the industrialization process, cars have an indescribable charm.

Some people dream of becoming famous on the stage, some people dream of becoming successful in the competition, and some people dream of controlling a dream car on the track to chase the horizon.

Precision and complex process makes many excellent models expensive. Fortunately, the emergence of electronic games can still allow some car fans to fulfill their "half of their dreams."

Racing Game Development History

900, a British company called Automatic Sports Company produced the world's first electromechanical racing game "Yacht Racer". Since then, arcade electric racing games have gradually become popular.

After this game was introduced to Japan in 1958, such games began to be called "EM driving game" .

With the development of EM driving games, in 1976, Namco developed the most successful arcade racing game "F-1", which became the most revenue game in Japan in the next two years. The development of

EM driving games also have an immeasurable impact on electronic racing games.

Atari founder Nolan Bushnell once worked part-time in an arcade store (in 1970). Influenced by this experience, the first one developed by Atari almost became a racing game instead of "Table Tennis".

Although Atari's first game was not Racing , only a year later, Atari made their racing game "Gran Trak 10", and then until 1987, Atari also produced several heavyweight racing games.

Since 1987, Sega and Namco began to continuously produce racing games. By around 1990, relying on years of layout, the two companies have successfully monopolized the racing game market on arcades;

But with the continuous increase in sales of home machines, at this point in time, racing games on home machines such as " Mario Kart " and "Road Warrior" have gradually replaced the status of arcade racing games.

By 1997, the graphics quality of PC and home computers had leaps and bounds. For example, high-quality games such as " Need for Speed ​​" series and "GT" series began to become the industry benchmarks in racing classification.

When we look back a little longer, we can also see Q-print works such as " Kart " and " Crazy Racing " that appeared in the most glorious period of online game development.

In recent years, the mainstream of racing games has begun to return to the pursuit of realistic track, and a hard-core racing game like " Shenli Kosha " that requires a complete set of simulated peripherals was born.

Today, racing games have evolved from simple EM driving games to multiple types, allowing thousands of car fans to get different experiences, which greatly makes up for the regret of not being able to drive a real car.

Not a simple racing game

Players who have less contact with racing games may think: they all have four wheels and one body, just hold it down and don’t let go.

If you put aside those realistic simulation racing games, it seems that there is no big problem to say this.

But the terrain of the racing game is not a straight line. We may encounter mountains, off-road areas, and water-stabilizing areas. The vehicle will stall, slip, and understeer. For these conditions, we also need to perform appropriate deceleration, brake, fuel supply, shift gears and other operations.

In addition to pursuing the ultimate speed, some Buddhist players will also choose "European Truck Simulator" (the game box and a mobile game of Truck Life) to challenge the driving technology of large trucks, provide fuel reasonably, abide by traffic rules, avoid collisions, and drive safely. In this slow pace, we can still find the fun of driving.

In addition, the "Mario Kart" we mentioned before has been released, and Mario's old rival Sonic also has the Q-version racing game "Team Sonic Racing" under the development series. The mind-blowing maps, ridiculous prop races and other content are very suitable for us to greet relatives and friends after dinner to relax.

In addition to the serious racing gameplay, there are also unscrupulous "playing football with cars" gameplay like "Rocket League". In terms of fun, this game is also considered a top-notch game.

Due to limited space, today's content has come to an end here. What racing games do you like? Welcome to leave a message in the comment area to discuss~