

Get from the start to the finish and be the first one to do it. The objective remains the same, no matter what the plot twists or details, settings or vehicles may be. Racing games offer a prime and essential form of competition: easy to understand, but hard to master. They might not be the big, triple-A (AAA) franchises of the gaming world, but the genre has loyal devotees.

Racing games have been a part of the tapestry and catalogue of computer gaming ever since a constant, reliable stand-by and part of every library of games for every system ever made. After Pong, Atari’s second-ever game was a racing game called Space Race, created back in 1973: the Neolithic era of video games.
