VGEsoterica
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in the 90s basically every developer was trying to get a taste of two huge genres...fighting games and arcade racing games. Some were more successful than others at making legit awesome arcade racing games...and some companies like Konami made amazing racing games that nobody seemed to bother to play and 100% faded into deep obscurity.
Like Racing Jam and Racing Jam chapter 2...two legit arcade racing games with licensed cars, awesome courses and some pretty great drifting mechanics and wild jumps. All the stuff Sega and to a lesser extent Midway would tear the market up with. And for some reason or another the games were not successful, faded from arcade floors and basically remain almost unknown about to this day. For every Daytona that is still beloved and on arcade floors...you have stuff like Racing Jam.
Plus their Thrill Drive series is legit one of the most intense 90s arcade racers ever made and has a decent following in Japan...and totally unknown status outside of Japan weirdly.
Plus good luck finding a PCB. I own one...which STILL wont pass network security checks. Maybe one day I will finally crack the code to fix it.
But curious if anyone on GAF has ever played a Racing Jam or Thrill Drive title? I helped get Thrill Drive 3 booting in PCSX2 on a Python fork earlier this year...so at least you can play that easily now
But GAF...I don't know everything. I want to hear some fun deep cut arcade racing games that need more love. Because every time I post a thread like this I learn something new I didn't know before
Like Racing Jam and Racing Jam chapter 2...two legit arcade racing games with licensed cars, awesome courses and some pretty great drifting mechanics and wild jumps. All the stuff Sega and to a lesser extent Midway would tear the market up with. And for some reason or another the games were not successful, faded from arcade floors and basically remain almost unknown about to this day. For every Daytona that is still beloved and on arcade floors...you have stuff like Racing Jam.
Plus their Thrill Drive series is legit one of the most intense 90s arcade racers ever made and has a decent following in Japan...and totally unknown status outside of Japan weirdly.
Plus good luck finding a PCB. I own one...which STILL wont pass network security checks. Maybe one day I will finally crack the code to fix it.
But curious if anyone on GAF has ever played a Racing Jam or Thrill Drive title? I helped get Thrill Drive 3 booting in PCSX2 on a Python fork earlier this year...so at least you can play that easily now
But GAF...I don't know everything. I want to hear some fun deep cut arcade racing games that need more love. Because every time I post a thread like this I learn something new I didn't know before
