The best ever top-down racers?

[EvilBoris]

You like the NES game betrer than the Gameboy game Boris?

It was Super RC Pro Am I had for gameboy, never played the NES one.

[moonwhistle]

I think Mashed and it's semi sequel are incredibly good, particularly with 4 players. All the earlier efforts are redundant by comparison. The new sequel to Mashed has been endlessly delayed.

[Golgo]

A good stop for anyone into these right now are some of the player-made content on Little Big Planet 2. Just saying, there's some excellent top-down stuff on there, Just check for the best rated micro-machine style racers...anyway, sorry! Carry on...

[Golgo]

My on-topic contribution: Super Sprint and Super Sprint 2, Arcade. Unbeatable fun, with those massive spin-round wheels!

[hudson]

My on-topic contribution: Super Sprint and Super Sprint 2, Arcade. Unbeatable fun, with those massive spin-round wheels!

The arcade machines were hilarious with those never-ending steering wheels. In a moment of madness, Logitech should release them for consoles.

[nakamura]

Great 1000 Mile Rally is amazing, one of the best. Mashed is also amazing, probably my fav game out of the lot.

I like Micro Machines but for some reason I always got bored of it quickly.

[Fader209]

That green orb power up in Micro Machines was the best haha.
Countless times that caused moments of pure rage and frustration!

[_SD_]

Has to be the R.C Pro-Am games for the NES and the Gameboy. It's been years since I've played either of them, but I'm sure I remember the GB version being the easier of the two.

[Mayhem]

Most of my choices have already been mentioned in the thread. I would also like to give props to Slicks on the C64. Coded by the legendary Ash and Dave, and published by Codemasters, I think you can agree that this might be where the idea of licensing Micro Machines as a racer came from...

[hudson]

Super Cars II on the Amiga



Driift Mania on Wii

[hudson]

Also, I've never played this, but can anyone tell me if RC De GO! on PS1 is as good as it looks?

[nakamura]

Looks great and I love the sound!

[hudson]

Looks great and I love the sound!

It really does.

The announcer sounds like the same guy from Ridge Racer.

[QualityChimp]

Didn't we have an NTSC-UK Re: Play about this?

Anyway, I agree with everything said thus far, especially The Great 1000 Mile Rally, Micro Machines V3, and Mashed.

Can't wait for wrecked!

Neo Drift-Out is great too.

However as TTK said, anybody in this thread should be treating themselves to Little Racers Street.

It's only 80 MS points and is great! I stayed up far too late last night trying to win just *one* more race...

[averybluemonkey]

Loved Micro Machines back in the day, can't remember which one on the Mega Drive it was we played though. I really like Power Drive Rally on the Jaguar myself, awesome graphics and decent sense of speed: