The best ever top-down racers?

[hudson]

Inspired by the recent and excellent Motorstorm RC, let's hear and see (YouTube vids) what you think were/are great top-down racing games...

Discuss.

[Dogg Thang]

Micro Machines 96 on Megadrive. Surely it's easily the best and I just won the thread?

[Fader209]

Yeah I instantly thought of the Micro Machines franchise too. From the Megadrive game DT posted to V3 on the Playstation and Micro Maniacs too.
I suppose before that you had Skidmarks which was a bit of a classic and later on you had Circuit Breakers on the Playstation again. Can't think of many others...

[koopatroopa90]

Yeah Micro Machines is the obvious one. I think I liked 2 Turbo on the SNES the best.

Not sure this'll count as top down but I absolutely loved Racing Gears Advance. There was a 1/4 page mention of it in a gaming mag (think it was NOM) and I knew I wanted it just from that. Put so many hours into it on my SP and Micro, really need to get it again...

[hudson]

Rock n Roll Racing on SNES was excellent.

[Tobal]

Super sonic racers



and it better sequel Circuit Breakers

[nem]

Rush Rush Rally Racing's not a bad effort on the Dreamcast



Rock 'N Roll Racing definitely



Death Rally on the PC

[MisterBubbles]

Well there a few, Super R.C. Pro-Am,Ivan 'Ironman' Stewart's Super Off Road and skidmarks.

[EvilBoris]

RC Pro Am and Super Skidmarks Spring to mind.

[noobish hat]

The guys behind most of the Micro Machines games and Supersonic Racers (and the amazing Cosmic Spacehead) have made a new top down racer called Wrecked Revenge Revisited - http://www.wearewrecked.com/

I'd love to play it, but I don't buy digital content on principle.

[Skull Commander]

I really like Mashed and it's follow up. Pretty much the last overhead racer I really enjoyed, although I have enjoyed various Micro Machines games, Super Sprint, Badlands and Iron Man Stewart's Off Road Racer in the past.

[toythatkills]

You should all be playing Little Racers STREET. One of the best top-down racers I've ever played, and costs like 50p.

That aside, yeah, big MM fan. MMV3 will always be the highlight for me though. Partly because of the coooool menus, partly because it's just faster.

[hudson]

Anyone remember Great 1000 Mile Rally?

[MisterBubbles]

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

[EvilBoris]

The guys behind most of the Micro Machines games and Supersonic Racers (and the amazing Cosmic Spacehead) have made a new top down racer called Wrecked Revenge Revisited - http://www.wearewrecked.com/

I'd love to play it, but I don't buy digital content on principle.

You should make a news thread, people will freak out when they see a new game from the people that made Mashed.