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]]> 21 Jul 2007 12:23:20 Use the keyboard arrow keys to manoeuvre the car. The aim is to avoid the obstacles and slow down for the speed cameras, making sure you get to the checkpoints before the time runs out.
Everyone can drive fast but can you drive carefully in order to complete the challenge?

]]> 17 May 2007 03:45:00 Monster Truck Madness 2 is the sequel to one of the best-selling auto-racing games for the PC, Monster Truck Madness. Monster Truck Madness 2 combines outrageous attitude, unrestrained racing and real monster trucks to provide a fun and exhilarating off-road driving experience across rugged and challenging terrain.

Monster Truck Madness 2 adds new tracks and a bunch of new trucks, improved graphics and sound, and variable weather conditions. For the more traditional drivers, there are also 11 original trucks from Monster Truck Madness including Bigfoot and Grave Digger. The game seats players behind the steering wheel of the world's most powerful vehicles as they crush, splatter, jump and roll their way to victory.

]]> 30 Apr 2007 08:27:11 MiniOne Racing is of course a racing game, where players drive colorful, humorous miniature cars over various landscapes, taking them to beaches, schoolyards... and even other planets !!!
Spread over 15 tracks and arenas, you'll be racing fast and dangerously armed vehicles, using any of 6 Power Ups to vanquish your AI or human opponents.

]]> 24 Apr 2007 05:46:12 Multiplayer online realtime 3D racing simulator for PC.
Realtime statistics and driver rankings.
Currently available futuristic motorcycle racing.

]]> 22 Apr 2007 07:29:26 The sequel to Project 053. Sideswipe is a fast-paced side scrolling game with plenty of action and enemies to boot.

Progress through the level collecting coins and avoiding the obstacles. Enemies can be destroyed by dashing through them. A dash can be performed when the dash meter in the top left of the screen is filled (a green light turns on at this point).

Edge Forward/Back - Left/Right Cursor Keys
Shift - Jump
Control - Dash (When Dash Meter is filled)


Features:
- Customizable Bike Paint Jobs
- Original Music by Yoshiman, Prowler & Nobuyuki
- Gallery Secrets
- Extra sound effects by Odi

]]> 30 Mar 2007 05:42:51 TOCA Race Driver 3 Challenge roars in with a cavalcade of officially licensed racecars, world-famous tracks and a new, progressive central game mode – the World Challenge. As the piston-pumping heart of the game, the World Challenge has players competing through a series of international championship tiers, each packed with skill tests, specialised events and championships that span different racing styles.

Each World Challenge tier is designed to enhance and expand your race driving skills and experience. First, a series of tests and events will build your racing prowess in areas such as damage control, using the racing line, manoeuvring, timely pit stops and braking accuracy. Now you’re ready for the main event: the tier’s specialist Championship season with a series of closely-fought multiple car races on different circuits. Come first overall in the championship and you’ll move up to compete in the next tier of the World Challenge.

Throughout TOCA Race Driver 3 Challenge, you’ll be racing the world as each tier has its own international location and theme: from the British GP, to the heavyweight touring cars of Australia’s V8 Supercars and Germany’s DTM events, through to American Race series across the USA and then to a global Masters championship tier where you’ll compete against the best of the best.

Of course, with all this competitive racing, TOCA Race Driver 3 Challenge features spectacular collisions thanks to its realistic damage system; sparks fly when you bottom out, smoke billows from tyres, doors flap, windscreens shatter, wings get ripped off, spoilers break and fly from the car and bodywork realistically deforms with every impact.

In addition to the World Challenge, TOCA Race Driver 3 Challenge comes loaded with additional play modes including Free Race and Time Trial. There’s also wireless WLAN multiplayer action play for up to a staggering 12 players simultaneously and further multiplayer action via Game Share, enabling up to four players to enjoy fantastic WLAN racing from just one UMD.

]]> 17 Mar 2007 04:03:30 Crash Team Racing is a racing game for the PlayStation, made by Naughty Dog. It was released in 1999. This was the last Crash game made by Naughty Dog. After this game, they left Universal Interactive Studios (now Vivendi Games) and became an in-house developer for SCEA.

Crash and his friends are preparing to enter a kart racing tournament. Unfortunately, an extraterrestrial named Nitros Oxide sees this, and travels to Earth to compete. He claims to be the fastest racer in the Galaxy, who travels the stars looking for creatures to test his skill. He then challenges Earth to a "little game" he calls "Survival of the Fastest", and explains the rules: Oxide races against the best racer on Earth. If Earth's driver wins, Oxide will leave Earth alone. But if Oxide wins, he'll turn the entire globe into a concrete parking lot, and make Earth's inhabitants his slaves. The drivers of Earth prepare to race for the fate of their planet.

Gameplay is similar to that of Mario Kart; the following are gameplay elements original to CTR. Collecting ten wumpa fruit improves any item used. The game has a special "power slide" move that gives the player a speed boost while turning. It should be noted that in the last Jak and Daxter game from Naughty Dog: Jak X: Combat Racing also has a "power slide" which gives you an extra speedboost.

In the races, boxes contain weapons or other powerups that give the player an advantage. Green and black arrows on the ground (turbo boosters) will give the player a short speed increase. Most of the courses contain obstacles that cause a loss of speed, and must be avoided.

As in Mario Kart, CTR has a battle mode, in which players attack each other in one of several special battle arenas, some of which are unlockable.

Collectible items include trophies, crystals, gems, and relics. A number of secret characters can be activated throughout the course of the game.

]]> 04 Mar 2007 03:17:32 Stunt Race FX (Wild Trax in Japan) is a cartoon style 3D racing video game produced and published by Nintendo for the Super Nintendo console system. It was the company's second game to use the 3D-centric Super FX chip. The game, co-developed with Argonaut, was known as Wild Trax in Japan.

The game features racing levels, obstacle courses, and a multiplayer mode.

Vehicles

Coupe - A small, yellow, car with balanced settings. It's top speed is 120 MPH.

F-Type - A Formula One-like racer with high speed and good acceleration, but with a weak body. It's top speed is 140 MPH.

4WD - A monster truck-like racer with poor acceleration and speed, but with a strong body. It's top speed is 100 MPH.

2WD - A two-wheeled car, with high speed, good acceleration, and a fair body. It can sometimes be difficult in turning. It's top speed is 140 MPH. It can only be playable in Free Trax or after winning first place in every Speed Trax circuit.

* 18-Wheeler - A semi-trailer truck that can only be played in the Bonus Trax in Speed Trax.

]]> 02 Mar 2007 06:14:36 Wave Race: Blue Storm is a jet ski racing game released as a launch title for the Nintendo GameCube on November 18, 2001. It is a sequel to the 1996 Nintendo 64 game Wave Race 64.

]]> 02 Mar 2007 03:46:10 Wave Race is a jet-ski themed racing game for the Nintendo Game Boy, released July 1992. It is a relatively simplistic game in which the player controls a jet skier around a track aiming to beat the computer or up to three friends using the link cable accessory.

There are two modes in which the game may be played:

Slalom

The goal is to race through pairs of posts across the track. Each one passed through increases the player's score by one point. The player with the most points once all posts have been taken wins.

Race

A race in which the player must proceed through certain checkpoints and complete each lap in a time limit. Two powerups are available on the track. The dolphin gives the player increased turning ability, while the octopus allows the recipient to steal from opponents.

In both modes there are a variety of obstacles including ramps, shallow water and whirlpools. There are eight tracks for each mode.

]]> 02 Mar 2007 03:34:03 Wave Race 64 is a racing game for the Nintendo 64 that was released on September 27, 1996 in Japan and on November 5, 1996 in North America. It is a sequel of the Game Boy game Wave Race (hence the "64"). In Wave Race 64 the player races on jet skis in many different weather conditions, on a variety of different courses. The game featured the Kawasaki Heavy Industries brand.

The objective of each race is to not only to beat the other racers but also to successfully weave the jet-ski through various buoys. There are two types of buoys: red colored, which are signified by an R on them and must be passed on the right side, while yellow buoys, which are marked with an L and must be passed on the left side. Each time a buoy is correctly passed, a power arrow will light and the jet-ski will gain speed. Up to five arrows can be lit in order to obtain a maximum power.

Failure to do either of these will result in a loss of power (though the arrows can be lit again) and missing five buoys over the course of a race will result in disqualification. Leaving the course, either by leaving the area limited by pink buoys or by getting out of the water and staying in this way for more than ten seconds will also result in disqualification.

The game modes are: Championship; Warm Up; Time Trials; Stunt Mode; 2P VS.

]]> 02 Mar 2007 03:26:13 Cars is an immersive, yet casual mission-driven adventure game inspired by the fun characters and settings from the Disney/Pixar feature film. Play the game as hot shot racecar Lighting McQueen, and complete a variety of missions across a range of difficulty levels. The ultimate goal is to race in the Piston Cup. Missions include bringing cars to Mater’s junkyard, racing through a check point challenge, giving ol’ Bessie a tug, and other fun activities. As you progress through the game, Lightning McQueen gains new abilities and special driving moves, which he learns by successfully completing the missions assigned to him by his friends from Radiator Springs.

]]> 23 Feb 2007 12:56:25 Based on the popular "Antz" movie, this game allows players to take to the road as they race other insects in multiple tournaments. With "Antz" having set a high-water mark for it's time in the cinema, sadly this game disappointed overall.

]]> 22 Feb 2007 08:25:02 "Who's faster than Kid Speedy? EVERYBODY!! This little fatso is the slowest poke in the bunch. Try not to get dead last while avoiding sweets and insults in this hilarious arcade-style race 'em up." -Videlectrix

Kid Speedy is a game in which you play the character Kid Speedy, trying to win a race (or, at least, not come in last). The game was originally mentioned on Videlectrix's website as a joke game concept before being made available as an actual game on July 10, 2006. It can be found at Videlectrix's site, or at Homestar Runner since characters from that site can be unlocked as playable characters in the game.

On January 28, 2007, a new page called "Viidelectrix" appeared on the Videlectrix website. It's specifically for Wii owners using the Internet Channel trial version and it links to Wii-friendly versions of Kid Speedy and three other games.

]]> 20 Feb 2007 11:51:47 3D Ultra Radio Control Racers is a racing game on a smaller scale. In it, you race radio controlled cars through 8 different tracks. Some of the tracks are inspired by holes from the 3D Ultra Mini Golf series, and others are entirely new. There are 4 different types of cars to choose from, ranging from buggies to trucks. The races play from a zoomed in, top down perspective. Also, there are powerups to collect during the races such as speed boosts and missiles to shoot at your opponents.

]]> 16 Feb 2007 06:18:29 This is the flash version of one of the stages of the full version of Nuts & Scrap, by the Spanish developer group Devilish Games.
Drive your peeing robot through the burning desert and avoid being squashed!
(DISCLAIMER: Peeing robot feature is only included in the full version of the game. Go buy the full version at devilishgames.com/nutsandscrap !)

]]> 15 Feb 2007 06:26:45 Strap in and throttle up as you whip through the most realistic and immersive powerboat racing game ever. Jump over roadways and through passing convoys or speed between oil tankers before they close off the track. This is real Powerboat racing.

]]> 12 Feb 2007 01:45:23 Racing Pitch sets you to be the engine for a racing car! You must use a microphone to mimic the engine sound, which the game will listen and set you blazing forward accordingly. The game features both party games and track challenges, and you can even take a break from racing to fly with a hot-air balloon. It leaves you breathless!

]]> 12 Feb 2007 07:31:55 This is a not terribly well received game of the "street racing" genre. It was one of the first to offer customizable rims, body kits and the ability to really personalize your car on the PS2. The goal is to race and beat "rivals" and move up the chain until you beat the final Boss Car.

]]> 08 Feb 2007 08:20:49 Dotstream is a racing game, but rather than controlling a car, spaceship, or anything like that, you control a solitary pixel racing against other pixels.

Dotstream is part of the first series of games in Nintendo's bit Generations collection of games for the Gameboy Advance.

]]> 07 Feb 2007 03:40:08 Take all the crazy action of the celebrated Mario Kart series.. and multiply it by two! In Mario Kart: Double Dash!!, each kart holds two racers that can switch places at any time, so choose from a huge cast of favorites and pair them up any way you see fit!

]]> 02 Feb 2007 08:57:56 Sega's main mascot is back and ready to race once again in Sonic Rush for the Nintendo DS! Fly through eight new worlds, and fight new bosses to save the world from Dr. Eggman (Robotnik) and recover the Chaos Emeralds. Utilize new powers such as the dash, and new characters like Blaze the Cat, and get a better view of every level with the dual screen functionality. You can even race your friends wirelessly with a single card.

]]> 02 Feb 2007 12:33:49 Tony Hawk meets the Sewers.

Pick your player, choose your board, tighten up your wheels and get ready to roll at breakneck speeds down some of the worlds longest and pointless open sewer runs...we have no idea how why theres so much sewage up these mountains but they leave a great playground to hold our illegal mountainboard races on!

]]> 01 Feb 2007 05:56:57 From the Publisher's web site:

Never liked racing by the rules? Outspeeding, outcornering or outwitting your competitors is not your idea of having fun? Time to get down and dirty. Do it the Excessive Speed way: shoot them, freeze them, blow them into pieces!

It may be dirty pool, but hey, everyone has the same loaded cue stick, if you're not careful, your participation in the race will be solely spiritual as your car explodes into pieces on the track... and don't forget, there's one advantage to being behind your opponents - they can be awfully easy targets!

From the Contributor:

Excessive Speed is a fast paced racing game played from a top down view on short, creatively designed courses. It features a variety of cars and powerups / weapons and many shortcuts in the tracks. The races are short, hectic and destructive! Very much a casual game, it was originally published by Epic Megagames and recently re-published by Sold Out Software.

]]> 31 Jan 2007 08:40:17 From the Developer's web site:

Race to the finish line as you live all the fun and excitement of the next Walt Disney Pictures presentation of a Pixar Animation Studios film, "Cars." Play as all your favorite characters as you help Lightning McQueen capture the coveted Piston Cup Championship.

From the Contributor:

As a fan of the movie this game was an easy purchase at $20 just to see how it compared to the stunning visuals in the theater. It was a pleasant surprise to see that great care had been taken in making a very nice environment that captures the feel of Radiator Springs. Gameplay is very light, racing isn't difficult though some of the minigames suffer from bad camera angles.

]]> 31 Jan 2007 08:27:09 Are you passionate about cars and racing? Then, Forza Motorsportâ„¢ is your game. Own, customize, and race your favorite cars in the most technologically advanced and realistic driving sim yet.

Use race earnings to buy upgrades and aftermarket parts, so you can transform real production cars into high-performance racers. On the track, experience an impressively accurate simulation, while putting your performance-tuned creations to the test against the online gaming world on Xbox Live®.

Make every car yours: Collect models from more than 60 top car manufacturers, including Mazda, Nissan, Mercedes-Benz, Honda, Chevrolet, Ferrari, Porsche, BMW, and Dodge. Trick out sport compacts with real-world body kits, rims, spoilers, decals, side skirts, fender flares, and hood scoops. Add motorsport decals and team paint-schemes to supercars, GT racers, and exotics. Transform production cars into racetrack monsters.

Tune it up: Take your car to the garage and install alternative engines, suspension kits, bolt-on superchargers, brakes, rims, racing slicks, and more. Fine-tune gear ratios, fuel-mapping, forced-induction pressure, tire temperature and pressure, and ignition timing for the ultimate setup.

Experience the most technically advanced driving simulation on Xbox: Top automotive engineers teamed with experienced programmers to create an advanced physics engine forForza Motorsport, designed to simulates authentic car performance. Cars incur damage and wear, which affects car performance. Advanced tire and suspension models respond to heat and pressure changes as well as weight transfer and aerodynamic load.

Drive in gorgeous track environments: From the famously challenging Nurburgring Nordschleife to the spectator-lined streets of Rio de Janeiro, race on meticulously designed tracks with an incredible sense of speed and realism.

* Check out the revolutionary A.I. Drivatarâ„¢ technology: Train your own A.I. “Drivatarsâ€

]]> 29 Jan 2007 10:25:06 The simplistic, yet zany racing style of mariokart, coupled with Nintendo's free wi-fi online service...there's really not much more to say here. Mariokart DS is the latest edition in the long running series of racing titles from Nintendo. Play as Mario, Peach, Bowser, and more in this exciting portable edition of Mariokart.

]]> 24 Jan 2007 01:06:36 Produced by the young, talented French studio Nadeo, TrackMania United is the latest version of the most entertaining car racing game available. Released in 2003, the TrackMania series has rapidly become one of the most popular video games for PC thanks to its fast and fun gameplay.

]]> 23 Jan 2007 10:50:48 Fred Durst isn't the only one who's "Rollin', Rollin', Rollin'" these days. Sega has a gang of madcap monkeys ready to roll into the mix, in a zany racing/action/minigame extravaganza for Nintendo GameCube called Super Monkey Ball.

Accurately titled, Super Monkey Ball challenges players to control cute little monkeys who run around in transparent balls not unlike hamster balls. That the monkeys, balls and tracks all look great even in the midst of split-screen frenetic action is a terrific tribute to the Nintendo GameCube's processing power.

Lovingly "borrowed" from nintendo.com until i have free time!

]]> 22 Jan 2007 09:55:57 Mexican Motor Mafia is a fun spirited western where you get to blow the ever lovin' crap out of just about everything.

It's not a traditional western in that the character's drive around in muscle cars rather than ride horses. But this is cool cause cars explode.

]]> 16 Jan 2007 01:24:47 Grab a truck and hit the track in this fun and challenging off-road racer. Play it with a buddy in split-screen mode or with a group of up to six over a LAN connection.

]]> 05 Jan 2007 04:37:24 Hamure-su is a simple little game where you try to keep a little hamster on track for as long as possible.

The hamster continually moves (with incresing speed) on a oval track. The only thing you can control is the turning of the hamster. For as long as you keep the left mouse button pressed, the hamster will turn left (hold it too long and the hamster will crash into a wall).

]]> 18 Dec 2006 03:32:29 MegaRace is a video game created by Cryo Interactive, released in 1994. It was released for MS-DOS on March 28, 1994, for the Sega CD on July 30, 1994 and for the 3DO on September 5, 1994.

MegaRace takes place in the distant future, where the player is a contestant on a game show, called "MegaRace". MegaRace is on the VWBT (Virtual World Broadcast Television) television channel where they play a live or die race match against Hells Angels-like speed gangs (where haven't we seen this before?). MegaRace's host is the eccentric and sometimes corny Lance Boyle. He guides you throughout the game, introducing new levels and enemies to you and tries to discourage you.

The objective in this game is simple: in every level, you must "defeat" a gang of cars within three laps of the course. You can do this by either shooting them up or slamming them into the course walls until they explode, or by passing them and putting enough distance between you and them that they are forced to explode.

The game is most notable for not being truely 3D, but a 2D game in a pre-rendered 3D environment, so you could not technically move in 3D space, but only change the car's horizontal position on the course.

]]> 17 Dec 2006 12:45:06 Choose a car type and customize it how you like. Add a spoiler, change the headlights, and put a new paint job on it. After you make the car, you can put it in different situations to see how it looks.

]]> 14 Dec 2006 04:13:44 Ayrton Senna's Super Monaco GP II is an arcade-style Formula One racing video game. Along with boasting the most realistic physics of any console driving game at the time of release, the game was also endorsed by the then Formula One champion Ayrton Senna. The game's development was also assisted by Senna, who supplies his own advice about the tracks featured in the game.

]]> 13 Dec 2006 11:27:10 Customizable top-down arcade racing

]]> 13 Dec 2006 03:55:52 Street Rod is one of the finest dos racing games of the late 80s. It allows you to tune up and trick out your 50s or 60s era ride and then drag or street race them for money or pink slips. Beef up your cars to eventually challenge the King and his black Corvette.

]]> 27 Nov 2006 01:51:54 This game is in no way condoned by Jesus, the Catholic Church, or any standard of human decency. It deals with mature subject matter and may not be suitable for anyone needing adult supervision or pre-school toys.

Welcome to the first Penny Arcade game for the PC! Produce Panic Features the Fruit F%$ker 2000, but is based on the whole series in general. This game is something of a genre variety pack in that it has a little something for everyone. Run (or fly) around as your favorite juicer in an all out death match, or play cooperatively with friends and compete against other teams of Fruit F@$kers to capture their receipt so they can be taken back to the store. There will also be racing and space dogfights. A little something for everyone!

Let the juicing begin!

WARNING: This game deals with mature subject matter. It may not be suitable for anyone needing adult supervision or pre-school toys. This game is in no way condoned by Jesus, the Catholic Church, or any standard of human decency.

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