Downforce Red Hot Princess Carnage - Fast paced racing for the Sega Genesis/Megadrive

After posting the latest #BitBitjam3 games, we have another to mention that is sure to excite our Sega Genesis and Megadrive fans, and that is PixelArtM's top down rapid racer ' Downforce : Red Hot Princess Carnage '. If you loved games such as F-Zero, Road Fighter or that fun arcade classic Nitro, then this #BitBitJam3 game which was only developed in just 7 days, might just be the game for you!

Shockway Rider +6DGH - Hokuto Force trainers a rage worthy C64 game

Hokuto Force is at it again as they've released another C64 game with a trainer, and boy does this one need it! Originally from 1986 by FTL/Gargoyle, ' Shockway Rider ' is a futuristic game in which the speedy player must go through multiple districts using rapidly-moving side walks known as the Shockway. This also means you need to avoid citizens, objects and those that wish to attack you in a feat known as going full circle.

Speeding on the A 81 - Steering wheel based C64 release by Technische Maschinenfabrik

Checking our messages we came across one by Genesis Project wondering how we missed their latest trainered C64 game ' Speeding on the A 81 ', which only just recently was released by Technische Maschinenfabrik. Well for two simple reasons, one being extra busy and two I thought it was an educational game. Yet how wrong I was as this game is nothing to do with education, as it is in fact a high score top down speeder, in which you need to miss all the other cars and gain the highest score possible on the A81.

Amiga forum user offers £400 for Stunt Car Racer at 50/60 frames per second!

In the late 80's, Geoff Crammond with publishing rights by MicroStyle/MicroPlay released the incredible game of ' Stunt Car Racer ' for a multitude of platforms including the Amiga. It involved you the player racing around a 3D track in a first person view using a vehicle which had boost capabilities. It was also one of the greatest racing games ever released and what made it so great was the fact that all of the tracks were like rollercoasters, with such dangerous driving and incredible heights involved it would've killed anyone if it was real life. But this month as a bit of a shock, a member by the name of Twinbee has set out a challenge with a high £400 payment to anyone that can tweak the original code to run at 50/60fps!

Racing Apex - Could this be the next Virtua Racing game?

If your gaming youth goes back to the 90's, I'm sure you'll remember the high speed 3D Polygonal racer called ' Virtua Racing '. Which had its roots at the Arcades and was later ported to home systems such as the Sega Megadrive 32X by SEGA. But there is a new retro inspired game that has appeared, titled ' Racing Apex ' by Lucky Mountain Games,  which aims to bring the best of that awesome racer but adding in modern gameplay elements such as combat and multiplayer chaos.

Super Night Riders - Motorbike riding retro inspiration out on Steam!

Through all these years of writing, we always get to see retro inspired games that are either platformers, shoot em ups or beat em ups. We've also seen the odd racer that looks like some sort of mental trip back to the 80's, but we have yet to see a decent Motorbike game, at least until now. This is Super Night Riders by Neko Works, a completely wild ride as you race through 36 beautiful stages in 6 challenging courses as fast and as far as possible to reach each checkpoint.

Maximum Car - From the creator of Fist of Awesome comes an adrenaline Voxel racer!

We've just been given the heads up by the guy with the mighty beard 'Nicoll Hunt', developer of Fist of Awesome, of a new arcade racer with awesome Voxels, that is coming to Android and iOS this Summer 2016. A collaboration with the award winning animation studio tea&cheese, the twisted geniuses behind 8-BIT WATERSLIDE (iOS & Android), and publishing support from Ancient Games '. Maximum Car ' is a visceral racing experience where reactions are tested to the max. 

Indy Heat & Super Off Road finally appear on the Amiga CD32!

Someone hold me back as I'm just a little bit too excited right now, as AmigaJay, the same person behind the great Amiga CD32 Bubble Bobble Trilogy has just announced through our twitter feed of the release of Indy Heat and Super Off Road for the Amiga CD32! Two incredible games that I remember fondly, classed as a Leyland Corporation Double Pack, that will have you hooked for hours racing around tracks in an Indy Car or bumping into your mates in a 4X4 as you boost towards the finish line at any cost!

OutDrive - Trippy 80's racer aims for a Steam Greenlight success

From the year 2015 and now 2016, it seems as if the 80's-90's racers are back in full force, as we've had a number of games now that take us back to the days of Lotus and Outrun all at top speed while also adding psychedelic colours with a totally radical wave soundtrack! Yet now it's time for another game to race to the top spot, with the latest Steam Greenlight addition of ' OutDrive'!

CGA: Christmas Game Arcade - A tiny racer but full of CGA fun!

I can't believe we missed out on this one on Christmas day, as not only is it a jolly good racer but it takes us back to a time of 1980's CGA graphics. A time when games such as Golden Axe, Defender of the Crown and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom where shown in 4 colour detail on IBM's first graphics card! So yes, we were pretty excited when we came across abstauber's CGA free racing game of' ' CGA: Christmas Game Arcade ' in which you need to race along a highway, picking up presents that have accidentally been dropped by Santa!

E-Type - BBC Micro racer conversion for the Atari 8bit!

Searching through the atariage 8bit forums for more games to play, as we took some time off over the Christmas period, we came across a rather interesting racing game that might be worth a play via an emulator or even an original Atari 8bit system. This is E-Type ( no not R-Type ) by Fandal, a full BBC Micro to Atari 8bit conversion of Gordon J. Key and published by The Forum Dimension game, that was classed as a clone to Sega's arcade driving game of Out Run, which featured a blue Jag instead of a Ferrari.

Slipstream - Retro inspired racer gets an updated Demo

We recently mentioned the Steam Greenlight success of ' Slipstream ' developed by Noctet Studio,  an arcade racing game inspired by the visuals, music, games and cars from the 80's and 90's with 4 game modes, 30 different tracks, 4 playable cars and 8 original cars. Well that same game, which is still needs to gain a good amount of Kickstarter pledges to be a success, has recently been updated with a new demo to whet your appetite.

Anarcho Ride - Arcade smashing racer for the Atari STe/Falcon goes final!

Our retro friend Darren Doyle of Atarigamer, recently tweeted us about the release of Thomas Ll's Atari STe/Falcon game ' Anarcho Ride ', which has left the beta stage and is now available as version V1.01. Originally just GFA Basic code which was found and now fully developed into this rather cool looking racing game, with graphics by Alan Garrison Tomkins and music by XFalcon, you play as a racer and must slide your way into other cars for an ever increasing high score!

Slipstream - Retro inspired racer aims for a Kickstarter success

If you loved those 80's and 90's arcade racers such as OutRun, Daytona USA, Super Hang-On, or the fantastic Amiga game Lotus Turbo Challenge, then heads up because I think we have the Kickstarter for you! This is ' Slipstream ' developed by Noctet Studio,  an arcade racing game inspired by the visuals, music, games and cars from some of the greatest racers we've come to know growing up, all built in a custom game engine!

Intergalactic Race Warriors - Possibly the coolest racer to get a Greenlight campaign!

Prepare for the wackiest racer yet, that really does look like Wacky Racers on Speed! This is ' Intergalactic Race Warriors ' by Turtleblaze, that really should be getting your Steam Greenlight votes. Taking place on a wide range of planets, as a side scrolling combat racing game set in outer space, you'll be racing in all corners of the universe in a carnage tournament to reach the finish line!

Amiga Racer - Lotus racing action for your modern Amiga

AmigaTec Inc have now announced the release for the next best racer on a modern Amiga as ' Amiga Racer 2.0 ', which is available to download for AmigaOS 4.x, MorphOS and Linux. Developed by Michael St Neitzel, who is a huge fan of the classic hit Lotus title, this game once again gives you that Arcade rush and adrenaline we experienced all those years ago. Although the game is free to download and play, it is still in a development stage and with donations this gives the developers help to give more cars, tracks and more frequent updates.

ZX Spectrum Retro Review - Stunt Car Racer

Stunt Car Racer is a 3D racing game by Micro Style, released in 1989 on all the main platforms of the time, and as a budget title three years later on the Kixx label. The action takes place on a raised roller-coaster style track, such that had this come attached to a Hot Wheels licence no-one would have been surprised. Your car is delivered by crane to the start line, and your task is to race one on one against a series of competitors - preferably without coming off the track.

Anarcho Ride - Arcade smashing racer for the Atari STe/Falcon (BETA)

Over two months ago Thomas Ilg announced the pre-order for the boxed edition of the Atari ST homebrew game ' Laser Ball' (link). Now after previously announcing he was not going to be making any more Atari ST games, the developer found some rather interesting GFA Basic code related to an arcade racing game, of which he has now released as beta today; ' Anarcho Ride '. With graphics by Alan Garrison Tomkins and music by XFalcon, your ultimate goal is to race and smash! Slide your way into cars, or just straight head on collisions in this latest beta release!

Motorman Preview - An early tease of a fun C64 arcade release!

I'm sure many of you remember the NES game Excitebike, in which you raced along a side scrolling dirt track against other racers doing high speed jumps. Well that same styled game has appeared on the C64 as a very early prototype. Developed by Leigh and released by Excess, ' Motorman Preview ' is a game that even at this early stage is looking to be one of the most enjoyable games in development.

GRIP - Rollcage inspirational racer Dance of Destruction Trailer

Although we have already done a big feature on Caged Element's futuristic racer of 'GRIP' which is inspired by the incredible fast paced racer of Rollcage, published by Psygnosis way back in 1999. We are here to give you the heads up over a new Dance of Destruction Trailer that has been released during the Kickstarter campaign. Currently the Kickstarter still has a long way to go in pledging as so far they have reached a $141,282 pledged of $657,000 goal, but with the hope of the destructive power of the cinematic trailer to entice people to start backing. So sit back and enjoy!