Evolution of Racing Games 1986-2023

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0:12 Out Run 1986 @GregzVR
0:26 Continental Circus 1987 @GregzVR
0:50 Winning Run 1988 @GregzVR
1:15 Super Monaco GP 1989 @GregzVR
1:36 Final Lap 2 1990 @GregzVR
1:51 Lotus Turbo Challenge 2 1991 @sonnysmith3530
2:06 Lamborghini American Challenge 1992 @lecejvr7664
2:19 Ridge Racer 1993 @bit287
2:48 Sega Rally Championship 1994 @PF234
3:14 The Need for Speed 1995 @beastlygameplays5781
3:28 Grand Prix 2 1996 @F1gamesFan
4:00 TOCA: Touring Car Championship 1997 @worldofplaystation
4:28 Test Drive 5 1998 @Bonfirestorm
4:45 V-Rally Championship Edition 2 1999 @HistoryofNeedForSpeed
5:02 Colin McRae Rally 2.0 2000 @zolaa_sr
5:20 Gran Turismo 3: A-Spec 2001 @Manero666
5:36 NFS Hot Pursuit 2 2002 @driver13g27
5:58 Downtown Run 2003 @G4m3m4st0r
6:18 Gran Turismo 4 2004 @HDTGamer
6:53 Need for Speed: Most Wanted 2005 @goalkickyt
7:43 Ridge Race 7 2006 @RacingELV
8:25 Colin McRae Dirt 2007 @worldoflongplays
8:42 Burnout Paradise 2008 @PlayRonicx
9:11 Need for Speed: Shift 2009 @BeniUps
9:36 Need for Speed Hot Pursuit 2010 @Tales541
9:58 Need for Speed: The Run 2011 @NoHUDGameplays
10:38 Need for Speed Most Wanted 2012 @Tales541
10:58 GRID 2 2013 @blackskyel
11:28 Wreckfest 2014 @G4m3m4st0r
11:56 Dirt Rally 2015 @Manero666
12:13 Forza Horizon 3 2016 @dhillr_il2
12:38 Forza Motorsport 7 2017 @SidorovichJr
13:09 The Crew 2 2018 @domakas7908
13:36 GRID 2019 @breakyR
14:04 F1 2020 2020 @ragnamestre
14:35 Forza Horizon 5 2021 @NoHUDGameplays
14:58 GT7 2022 @LP-770
15:24 KartRider: Drift 2023 @prasajabrataxena5imple9aming
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[@JustMartha07]

Playing old games in wide resolutions, upscaled to 4K is something special

[@GameSprout]

Something a little bit new, would like to do more of these, as long as you enjoy! What next?

[@thebluecollarkid1521]

Well bro.... I enjoyed it! Keep up the good work!

[@nomoretears_]

Evolution of open world games!!

[@hayleywaalen2612]

Creature collecting games!

[@fernandomartin661]

Evolution of fighting games. Also, maybe evolution of horror games.

[@TheIanhackett]

Sports games

[@Supervigy]

All past years: realistic cars evolving 2023: dinky mario kart cars

[@theannihilator9167]

Gran Turismo 4, Burnout 3 Takedown and Most Wanted... good old PS2 times. I will never forget my 1000 hp red Viper SRT10 in GT4...

[@not_kjb]

The overrated trio how cute 🥹

[@theannihilator9167]

@ISLAMOPHOBIC_BOT not my generation

[@kauandesu6440]

​@@not_kjbburnout 3 ins't overrated,is very underrated

[@not_kjb]

@@kauandesu6440 you're joking right?

[@kauandesu6440]

@@not_kjb the overrated racing game is need for speed underground 2,overrated than nfsmw

[@Voltaic_Rider]

Need for speed on old gen will always have a special place in my heart

[@Real_Claudy_Focan]

For the ones who werent there at the time of Ridge Racer and Sega Rally ; these were insane back then ! Absolute arcade legend (and i talk of the place called "arcade", not the genre) Arcade stations with these games were flocked with people (including me), what a time it was !

[@eli_727]

i had ridge racer on psp back then i just cant remember which one in particular, i really liked it especially the special cars you could get after beating the game, i remember what grind it was when i was little

[@thebluecollarkid1521]

I believe Midtown Madness should be here on the list!

[@MrPunkassfuck]

Loved that game. I used to just cruise around town, obeying traffic lights etc with wheel and pedals. Destruction Derby was fun too. Sports Car GT, TOCA, Simbin series, GTR etc.

[@battyflaps5410]

midtown madness 3 was enjoyable. I played that more than halo lol.

[@alg7496]

Really happy to see that game in comments!

[@pipedream690]

My local arcade had a special games night every 2 weeks. Pay £5 to get in and everything was free. So many games on Daytona, Sega Rally, Out Runners and more.

[@KarausTheReTeller]

Test Drive 5, NFS3HP, GT3 ... Good memories... I'm glad about my childhood...

[@vtgvideos955]

Man I'm kind of sad that there was no clip for any of the midnight club games

[@riri_doesnothingatall]

underrated franchise

[@vtgvideos955]

Yeah those games are legendary

[@thebluecollarkid1521]

Well.... This is something new! And I liked it!

[@alm5992]

My early memories were with Cruis'n USA! My gosh, Winning Run held best graphics for a few years there. Excellent 2D work! (Probably not fair that it's an arcade game, compared to the underpowered console games)

[@darthtempest4722]

I remember asking my brother to do the secret cheat for ridge racer where if you beat a in game mini game you got all the cars

[@kruleworld]

i find it hilarious you didn't think there were any racing games before 1986

[@zantheros4927]

God, the original Ridge Racer... now that brought back some memories, with its preloading Galaxian minigame and terrifying boss race against the #13 Black Devil. Fun Fact: thanks to everything being preloaded immediately, you could remove the game disk from the console and place in a music CD once you were in the game. You could then listen to your own music while you played Ridge Racer. It was utter wizardry back in the 90s.

[@botmushin8878]

Most of the games on this list would be classified as the "devolution" of racing games.

[@chocolatefox9950]

Man seeing Test Drive 5 brought back memories I even remembered that music track

[@tzeffsmainchannel]

Nice video! And I love the *Vroom!* transitions!! 😃

[@accel1231]

Noice, love this Evolution series already!

[@ElAndoro]

Great clip choices!

[@Ysmir-be6dt]

Hehe thanks for bringing such good memories of those games. I remember I had a racing game "Pole Position" in my ancient Atari 2600 as a kid back in the early 90s, that was my first race game :-)

[@ryangosling594]

Now its time for evolution of First person shooter games. and i cant wait to see B4 and CODBO2

[@art_vandelay1738]

The Ridge Race Demo for PS1 was something special

[@Owen_plays_music1049]

2:48 1994 ?! Holy shit, this looks amazing for 30 years old !

[@cskiller86]

For GT7, you should have just shown a picture of their microtransaction store. That's the real "evolution" of racing games, and gaming, in general.

[@SBsNaKe]

I would like to see a video like this, but with Death Races kind of games. Basically, I've been looking for a game that I played when I was younger, and I don't remember the name😭 I barely remember that it had like powers that u can throw to ur opponents

[@seans8268]

Twisted metal?

[@grantusthighs9417]

@@seans8268 this or Vigilante 8.

[@bigsmoke5814]

Blur.

[@Sam-Fisher]

Great video

[@MyDixieWrecked247]

Oh man. Some of these brought back great memories.

[@nathankey2007]

I think my favorite from around the 2000s was NFS Porsche Unleashed. I played that for many many hours.

[@MrPunkassfuck]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/gnO2dntvfN-IeKs If I remember, you started with a Porsche from the 50s. Wasn't my favorite cars, slow etc but it got better, faster, Porsche 911 is bae.

[@juan_shot6324]

Burnout 3 has always been a jam of mine

[@Sam-Fisher]

Awesome content

[@stephenphillips7699]

So many good memories,

[@-Kuler-]

Cool thing about racing games- you can still play games from 1997-2010 without having an eye-cancer ^^

[@strike_not_found]

2:48 the SEGA Rally version shown here is a graphically enhanced one, the original version looked different and the spectators on the Track were 2d images instead of 3d as you've seen there

[@MechWomanWarrior15]

Need for Speed Hot Pursuit 2 was my childhood 😁

[@KingTheGermanShepherd]

Sick video! I love it, please do more! The ending had me 💀

[@OldNostalgiaTime]

the end of the video killed me 💀

[@ngiants2230]

You got me…lol…you got me on the last game…haha..I was telling myself just before the last game how much first person racing games had evolved and the BOOM a kart game??? Lol.. yeah, you got me good!

[@Sam-Fisher]

Nice content

[@F_L_U_X]

There was a game a long time ago where you could go up behind other cars and flash your lights and race them... I remember it having the best graphics ever...

[@vatzfu]

That was kinda possible on Need for Speed Underground 2 as well

[@JukkruSuperzooi]

I think it's "Midnight" on ps1

[@seans8268]

It's midnight club 2

[@battyflaps5410]

nfsu2

[@plr.5036]

Tokyo Xtreme Racer 3(PS2) or Import Tuner Challenge(Xbox 360), maybe?

[@tydendurler9574]

Nice one! And this is very close to how Gran Turismo 3 & 4 actually looked back in the day on a CRTV, instead of most other videos showing new high res modded PC-Versions or whatever.

[@Arcoconut]

I was thinking of seeing NFS Heat, which in my opinion is the best of the series if you don't count the nostalgia for the oldies

[@Northtower87floor]

That’s crazy! Looks like Time Machine!!!

[@kucinghoren7864]

I forget that 1986 game but it was my favorite childhood arcade game. I born in 2000 btw.

[@GregzVR]

Awesome!

[@tylerkorbal6939]

Does anyone know what changed between 92 and 93? Almost night and day difference

[@SteveBrandon]

I feel like OutRun should really be included in the thumbnail if the start year is 1986. Also, I get that featuring only one game for each year means that you're inevitably going to skip over some seminal racing games (i.e. Hard Drivin' for 1989, not that I'm gonna argue with featuring Super Monaco GP instead since that game was a leap forward for superscaler graphics) but Virtua Racing should really have been the game for 1992. On the other hand, I actually do agree with snubbing Daytona USA in favour of the slightly more ambitious for the time Sega Rally.

[@ComissarYarrick]

Now this was nice trip down the momory lane. Some of the first games shown are actually older than me 😅

[@blindfire3167]

As much as I like Gran Turismo 7 right now (though I feel like it's missing a lot and is getting stale quickly), my favorite is still NFS: Most Wanted 2005. Having it as a CAR-PG (you see what I did there?) where you can have one car, get new parts to make it much better and race against people to either earn money or take their cars, which you then get to upgrade to take on the next racer is just a fun idea. I liked NFS: Payback but it felt like it was half the game Most Wanted was. GT7 feels more natural to drive since it's more of a driving simulator rather than an Arcade racer, but I really wish they would make a Most Wanted 2005 remake (I don't know if the Most Wanted that came out in like 2012 is that, but I didn't give it a chance since I saw some bad reviews).

[@blueshadow7385]

When it comes to Racing games there are some "highlights" that I remember. First "Pole position" C64. I loved that game back in the days. Then I remember the first time that I saw "Outrun" on an Arcade machine. That was the coolest thing that I had ever seen. And with a wheel on that machine it made the whole thing just like magic. What I particulary remember about Outrun was the sence of "speed". I had never seen anything like it before. The next highlight was first time I saw an Amiga 500 and "Test Drive". That was the first time "outrun" was surpassed for me. The next was "Need for Speed" Hot pursuit from 1998 that got me back into racing games. With a 3dFX card and graphics that looked like shiny metal and cool lights it made an impression. The next one was "Ridge Racer" on the first playstation. After that I stopped playing that kind of games (and mostly games apart from MMORPGS). My interest got back with Forza Horizon that is truly just groundbreaking. Cant belive how real they have made the world look.

[@miku0118]

i miss those ps2 days when games didn't require accounts, good connection and real money transactions just to play games. as someone who lives on an island surrounded by mountains, i suffer from bad connections and power cuts a lot.

[@trilexi]

WTF ? Where is Test Drive Unlimited ? It's litterally the game that opened the way for the Horizon series and The Crew. Just an important game yet it's not here. Even worst than that, I read all the comments and saw that it was mentioned only ONCE ??

[@Lemur1610]

Surprise Mario Kart isn’t in here

[@Volker-Dirr]

Comparisions like this are very nice. Maybe add some more informatio next time. Like "clock speed of the CPU (later maybe also GPU", "memory size on disk", "memory size in RAM", ...

[@pholrakchantaratcharoen4563]

7:44 We need that 2006 back

[@journeysuperstar81original]

A little sad my boy Daytona USA never got a mention. 😢

[@ShadowOfEvent]

This is really awesome, i'm waiting for FPS / Open World / Evolution Of League Of Legends

[@clintzieandromeda6216]

I remember playing a racing game for the first time in PlayStation. It's called Touge Max 2. Might be old but it's so nostalgic.

[@HebuTheLoneWolf]

man, memories. Lotus, V-Rally and Colin McRae brings me back

[@Sam-Fisher]

Amazing

[@santiagosebastiansotelo4222]

Esto me pareció curioso y entretenido ver esto, en tu canal es muy poco usual

[@Alianger]

Where are Stunts, Stunt Car Racer, Indycar Racing, F1/Vroom and Virtua Racing?

[@groschat5874]

Nice, 38 years old I feel old

[@15DEAN1995]

i havent seen touring car shampionship in decades. that was first racing game i ever played

[@alpacalord3428]

U forgot the need for speed underground 2 probably the most legendary need for speed game I can think of. Also wreckfest was a great pick

[@Bonfirestorm]

0:06 & 4:28 thanks for posting one of my videos 🙂👍🏻

[@woulinx]

where is underground series? where is flat out? these are my childhood

[@khoonkitlim5963]

It's nice of you to include Burnout Paradise in the list, but I could see the evolution of the series though. Thanks for the video anyways.

[@Christ_is_king_]

Oh yeah the oldies

[@jeremyfusenliu3859]

was expecting atleast 1 initial D game but oh well

[@oldschoolracinggames5729]

Jus pop games, many hidden gems missed.

[@canal_do_murad]

NFS The Run ❤ Such a underrated game

[@JoHnAnDjAnEdOe81]

I would love to see an M rated racing game like these with crazy realistic crashes. Not a demolition derby.

[@alexpl9191]

Carmageddon

[@icysaracen3054]

When PS2 came out, I think that was the golden age of racing games. Also because the Fast and Furious Franchise kicked off (when it was all about the cars)

[@residenthero6030]

Interesting ending clip

[@bakafabio3449]

Where are Burnout, Metropolis Street Racer and Project Gotham? They were technical benchmarks for their time.

[@No-vq1iv]

Skipped pretty much all the important ones, good job.

[@JDprofessinal946]

Need for speed most wanted 2005 is my favorite

[@Yenilmez4560]

Where is the "Crazy Frog Racer" xD best race game

[@Mayor_Of_Eureka17]

How is this not at a couple K in likes???!!!

[@Belkovskiy]

Virtua Racing (1992) Daytona USA (1994)

[@gameorally]

Where's Crusin USA at?! Im crushed

[@RalphBellairs]

I lost a lot of hours to Stunt Race FX on the SNES.

[@kauandesu6440]

Ps2,ps3,ps4,xbox,xbox 360,xbox one and pc 💪🗿🍷

[@SirW0nka]

It would have been helpful to have the info about the games in the video itself.

[@chocolatentm6676]

Cool

[@asaulticannoli9235]

awesome compilation but where the heck did we find these drivers lol

[@merhabatamam55]

Need for speed Most Wanted my first lvoee

[@HarryB4497]

What happened with Burnout Paradise? Looks like someone had it running on a toaster. 😂

[@Aftarmath]

More like evolution of realistic racing games

[@tzeffsmainchannel]

2:49 I've played this one dozens of times in the *arcade gallery* in The Netherlands! Wasted hundreds of coins!! 😂

[@Fizz-Pop]

Aw no Daytona from the Sega Saturn. Used to spend ages in the arcade on that. Good video though.

[@not_kjb]

That game sucked though

[@TatsTopVideos]

Pretty cool. Selection here! =) Though here's some you missed. Though I don't know what blurs the line between standard racing games with cars or unique racing games with sci fi vehicles. Other than that, the video had great choices. (1981) Turbo (1984) Excitebike (1985) Hang On (1988) Powerdrift (1990) F Zero (1991) Road Rash (1992) Super Mario Kart Virtua Racing (1994) Daytonna USA Stunt Race FX (1995) Destruction Derby (1996) GTI Club Mario Kart 64 Wipeout 2097 (1997) Diddy Kong Racing Extreme G (1998) Carmageddon 2: Carpocalpyse Now F Zero X Motorcross Madness Thrill Drive (1999) Midtown Madness San Francisco Rush 2049 (2000) Midnight Club: Street Racing Midtown Madness 2 (2001) Burnout Cel Damage Mario Kart: Super Circuit XGIII Extreme G Racing (2002) Auto Modellista Burnout 2 Point Of Impact (2003) F Zero GX Mario Kart: Double Dash! Midtown Madness 3 Need For Speed: Underground Speed Kings (2004) Burnout 3 Takedown MX Unleashed Need For Speed: Underground 2 (2005) Midnight Club 3 DUB Edition (2007) Flatout: Ultimate Carnage Forza Motorsport 2 Need For Speed Pro Street (2008) Midnight Club: Los Angeles (2009) Fuel (2010) Harm's Way Hydro Thunder: Hurricane Split Second (2011) Burnout 4 Revenge MX VS ATV Alive Test Drive Unlimited 2 (2012) Sonic & All Stars Racing Transformed (2014) Drive Club (2015) Need For Speed Project Cars (2017) Fast RMX Project Cars 2 (2018) Asphalt 9: Legends Forza Horizon 4 (2021) Cruis N' Blast (2022) Flashout 3D

[@alirezamohsenpour5160]

Midtown madness left KZbin

[@fredcastellon6869]

Need for speed both old and new most wanted are hard to find

[@leyanistai]

nice finish with kartrider lol

[@lordangelo2945]

My favorite title is not listed „Need for Speed III Hot Pursuit” 😭

[@thehero92]

Wait I bought wrekfest at day1 and it's already been 9 years? I HAVE TO GO OUT QUICK

[@codemy666]

The lack of Tokyo Xtreme Racer and Midnight Club is deeply disturbing

[@codemy666]

@@huntedplaster9607 I have a PS2 emulator for them that works fine on Win 10, no reason to make it complicated

[@n1mand]

I remember me playing the first one on the NES. Shit, I'm old.

[@TekMerc]

The Crew 2 but no mention of Project Gotham? 😥