Then there’s the PlayStation Classic Mini’s version, which introduces slowdown and other glitches, plus the razor-sharp image of HDMI does nothing for the game’s extensive use of dithering, your screen looking in danger of Garry Kasparov popping out of the car window and checkmating you into next week. Playing the game on a PS3 or PS2 via a HDTV just doesn’t look good at all, with too-dark shadows and weird artefacts around the trees if you enable texture smoothing. Instead, it’s how they’re displayed that is the problem. I don’t mean that they’ve aged badly – far from it, in fact. Namco’s racing opus sees you hurtling towards the then-new millennium, but in reality, the 20 years that followed has done nothing for this game’s visuals. The Saturn version is still one of the best racers ever made, so get on it. While a PC port of this version exists, it’s notoriously difficult to get it to run well (or at all) on anything, and arguably looks worse cleaned up. This version is also great with the Saturn Arcade Racer steering wheel, even though it doesn’t have pedals. Use Game Mode to get input lag down and it’s perfectly playable. Play it on a real Saturn through a decent HDMI upscaler (these babies need their own article but you can get a serviceable one quite cheaply on Amazon or eBay) and the bright colours still pop on a modern TV. So, your best bet is still – amazingly – the Sega Saturn conversion. However, steering wheel support is poor and it’s limited to just the arcade game modes. While it’s necessary to both import it and find a modded or Japanese PS2 that can play import games, it does deliver a very solid replica of the arcade game – at a lovely 60fps too.
The first is the Japanese-only PS2 version. Outside the realms of fantasy, where you can source an actual Model 2 arcade cabinet, there are two conversions that catch the eye. Sega’s classic arcade title remains one of the finest racers of all time despite being more than a quarter of a century old. So this article looks at 10 of the greatest racing games of all time, takes which release is the best version and then informs you of the best machine to play it on. You can play them on PC via emulation, of course, but even that can cause trouble for some of these titles and it’s legally dodgy too. There are some undisputed classics in the racing genre, yet you can’t play them all on a PS5 or Xbox Series X.
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