POD is a Futuristic Racing by Ubisoft in 1997. It was designed with the Intel MMX processors in mind and was included as a box set on many computers. A retail version called pod 2.0 was also released with support for 3Dfx voodoo, S3 virge and ATI
Rally style racing lets you perform power slides, end-over-end crashes, rolling your car, crashing into others and forcing cars off the road -- everything damages your vehicle! Compete in a season or tournament mode with three difficulty levels and four perspectives. So what are you waiting for? Rally on!
In the beginning, you start off with only two tracks, six vehicles, and the Practice and Championship modes. By successfully clearing the game modes in specific ways, you can unlock more tracks, vehicles and additional game modes. There's also a two player mode which can be accessed using the PlayStation Link Cable.
BS F-Zero Grand Prix is a remixed version of the original F-Zero released only in Japan for the Satellaview attachment of the Super Famicom. It was released in four parts from late-1996 to early-1997, and was a SoundLink title where an announcer provided commentary during gameplay. As the original game was only three cups, a fourth cup called Ace League was added. Each cup had the courses in a slightly different order, and a new course not found in the original game served as the fifth track (with Mute City I being reused once at the beginning of the final week).
Over REV is a 1997 racing game developed by Jaleco for Sega's Model 2 arcade board. It features four nicely rendered tracks across the Greater Tokyo Area. Although it has some serious issues with driving and collision physics, if you stick with the game long enough to overcome its intricacies, it can be pretty rewarding. Like Jaleco's other Model 2 racer, Super GT 24h, you'll want to use an automatic transmission.
PEAK PERFORMANCE is a racing game based on the Chevrolet Pikes Peak International Hill Climb. The signature course, Pikes Peak Hill Climb, is a solitary climb up a mountain, with more turns on one track than most have in an entire game. This track, as with half of the other four courses, features a combination of dirt and pavement in both urban and rural settings, providing enough variety and difficulty to keep things interesting. Each of the game's 25 cars has its own feel, giving the game a good amount of depth and keeping the replay value high. Each car can also be colored, named, and completely customized, right down to the wheels.
The Tracer Team is looking for a few good drivers. Don't get the wrong idea, though. In Ray Tracers a "good driver" always exceeds 150 mph, crashes into everything possible and uses up nitro boosters like they're going out of style. so, have you got what it takes?
A futuristic city is terrorised by Black Kaiser, an armed racer gang. Cindy Gibson believes the gang were responsible for her father's death and she wants revenge. Inheriting her father's awesome racing cars, Cindy creates Ray Tracers and recruits the best racers she can find. Now the real battle begins in a search for the truth! Created in the best anime traditions, Ray Tracers is instantly addictive and immensly playable. Varied scenery, tunnels, dips, sudden drops and obstuctions just begging for you to decimate! The monster-fast, explosive arcade smash from Taito - Ray Tracers.
Model 3 step 1.5 racing game by Sega with four gorgeous track designs. Four selectable cars including the Ferrari F40, Dodge Viper, Porsche 911, and McLarren F1.
SCUD Race, "Sport Car Ultimate Drive" or otherwise known as Sega Super GT in North America, is an arcade racing game released by Sega in 1996. It is the first racing game to be using the Sega Model 3 hardware.
A rom hack of Nigel Mansell World Championship released for SNES.
The entirety of the game is identical to the original game, featuring 16 tracks from the 1992 Formula One World Championship season except that all text has been translated to Brazilian Portuguese and all Nigel Mansell-related graphics have been replaced with Ayrton Senna's. The introduction/opening credits are also replaced with Ayrton Senna's career summary from lower-level motorsports up to his 1993 season with McLaren.
A driving/racing game for Sega Saturn developed by CAVE and TBS Television.
It was made as a tie-in to TBS's mid-1990s Japanese game show Tokyo Friend Park, where one of the games, Delisoba ("delivery soba"), had celebrities command a virtual motorcycle trying to deliver soba to the TBS TV Studios. Deluxe is a "port" of this game to the Saturn, which adds features such as a time attack and track editor, and was not sold in stores, but rather given away at the show (either to winners or to audience members, exactly what is unknown).
Road & Track Presents: The Need for Speed - Special Edition is a 1996 retail re-release of The Need for Speed for PC which includes several improvements over the original 1995 PC release.
It introduced support for Microsoft Windows 95, whilst capable of running on Microsoft DOS, and several improvements to its rendering engine as well as two additional tracks.
The complete soundtrack playing during races was also made available on the Special Edition. This feature was previously only in the PlayStation and Sega Saturn releases.
Shutokou Battle Gaiden: Super Technic Challenge is a Racing game, developed by Mitsui & Co. and published by MediaQuest, which was released in Japan in 1996. It features 25 licensed vehicles. The gameplay consists of drifting your vehicle with arcade-like handling in drift zones and recieving scores based on the angle, length and speed of the players's drift. Events are set up as a 1 v 1 battle between the player and a CPU, with the winner being whoever has the highest drift score at the end of the lap.