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I often hear F-Zero being credited as the first "futuristic" racing game, which kind of blew my mind. Did it really take all the way to 1990 for people to think up the concept of the futuristic racing game? Needless to say, F-Zero has inspired a lot of other games, but for it to be the progenitor of the sub-genre seems strange to me. Was there nothing on the computer before hand?
No.
Many came before it. Arcade Tron came out in 82, for instance.
Can you actually link to somebody saying that F-Zero was the first "futuristic" racing game? Hard to believe...
I'm pretty sure STUN Runner came out in the 80s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roNz8bi77VY
Outrun 2019 came a whole 3 years after F-Zero and is still way inferior (sorry offtopic coming from the other thread)
Maybe F-Zero is the first mainstream futuristic racer ? I don't know.
OutRun 2019 soundtrack >> F-Zero soundtrack
Is there anything that came before it with the same format, as in racing on a track against other cars in a Grand Prix like setting?
I've heard it a few different places, honestly didn't keep a record of it, but it does say so in Wikipedia:Quote:
Originally Posted by Crom
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-Zero_(video_game)Quote:
F-Zero is acknowledged by critics to be the game that set a standard for the racing genre and the creation of the futuristic subgenre.
I'll come back and update if I can find where I first heard it.
Both great soundtracks, but as I said elsewhere, we tend to state the superiority of an MD sountrack when we can't find anything else, among the more important things in a game, that is not inferior.Quote:
Originally Posted by QuickSciFi
And still prefer the sound of this, to this. Both good though. And Outrun 2019 is a childhood favorite of mine.
Motoroader came out in Feb of 1989. There've gotta be quite a few 16-bit console futuristic racing games before F-Zero. When was Road Blasters released?
As a general rule, any time someone declares that Nintendo did something first you can be certain that they actually did it last.
Powerdrome was one of the 1st I can remember myself
This comes from the classic and tested "any time someone declares that XXXX did something first you can be certain that some other YYYYYY did it before them". No one truly invented nothing, they just built upon someone else's ideas, so futuristic races build upon races with fighting elements and hey why don't we put some lasers an a future year in the title?Quote:
Originally Posted by Black_Tiger
Though I agree Nintendo could well be the Microsoft (or now Apple) of the gaming world.
Haven't you heard, Nintendo created all the videogame genres.Quote:
Originally Posted by Crom
Star Speeder, 1985, Super Cassette Vision
I've previously read that this game served as inspiration for F-Zero. That statement is probably conjecture though, as no where was a quote or developer statement referenced.
The game Night Driver kinda looks futuristic, as due to the lack of detail in the graphics, it looks like you could be driving on the moon or something.
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/MK_pwMItCPM/hqdefault.jpg
It's not very similar to F-Zero but Atari's Space Race is from 1973.
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Originally Posted by Black_Tiger
Road Blasters came out around 1988.
*Edit 1987.
https://www.google.com/search?site=&...k1.Fl243dyPw9U