Racing games typically place the player in the driver's seat of a high-performance vehicle and require the player to race against other drivers or sometimes just time. This genre of games is one of the staples of the computer gaming world and many of the earliest computer games created were part of this genre. Emerging in the late 1970s, this genre is still very popular today and continues to push the envelope in terms of graphics and performance. These games "tend to fall into organized racing and imaginary racing categories". Organized racing simulators attempt to "reproduce the experience of driving a racing car or motorcycle in an existing racing class: Indycar, NASCAR, Formula 1, and so on." On the other hand, imaginary racing games involve "imaginary situations, driving madly through cities or the countryside or even fantasy environments".[15] These "imaginary" racing games are sometimes called arcade racing games, in contrast to their more realistic "racing simulation" counterparts.
Rollings and Adams note that "racing games are often sold in the sports category," but "from a design standpoint, they really belong in ... vehicle simulations".
- Examples of imaginary racing games include: Out Run and the Mario Kart series.
- Examples of organized racing games include: Grand Prix Legends, Project Gotham Racing, NASCAR Racing, the Gran Turismo series and the Forza Motorsport series.
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