The 20 Worst Commodore 64 Racing Games From Bad To Worst 

@4:53 Turbo Esprit for ZX-Spectrum is awesome. It's is safe to assume that GTA team maybe took some inspiration from it. The game's objective is to stop a drug operation, for this you need to check the map and intercept some type of cars.

Tiger Shark looks like a knoc off of The Last V8.

WEC Le Mans was most definitely one of the low points of my C64 life. I remember actually dishing out hard-earned cash for it, and after firing it up, wondering if i had bought a tape that was corrupt, or faulty or something because it looked like my car was moving BACKWARDS. I could not, simply not believe what was in front of my eyes.. that was one real low point I remember.

Thank you OSG for enduring the pain of these games just to make this video, I know it was tough !

Man that was a painful watch but another great video as always. For me I always quite enjoyed Continental Circus and Buggy Boy on the C64 :)

Chase HQ was huge disappointment, I remember saving my pocket money for that game! Hard drivin' is my number 1 as never heard of 911 tiger shark, yes in my case those laughs would be more frustration playing those rubbish games, other than that another brilliant job👍

While never owning a C64 I find these videos interesting to watch. My kick in the bollocks was when I bought Crazy Cars 1 for the MSX. It was on ROM cartridge and cost a massive £25. A fortune when you were a kid. When I got home it was just a crappy spectrum port. What a waste. I've never felt so ripped off. Utter JUNK.

That 'Speedway' game's sound actually hurt my brain for real. Another few seconds and I would've had to remove my headphones! Great video, btw. Sometimes I wonder how some games ever got to the shelves like there was no QC involved at all.

Another great video. Thanks for going through the pain of playing these. Unfortunately I have a couple of these - Aqua Racer and Turbo Esprit. Hopefully your next video will be more pleasurable to make!

Absolutely love these videos, OSG!!! Please keep doing them!!!! 🙂

Well done getting through that mess! :D

Great vid. I know every system had their turds but some of them were painful to watch. It did bring me a bit of joy being a cpc fan.

Forgot how terrible chase h.q was on c64, who did the sound effects they were the worse ever

Wait what you had to re-up the video. Now I will deffo have nightmares watching it again haha. Great video still and nice to see a fair few games on here I had as a kid lol. Roll on the next video 😀

C64 sounds designers sure loved high pitched squeals. I don't miss that. I remember my grandparents making me quit games because of it.

High amusement levels, thank you! Lucky there were some good ones, I seem to recall Pit Stop was pretty cool?

Love these videos bring back so many memories 🕹

I didn't have many racing games for my C64 and none from that list thankfully!! I had Power Drift, Kikstart 1 & 2 and finally Stunt Car Racer...Phew!!!

i remember getting a couple of them games as presents .proper crap games .and then getting the guilty feeling for not playing them when the person who bought them for me asks you about your new game.i love the c64 it was my first computer but we got ripped off with crap games sometimes .

5:30 Weirdly, the trackside objects move amazingly smoothly (and fast) for the C64, so there was clearly some technical nous behind this game, just no _design_ nous.

Nice vid, I remember most of these unfortunately. A bit off topic, do you remember psycho pigs? We loved that game on Spectrum and C64, but noone ever mentions it.

911 Tiger SHART. Had to revisit this video after 2 years and have a great laugh again :)

That was one of your funniest videos. Not enough reviews make use of the word "tripe" 😂

Car companies are usually pretty particular about how their cars are portrayed in games. I'm surprised that they let some of these games slip thru.

the irony of a game called speedway running at 2 frames a year makes me chuckle

tears flowing... all those repressed memories from childhood flooding back... all that PAIN from terrible racing games... DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH PAIN I AM IN?!!? *weeps inconsolably for hours*

Very good video Dad Keep it up and anyone who disliked either was not looking when they where gonna like or just clearly jerks. BTW i liked :) ❤😁😁😁😁

Turbo Esprit, Chase HQ and WEC Le Mans were all excellent on the Spectrum though, believe me!!!!

I'll give Aspar GP racing credit for one thing.... the music by Jeroen Tel is class

Obstacle dodging top-down crap lol

The Machine reminds me so much of Grand Prix for the Atari 2600 that it borders on the plagiaristic. Only difference being is that game actually looks a hell of a lot better despite coming out six years earlier . And on a console with limited capabilities to boot...

Some of these games ran at 1 fps. It's amazing what we used to accept in a driving game 😂

My freaking ears! And eyes!

Sorry best version of chase hq is the speccy version.

Some absolute turds there, mostly from the era when a lot of Software Houses had moved on to develop for the Atari ST and Amiga and some of the software houses still developing for the 8-bit machines had no shame trying to cash in on shit game development.

Some shocking racing games on the c64, but things like turbo charge and powerdrift showed it could do it when they made an effort

I only ever played Chase HQ off this list, then instantly wished I hadn't :) (shame really as chase HQ 2 on c64 was so much better) I seem to remember Commodore Format slaughtering Cisco Heat so i stayed clear of that one too lol

The corners in Days of Thunder had me pissin me pants 🤣🤣

The music from the game The Machine sounded awesome

Hard Drivin is the worst. The draw distance is two car lengths which are run at 1fps with the nails down the blackboard sound effects. You are being generous putting it at number 2.

I didn't have any of those, thank goodness. What I did have was the great American cross country road race, which I really enjoyed. City limits 😎

Wow, theres some real turds in there. Some ive never heard of, and im very thankful for that. Lol

do something decent next vid - cheer us all up (we sure need it 🐹) maybe some of the Mastertronic or CodeMasters games - everyone loved spending their pocket money on a £1.99 game back in the day.

Nailed it....They were all shockingly bad. I paid good loot for a couple of them, Hard Drivin' was abysmal and I cant understand how a reputable software house like Domark released it.

Ladies and gentlemen...the bottom of the barrel has not only been scraped, it's been completely obliterated

So glad you had Wec Le Mans on this list! Would be easier to navigate a fighter jet through a field of missiles than avoid the homing cars on this steaming pile of dung! What a let down...that was a grim Saturday. When I get to heaven I'm asking for the time i spent waiting for this to load back so I can use it more wisely 🤣🤣

Number of these I had: 0.

OSG you never played Richard Pettys Talladega. The car controlled like it was on a stick sliding from side to side, time would run 5-6 times as fast if you slight nudged off road and the sound was horrifying to say the least.

hard driving was never sold, it only appears on compilation packs, they knew it was too bad to sell.

20: Ugh 19: Never knew there's a C64 port of that. 18: Looks like a poor man's version of Grand Prix on Atari 2600 17: It's a weird way of saying a crappier version of Rally-X 16: I love the fact that your boat just sinks after hitting everything. 15: That's some fine music, but that ugly title screen, though. 14: G L A C I A L S P E E D 13: .... 12: This looks alright... 11: Meh 10: I'll take notes on that 9: It could've been better if the levels aren't so tight. 8: So Titus is still shit back then, too? 7: ... 6: It's even slower than #10 5: So you just dodge the same few cars at "30mph" over & over... 4: ... 3: Quality scaling, right there. 2: Can't really find a quality port of Hard Drivin apart from the DOS version. 1: Shame that it wasn't listed as one of the worst games in general.

Ah yes, Hard Drivin'. I remember the ST version, where you had to control your car using the mouse. Somebody somewhere thought that was a good idea.

I used to invest my pocket money on Zzap 64 and later C&VG to avoid this dross. Maybe you should track some of these game designers down and hold them to account of them upsetting small children. These game developers should do time for there crimes.

I had a lot of fun with Aspar GP, it's a good game in my opinion.

HA Ha ha, didn’t know most of these poor excuses existed; thank goodness 👍

Go-Kart Simulator looks strikingly similar to that chimney sweeper game from an earlier video.

im surprise that Tiger Shark is using the Lazy Jones song

One frame per second frame rate on some of these. What a load of crap we paid for..

Thanks God, I only played Cisco Heat. ^^ Will you show games, that combined different Genres? Something like Technocop

1000 Miglia should probably be called Mille Miglia (Thousand Miles).

Good video

Tiger shark _does_ have some good SID sounds though.

when you think what some developers could push out of this little machine, these are an absolute disgrace. Btw, not technically a racing game, but can you remember a title called action biker with clumsy Colin? Great SID music and quite fun, I think Skip crisps sponsored it

Never played a single game from this list thank feck! Noticed a good few of em was released very late in the C64s life so there's no excuse for shoddy work like this! A lot of em look like betas, 3&2 look like they've crashed ffs! Respect man, it must've been a reet shitshow playing through this pile of crud ;)

I'm surprised to see here a couple of System Editoriale games, not because they don't deserve to be on this list (they truly are terrible), but because these games were only released in Italy and only on disks or tapes attached to magazines. See, System Editoriale was a very influential publishing company in the early days of computing in Italy and they would issue various magazines each month with a focus on hardware, utilities, programming and other hobbyist themes (mostly for the C64 but also for the Amiga and the PC). They wouldn't usually review games but they would regularly publish homebrew games sent by readers along with a bunch of utilities and basic programs on cover disks or cover tapes. Editors and writers weren't gamers themselves, so the quality control of such published games was quite lacking. On the other hand their utilities were great and often made by professional programmers. In the early 90's they published an MS-DOS "emulator" for the C64 which faithfully simulated a DOS/GW BASIC environment in order to let readers familiarise with the commands of the computer they would most likely buy or use at work next.

Some like there sound FX are just big guffs ! totally disipointing and not worth the time it took to load . chase HQ was really good for the 48k super hang on was really good .. but I really can't believe some of these games even got on the shop floor lol

I would have thought Slicks or Carnage would have made it on here, but then I remembered Cisco Heat and Hard Drivin exist.....

*You sound like Dynamo the magician! LOL*

In the Machine's defense, it was essentially a type-in, most of which suck ass anyway

What about Roadblasters? There were lots of hype about it before its release, because the arcade game had been really good. But the C64 version was quite awful.

I’m not sure Turbo Esprit is technically a racing game, also you don’t pronounce the “g” in Miglia 👍🏻. To be fair I’d put all these games at joint 1st (last) place lol

Speedway looks like turn based racing lol!

Not my way or the highway. Just no way.

That Speedway should be renamed as "Slowway".

My bet was on 911 Tiger Shark bring on top. I'd hardly call it a game, let alone a racing game.

Did you play Scalextric? That was an abomination.

The only decent thing about 911 Tiger Shark was Mark Cooksey's excellent cover of Popcorn for the title music. Other than that, that's the only decent thing about that turd. It's a shame it was used on such a turd of a game

19 The Machine is a poor rip off of Grand Prix by Activision on the Atari 2600

I can put up with the ugly graphics in Chase H.Q. It's the lack of any sense of speed that completely ruins the game IMHO

While it hurts my soul to see hang on on this list it fully deserves it. Any of these games so bad the're good ? All of them are turds but there must be something to salvage right ? Lol

Some of these games look like the racing game I wrote in BASIC. If I knew you could publish stuff this bad I might have had a slightly different career.

Surely, at least one of these games is better than The Last V8. What's next, a list of the best RPGs?

Did Dunlop actually sponsor that 911 shark game? If so, yikes 😬

Noticed you never included Led Storm in this or either your best racing games list either you don't know about it or you consider it mediocre. Should be on a list for it's music alone.

Most of these have a decent title screen, then it all goes wrong. Great shame.

20. Only good thing is the title screen and the music 19. Absolute rubbish, although the Amiga version ain't much better, in fact in some ways it's actually worse 18. Luckily this was a public domain game, so at least nobody had to pay for this rubbish 17. Looks like a shitty wannabe Rally-X without all the excitement 16. Ugh 15. The vast majority of Dinamic's games were fairly mediocre anyway 14. Dear God 13. I actually (unfortunately) owned this pile of rubbish. Luckily I never paid full price for it though as I bought it second-hand 12. Played this one the other day...deleted the ROM immediately. LMAO 11. Horrible 10. God awful port 9. Shite controls 8. Crappy Cars 2 7. Would have been decent if the controls were responsive 6. boring 5. Ugh 4. Crappy Cars 3. Cisco Shit 2. Luckily it was only available in a compilation pack 1. Is this even a game at all? I would also like to throw in a few (dis)honourable mentions: Brands Deluxe Give My Regards to Broad Street Elektra Glide Wheelchair Race (don't ask)

Hard driving is the best of the bunch

Who remember of Mackrider?

Go Kart Simulator, Just wow lol It looks so bad!

There's a LOT worse out there!

Top 3 was pure t rum p

Turbo Esprit isn't a racing game, you're supposed to track down the criminals and disable or destroy their cars.

1000 miglia LOOKS good for a C64 game though.

It's the cream of the crap!

at least hard drivin had some actual speed.. as opposed to speedway....

Jesus they were indeed terrible games, thankfully I played non of them in my day :p

Some very bad games. Did you have stunt car driving it was just as bad as your no2

Actually going to play the top 5 because they are so crap

Where's Test Drive?. God I hated that game and it's 4 FPS..........

Correction......1fps...

I have turbo esprit for the amstrad. I have no clue either. I just drive around aimlessly.