Top 20 Commodore 64 Racing Games 

Firstly as someone who watched your back catalogue, never put down your previous content and work. Ironically the subject of this video, it's a journey to where you've got to today. You should feel proud. Even your earlier efforts were way beyond anything else put out, there's no substitute for passion and commitment. Brilliant as always, fantastic update of the racing games for the C64. Some absolute belters in there, feel the need to play the Outrun games again 👍

Brilliant video production - well paced and stimulating. Nice work.

I played Revs all the time, it was the closest that i could get to the famous F1GP of Geoff Crammond on pc. A truly masterpiece in my opinion, I discovered very later that Geoff also developed Revs on c64... Everything was clearer then 😁

Hi Brendan, you nailed it once again with your fantastic video, thanks a lot for it! 👍🙏 There are soooo many great racing games on the good old C64 - Stunt Car Racer, the Test Drives, Grand Prix Circuit, Super Cycle, Buggy Boy - you name it. I appreciate that you also mentioned Street Rod. It's a really nice and very playable game which is totally overlooked by most people. Cheers and have a nice weekend! 🌞

Racing games are my favorite. Your channel is great. I subscribed immediately.

Pretty nice list, agree on most titles. I think the Lotus port on C64 is kind of a hidden gem. It lacks the polished presentation of the Amiga original, but it‘s good gameplaywise, if you dare to get into it.

I just love the love for the c64 from the people doing great conversion for it 💕 Thanks for the video bro 😁👍

Outstanding! Great selections and everyone should play these for sure. Keep up the good work.

Darn, your videos are so good! The production rocks!

Excellent video and beautifully presented - have a few games to revisit :)

17:40 Kris Hatlied to Rob Hubbard: "Hold my pint." 🤣

I love all this retro stuff.takes me back to my childhood.i think youre my number 1 retro reviewer right now.good stuff my man 👍

This takes me back to my childhood. I played most of these games and still play Indy Heat

Great video again, keep on going.

I had Street Rod on PC and LOVED it, though I was never that good at racing. I could do the drag race, but most often crashed on the road race :( I made extensive use of the well publicised cheat. You buy the $475 car, take out the engine and gear box, then sell it for $3000) 😂

Awesome list!

Turbo outrun on my 64 spent more time on the "hit fire" screen than being in the actual game.

What a great video. Awesome.

Really nice listing! I was really into racing games, and I can't believe I middes Pocket Rockets (I would have loved that) and that Street Rod was also made for the C64 (I did play the hell out of it on PC and Amiga at my friends though). Stunt Car Racer is also on the top of my list, and I especially liked that you included the Great American Cross Country Road Race, which is often overlooked. I absolutely love the strategy aspect, I mean what time do you start, which route do you take, where do you refuel and how fast can you go without hitting everything. Not to mention how the traffic density changes depending on where you are and what time it is. Just a marvellous game. Also, it's amazing to now see videos of games such as Test Drive and SCR played with SuperCPU, they run so smoothly! The choppiness didn't bother me, but boy, do they look beautiful with the SuperCPU - I was especially amazed by the oncoming cars on TD, they look just fantastic. And did they ever push the limits of the C64 with these games, what a feat to achieve such smooth controllability with the hardware being what it was.

Pit stop 2 blew us away at the time

That's a mighty fine Top 20 you've put together! I played most of the games,, my personal favourites are Grand Prix Circuit, Super Cycle, Stunt Car Racer and Buggy Boy. I only needed to see the Buggy Boy footage and at once had all these jingles and sound effects in my head when playing it. 😄 And Super Offroad takes the multiplayer crown because me and my brothers spent countless hours playing it.

Thanks BastichB. BuggyBoy and Pitstop, my racing loves from back in the days. Still fire em up from time to time and drive some rounds. ❤

Is Revs not there? If not that's a massive omission surely? Crammond pre Grand Prix / Stunt Car Racer. It was to racing sims what Elite was to the space genre back in the 80s.

I had totally forgotten 4x4 and Buggy Boy. Those were both really fun to play. Grand Prix Circuit was probably my second favorite non-RPG game on the C64 ever. I missed Kikstart II though. Another gem.

Brilliant video.

Always great gaming content.

Revs and Racing Destruction set is my favourites!

Don't feel too bad abut those old videos. Lioking back now they might seem cringy but at the time I thought they were the best content out there and I still subscribed 😃👍. Great update though, cheers!

Dude, love your vids and max respect for the time and effort you put into them! Where in SA are you from? :). Shout out from a capetonian living in Germany :)

Street Rod was something. I was not much into car racing games... but that car tuning was just missing part to get my attention for weeks.

Pocket Rockets, ah. That takes me back. I realize that it's your 20 top, I rather liked pure sims so Grand Prix Circuit is my number one, Pitstop II is my second and Super Cycle is my third, but I have tried nearly every game on your list and I can't say anything against your opinions. They are all great games. Very well done.

When I retire, I'll buy all C64 and PC gaming magazines of 1980's. It will be hoot to read them again.

Haven't watched your videos in a while. WOW, ELEVEN THOUSANDS SUBS! HOLY SHIT! NICE WORK! :D It's been so long already! :D

I see Revs already got mentioned and I do think it should be on the list. It’s more of a racing game then some that did make the list. Yes, it is difficult to master, but it is the most realistic racing experience on the C64.

So many 8-bit masterpieces here, the C64 never disappoints, no matter the genre. Many of these games were very ambitious, still developers pulled them off. Outrun Europa is so underrated and I wonder why, maybe because other versions are not very good? The C64 one is great. Along with the 2 Pitstop games, Buggy Boy and Stunt Car Racer it is the C64 racing game I played the most. I also liked a lot the first Super Cars from Gremlin Graphics and was quite pissed that we didn't get the second one on the Breadbin. I was equally pissed we didn't get Micro Machines, but good to know Slicks and Hot Rod are somewhat related to it.

Maniacs of Noise + Decent driving engine (pun intended!) = C64 bliss (PS: iconic Tetrapack/Defpack cruncher colour bars in the countdown number sections makes an old Amigan very happy)

C'mon, Fast Tracks should be on this list, you can even create your own track!

Thanks!

Scalextric was my favourite racing game, with Great American Road Race a close second, and Racing Destruction Set third.

Allister Brimble is also responsible for the awesome music from the first two Alien Breed game s on the Amiga as well. Oh, and Alien Breed Special Edition and Tower Assault as well. The 3D games were done by other musicians

2:57 I could only dream of playing this, a teenager.

Jeroen Tel is mentioned a lot. Maybe a candidate for a "One man and his machine" documentary ?

You forgot to squeeze in The Great American Cross-Country Road Race!

I haven't been able to find your c64 racing destruction games video,can you send me a link if you reply.Cheers!

Street Rod is my favorite game of all time for the C64. I think it was the game I had the most time into back in the day.

What about Revs? Also by Geoff Crammond (like Stunt Car Racer). Bloody hard to get to grips with but once you master the car it provides the best racing experience on the C64.

Need help finding a C64 game. Description: you start off near what looks like a beach and you have 3 ways to go and the game expands after the blue knight looking character walks near the paths. The knight makes a gun sound when he uses his sword and Stabs enemies to death. Health is based by #'s and you get health by collecting Gold. The game plays very much like an old Resident Evil type game with puzzles and enemy's that appear after you open chest or complete puzzles. One part of the game you come across a White castle with Teeth and if you go near it. The castle will eat you. Any Ideas on what game this is? I remember it having a really strange name.

Great american cross country road race was one of the first games I ever owned on C64 (activision compilation), couldn't understand a thing about it, kept getting out of fuel, my engine kept blowing up I definitely have to try it again

I always liked the 2 player racers, so Pitstop II, Kikstart II, and Super Off-Road were the most played ones here. Buggy Boy and Burnin' Rubber were my favourite single player racers. Trucking U.S.A. was very interesting as well, but not a real racer. From this list, I think Indy Heat looks awesome. Like Super Sprint and Championship Sprint, just better.

was great before, but perfection now.

Pocket Rockets and Street Rod are two i've never looked at, i going to have to give them a try. While it's unpopular i quite like the US version of Outrun.

Stunt car racer is a good number one. I never could master drawbridge though 😢

It always felt, to me, that the car sprite was just way to big in Turbo Outrun. It always felt like you had very little room to get round the other cars. I didn't enjoy this as much as the original Outrun and preferred Chase HQ turbo action to this...

Speed King

Very strong agree on the first place! I'm curious though, have you tried my 50 FPS accelerated version of Stunt Car Racer? If not yet, you can find it via the description of this demonstration video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-xaCca4zCimc.html

Heey where's Cisco Heat?? Ok ok I accepted I'm little drunk by now.. so don't beat me.. too much😁😆.. but seriously.. what do u think about Overlander?

Por favor un remake de black tiger para c64🤗

Omg the C64 YTers are relentless this month... cant even play my games and watch all content ! Not accounting for the Amiga brigade panting down my screen..

Where is Revs, arguably the best race simulation on an 8-bit system? In all honesty, it makes Grand Prix Circuit look primitive in comparison.

As mediocre as the original Outrun is on the C64, it's still miles better than that crap port on the Amstrad. LOL. Hell, out of the 8-bit micros, it's probably the most faithful, it's too bad it's rather meh