Can you recall...

[tannat]

..the very first three auto racing sims you purchased in your life?

For me, it was:

1-Enduro for the Atari 2600 (early 80s)
2-Andretti Racing for the Sega Saturn
3-Sega Rally Championship for the Sega Saturn

[Brown, Jon Brow]

The 1st three that I purchased. (I don't by them that often)

1) Gran Turismo 2
2) TOCA World Touring Cars
3) TOCA Race Driver 3

The 1st three that I received as gifts

1) TOCA Touring Car Championship
2) TOCA 2 Touring Cars
3) Colin Mcrae Rally 2

The 1st three that I played on

1) 'Slicks' (on Commodore 64 )
2) Monster Trucks (again on C64)
3) Rally Championship

[tannat]

The 1st three that I played on

1) 'Slicks' (on Commodore 64 )
2) Monster Trucks (again on C64)
3) Rally Championship

This makes you look REALLY old!!!!!!

[Brown, Jon Brow]

This makes you look REALLY old!!!!!!

This was early 90's when I was 4. The Commadore 64 was my sister and brothers machine, and they are now in their 30's/late20's.

[tannat]

The Commadore 64 was my sister and brothers machine, and they are now in their 30's/late20's.

I resemble that comment

[harvick#1]

PS1 GT1
PS1 GT2
PS2 F1 Career

[jso1985]

I remember my dad had Enduro racing for his Atari 2600, and I played it when I was around 5-6 years old, then I also remember playing some F1 game made by accolade on a PC.
but the first ones I bought were: Gran Turismo, Colin McRae Rally and Need for Speed 3, all for PS1

[johnny shell]

comadore 64?!?!?! wow. that's why you have so much character I guess JB - character beyond your years...

I was going to say mine was Outrun on my Sega in like the late 80s I guess. I loved that game - do a segment, then come to a split and have to choose left or right, then do another segment then another split!

and you got to pick your "radio" station.

and if you made it to the end the hottie in the ferrari's passanger seat got out and start strutting around good stuff!

there was also "hang on" for sega, the motorcycle game. that was actually a better racing game as you had to pick proper line through the turns & such.

and wayyy before that there was "night racer" on the 2600 - complete with the paddle wheel instead of the joystick. you really had to get those paddle spins down perfectly to get through the esses!

fast forward to this century - last year someone game me an old PS1 and I found a used CART racing game & some version of Test Drive and my love affair with sim racing was reborn!

[Luffield]

The first for me was "Revs" for the old BBC Model B (1984) (The tracks were just a black strip in between a sea of green with red and white lines marking the kerbs. No scenery at all and the car was a collection of squares vaguely looking like a single seater racing car!!!

Next up would be "Pole Position" on the same computer and very much a similar experience despite it supposing to be the same as the arcade game in the amusements.

Bit of a gap then until "Network Q Rally Championship" (1996) on pc. Real Network Q rally stages driven in real time. Some were over 1/2 an hour long!!! A great game in it's day.

[johnny shell]

0h yeah - Pole Position! who could forget that? I think I had that on on the 2600 too.....