Racing Video Games

By Chitundu Milimbo

Racing game

Racing games are a video game genre in which the player participates in a racing competition.

They may be based on anything from real-world racing leagues to fantastical settings. They are distributed along a spectrum between more realistic racing simulations and more fantastical arcade-style racing games. Kart racing games emerged in the 1990s as a popular sub-genre of the latter.