Good top down arcade racing games are very hard to come by these days. After the decent but bland Mantis Burn Racing and the disappointing Micro Machines: World Series, the PS4 is wide open for a fun and lighthearted game to fill the void. The fast approaching Super Pixel Racers doesn't look to be doing anything particularly new, but it still looks like it could be worth a test drive.
The short trailer above shows off cutesy pixel art cars darting around various race tracks and drifting around bends like there's no tomorrow. Featuring local and online multiplayer, it could provide a lot of fun playing with friends, even if it looks a little simple. It's out on 31st October on PS4.
Do you like the look of Super Pixel Racers? Will you be jumping behind the pixelated wheel? Chiptune your engines in the comments below.
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Holy Super Skidmarks Batman!
This reminds me of the game Super Sprint in the arcades where it had 4 steering wheels and you would do figure of eight tracks etc good times good times
@hi_drnick Super Skidmarks on Amiga - absolute classic. We need a mini-Amiga I think, Sensible World of Soccer, Cannon Fodder etc. What days!
Poor man's RC Pro AM!
@tomassi You beat me to it! Super Skidmarks on the Amiga was brilliant - racing cows being particularly surreal! Wonder whatever happened to Mark Sibly and the Blitz Basic team?
Amiga mini would be cool but I think I've still got my A1200 in the loft!
@sanderson72 Yeah I had an A1200! If there was an Amiga Mini, what games would you desperately want on it? My top ten would be SWOS, Skidmarks, Sensible Golf, Cannon Fodder, Monkey Island, Micro Machines, Lemmings, Speedball 2, Superfrog and Worms. I think. So many good games I didn't even include the original Championship Manager that came with the book and you had to enter the correct score to get in to the game. If you didn't have the book you just kept entering 2-1 until it got accepted!
Really digging the trailer. I might just pick this one up!
It looks pretty cool but I'd really love a new Badlands.
@tomassi Speed ball 2! What a classic, always remember hearing "ice cream, ice scream," during replays of goals! Would love an updated version of that game. Does anyone remember SuperCars and SuperCars 2. Now they were awesome top down racers.
@tomassi I think Alien Breed, Worms: Director's Cut (sheep on a rope!), Base Jumpers ('underpants!'), Cannon Fodder and SWOS are definite inclusions!. Probably include 'Gloom', 'International Karate+' and 'Eye of the Beholder' too!
@tomassi
Aaah my favourite era of gaming missed many homework deadlines due to the bitmap bros.
@sanderson72
Deffo Cannon Fodder...loved chaos engine,magic pockets,gods ooh and turrican 😁
looks great, but im willing to say we'll see it on psplus in a few months in attempts to up the online players
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