SNES Racer Series Top Gear Is Being Revived As A Switch Collection In 2024

I never played the SNES ones but I loved the two GBC ones, the N64 one, and the GBA one. I'd have preferred a collection with those. But they all had different developers didn't they (from Japan, US, and UK even).

I was just thinking the other day that I'd love to see it on NSO sometime so I'm 100% down for this.

What, no 16 bit Jeremy Clarkson?

Good.

OH MY GOD!!! My second favourite SNES racing game, after Super Mario Kart! I loved this series, even the N64 titles! 🥹🥹😍😍

Great. I haven't had the Vegas theme stuck in my head for over a decade. This is living. Such a rad soundtrack.

Yeah I’m very interested in this. The top racer crossroads I’ve never heard of. I had no clue there was a crossover game with top gear and horizon chase. I recognized the track in the video from horizon chase turbo a game clearly inspired by top gear.

@Tasuki Top Gear 2 on the Super NT for me. One of my favorite SNES racers.

@TYRANACLES Top Racer Crossroads is newly made for this collection.

@Atariboy @TYRANACLES Yeah that's what I was thinking. Top Gear Crossroads is new! 🥹😍🥹😍

Day one buy indeed. I still play the original Top Gear on my Super NES to this very day too even though I got Horizon Chase Turbo already which is essentially that but modern. Would be nice if they did a second collection with the N64 Top Gear games too. Then after that they could give us the Lotus series, the original ones that inspired Top Gear (Top Racer).

Also for those who are wondering why they can't use the Top Gear name anymore, it's because of this show right here.

@Serpenterror I would absolutely love top gear rally rereleases!

You may be missing some of the benefits a stereo can provide.

I remember when I went to a video rental place with my brother, we picked this up. And wow, what a fun game.

Glad to see these brought back and preserved.

Let's hope a San Francisco Rush collection comes out.
I'd love San Francisco Rush, Rush 2 and Rush 2049.
I still own all three cib for my 64 but I'd love it to be portable.

The GOAT has returned, holy smokes I am excited for this and happy to see all the love in the comments too.

A shame they couldn’t obtain the Lotus license and include the 3 original games too.

I have the first two on Evercade, but I'll happily pick this up for the other two games.

@Tasuki Just so you know there's no such thing as a Top Racer 3000, that game was originally called The Planet's Champ TG3000 in Japan, TG as in Top Gear and not Top Racer. It seems that by 1995 the Japanese had embrace the Top Gear name instead of Top Racer which is why the N64 games were all called Top Gear even in Japan.

I love this collection era we are in. My switch is a one stop shop!

Going with the Japanese roms instead of the western Top Gear branded roms might be because Kemco retained the Top Gear name rather than fear that the BBC might go after them.

Tears welled up in my eyes as soon as I heard the music being played in the trailer. God I love the OST.

The MSU Version of Top Gear is my go to on the SD2SNES ^^

IGN included Top Gear 2 in their Top 100 SNES Games list.

That alone makes the collection a must buy.

It didn't start out on the snes in 1992, but on the Commodore Amiga in 1990 as Lotus Turbo Challenge!

I spent so much time on top racer 2 as a kid (we had a super Famicom). I'm sure it plays like crap with today's standards, so there is no way I'll ruin my nostalgia by playing it again. I'll just treasure these memories.

@Serpenterror There was a Rally 2? Never knew that. Wasn't in love with the first when I ranted it. Did think custom paint jobs were neat at the time, though.

@snappy Yeah, the Horizon Chase OST remakes don't quite do the original's justice.

I still air guitar when I think of New York because of that track.

From back in the day when the racing game was king. I miss those simpler times.

The music takes me right back to 1992. I'll definitely be getting this.

I played this way back on the snes, interested in the games but maybe I'll wait for evercade cart (if it's available there) since playing retro games on evercade seems more fun I think 😃

Count me in xx

If the Visco collection is any indication, this is gonna be wrapped in Unity, just a warning for everyone who's boycotting Unity.

@Tasuki agreed this is one of the best racing series games made in my opinion.

@wiiware it may, I believe Qubyte has some games on evercade. Me, I am willing to double dip. With the Seitch I can use my SNES controllers so I’ll get that feel of retro as well. I have them all on the original systems as well and still play them today so on the go will be a big plus also.

YES! i rented top gear 3000 ONE time in grade school and i NEVER forgot it!

PS - ditto Top Gear Rally on 64... 🥺🙏

Finally QUByte gets the rights to something I've heard of...and am actually interested in. I know SNESdrunk on YouTube will be ecstatic.

Thought the games were crsppy tbh, but interested in the Horizon Chase crossover.

Strange, I thought Top Racer was also the original name in Europe as well (as it was a British developed franchise), but no, that title appears to have only been used in Japan for the first two games.
The third game was titled "The Planet's Champ TG3000".

It will be a question how well the third game runs, as it exclusively used an expansion chip (DSP4) that it seems ran the AI cars.

@Tasuki Kemco published it yes, but it's a British franchise (created by Gremlin Graphics), so I don't see why they'd prefer the Japanese titles for "original" reasons.

This is my wife's best game ever...second to Binding of Isaac. I´ll buy it on Steam.

@Serpenterror I've been playing a LOT of Top Gear Rally 2 recently. The menu theme is hilarious and an ear-bug. It's so dumb, but also a hidden banger at the same time.

Whoah, this just brought back a ton of memories. A neighbor of mine had this game, and I would go over to play. The New York theme has lived rent free in my head for years.

My favorite game based on a tv show

It’s so cheap the n64 games aren’t included. I have extremely fond memories of those

@Serpenterror I never knew about the top one, I know I played the 2nd and 4th ones loads. I assume I played the sequel too but the cover isn’t ringing a bell. I’ll check out YouTube. Thanks for posting.

This excites me! I was holding out hope they'd come to NSO but this will do

Eh, doesn't look as appealing to me as Outrun Arcade. Either way, whatever fun there is to be had will most likely last less than 10 minutes for most people. No nostalgia, no dice.

@DdG1408 There's top racer 1 cart on evercade, but I like games collection more than publishers game collection. The cart I'm interested is games collection like demon of asteborg & astebros and duke nukem collection rather than random collection of games from publishers.

I do like jaleco arcade, renovation, and piko collection cart though. Man can't wait for my evercade to arrive 😃

I doubt anyone will be reading this now, but there’s a lot of misinformation regarding this series and the earlier Lotus series on the Amiga.

They weren’t made by the same people - the Lotus trilogy was developed by Magnetic Fields (Shaun Southern and Andrew Morris) and published by Gremlin.

This series may have been inspired by the Lotus trilogy, but it was developed by Gremlin, in-house, and published by Kemco.

The only connecting thread was the Barry Leitch soundtrack, which of course also links Horizon Chase Turbo.

@antonvaltaz I did think when I read in this thread that Lotus was completely separate. Thanks for the info. All of them are great games.

Still remember the cheat code was Pea soup to unlock a track in one of the lotus games. 2 I think.

@wiiware can’t wait for your evercade? So you don’t have one yet or you have the handheld? I myself am waiting for that Duke Nukem collection. I didn’t know about the asteborg collection. I will definitely be preordering that. Being in the states I miss some releases coming out. Thankfully I am able to preorder it on Amazon.

@DdG1408 Already preordered evercade exp, but the handheld still haven't arrived, already watched a lot of youtube reviews about it though, so I know most of the games available for it. I don't have other evercade system.

Wow, QUByte Interactive has been very busy with putting out collections lately. Top Gear is one of those meant to plays from my SNES days and never did so I think I will take advantage of this collection. I know it's unrelated to Rad Racer from Square Enix but I looked at it as a sort of spiritual carry-on and always wanted to play it. I just wonder how this Horizon Chase crossover will be.

@wiiware gotcha, I have the of handheld and the home system. I love them both and will be probably getting the exp sometime soon. I think you will be happy with it, it is a great alternative for the classic games.

Will definitely pick this up! I spent a lot of hours racing in Top Gear and TG2. Both single player and split screen. So many fun memories!

@KingMike I thought it was used for graphical reasons, like enabling the split roads that the player will start encountering as they progress deeper into the game (and the split-screen modes, going all the way up to a very choppy 4 person multiplayer mode). Nothing special about the game's AI so I'm skeptical that it was a significant factor in going with the DSP-4.

@Atariboy The report about the AI came from one of the SNES9x developers themselves (in the mid 2000s). They were the one dev that was familiar enough with how the game played on original hardware to notice something was off with the emulation and told the other devs.
AI is more CPU intensive than it probably seems. I can't think any reason other than the 4-player CPU mode that Panic Bomber World (the SFC port of Panic Bomber) needed a SA-1 enhancement chip. (I mean, the SNES had very few puzzle games with 3/4P versus modes. Super Tetris 3 had one, but limited it to human competition.)

@KingMike Interesting, thanks.

Top Gear 2 on SNES was a game that me and my dad bonded over. Many evenings spent playing 2-Player mode.

EDIT: Also... am I the only one to think the title screen music is still an absolute banger ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leeU3ULOWII

Finally news on this. It was literally announced a year ago and then silence.

https://youtu.be/R7_qDgK_pOM

Loved this games back in the day.