If you?re 20 years old and into driving games, you?ve basically never known a world without Polyphony Digital?s Gran Turismo series, while Turn 10?s Forza games have been around for more than half your life. If you?re around 40, however, you’ve no doubt marveled at the two-speed shifter in Pole Position. You lost your pubescent mind over the chance to blast across the landscape in a pixelated Ferrari Testarossa in Out Run, and if you?re Ken Block, Sega Rally helped set you on a path toward a career in vehicular hooliganism. Somewhere along the line, you may have even played our game. What"

In 1992, C/D partnered with Electronic Arts for a driving sim featuring a selection of great cars and oddball tracks. Somebody, apparently, didn?t want to pay the pre-Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca a licensing fee, so it?s here as ?Monterey Raceway.? Inexplicably, there?s a Church of the SubGenius-inspired J.R. “Bob” Dobbs track for those aiming to slack a bit harder while awaiting X-Day. Friends of Rufus might crank the Wyld Stallyns and try their luck in the parking lot of the San Dimas mall. We found it possible to drive a Countach straight through an F-150-esque pickup. Excellent! The light pole on the other side of the truck, however, was not so permeable. Bogus.
As for the cars" There?s not a duffer in the bunch. Drive a Lotus Elise Turbo (regrettably rendered without James Bond?s ski rack)! Thrill to the super-synthesized rumble of a Mercury Marine-b...