The most interesting racing games released in 1997
All the best and most popular games of the year, upcoming releases, and hits from the past. Use filters to narrow down search.
Ray Tracers
Racing 17 January 1997
Unusual three-dimensional racing game, in which players have to run through successive segments of the route in time in order to be able to fight with various combat vehicles at the end.
Test Drive: Off-Road
Racing 01 February 1997
The first installment of the series of arcade games aimed at off-road vehicle enthusiasts, released under the banner of the popular racing series. We cross difficult routes, full of mud, sand or snow, behind the wheel of Hummer, Land Rover or other licensed cars of brands known to Off-road enthusiasts.
Micro Machines V3
Racing 01 March 1997
Micro Machines V3 is an arcade race in which players drive small, toy vehicles along cornering trails marked out in various household spaces. Game created by Codemasters Software studio.
Axelerator
Racing 12 March 1997
The product of the German company Synetic GmbH is a crazy car race in which fast driving is just as important as the destruction of rivals' vehicles by means of a rich arsenal of means of extermination.
Need for Speed II
Racing 31 March 1997
Sequel to the racing game that was released in 1995 by Electronic Arts and that changed the racing genre. Need for Speed II let's you control eight completely new licensed vehicles. Among them are: McLaren F1, Ferrari F50, Ford GT90, Jaguar XJ220, Lotus GT1, Lotus Esprit V8, Italdesign Cala and Isdera Commendatore 112i. The races take place on six distinctive tracks located in various areas of the world.
Carmageddon
Racing 13 April 1997
A game that has gone down in history thanks to its immense playability and brutality. These are car races, which allow drivers to leave the marked out route on the pavement and start the demolition....
F1 Racing Simulation
Racing 10 May 1997
A Formula One racing simulator developed by Ubi Soft. The developers' assumption was to create a realistic Formula 1 racing simulator, so the production of the program was based on the experience of Renault F1, a team that won the Formula 1 World Championship five times in a row.
Interstate '76
Racing 15 May 1997
Interstate '76 takes us back to the seventies. The US government is in trouble, the world is feeling the effects of the fuel crisis. The southern part of the United States is terrorised by car gangs. As a Groove Champion driver we sit behind the wheel of a powerful machine. Our goal is to avenge the death of our sister.
Sega Rally Championship
Racing 15 June 1997
Saturn's famous car races, in which we can race with rally-renowned sports cars on several demanding tracks.
Ignition
Racing 15 June 1997
Take part in the funniest races of small cars equipped with boosters and indestructible bumpers, racing on winding, dangerous routes.
Moto Racer
Racing 15 June 1997
Moto Racer is the first in a series of motorcycle racing games by Delphine Software. Players have the opportunity to take part in the exciting motorcyclists' struggles on racetracks and rally tracks, riding faithfully reproduced high-performance bikes. The game has an arcade character, but the creators took care of the realistic, as for the then standards, physics of driving.
Network Q RAC Rally Championship: The X-Miles Add-on
Racing 30 June 1997
In addition to the cult rally game Network Q RAC Rally Championship allows you to compete on 10 new tracks. In addition, we receive an extended arcade mode played on additional OSs.
Manx TT Super Bike
Racing 01 September 1997
Arcade motorcycle races, which were originally published (in 1995) for gaming lovers. Two years later, two parallel conversions were produced, one of which went into the hands of the owners of Sega Saturn consoles, the other went to PeCety.
International Rally Championship
Racing 22 September 1997
The next installment of the rally series by Europress takes us from the gloomy, rainy areas of Great Britain to the new arenas of struggle scattered in several places around the world. We will sit behind the wheel of 9 licensed carts and taste the new, more arcane driving model.
Formula 1 97
Racing 26 September 1997
Continuation of a warmly received racing game under Formula 1 licence, which was released in 1996. The production brings a number of novelties, trying to reproduce even better the struggles on the tracks around the world behind the wheel of super-fast cars.
TOCA Touring Car Championship
Racing 15 October 1997
A racing simulator made by the Codemasters company, a developer best known for the Dizzy platformer series and a purely arcade racing game franchise titled Micro Machines. TOCA Touring Car Championship is based on a racing event, which has been taking place periodically ever since 1958. The said event features various competitions for vehicles of the Touring Cars class. The races take place on several elaborately recreated British tracks, e.g. Donington, Silverstone or Brands Hatch.
Jet Rider 2
Racing 31 October 1997
A racing game in which ten participants compete with each other on special air scooters, able to move both above the ground and above the water. Twenty tracks have been made available to players, ten of which come from the previous version of the series, entitled Jet Moto. A characteristic feature of production is the very high level of difficulty of the competition.
Streets Of SimCity
Racing 31 October 1997
Streets of SimCity is a game in which we can visit virtual cities, created in games from the SimCity cycle. We sit behind the wheel of a car and move freely through the metropolis, or we can start a career mode and perform humorous missions.
CART Precision Racing
Racing 01 November 1997
CART Precision Racing is a realistic simulation of car racing, created by Terminal Reality development studio. Players have the opportunity to try their hand at the wheel of the Champ Car World series racing cars, competing on 17 carefully reproduced tracks. The title benefits from the official Championship Auto Racing Teams license.
Test Drive 4
Racing 03 November 1997
The fourth installment of the popular series of racing games aimed at realism enthusiasts. We try to control the vehicle and beat our rivals on one of the six tracks available in the game, avoiding contact with police patrols and collisions with other traffic participants.
Rapid Racer
Racing 14 November 1997
A racing game in which we sit at the controls of motor boats and fight for victory on six different routes. Rapid Racer is one of the first titles released on PlayStation 1 to take advantage of the capabilities of the DualShock pad. The title works in sixty frames per second, which, however, resulted in a decrease in the quality of the visual setting.
Screamer Rally
Racing 15 November 1997
The latest rallies of racing cars from the famous Screamer series offer a wide variety of tracks and gameplay modes of arcade character.