Top Racer Collection Coming 7 March – All You Need To Know

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Top Racer Collection is a highly anticipated compilation of old Top Racer games, returning from the dead on modern tech. Releasing on 11 January, here is everything we know about the game.

UPDATE 04/01/2024:


Originally scheduled to release on 11 January, Top Racer Collection has been officially postponed until 7 March. In a statement posted to Twitter, the game’s developer QUByte Interactive explains that the delay will enable a greater deal of polish. “We have decided to postpone the release in order to enhance the experience we want to deliver to all players.”

In the same post, QUByte announces that 11 January will remain an important date for the title. In fact, a free-to-play demo version of the game will release on the Top Racer Collection‘s original launch date. We will be sure to test the game out when this early demo releases next week.


ORIGINAL ARTICLE 04/01/2024:

Throughout the 1990s, British games developer Gremlin Interactive found great success with its Top Gear games. This 16-bit arcade racer series remained popular across its nine releases into the 2000s.

But ever since its last release in 2004, the series has fallen off the map. Many racing fans will remember the titles, yet others may well be learning about it now. Well, get ready to dive into the world of Top Gear, or as it is now known, Top Racer, as the series makes its comeback.


Top Racer Collection is a compilation of the first three titles in the series, along with a fourth, all-new edition. The game releases on 11 January to Steam, Nintendo Switch, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Series S and X. Here is all you need to know before release.

What is Top Racer Collection?​

Top Racer Collection is, as the name suggests, a collection of old games from the series formerly known as Top Gear. The first three titles in the series – Top Racer, Top Racer 2 and Top Racer 3000 – join a fourth new title, Top Racer Crossroads. Whilst the original games emerged from the Gremlin Interactive offices, this new compilation comes from Brazilian developer, QUByte Interactive.

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Compiling these popular older titles, fans of the series will finally get to return to their favourite forgotten circuits. In fact, the new release will include an impressive 140 tracks with each title including its own car set.

Each model not only differs in the looks department. In fact, speed, acceleration, grip and even fuel consumption are unique to each car. As a result, yes, pitstops do feature in this old-but-new game.


Depending on the selected title, there are several game modes in Top Racer Collection. Multiplayer comes in two varieties; local split screen and online with two-player racers possible in Top Racer, Top Racer 2 and Crossroads. Meanwhile, Top Racer 3000 welcomes up to four players.

Elsewhere, one can also race in single-player, either in time attack mode or in races against AI. The longer-form Custom Cup sees players set up four-race championships across a selection of circuits. Finally, a Campaign is available for the most dedicated.

Will you try out Top Racer Collection when it releases? Tell us on Twitter at @OverTake_gg or in the comments down below!
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Never again RD
All the top indie, retro, top-down or another racers you advertised here, were more or less waste of money for me at least.

Big exception - Art of Rally
 
The notice is incomplete. There will be also a crossover between Top Gear and Horizon Chase content.

Another good news is that these guys are not money grabbers, but real maniacs about Top Gear/Racer franchise... and considerably competent... so we can be sure that this will be a premium collection.

BONUS:




 
I really don't know why people is so mad for nothing here recently, LOL.. Time to turn off the GPL for a while and take some fun ;)

About the game itself, no surprise it comes from brazilian developers, the original Top Ge... Racer games was a fever here in the early 90's, everyone knows the main theme song (Barry Leitch is a legend here - just search videos of him in brazilian game shows), everyone knows the basic gameplay (each car having their strenghts and downsides) and etc..

For who wants to know more, is Horizon Chase in 16 bits, since Horizon Chase itself was also brazilian produced and is 101% based on the SNES Top Gears games, even had Leitch as the soundtrack composer.

And I saw the "FIAT Uno de Firma with a ladder" meme on it too (was also in Horizon Chase), I wonder how many non-brazilian knows why every game from here has a Fiat Uno on it besides being a cheap car with millions of units sold. :p
 
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The notice is incomplete. There will be also a crossover between Top Gear and Horizon Chase content.

Another good news is that these guys are not money grabbers, but real maniacs about Top Gear/Racer franchise... and considerably competent... so we can be sure that this will be a premium collection.

BONUS:




Nice guitar solo version.

I also like the one below. These guys speak Spanish, so I guess Brazil isn't the only place people like it.

 
Nice guitar solo version.

I also like the one below. These guys speak Spanish, so I guess Brazil isn't the only place people like it.

These lads are Peruvians. It's a better version because of all the orchestra, but the guitar is playing the main melody wrong... but is in that "wrong but cool" way lol

Top Racergear (and here we call it Top Gear) was famous all around Latin America because most of the people here were experiencing videogaming with some delay. When the first TG was released, most of Brazilian players were yet playing the Atari 2600 in their houses... and this only when they have their own console, as most of kids only played at some friend's house or at some rental store (that used to have some TVs with a current gen console for rent by the hour).

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This was the early 90s in Brazil

Then, considering that "on rails" racing still popular and the SNES was one of the most popular consoles until almost the XXI Century, isn't strange that it's best racing game (yes... it's debatable. But I was a Mega Drive and PC player and, yet, think that the first TG still good even today) were the most popular. I believe that Brazilians and Latin Americans overall hype too much this game, but also believe that folks from the north hemisphere under appreciate the game (at least the first one, as I don't think that TG2 and 3000 are even good games). I can't think a SNES racer that had the racingcraft at the same level of TG1.. to be fair, even the best Mega Drive racers didn't get better than that... maybe the Road Rash games in some ways, but these ain't pure racing as Top Gear.

A more clean orchestral version, but I don't know what version I prefer. This Ulbra Orchestra is from Rio Grande do Sul-BR (the same state than Aquiris, the guys who made Horizon Chase).
 
If you're thinking "These look like the Lotus games", there's a reason for that, they basically are. Gremlin published those games by Magnetic Fields and then made console games based on them where the Lotus licence wasn't available.

The music in the trailer is literally the credits/finished game music of Lotus Turbo Challenge 2.
 

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