I’ve got a huge soft spot for arcade racers. While that term is so all-encompassing that it’ll include the likes of Ridge Racer and Daytona USA, what I’m really talking about here is the kind of arcade racer you get in the same building as a bowling alley. Rarely do these loud money-drains feature any actual classic machines, instead focusing on the big names. Usually there’s a Walking Dead game so violent it’s in a curtained-off booth, a Jurassic Park shooter, Space Invaders but new, some kind of VR Minions monstrosity, a massive wheel that you spin, a Nerf lightgun shooter that I used to be able to rinse for tokens until my local alley got wise and upped the required score, and a Fast and Furious hydraulic set-up. The money I’ve spent on the latter with my kids you wouldn’t believe, and it’s this game that has made its way to home consoles and PC.
