List of all scifi racing games

[Dan Locke]

I'm currently compiling a list of every publicly-released sci-fi racing game, ordered by console generation and alphabetized; I could post the (completed, to my knowledge) section on hovercrafts here:

Hovercraft:

Third generation:

Galaxy 5000 (NES)

Fourth generation:

F-Zero (SNES)

Hover Sprint (Amiga)

Moonspeeder (Falcon)

Uchuu Race: Astro Go! Go! (SNES)

Fifth generation:

Cyber Speedway (Saturn)

F-Zero X (N64)

Hi-Octane (PC/multiplatform)

Hyperdrive (Arcade)

Miracle Space Race (PlayStation)

Speed King (Arcade/PlayStation)

Wipeout (PlayStation/multiplatform)

Wipeout XL (PlayStation/multiplatform)

Wipeout 64 (N64)

Wipeout 3 (PlayStation)

Sixth generation:

F-Zero AX (Arcade)

F-Zero GX (Gamecube)

Hypersonic Xtreme (PS2)

Jet Ion Grand Prix (PS2)

Megarace 3 (Multiplatform)

Powerdrome (Multiplatform)

Quantum Redshift (XBOX)

Tube Slider (Gamecube)

Wipeout Fusion (PS2)

Wipeout Pulse (PS2, ported from PSP in 2009)

Seventh generation:

Antigrav Racing Championship (Xbox 360)

Death Road (Xbox 360)

Fatal Inertia (Xbox 360)

Fatal Inertia EX (PS3)

HalfBrick Rocket Racing (Xbox 360)

Wipeout HD/Fury (PS3)

Zoom (Xbox 360)

Zoomerz (Xbox 360)

Handheld exclusive:

F-Zero Climax (Game Boy Advance)

F-Zero: GP Legend (Game Boy Advance)

F-Zero: Maximum Velocity (Game Boy Advance)

FFRace (Mobile)

Future Racer (iPhone)

Galaxy Racers (DS)

Geopod (Mobile)

Geopod XE (Mobile)

Gravity Zero Racing (DS)

Low Grav Racer (iPhone)

Low Grav Racer 2 (iPhone)

Mag Racer (Mobile)

N-Speed Racing (Mobile)

Phaze (iPhone)

Protoxide Racing (Mobile)

Rapid Racoon (DS)

Slipstream (iPhone)

Speed Forge (Mobile)

Wipeout Pulse (PSP, ported to PS2 in 2009)

Wipeout Pure (PSP)

X-Razer (iPhone)

PC exclusive:

3D Hyperjet Racing (Shockwave)

AceSpeeder

AceSpeeder 2

Boona Racer 2000

Combat Racer

CyberRace

Ecksdee

El Loco Megabus

The Exiled

FASTER

FLY53R135 Racer (Shockwave)

Formula G1 (Shockwave)

Freeride Thrash

G-Speed

H-Craft Championship (vehicles have visible rotors)

HoverAce

Hovercraft Racing

HyperSpace OverDrive

HyperSpace Reality

LudoRace

Mini-Pod Racers

OverDrive

Propero

Skyracer Impulse (Flash)

Space Haste

Space Haste 2

Speed Trip

StaRacing

Super Boost Force

T-Zero Turbo X (Flash)

Temporal Power Racing

UFO Racing (Flash)

Voltage

Wind Chasers

Xenon Prime Racing (Flash)

XRacer

Zero G

Zero GTR

Bear in mind that many games are unreleased at the moment, and that this is only part of a much larger list (games like AeroGauge, Vapor TRX, and Ballistics reside in other sections). The "PC exclusive" section also covers Linux and Macintosh games.

Also, I wouldn't call these games "Wipeout clones" for two reasons: the first being that Wipeout only popularized a genre that had been around since 1988's Powerdrome for the Atari ST, and the second, that almost all games in this genre bear as much resemblance to Wipeout as Sonic the Hedgehog does to Super Mario Bros. The closest thing that I've seen to an actual Wipeout clone would be Antigrav Racing Championship on the Xbox 360; it's basically Wipeout Fusion with the hexagonal HUD motif from Wipeout HD, the colorful "rat-tail" exhaust flares from Wipeout 3, and two ships which look vaguely like the Qirex and Auricom. It also has no weapons, which is a shame, as the game is about as slow as the average kart-racer, and those games are only fun because of their weapons.