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Banger Racing 64

Short ovals, big bumps.

Old cars on short British ovals, bumping, spinning and falling to bits while a tannoy announcer calls every crash.

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About Banger Racing 64

This is banger racing, the sort you get on a Saturday night at a stadium in the middle of nowhere. You race old cars round short ovals, you bump the people in front, and the cars lose their panels, wheels and, in the case of a hearse, the coffin.

It plays from one to four players in split screen on the N64, with sixteen named computer drivers making up the field, and a tannoy announcer who reads out the menus and calls the race. The web version also lets you play online with up to three friends.

what's in it

  • A quick race, a meeting with heats and a final, a nine round championship ending at the World Final, a destruction derby, a practice field and a garage
  • Twelve tracks, most of them based on real British stadiums, from Mendips Raceway and Skegness to Cowdenbeath and Foxhall
  • Bangers, figure of eight, three-wheeled Robins that roll over, caravans, hearses, Special Rods and double deckers
  • Cars that dent, scrape, rust and lose their panels, with a recovery tractor that clears the wrecks
  • Sixteen computer drivers with their own ways, from Big Dave, who never brakes, to Grudge Gary, who hunts whoever hit him
  • Helpers for new players, so a Little Racer’s car accelerates by itself and can’t spin out
  • Rain, night meetings, skid marks, fireworks and a crowd that reacts to the big hits
  • Up to four players on one screen, or online with up to three friends

Controls

In the menus the arrow keys move the cursor. On the Who’s Racing screen each player joins by pressing A, and each gamepad is its own player, so up to four can share one screen.

ActionKeyboardGamepad
SteerArrow keys or A and DLeft stick or D-pad
AccelerateUp arrow or WA or right trigger
Brake and reverseDown arrow or SB or left trigger
HandbrakeSpaceX
HornHRight bumper
Look behindCY
PauseEnter, P or EscStart
Choose in the menusEnter or SpaceA
Go back in the menusEsc or BackspaceB

Your progress is saved in this browser. Online play connects your browsers directly to each other, using the free public PeerJS service.

N64 ROMs on request

These games run on a real Nintendo 64 as well as in the browser, and they need the Expansion Pak. If you’d like the ROMs, just ask me on GitHub or LinkedIn.

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