A strange little side quest
One reason racing keeps producing good game ideas around Drive Mad Skin is that its history is full of strange turns. Atari's Gran Trak 10 from 1974 is recognized as the first arcade racing video game, decades before modern 3D racers. And the history keeps stacking up: Midway's Gun Fight from 1975 was the first arcade video game to use a microprocessor. That long chain of experiments is part of why racing still feels fresh when a game finds the right twist.