A strange little side quest
Mr Racer Stunt Mania may feel immediate, but the ideas around racing have been evolving for a very long time. A top Formula 1 tyre stop can happen in under two seconds; McLaren set a 1.80-second pit-stop record. That old idea kept changing rather than disappearing. Street Fighter II, released in 1991, turned head-to-head arcade fighting into a worldwide phenomenon and helped define the modern fighting-game genre. Grombi files that under: small game, surprisingly large backstory.
