Game Plot: "Bill Elliott's NASCAR Challenge" puts players in the driver's seat of a high-speed NASCAR racing experience. There's no intricate plot or storyline; the game is focused on delivering a ...

A glut of poorly made games for the Atari 2600 killed the marketplace ... on toy shelves instead of in the electronics department. The NES quickly became a defining part of 1980s culture ...

One of their best games was R.C. Pro-Am, a racing game unlike anything else available on the NES. Rare moved away from common racing game elements like first-person perspectives to give R.C. Pro ...

An incredibly popular release in both sales and lasting fan opinion, RC Pro-Am was an innovative racing game developed by Rare. Released in 1988, it pioneered something very important for the ...

Nintendo instituted a strict licensing program to ensure that the industry crash – with its glut of games of questionable quality -- would not happen with the NES. No unlicensed games would be ...

Super Mario Bros. features a timer system that speedrunners refer to as the "frame rule" - the game only checks for level completion every 21 frames.