Big Red Racing

The game was originally slated for a November 1995 release.^[5] It was delayed into 1996 due to various changes and additions by the developers.^[1] The later Eurogamer writer Keith Stuart was commissioned to write an expansive backstory for the game, which was to be included in the printed manual. A few months before release, the publisher balked at the cost and cut the manual. Looking back in 2016, Stuart wrote: "They were right. It didn't really add anything, it was indulgent (...) No one will ever care that I spent several weeks writing that nonsense or that now it is gone forever".^[6]

GameSpot was positive to the game; although commenting that the title is not a simulation, but an arcade game, they recommended it for arcade fans.^[7] A Next Generation critic highly praised the variety of playable vehicles and tracks and the use of real time graphics. He remarked that while the low graphical detail makes the game look chunky, it also enables the game to run just as smoothly with six players as with only one. However, he criticized the single-player mode for the AI's apparent cheating, since there is always one racer just slightly ahead of the player car, and recommended that consumers not buy the game until they've made certain they have someone who will play it with them.^[8] Frank Snyder of Computer Game Review offered Big Red Racing a positive score.^[9]