I don’t know what is it about the 2010 - 2016 mobile games, but it feels like it was the peak of the industry. No intrusive ads, no paid subscriptions, just plain, simple, YET fun games.
Nope, that's your nostalgia talking. Mobile games kind of sucked back in early 2010s, too. There were a lot of interesting and creative games and the industry did show promise but for the most part, the market has always been an ad-ridden micro-transaction infested hellhole, it just got worse with time cause all that promise and potential got flushed down the toilet.
@@NicknineTheEagle Yeah, you’re probably right. I think it’s nostalgia, and the fact that I haven’t played them in so long that I’m forgetting the downsides of those games.
I miss many games listed here, but what I miss the most is offline games, nowadays almost every game is fully online to a point that if you don't have internet the game doesn't even open, and some people will say "but nowadays we have internet everywhere", and I kinda agree, but even "offline" games requiring internet just to blow ads into your screen is annoying.
Im wondering if you can get it maybe somewhere i always tried to somehow play it but failed to find it anywhere, spent so much time on rr3 and id love to see how rr2 was
@@fofo_j60 you're not looking in the right places. The game is 100% out there waiting for you. Of course I can't send links here though (I got to experience rr2 a year or two ago). Actually got it from a channel I'm subbed to here on TH-cam. That's why I love android.
Raging Thunder 2 and the Reckless Racing games were the goats. Edit: And also Carmageddon. The game was a slightly better version of the original 1997 DOS game (because it's a modern port, duh). Edit 2: Ok this game isn't gone but I had to include it here because this game is almost completely forgotten by everyone. Pocket Rally is a pretty simple and straightforward game: You race in some rally tracks and unlock new cars. No pay-to-win junk, just simple fun gameplay.
2.0...I remember installing it and the disbelief I had when I learned I needed hearts or something like that to move to other level. And if you lose hearts you either PAY to get more or wait like an hour to move to next level...fair to say that was the quickest uninstall I did
There's another Asphalt game you forgot: Asphalt Xtreme. Its physics was the one that powered Asphalt 9, and the game's take on off-road racing with similar mechanics to their street-racing mainline series makes it one of the best game I've ever played. However, the game was left rotten and was bought by Netflix, who left it in the playstore at 3.6 stars to die. On the Project Cars thing, well, the devs of PC, SlightlymadStudio, messed up their latest release called PC3 and things went downhill for the studio from then on. Personal take, I actually kinda like Forza streets. There's not much function for the game, but the vibe and how the game looks feels clean and modern, fits the tone of the game. Even when the control is just pressing the spacebar, it's still looks pretty good to see a car turning around in those corners. And the customizations are decent even when it doesn't go as far as full-on spoilers and bodykits. Maybe, and just maybe, Turn10 could make a proper racing game with the atmosphere and story of Forza Street, not just with a spacebar throttle.
god, i really playing enjoy both games and i search to find them again, so skidstorm wasnt playable anymore, except revolt you can still play it using rvgl
when it comes to racing rivals, apparently the game wasn't making any money on itself anymore, in fact, one youtuber did an interview with the creator of Racing Rivals and you can learn a lot about everything there, and since it's long and I don't understand English very well, it would be hard for me to watch it because I would have to translate some words and e.g. instead of watching an hour, I would watch three hours XD.
@@MittshuAfter the game was "rebooted" was when the real fall from grace started I feel, players who had put lots of time into the game were pretty much unable to use their stuff in the "new" version of the game. That was the reason I quite anyway.
Fun fact:The sports car challenge supposed to be a marketing of Volkswagen Group AG since the game only have a Brand that part of Volkswagen Group,you can acces every manufacture website from the game (Except Formula masters China)
@@ikarimisu0184 It had a beta but it never got to officially release in play stores, likely because it went to development limbo and the available developers are being forced to spend more time with Asphalt 8 and 9 instead
For those who don't know, the creators of Racing Rivals are making a new game called Auto Legends. You'll be able to race for cars, there'll probably be similar things to turf wars etc, some crates with rare cars. It'll be on phone and pc.
I just personally wanted to give a quick shout-out to Ridge Racer: Slipstream which pretty much put the later console RRs into a mobile format. It was definitely a fun game, especially with it's arcade brake-to-drift gameplay and ironically had more content than Ridge Racer Vita.
Bro i cant believe that after 6-7 years of search i finally found the sport cars challenge, i used to play on my dad's iphone 4 so much and never heard of it ever again, until now
I've played Asphalt 8: Airborne, all of 2015, and maybe 'til half of 2016, or ends of that year (idk). It wasn't a big part of my life, but has a place in my heart.
I played GT Racing 2 for a bit a while back. I returned to it later because it was interestingly good despite it's age. Interestingly I booted up the game supposedly a month after the servers went down and somehow, when I eventually tried it out, multiplayer worked! I haven't figured this out.
Asphalt Nitro was such a lifesaver, as someone who had a phone that couldn’t Run Asphalt 8, This was an awesome alternate that took up less storage and resources.
another thing to add; on 15:12 asphalt nitro 2 DOES exist, i actually have it installed on my phone. the main reason it isn't on the play store/app store is kind of unknown but from knowledge: the game is still stuck in beta and eventually got cancelled completely, with there being very few cars and no multiplayer
Did anyone remember the Turbo (the snail game that is simular to Angry Birds Go)? As well as EVERY fast and furious games (especially my favourite FF6 The Game)?
my youtube recommended actually serving a good video? Impossible! jokes aside- Hey! A large chunk of these games you discuss are super nostalgic to me and i've completely forgot about them
The mobile racing game I enjoy the most is Carx Rally due to the amount of control you have on your car eg: the amount of throttle/brake pressure you can apply on the car. I tried other mobile racing games I get recommended in the playstore but the others just feel arcady with the drift=more speed and nitros and it doesn't feel like a challenge when you fight against enemies.
Asphalt nitro 2 is actually fun lol, its basically asphalt 9, but more device and storage friendly with only around 25-90 mb to download (comparing to Asphalt 9 which had around 9 GB sotrage)
@@Tezzaaaa0204 ohh shit my bad i mixed up with asphalt nitro1 haha. Still the asphalt nitro2 was really good. It really is asphalt 9 lite there wasn't that much of cars tho
The reason I know this game cause while I was watching the Deathrace movie I just thought a racing game where you can shoot people would be amazing so I just googled if there was a game I tried to play it but got bored easily cause you barely drive in that game.
Seeing someone even mention Drag Racing: Club Wars is so heartwarming, lol. Been playing that a lot because i was a racing games freak when i was younger.
8:37 I believe that is referring to Last december 1st (2023). That message has been showing up for a long time now, probably since last october, and I'm pretty sure it's just a generic message referring to it being delisted on the play store as the servers still kinda seem functional as of right now. EDIT: By some coincidence it looks like the servers are now gone completely, as of sometime within eight days of writing this comment. The game crashes when it attempts to connect to the servers now, and you can only play it offline. I launched the game with wifi turned off, did a race and it ran fine, but as soon as I turned my phones wifi back on and tried to do an event, it threw an error and then force quit the app.
No brother, it's good to have found you, your video reminded me of many games that I played at the time and over time I forgot their names but in my memory I remembered what great games they were, race king, racing rivals, nitro nation stories, thanks for the video man, I'm super happy to have seen this video, greetings from Argentina.
I remember some racing mobile games by Bandai namco, the one which the gimmick was you could draw in the entire track map how the car could move, and you just had to drift when the game starts
I loved the first GT Racing: Motor Academy. It was a top tier mobile racing sim of its time with fun progression and huge car list as if Gran Turismo is ported into mobile. I would argue it was better than its sequel during its peak; the collaboration event with Redbull F1. Also, I adore the Hyundai Edition version of the game too. Sad to see both went away due to architecture incompatibility. Some other games from my childhood that you missed includes Need For Speed Shift (+Hot Pursuit), Fast Five, Real Racing 2 (it’s much better than 3), 2K Drive (for the iOS, extremely underrated), ACR Drift (OG tap racing game), and Drift Spirits (probably the greatest tap racing game ever).
I still play the Drift Spirits game, in JP, it's going really strong, Also drift girls was sad to go, it was a korean game that's was a Drift Spirits Clone, with partially dating sim Another kinda drift spirits clone: Racing Empires on IOS / Android but without all the waifu stuff
@@matthewl5434 Yes! The C3 Picasso was such an iconic car of that game. I had mine in lime green and will always use it for a joyride in France Raceway. I believe it was the only game to have that car, too.
I did play Adrenaline Racing Hypercars!! Very fun game for sure. And the soundtrack was wonderful. Its still the only racer on phones ive seen that can give Asphalt a run for its money.
12:25 Hutch also have Top Drives which seems to be equally or more focused on than Rebel Racing. Very interesting game that I feel is quite underrated.
If you ever do a part 2, please do AG Drive. It's an old F-Zero style singleplayer racer from 2015-ish made by ZORG Entertainment. The gameplay... could be better, but the atmosphere is great and the soundtrack is phenomenal. A version of the game running through an emulator is available on the Google Play store, and as it is not always online the thing still runs.
Asphalt overdrive is one i will miss for sure. Game was a nice "infinite racer" - subway surfer kind of game, but with cars. Simple premise of having to weave in and out of lanes to avoid traffic, obstacles, police... It did suffer the gameloft curse of needing "gas" to do a lot of stuff, with wait times in various places, or the option to play ads to either double your score, money or speed up the refilling process. With rather nice music and 80s styling. Shame to see it gone, as it was a game i replayed constantly. I think last time i tried it was around.. 2019 maybe... Alas.
There is another mobile game that I used to play a lot. It was also a tap racer, but this was an actual good one, as you had to manage braking zones on your own. The game takes place in japan on the touges and you are racing AI or other players down or up the mountain. The graphics were CRISP and I played it WAY back in 2014 or something like that. I've tried to look for it but I can't find it. This was a game on IOS, dunno if it ever was on android.
There were also two Drift spirits games: the first one is Drift girls, yup, a Drift Spirit Clone but with waifus The second one is called Racing Empires on IOS / Android, which is probably closer to Drift spirits without the silly waifus stuff
This brought back some memories! I also remember playing DrawRace 2, Ridge Racer Slipstream, Asphalt Xtreme, Fast & Furious Takedown, GTI EDITION 35 and Rally the World. The Game. , all of those dont exist anymore.
Honorable mention: Drift Girls was really good game made by a korean company, for some odd reason, it got pulled off and ended support, then it was handed to a chinese company, it was Drift Spirits Clone but with Waifus
15:12 asphalt nitro 2 is a real game that was "released" around 3 years ago, but never in an official way for some reason. It had 2 tracks which were reskins of asphalt 9 tracks.
The reason why Asphalt Street Storm was removed I think is because in the last few months of the game there was no players to be found in the lobby except for some bots. I remember searching for online players for a whole day but didn't found anyone.
I played Forza Street I love the fact that we were in Miami The vibe was awesome Songs and Ui were good The sound of cars was also really good The main problem is that we can't buy cars and we also can't control the car Races were short and in cinematic style It's a wasted potential Imagine a Forza Horizon set in Miami on Mobile It could've been great Recently, we got CSR 3 It's basically the same but less cool in so many ways especially the vibe
One of the best mobile racing game i ever played is Road Warrior by mobjoy now known as rusty harpy. The game existed since 2011 or so (based what i can find on the dev fb page) to around 2016 from what i've heard when it got taken down, it a 2d game where you do barrel rolls and shoot other racers. You can upgrade your cars for more responsive barrel roll, speed, guns and protections (there's also a storyline where after you defeated each of the boss you get their unique cars which is non-upgradable). You can still download the game if you have the ipa or apk file of the game
Despite F&F games (6 and Legacy) being chocking cash grabs by Universal Pictures, those games had nice atmosphere and, in some cases, curious racing systems.
W mans for mentioning my whole childhood, used to spend hours playing raging thunder 2, angry birds go and almost zeroed nitro nation stories, too bad its delisted i would go back and play it just for the kicks lmao
Well, Re-Volt got delisted from google play store and app store because some korean company purchase the game's ip and it makes a lot more worse, so they decided to delisted it. If you wanna play Re-Volt, go play the RVGL, the rewrite of Re-Volt
I was surprised to see Indestructible mentioned, it didnt really have any racing in it, but as a kid who played Burnin Rubber 3 a ton, I loved car combat games, so I played Indestructible a ton on my first phone.
Bro seeing sports car challenge is so nostalgic. I used to play that _all_ the time on my iPhone 3GS which I still have btw and it somehow still works lol.
When you mention racing games with weapons, it reminds me of Road Warriors, it was awesome. I used to struggle against that boss who used EMP on their car Asphalt 6 also good, i used to lust over vehicles like DS Survolt and you can modify your garage with cars you want to display
There is one racing game that needed to be mentioned. Re-Volt. Yeah, the classic RC racing game from 1999 actually had a mobile release called Re-Volt Classic
10:20 I Greatly miss Racing Rivals as well! Missed my Scion TC, BMW M2 and most importantly, my Subaru WRC! 👌 I did some research on it recently and found out that the devs decided to shut it down because the game "got too costly to maintain and keep running".. Maybe the revenue dropped as well and made things even tougher. But it would be amazing if RR somehow revives in the future! (I highly doubt it would tho...unless it's updated to match the trends nowadays, which may be a good thing or a "bad" thing 😅)
In case you were wondering, before the Forza Street namesake, it was initially named Miami Street by developer Electric Square. It was rebranded to Forza Street in 2019, but really, it was thr same thing underneath the new look.
My favorite mobile game that got delisted was this game called "Super Battle Tactics" it was 4 vs 4 tank battles. There were different classes of tanks like assault tanks, support tanks, first strike tanks, and even had helicopters. Pretty much each tank had 5 numbers that it would roll for damage. There were even special abilities like napalm, shields, and evade (helicopters only). It came out around 2012-2013 and I think it got axed around 2016-2017.
GT Racing is probably the most memorable one I had ever experienced during my childhood... it's sad that they had to close the servers most likely because of license and being outdated
I personally liked "racing rivals" back when it was on the mobile store❤😢 that was my favorite dragon game because it's showing me what drag racing was in general and it taught me what manual gearboxes were
There was also "race off 2016", "Road warrior multiplayer", "rocket cars", "DrawRace 2 HD" all great games, if you downloaded them at least 1 time (except for road warrior multiplayer and DrawRace 2 HD), you can still play them if you go in your profile and than go in downloaded apps (this is at least in App Store, idk other phones)
Thx for the video, I had no idea so many of these games were already delisted goddamn. Mobile stores really don’t help cause they force you to update to newer APIs as time goes on which is terrible. But the worst thing is making the games unplayable because of servers, like cmon dudes! Such a waste.
Idk if anyone remembered this, but Sonic and All Stars Racing Transformed had a mobile port. Im aware it may have not been the best game, but boy was it fun.
Anyone remember Raging Thunder 2? That racing game took me hours before and honestly it was great fun. It had repairs and bumps against other cars and it was just awesome. Got back to it a couple months ago and enjoyed it for like 3 days until i finished everything HAHAHAHA
I would like to mention 2 more games which I absolutely adored and still might be on the top 10 best mobile games I've ever played. The first one's Soccer Rally Championship 2, despite being a Rocket League with rally physics it had such an addicting gameplay and the OST was incredible for its time; The other is Mini Motor Racing WRT, about this game, there's still the original version on Play Store but I still think the WRT version had that little bit more, especially with those licensed Kia and ChoroQ cars slotted in, and that fun online multiplayer that made races pretty competitive
Fast & Furious 6 and Fast & Furious Legacy were pretty good games. I didn't get very far in them, but they were fun. It's a shame they took them down, alongside the servers.
I don’t know what is it about the 2010 - 2016 mobile games, but it feels like it was the peak of the industry. No intrusive ads, no paid subscriptions, just plain, simple, YET fun games.
Nothing hit better than Asphalt 8 between 2013-2015 😭 The game is so Pay2Win now
@@SmthSmthASMRnot even pay2win just straight pay2play
You're kidding by saying there were no intrusive ads back in 2016.
Nope, that's your nostalgia talking. Mobile games kind of sucked back in early 2010s, too. There were a lot of interesting and creative games and the industry did show promise but for the most part, the market has always been an ad-ridden micro-transaction infested hellhole, it just got worse with time cause all that promise and potential got flushed down the toilet.
@@NicknineTheEagle Yeah, you’re probably right. I think it’s nostalgia, and the fact that I haven’t played them in so long that I’m forgetting the downsides of those games.
I miss many games listed here, but what I miss the most is offline games, nowadays almost every game is fully online to a point that if you don't have internet the game doesn't even open, and some people will say "but nowadays we have internet everywhere", and I kinda agree, but even "offline" games requiring internet just to blow ads into your screen is annoying.
Couldn't agree more. Stop killing games.
@@xandygameryt PREACH!
nobody cares about our opinion :/
@@AhmadMahirShadab_1 Nobody asked for your comment either.
@@xandygameryt bro's mad 💀
Real Racing 2 was peak, used to play it very often back in the days.
Im wondering if you can get it maybe somewhere i always tried to somehow play it but failed to find it anywhere, spent so much time on rr3 and id love to see how rr2 was
@@fofo_j60
you're not looking in the right places. The game is 100% out there waiting for you.
Of course I can't send links here though (I got to experience rr2 a year or two ago).
Actually got it from a channel I'm subbed to here on TH-cam.
That's why I love android.
@@JstormZx alright alright thank you ill dig more then
@@JstormZx Lol you can still post links here
@@xXVibrantSnowXx external links, like from outside TH-cam.
Where I got the game specifically. Those types of links cannot be posted.
Raging Thunder 2 and the Reckless Racing games were the goats.
Edit: And also Carmageddon. The game was a slightly better version of the original 1997 DOS game (because it's a modern port, duh).
Edit 2: Ok this game isn't gone but I had to include it here because this game is almost completely forgotten by everyone. Pocket Rally is a pretty simple and straightforward game: You race in some rally tracks and unlock new cars. No pay-to-win junk, just simple fun gameplay.
you just woke up so many memories
Bruh I've been looking to see if I can get Raging Thunder 2 a few days ago cause I wanted to get it again.
@@RMT-M700 you can search on google for apks I have it on my phone
raging thunder was fire, but the game had tilt controls and I got used to touch controls but still, it's a good ass game
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Angry Birds Go was still more enjoyable and could have success, but then 2.0....
search up angry birds nitro
same bro, og Angry birds go was the best
The game used to be great but i lost ALL my progress after the big update and i had so many cool things like stuff the Ayrton Senna update 😭
@@NojoNortu google angry birds go nitro
2.0...I remember installing it and the disbelief I had when I learned I needed hearts or something like that to move to other level. And if you lose hearts you either PAY to get more or wait like an hour to move to next level...fair to say that was the quickest uninstall I did
Pixel Car Racer, Death rally and the game that introduced me to gambling Racing Rivals
Pixel Car is still on Google play. It's most recent update was January fifth of this year :)
I still have pixel car racer… It wouldve been top 10 all time mobile racing games if they ended up updating and added story game
HOLY SHIT DEATH RALLY IS SO PEAK GAMEPLAY WTF I FORGOT
Pixel car racer was so good
@@TopChie.Pixel Car Racer was like a competitor to Pixeljunk Racers imo.
There's another Asphalt game you forgot: Asphalt Xtreme. Its physics was the one that powered Asphalt 9, and the game's take on off-road racing with similar mechanics to their street-racing mainline series makes it one of the best game I've ever played. However, the game was left rotten and was bought by Netflix, who left it in the playstore at 3.6 stars to die.
On the Project Cars thing, well, the devs of PC, SlightlymadStudio, messed up their latest release called PC3 and things went downhill for the studio from then on.
Personal take, I actually kinda like Forza streets. There's not much function for the game, but the vibe and how the game looks feels clean and modern, fits the tone of the game. Even when the control is just pressing the spacebar, it's still looks pretty good to see a car turning around in those corners. And the customizations are decent even when it doesn't go as far as full-on spoilers and bodykits. Maybe, and just maybe, Turn10 could make a proper racing game with the atmosphere and story of Forza Street, not just with a spacebar throttle.
the netflix version is still being updated iirc
@@Smolflakeand it isn't bad anyways...
How forgotten is asphalt 2
@@mezomezo8640 asphalt 2? That game was back in the java phones era, buddy.
@@mezomezo8640 Pretty forgotten. But I still remember the Nintendo DS version of it. It was a very fun game.
Hotwheels race off, the best from Mattel and Hutch games that live in our memories.
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Two games I wanna mention are ReVolt and Skidstorm. First one being obvious and the second being a top down racer, and both were really good tbh
god, i really playing enjoy both games
and i search to find them again, so skidstorm wasnt playable anymore, except revolt
you can still play it using rvgl
ReVolt felt like the perfect racing game for so long, makes me happy people still remember it, even mod it
Skidstorm was one of my favourite mobile games and It's a shame it was shutdown
My god was skidstorm awesome. Shame they sold it to the chinese company which eventually killed it...
I think that most games with licensed cars get delisted bc of the duration of the licenses expire
Which is why, unless you have tons of money to re-buy(?), is better to:
A) Not give the actual names
B) Create original cars
They could pull a gta
when it comes to racing rivals, apparently the game wasn't making any money on itself anymore, in fact, one youtuber did an interview with the creator of Racing Rivals and you can learn a lot about everything there, and since it's long and I don't understand English very well, it would be hard for me to watch it because I would have to translate some words and e.g. instead of watching an hour, I would watch three hours XD.
@@Mittshu Interesting.
@@MittshuAfter the game was "rebooted" was when the real fall from grace started I feel, players who had put lots of time into the game were pretty much unable to use their stuff in the "new" version of the game. That was the reason I quite anyway.
Fun fact:The sports car challenge supposed to be a marketing of Volkswagen Group AG since the game only have a Brand that part of Volkswagen Group,you can acces every manufacture website from the game (Except Formula masters China)
this 2010-2017 era of mobile games was peak. i miss that era badly. tons of fun racing games i used to play over my samsung tablet :(
You Forgot about Fast & Furious Legacy, it was a banger of its time but unfortunately they took it down
And there was also Fast & Furious 6 the game, honestly it wasn't that good, but it was the precedent Legacy kinda used as a base
That one was such a classic haha, I miss it
Don’t forget Fast and furious by firemint on the 3gs days
@@Lethe126I feel like that one might’ve been better I remember it was just drag racing but it was solid
The real banger was mobile "Driver San Francisco"
asphalt overdrive is actually playable, there was a mod that came out some time ago that enables online and balances it
and asphalt nitro 2 is real game that plays like asphalt 9. idk why its still not on google play tho
Pls link the overdrive mod
i think it's still in development or it's a complete leak or prototype that's not supposed to exist @@copmidsize
@@ikarimisu0184nah asphalt nitro 2 is not a leak, i think its premium game type shit
@@ikarimisu0184 It had a beta but it never got to officially release in play stores, likely because it went to development limbo and the available developers are being forced to spend more time with Asphalt 8 and 9 instead
For those who don't know, the creators of Racing Rivals are making a new game called Auto Legends. You'll be able to race for cars, there'll probably be similar things to turf wars etc, some crates with rare cars. It'll be on phone and pc.
Thanks I just signed up for the closed beta
thanks dude, just signed up
So basically gambling, nah thanks i will pass
I just personally wanted to give a quick shout-out to Ridge Racer: Slipstream which pretty much put the later console RRs into a mobile format. It was definitely a fun game, especially with it's arcade brake-to-drift gameplay and ironically had more content than Ridge Racer Vita.
Ridge racer Draw & Drift was also live as a beta for the canadian app store for a short period of time then got removed
Bro i cant believe that after 6-7 years of search i finally found the sport cars challenge, i used to play on my dad's iphone 4 so much and never heard of it ever again, until now
I really loved Gt racing 2. It was even from it that I knew about midnight city by m83.
Yea I remembered that soundtrack too, back in 2016 2017
@@MinhHien091 I still have it on my phone
I've played Asphalt 8: Airborne, all of 2015, and maybe 'til half of 2016, or ends of that year (idk).
It wasn't a big part of my life, but has a place in my heart.
Its sadly and entire different game now
at this point if you want to play it you are better off downloading an apk since the p2w sh1t drains your wallet
Asphalt Xtreme too I really missed this game before GL takeover to Netfilx games it was good memories.😢
i love how asphalt 7 still somehows to get players at this day and age
Even NOVA 3 had active multiplayer until they shutdown the servers.
@@caydenph2741 broooo NOVA 3 multiplayer was insane, i remember using the mines alot... also how long was it until they shut them down?
@@MarkStillPlays
I think they shutdown in early 2023 or so.
I played GT Racing 2 for a bit a while back. I returned to it later because it was interestingly good despite it's age. Interestingly I booted up the game supposedly a month after the servers went down and somehow, when I eventually tried it out, multiplayer worked! I haven't figured this out.
Asphalt Nitro was such a lifesaver, as someone who had a phone that couldn’t Run Asphalt 8, This was an awesome alternate that took up less storage and resources.
I used to play MMX racing religiously when I was super young, you just unlocked a memory for me lmao. Game has not crossed my mind for YEARS.
8:40 the servers for gt racing 2 were already shut down in that same date last year
career mode is still playable, just that you can't access stuff like data transfer and online
another thing to add; on 15:12
asphalt nitro 2 DOES exist, i actually have it installed on my phone. the main reason it isn't on the play store/app store is kind of unknown but from knowledge:
the game is still stuck in beta and eventually got cancelled completely, with there being very few cars and no multiplayer
It exists but I'm pretty sure it was inaccessible in the US
I have it on my phone (apk modded ofc)
hello! GT Racing 2 actually hasn't been shut down last I checked, at least not in New Zealand
Did anyone remember the Turbo (the snail game that is simular to Angry Birds Go)? As well as EVERY fast and furious games (especially my favourite FF6 The Game)?
Were they made by the company that had a bomb as their logo?
The one that sticks out in my memory the most is Pixel Car Racers.. God, I loved that game back in the day
my youtube recommended actually serving a good video? Impossible!
jokes aside- Hey! A large chunk of these games you discuss are super nostalgic to me and i've completely forgot about them
I remember most of these game including The need for speed games like Undercover, Shift, Hot Pursuit and Shift 2 Unleashed.
The mobile racing game I enjoy the most is Carx Rally due to the amount of control you have on your car eg: the amount of throttle/brake pressure you can apply on the car. I tried other mobile racing games I get recommended in the playstore but the others just feel arcady with the drift=more speed and nitros and it doesn't feel like a challenge when you fight against enemies.
Play more CarX games, their whole selling point is the physics
Raging Thunder 2 is nostalgic, I remembered that time when my dad bought out our very first tablet he even installed it way back 2014.
RT2 and RT solos all these other games
Asphalt nitro 2 is actually fun lol, its basically asphalt 9, but more device and storage friendly with only around 25-90 mb to download (comparing to Asphalt 9 which had around 9 GB sotrage)
Man i used to grind on that leaderboard with my Konigegg one:one (sry for the spelling). Found memories
@@highoncyanide8023 wait, Koenigsegg one:1 is available in AN2?
I thought that car is only in AN1?
@@Tezzaaaa0204 ohh shit my bad i mixed up with asphalt nitro1 haha. Still the asphalt nitro2 was really good. It really is asphalt 9 lite there wasn't that much of cars tho
Anyone remember Death Race the game
The reason I know this game cause while I was watching the Deathrace movie I just thought a racing game where you can shoot people would be amazing so I just googled if there was a game I tried to play it but got bored easily cause you barely drive in that game.
THANK YOU SO MUCH BRO I WAS SEARCING THAT GAME FOR LIKE YEARS. THANK YOU SO MUCH
Not only a death race but a death rally also. Both a great games
@@dastarunner8562 Is death rally still around?
Jason Statham game 😅 yeah it's a good game. Free too.
4:47 Nostalgia
Seeing someone even mention Drag Racing: Club Wars is so heartwarming, lol.
Been playing that a lot because i was a racing games freak when i was younger.
8:37 I believe that is referring to Last december 1st (2023). That message has been showing up for a long time now, probably since last october, and I'm pretty sure it's just a generic message referring to it being delisted on the play store as the servers still kinda seem functional as of right now.
EDIT: By some coincidence it looks like the servers are now gone completely, as of sometime within eight days of writing this comment. The game crashes when it attempts to connect to the servers now, and you can only play it offline. I launched the game with wifi turned off, did a race and it ran fine, but as soon as I turned my phones wifi back on and tried to do an event, it threw an error and then force quit the app.
No brother, it's good to have found you, your video reminded me of many games that I played at the time and over time I forgot their names but in my memory I remembered what great games they were, race king, racing rivals, nitro nation stories, thanks for the video man, I'm super happy to have seen this video, greetings from Argentina.
3:34 I REMEMBER
I still have it, S23Ultra
GT Racing 2 was my childhood.
It made me love cars, and I will never forget about it.
❤
I remember some racing mobile games by Bandai namco, the one which the gimmick was you could draw in the entire track map how the car could move, and you just had to drift when the game starts
But I don't remember the name.
(edit: nevermind, ridge racer draw and drift)
Why does that developer name sound similar
@@teachmehowtofard2849
....Bro
Because they also made Pac-Man...
@@teachmehowtofard2849 pac man
@@teachmehowtofard2849project cars
I was hoping to see Paper Cars/Cars & Guns there but yeah, we grew up with such an amazing games
I loved the first GT Racing: Motor Academy. It was a top tier mobile racing sim of its time with fun progression and huge car list as if Gran Turismo is ported into mobile. I would argue it was better than its sequel during its peak; the collaboration event with Redbull F1. Also, I adore the Hyundai Edition version of the game too. Sad to see both went away due to architecture incompatibility.
Some other games from my childhood that you missed includes Need For Speed Shift (+Hot Pursuit), Fast Five, Real Racing 2 (it’s much better than 3), 2K Drive (for the iOS, extremely underrated), ACR Drift (OG tap racing game), and Drift Spirits (probably the greatest tap racing game ever).
I still play the Drift Spirits game, in JP, it's going really strong, Also drift girls was sad to go, it was a korean game that's was a Drift Spirits Clone, with partially dating sim
Another kinda drift spirits clone: Racing Empires on IOS / Android but without all the waifu stuff
@@xXVibrantSnowXx I only played the global server at the time and didn't touch the JP version. I eventually moved on from that subgenres though.
I remember playing Motor Academy and loading my garage with nothing but Citroen C3 Picassos, certainly a time that was
@@matthewl5434 Yes! The C3 Picasso was such an iconic car of that game. I had mine in lime green and will always use it for a joyride in France Raceway.
I believe it was the only game to have that car, too.
I did play Adrenaline Racing Hypercars!! Very fun game for sure. And the soundtrack was wonderful. Its still the only racer on phones ive seen that can give Asphalt a run for its money.
12:25 Hutch also have Top Drives which seems to be equally or more focused on than Rebel Racing. Very interesting game that I feel is quite underrated.
Thank you so much, ive been searching for these games, i appreciate your research man, God bless❤
i still remember NFS Undercover for the iPhone 1 😭
Was IT crap?
It felt very slow D: @@Chłopiecgg
@@GordFT ok thx
If you ever do a part 2, please do AG Drive. It's an old F-Zero style singleplayer racer from 2015-ish made by ZORG Entertainment. The gameplay... could be better, but the atmosphere is great and the soundtrack is phenomenal. A version of the game running through an emulator is available on the Google Play store, and as it is not always online the thing still runs.
I missed Race Kings so much, I invested a lot of time into it and I really liked it.
Asphalt overdrive is one i will miss for sure.
Game was a nice "infinite racer" - subway surfer kind of game, but with cars. Simple premise of having to weave in and out of lanes to avoid traffic, obstacles, police...
It did suffer the gameloft curse of needing "gas" to do a lot of stuff, with wait times in various places, or the option to play ads to either double your score, money or speed up the refilling process.
With rather nice music and 80s styling.
Shame to see it gone, as it was a game i replayed constantly. I think last time i tried it was around.. 2019 maybe... Alas.
There is another mobile game that I used to play a lot. It was also a tap racer, but this was an actual good one, as you had to manage braking zones on your own. The game takes place in japan on the touges and you are racing AI or other players down or up the mountain. The graphics were CRISP and I played it WAY back in 2014 or something like that. I've tried to look for it but I can't find it. This was a game on IOS, dunno if it ever was on android.
It was drifting spirits
@@Goddrifter Which to my knowledge still works, but you have to download the Japanese version as the international server was shutdown long ago.
@@doabarrellroll69 not gonna, still missed that game til this day, almost finished the story mode as well….
There were also two Drift spirits games: the first one is Drift girls, yup, a Drift Spirit Clone but with waifus
The second one is called Racing Empires on IOS / Android, which is probably closer to Drift spirits without the silly waifus stuff
This brought back some memories! I also remember playing DrawRace 2, Ridge Racer Slipstream, Asphalt Xtreme, Fast & Furious Takedown, GTI EDITION 35 and Rally the World. The Game. , all of those dont exist anymore.
Also Olzhass's parking sims getting removed and re-released
Olzhass is falling off soo hard.
Honorable mention: Drift Girls was really good game made by a korean company, for some odd reason, it got pulled off and ended support, then it was handed to a chinese company, it was Drift Spirits Clone but with Waifus
Asphalt Nitro is Basically Asphalt 9 Lite
I played it
It's offline
Zero micro transactions
Really fun
But i wish the sounds were like Asphalt Nitro 1
Try asphalt nitro 2, it's still pretty new so not much microtransaction and really fun (i hope it stays that way)
@@mightypopkorn I belive that is what he meant
@@EdyAlbertoMSGT3 oh i just noticed he says asphalt nitro 1 at the end, sorry
@@mightypopkorn i meant Asphalt Nitro 2 is basically Asphalt 9 Lite
I was playing Gear Club on my switch literally an hour ago, not only is my pc reacting to my searches, its reacting to what I do on other consoles!
15:12 asphalt nitro 2 is a real game that was "released" around 3 years ago, but never in an official way for some reason. It had 2 tracks which were reskins of asphalt 9 tracks.
And the entire game its a a reskin of Asphalt 9 but smh better imo
The reason why Asphalt Street Storm was removed I think is because in the last few months of the game there was no players to be found in the lobby except for some bots. I remember searching for online players for a whole day but didn't found anyone.
I played Forza Street
I love the fact that we were in Miami
The vibe was awesome
Songs and Ui were good
The sound of cars was also really good
The main problem is that we can't buy cars and we also can't control the car
Races were short and in cinematic style
It's a wasted potential
Imagine a Forza Horizon set in Miami on Mobile
It could've been great
Recently, we got CSR 3
It's basically the same but less cool in so many ways especially the vibe
Agreed. Forza Street wasn’t that bad overall. I found myself actually enjoying it a lot and I played it all the way to the end of its life cycle.
@@jinsangyang4110 literally me
One of the best mobile racing game i ever played is Road Warrior by mobjoy now known as rusty harpy. The game existed since 2011 or so (based what i can find on the dev fb page) to around 2016 from what i've heard when it got taken down, it a 2d game where you do barrel rolls and shoot other racers. You can upgrade your cars for more responsive barrel roll, speed, guns and protections (there's also a storyline where after you defeated each of the boss you get their unique cars which is non-upgradable). You can still download the game if you have the ipa or apk file of the game
Don't let this distract you from the fact that the AI at 8:41 is called Agung Susilo
Explain
@@EdyAlbertoMSGT3 Among Sus
@@rickygrenadier6303 What does that mean?
I have found my channel...I love to discuss about these games as I remember them all by heart.
Subscribed.
Despite F&F games (6 and Legacy) being chocking cash grabs by Universal Pictures, those games had nice atmosphere and, in some cases, curious racing systems.
MMX Racing was my pure childhood mobile game, not the hill climb version.
Did anyone here ever play Rival Gears Racing, you know before its servers were shut down
Oh I know that game, online game best
Its a drag racer?
@@Chłopiecgg no it's duel race
The racing game no one wanted, but everyone needed
Racing Empires on IOS / Android was also pretty decent
W mans for mentioning my whole childhood, used to spend hours playing raging thunder 2, angry birds go and almost zeroed nitro nation stories, too bad its delisted i would go back and play it just for the kicks lmao
were is revolt
Well, Re-Volt got delisted from google play store and app store because some korean company purchase the game's ip and it makes a lot more worse, so they decided to delisted it. If you wanna play Re-Volt, go play the RVGL, the rewrite of Re-Volt
@@evilshadow7637 Ayy at least someone here remembers Revolt.
In the graveyard
@@xXVibrantSnowXx Unfortunately.
I was surprised to see Indestructible mentioned, it didnt really have any racing in it, but as a kid who played Burnin Rubber 3 a ton, I loved car combat games, so I played Indestructible a ton on my first phone.
Racing Rivals was in its last days completely dead
Bro seeing sports car challenge is so nostalgic. I used to play that _all_ the time on my iPhone 3GS which I still have btw and it somehow still works lol.
anyone know what game the clip at 0:22 is from with the blue RX-8 in the desert?
That is NFS Hot Pursuit for mobile
NFS 14
@@pranavc.d9268hot pursuit
When you mention racing games with weapons, it reminds me of Road Warriors, it was awesome. I used to struggle against that boss who used EMP on their car
Asphalt 6 also good, i used to lust over vehicles like DS Survolt and you can modify your garage with cars you want to display
There is one racing game that needed to be mentioned. Re-Volt. Yeah, the classic RC racing game from 1999 actually had a mobile release called Re-Volt Classic
14:14 Dude, I'm not going to lie, you helped me find one of my favorite games in a long time, damn.
The weird part abt Forza Street, is u can still find it and Download it on Google play, but then u open the game, itll say Error
10:20
I Greatly miss Racing Rivals as well! Missed my Scion TC, BMW M2 and most importantly, my Subaru WRC! 👌
I did some research on it recently and found out that the devs decided to shut it down because the game "got too costly to maintain and keep running"..
Maybe the revenue dropped as well and made things even tougher. But it would be amazing if RR somehow revives in the future! (I highly doubt it would tho...unless it's updated to match the trends nowadays, which may be a good thing or a "bad" thing 😅)
In case you were wondering, before the Forza Street namesake, it was initially named Miami Street by developer Electric Square. It was rebranded to Forza Street in 2019, but really, it was thr same thing underneath the new look.
My favorite mobile game that got delisted was this game called "Super Battle Tactics" it was 4 vs 4 tank battles. There were different classes of tanks like assault tanks, support tanks, first strike tanks, and even had helicopters. Pretty much each tank had 5 numbers that it would roll for damage. There were even special abilities like napalm, shields, and evade (helicopters only). It came out around 2012-2013 and I think it got axed around 2016-2017.
Still can't forget about Gear club.
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Does anyone else remember the FF6 the game for mobile i played the hell out of that game when i was younger
GT Racing is probably the most memorable one I had ever experienced during my childhood... it's sad that they had to close the servers most likely because of license and being outdated
GT2 racing was the only game that made me have fun on a iPad. Just the cars music campaign only everything it was just so perfect 👌
Right before you mentioned the scion tc, i was thinking about how no drag racing games ever had it. Such under rated car.😂
I personally liked "racing rivals" back when it was on the mobile store❤😢 that was my favorite dragon game because it's showing me what drag racing was in general and it taught me what manual gearboxes were
There was also "race off 2016", "Road warrior multiplayer", "rocket cars", "DrawRace 2 HD" all great games, if you downloaded them at least 1 time (except for road warrior multiplayer and DrawRace 2 HD), you can still play them if you go in your profile and than go in downloaded apps (this is at least in App Store, idk other phones)
Gear Club does still exist on iOS and an enhanced version on Nintendo Switch as Gear Club Unlimited.
Thx for the video, I had no idea so many of these games were already delisted goddamn.
Mobile stores really don’t help cause they force you to update to newer APIs as time goes on which is terrible.
But the worst thing is making the games unplayable because of servers, like cmon dudes! Such a waste.
Road Smash should have been here. One of the most nostalgic mobile racing games ever to exist.
Anyone remember Racing/Raging Thunder series? That was another simple and fun racing game back in like 2012/2014 days
this video brings me back to these old day bro, really thanks
F1 Mobile closed servers 3-4 months ago... It is so sad
Real guys remember playing GT Racing 2 while Midnight City was playing...very very good times
Idk if anyone remembered this, but Sonic and All Stars Racing Transformed had a mobile port.
Im aware it may have not been the best game, but boy was it fun.
Anyone remember Raging Thunder 2? That racing game took me hours before and honestly it was great fun. It had repairs and bumps against other cars and it was just awesome. Got back to it a couple months ago and enjoyed it for like 3 days until i finished everything HAHAHAHA
Perfect shift ,race kings and mmx racing were the most memorable ones to me, even though i didnt play mmx racing as much as the other two games
Anyone remember race or die?
Not even a game you can control the car, but it was rather an mmo. That game was legit
I remembered playing Race Kings, to me it was the best game😢
I would like to mention 2 more games which I absolutely adored and still might be on the top 10 best mobile games I've ever played. The first one's Soccer Rally Championship 2, despite being a Rocket League with rally physics it had such an addicting gameplay and the OST was incredible for its time;
The other is Mini Motor Racing WRT, about this game, there's still the original version on Play Store but I still think the WRT version had that little bit more, especially with those licensed Kia and ChoroQ cars slotted in, and that fun online multiplayer that made races pretty competitive
Surprisingly enough, gear club can still be played without any 3rd-party app stores but only on apple TV's!
Fast & Furious 6 and Fast & Furious Legacy were pretty good games. I didn't get very far in them, but they were fun. It's a shame they took them down, alongside the servers.
Congrads on 3.5k subs man keep it up the good work🎉