POG · Category / 01

Driving & Racing Games · 2

Drifting is spectacular because the car points somewhere different from where it is actually traveling; controlling that disagreement is the whole trick. The player-facing version of the idea is simple: Early racing cabinets often used real wheels and pedals because the physical control itself was part of the attraction, not merely an input device. The safest place for experimental aerodynamics remains a browser tab.