Racing

The racing video game genre is where the player partakes in a racing competition with any type of land, air, or sea vehicles.

Kart racers are a style of racing game that uses small, open, four-wheeled vehicles called karts and which introduces the ability to pick up items during the race, and use them to boost one's performance or to attack other players and hamper their progress.

There are several racing games within the Sonic franchise, most of them Kart racers. They are main games or mini-games, or even just related to the genre.

List of Sonic racing games

Game	Year	Notes
Sonic Drift	1994	The first Sonic racing game. It had a sequel, Sonic Drift 2.
Sonic Drift 2	1995	Renamed Sonic Drift Racing in Europe and the first international Sonic racing game. Sonic Drift sequel.
Sonic R	1997	The only Sonic racing game where some of the characters run without vehicles.
Sonic Adventure	1998	Twinkle Park's first section and related mini-game, accessed by all characters.
Sonic Adventure 2	2001	Route 101, Route 280 and related mini-game, accessed by all main characters. Two other characters were released as VMU games: Opa-Opa and Eggrobo, along with an enhanced kart for Sonic.
Sonic Racing Shift Up	2002	Part of Sonic Cafe and not released outside of Japan. Not a racing game but related to the genre, it consists of shifting gears in a kart, with both quickness and timing.
Sonic Racing Kart	2003	Part of Sonic Cafe and not released outside of Japan. It had a sequel, Sonic Kart 3D X.
Sonic Kart 3D X	2005	Part of Sonic Cafe and not released outside of Japan. Sonic Racing Kart sequel.
Sonic Riders	2006	The characters race in hover-boards for a change, It had a sequel, Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity.
Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity	2008	Sonic Riders sequel.
Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing	2010	A SEGA franchise crossover kart game.

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