For the first time since this podcast began, we're talking about a new Gran Turismo. It's fortunate, then, that GT7 gives us so much to talk about. From shockingly challenging physics, to classic Polyphony game design oddities, to an impeccable presentation, the latest installment of The Real Driving Simulator has already proven pretty polarizing. And although we're big fans, we still hold our share of criticisms; looking at you, "Dr. Awesome."

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064 | Gran Turismo 7

Maybe you know it as Penny Racers; maybe Road Trip Adventure. Even more likely, you don't know it at all. But there are nearly 30 games in the Choro Q series, spanning the 32-bit era to the early days of mobile gaming. In this episode, the boys finally give this friendly, at times frustrating franchise its due. You definitely shouldn't play all of them, but there are a few gems to be found in this bargain toy bin.

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065 | Choro Who?

After a dismal first entry on the Dreamcast, in 2002 Sega's Wow Entertainment surprised owners of Microsoft's then-new Xbox with a charming, beautiful Gran Turismo-like experience: Sega GT 2002. It was leaps and bounds superior to its predecessor, but has been historically passed over since its days as a pack-in alongside Jet Set Radio Future. In this episode, YouTuber ThunderTHR joins Adam for two full hours to give the game its due, talking about everything from hidden content restored by mods, to the curious, lost-to-time multiplayer modes of Sega GT Online.

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066 | Sega GT 2002 (with ThunderTHR)

In 2004, Criterion Games released what many consider the greatest arcade racing game ever made, Burnout 3: Takedown. That's not the game we're talking about this episode. Instead, we set out to explore the entries in the beloved series that tend to get passed over today — the ones that established the franchise's fundamentals, marked Criterion's first foray into portable gaming and served as a surprisingly good consolation prize for fans that couldn't make the trip to Paradise City.

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067 | Burnout Beyond Takedown

If you have ever played Sega Rally Championship, you've undoubtedly heard Kenneth Ibrahim's voice before. Today, Kenneth is a Senior Pipeline Technical Director at Lucasfilm, working on Star Wars animated series. But almost 30 years ago, he served as your trusty co-driver in Tetsuya Mizuguchi's seminal arcade racing classic. Kenneth was gracious enough to join us for nearly two hours of incredible stories, charting his whirlwind start at Sega at the peak of the company's dominance, a career in computer graphics that sent him to Japan and back and, of course, how he wound up calling the shots in the Celica and Delta, much to his surprise. If you love Sega in the '90s, this is one you won't want to miss.

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068 | Kenneth Ibrahim: The Voice of Sega Rally

In the era when street racing was king, no street racer was cooler than Midnight Club. The boys finally give Rockstar San Diego's beloved and dearly missed series its due, focusing on the innovative second act and the final entry, Midnight Club: Los Angeles. It's part tribute, part shameless jab at trying to will a sequel into existence.

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069 | Midnight Clubbing

More than 15 years since its release, it's still not uncommon to hear those who've played it praise Tourist Trophy as the finest two-wheeled racer of all time. For #70, the boys finally give the Gran Turismo spinoff its due, with the help of a special guest. We also discover a rare bit of sim racing gear that really deserved to change the hobby forever.

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070 | A Couple of Tourists (with Chris Lytle)

We often talk about old games and old systems on Time Extend. But what are you to do if you want to — heaven forbid — actually play one of these golden era racers in the finest quality possible? Nobody can answer that question better than our guests this week: Digital Foundry's John Linneman, and designer and musician Andrew Elmore. In this monster two-hour pod, they walk you through everything you need to know to achieve an absolutely pristine experience with fifth- and sixth-gen consoles — the days when racing ruled. And if you don't want that for some reason, Brend's got tips for you, too.

You can find John Linneman's work on the Digital Foundry YouTube channel, and follow him on Twitter @dark1x. Andrew Elmore's music lives at satellitesound.bandcamp.com, and you can follow him on Twitter @AndrewElmore.

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071 | Hi-Spec Racing Gaming (with John Linneman and Andrew Elmore)

With Need For Speed Unbound's release right around the corner, what better time than the present to finally dive into the series' big turn to tuner culture in the early aughts: Underground and Underground 2. Hugely controversial before release but quickly a runaway hit, EA Black Box's work on these titles defined NFS for a generation of fans. Us at Time Extend, though, have more complicated feelings.

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072 | NFS: The Underground Era

We're back, ringing in 2023's coldest days with some piping hot takes sourced from you all to keep us warm. Did Ridge Racer "celebrate itself to death?" Did kart racers really never get better than Diddy Kong Racing? And is every modern racing game the most reductive version of its franchise? Responses to these arguably controversial opinions and so much more lie ahead!

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073 | Your Hottest Racing Game Takes: 2023 Edition

In the late '90s, a short-lived developer named Prism Arts made a pair of budget Sega Rally clones for the PlayStation that never left Japan, and thus flew under the radar for a great many racing game fans. More than two decades later, the charm of Rally De Africa and Rally De Europe is no longer a secret, but we still know so little about them. In this episode, the boys reflect on these lesser-known gems of the era and attempt to uncover their mysterious origins.

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074 | Rally De Prism

2007's Colin McRae: Dirt didn't just reinvent Codemasters' rally games; it left an indelible mark on the genre, and became the benchmark to which every off-road racer was compared against. In this episode the boys revisit the original trilogy, discussing Dirt's continual evolution and improvement throughout the generation, and how the late, great Ken Block truly made the franchise his own.

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075 | The Dirt Revolution

Gran Turismo 4's hailed as one of the racing genre's all-time greats. But almost 20 years since release, a culmination of discoveries have now allowed modders to take Polyphony's 2004 opus to new heights. In this episode the boys chat with TheAdmiester, developer of the Gran Turismo 4 Spec II mod and Prize Randomizer, about his efforts and what they've taught us all about The Real Driving Simulator.

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076 | Gran Turismo 4 Modding (with TheAdmiester)

We know, it's been a minute. But never before has Time Extend packed so much into one hour of a show. First, we chat about Daytona USA 2's about-damn-time console debut before diving into a retrospective on the divisive Dreamcast port. Then, we cap things off with hands-on preview impressions of the new Forza Motorsport fresh from an event hosted by Turn 10 Studios, a month before the game's release.

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077 | The Heat Is Back/Forza Motorsport Preview

The boys have returned from their long hiatus with news about future plans as well as a long overdue conversation about Rocket League and why it still keeps them coming back after eight-plus years. Naturally Rocket Racing is covered as well, which shows glimmers of potential even if it lacks the staying power of Psyonix's modern classic.

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078 | Rocket League, Rocket Racing

The whole Time Extend crew—Adam, Brend, Andrew, and Paul—join forces to talk about the weird and very occasionally wonderful things that happen when games focus entirely around putting one foot in front of the other. From Sonic R to Mirror's Edge, this one's all about the surprising gameplay challenge of trying to steer fast moving bipedal characters.

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079 | Running Games

In this first episode of Time Extend, Adam and Brendan tackle the likelihood of a Burnout Paradise remaster, the likelihood of Forza Horizon 4 being set in Tokyo, and the likelihood anyone will remember Shox: Rally Reinvented.

001 | Favorite Rally Games

The conversation switches (mostly) to sim racing this week as Adam and Brendan discuss the relevance of iRacing's upcoming A.I. and single player features, the relevance of esports in the genre, and the relevance of Totino's as a Forza Motorsport sponsor.

002 | All About Online

This week, Adam and Brendan weigh the possibility of Ridge Racer 8 on the Switch, the possibility Takumi's AE86 will be drivable in the next Sonic All-Stars Racing, and the possibility that every gamer in the UK knows the words to Feeder's "Just A Day."

003 | Favorite Soundtracks

Hypotheticals abound this week as the guys wonder what Wipeout's VR update bodes for the series' future, what success a Blur sequel might've achieved, and what if Nintendo took a stab at Gran Turismo. Fair warning: Recording issues dogged this one, so we apologize for inconsistent and quiet audio.

005 | Unreleased Racers Vol. 1

A strange news week leaves Adam and Brendan trying to make sense of all those Forza leaks, an unreleased car-themed Mario title, and Gran Turismo's legacy of fictional circuits.

006 | GT's Original Tracks

A big show this week celebrates the new as well as the old. Brendan's got the verdict on OnRush, and the boys pay homage to everyone's favorite dead console of forgotten racers with a new feature series.

007 | Dream On (Rush)

Time Extend shifts gears this week for a comprehensive ranking of all the mainline Ridge Racer titles, from worst to best. There isn't much disagreement on the order of the list — just whether or not gabber is a legitimate musical genre.

012 | Ridge Racer Vol. 1

Adam and Brendan close out 2018 with the long-awaited finale to Time Extend's ranking of the best Ridge Racer games. It's a two-hour celebration of Namco's iconic racing series packed with warm memories and amazing music!

013 | Ridge Racer Vol. 2

The racing season is only just beginning, but the boys are already in summer mode as Andrew Elmore joins Adam and Brendan for the long-teased, barely-requested deep dive into the only game truly worthy of the world's most prestigious endurance race.

016 | 24 Hour Party People (with Andrew Elmore)

It's the thrilling conclusion to the Wipeout ranking, as the boys are joined once again by special guest Daryl Baxter (@darylbaxter) to talk about their favorite moments, music and memories surrounding the trendsetting anti-grav racing franchise. Highlights include Adam hopelessly failing to find the words to explain why he adores Wipeout 3, and Brendan listing all of the places you can actually barrel roll in Moa Therma.

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023 | Wipeout Vol. 2 (with Daryl Baxter)

This week, the boys share some choice memories of mediocre racing games. In that sense, it's not particularly different from any other episode of Time Extend, except this one has a theme. Everything discussed here — from Race Driver: Create and Race on the DS, to the last Sega Rally game ever made — falls right in that sweet spot between love and hate.

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027 | 7 Out Of 10 Racers

The biggest racer of 2019 is finally here and, well, the boys have mixed feelings about it. There's little doubt that Codemasters' Grid reboot recaptures the flair of the original, but it's the lack of depth that is the subject of this unnaturally cynical installment of the irreverent racing game show you know and love. 

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028 | Gridlocked

Arcade racing certainly saw a resurgence this month, and in that spirit, this episode we're joined by Jayson Lamp, Sega expert and writer over at Mega Visions magazine, to talk about a new indie title that very much speaks to our interests here at Time Extend: Hotshot Racing. While we have some mixed feelings about this Virtua Racing-inspired celebration of '90s racing, it's just nice to be able to talk about a game like this in 2020, isn't it?

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045 | Hotshot Racing (with Jayson Lamp)

This week's show begins with a bit of discussion on Racing Madness, unpacking the results and overall takeaways from last month's bracket. But it doesn't stay there for long, and after that, we return to one of our mainstays — Dreamcast racers — with a deep dive into one of the console's best racing franchises, Tokyo Xtreme Racer.

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047 | Tokyo Xtreme Racer

Time Extend is a podcast all about racing games — new and old, arcade and sim, famous and unsung. Join hosts Brendan Rorrison and Adam Ismail as they explore the genre's long history and exciting future each and every episode, armed with hours of research, limitless passion, and a cast of expert guests. It's a love letter to cars, games, and the beautiful things that happen when they collide.

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