#30: Stunt Car Racer (MicroStyle, C64, 1989)

The cockpit view and predictable and convincing physics mean that Stunt Car Racer is still really a simulator, except one simulating dodging sheer drops and making enormous, stomach-churning leaps over chasms. When you crash and get placed back onto the track, it stretches believability, but even that’s a process grounded in the tangible. You wait, suspended, while visible chains creak away to lift, a real feeling of weight and fragility to the car.