I finally managed to nab some OEM controllers for my old Gamecube and to be honest, I only ever played arcade racers on the PS2 back in the day so this is some unexplored territory for me. I’ve heard the Gamecube framerate was uncapped so apparently game performance was better?
Any recommendations are welcome! I’m ganna indoctrinate my friends kiddos into racing games this way :P They’re like 3 and 4 so we’ll see how that goes.
XG3 was pretty fun, though the bikes use actual artillery, so you may need to vet that one.
NFS Underground 2 is a classic and uses the trigger for acceleration like more modern racing games.