Drifting

Activities theme

Ability to maintain momentum while turning, with the turning not affecting direction of the drift (much). Such as a car with which the driver intentionally loses traction for.

37
games
6
platforms

Alternate names: Oversteering, Fishtailing, Powersliding
Name variations: sliding, skidding

This is mostly interesting when this can be done on purpose and is not limited to slick surfaces. Such as doing handbrake turn or a car sliding out of control from violent turns.

Although this is a common part of certain car sports, this can also be done with airplanes (via supermaneuverability) as well as spacecraft and watercraft (mainly with PWCs).

Drifting is a required component of Newtonian physics in space flight simulators.

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Parent groups

Simulation elements, Vehicle simulation

Games by year

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The first Drifting video game was released on November 1998.

Ubisoft, THQ and Electronic Arts published most of these games.

Platforms

Windows 20
PS3 7
X360 6
Linux 2
Internet Only 1
Mac OS X 1

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