Sonic Drift: Gameplay, Platforms and Key Facts

Sonic Drift (1994) is a racing video game developed by Sega Enterprises, Ltd., available on Game Gear. It holds an aggregated critic and player score of 36/100 on IGDB.

What is Sonic Drift about?

Sonic Drift is a racing game whose gameplay style and controls are heavily based on Sega's arcade game Out Run. Here, the players race around a race course against the other three characters for a top position in the race. The game's single player mode is Chaos GP, where the player's goal is to win three different circuits (green, yellow and red). Each circuit is made of six different race courses that the player is taken through in succession.

Each race course is composed of a circuit which needs to be completed thrice. The playable characters have rather simple controls, their basic actions being accelerating to move forward, breaking, and moving left or right on the tracks. In tight corners, the player can break while turning in a specific direction, allowing them to drift through the corners. If the player overuses this method though, the playable character starts spinning out of co

Key details

Sonic Drift was released in 1994 and supports single player. Platforms: Game Gear. Developer: Sega Enterprises, Ltd..

Should you play Sonic Drift?

Reviews are mixed, but Sonic Drift retains a dedicated player base among racing fans.