By now, I had played three deadly, futuristic racing games with small vehicles racing through long, serpentine tracks and had no idea what it meant.
Just two games make use of the adapter: the shoot-'em-up Quake III Arena, published by Sega, and the futuristic racing game POD: Speedzone, published by Ubi Soft.
This futuristic racing game has a clever twist: it creates its tracks based on songs in your collection, or (if you're a subscriber) Apple Music playlists.
This brings us to Carmageddon 3: TDR 2000, an open-ended, futuristic racing game that actually encourages me to run down pedestrians.
In Ballistics, yet another futuristic racing game, you pilot small craft that speed through long, windowed tube tracks running over Siberia and the Grand Canyon.
F-Zero: Maximum Velocity delivers a thrilling serving of futuristic racing, while Wario Ware Inc provides a compendium of 200 increasingly silly microgames.
Android / iPhone Marvellous futuristic racing game Forever Drive has been out on iOS for a few months, but now it's available on Android too.
A few weeks later I had forgotten the name of the game, so when I received a futuristic racing game with a stylized "XGIII" on the front, I thought at first it must be the one I'd seen.
Founded as Psygnosis in 1984 and bought out by Sony 10 years later, the developer was responsible for some of the most iconic brands of the early PlayStation era, including the futuristic racing game WipEout.
Chief among them: should these stirring, futuristic racing machines be abandoned for the slower monohulls that have traditionally been used in the Cup? "I was skeptical that they could be used for match racing," said Bruno Troublé, the former French America's Cup helmsman.
Most famously known for its WipEout series of futuristic racing games, the most recent of which was PS Vita's WipEout 2048, the Wavertree-based studio in its various guises had also been responsible for such classics as G-Police, Shadow of the Beast, Colony Wars and Lemmings.
