It’s not surprising to find out that NASCAR, America’s most favoritest form of motorsport, has a very non-metric crapton of associated video games. What is surprising to find out is that the very first official NASCAR tie-in video game, which came out way back in 1984, had one of the most hilariously inaccurate box covers of, well, let’s say all time. At least in the context of NASCAR games.
This first-ever NASCAR-endorsed game isn’t fudging about, as they attached the name of The King himself, Richard Petty, to the game, which should have given it some real cred.
Unfortunately, all of that cred was squandered by the box art for the game, which you saw up top, but I can’t resist showing you again, I love it so:
I’m showing two versions here; one included the Richard Petty name, and one just called Talledega.
What you are likely noticing…
