In an arcade game you simply bounce off the wall, lose a little speed but keep on racing. Unless of course you are simply tired of spending hours setting up your car instead of burning up the track and are thinking about attending ITT technical school to figure out set your car up. Al Unser is an arcade game. No tinkering under the hood, no qualifying laps, just pop the quarter in the side of the machine any you're racing. You can play against the clock in time trials or in a tournament on all 15 tracks.
Controls range from mouse to keyboard.
There seems to be some kind of joystick support but it only seems to accept buttons. Those of you who spent the big bucks on dedicated racing controllers like the Thrustmaster F1 or CH Product's Virtual Pilot will be very teed off not being able to use your expensive hardware with this game. Turns are very smooth with the mouse and its harder to oversteer than with a joystick on some racing games. Even as an arcade game, I found this race game to be lacking something. Sure it gives a great feeling of speed and is easy to set-up but there is nothing else here.