MY FAVORITE GAME

HOW GRAN TURISMO MOLDED MY LOVE FOR CARS.

- MIKE AUSTIN

I HAVE SOME REGRETS about how I spent my twenties. Playing Gran Turismo is not one of them. Wind the clock back, and I'd still be in my college house, laid out on the floor in front of a hand-me-down console TV. I'd run race after race for so long that my roommate would leave for the evening and come back hours later to find me in the exact same position. He didn't partake but did understand well enough to give me the courtesy of checking before stepping through my view.

Back then, no driving game came close to