So, in the Origin sale this week, while going through the titles (and deciding to probably not get any; I don't have an Origin account yet, and don't know if I want one), I ran into a futuristic racing game I'd never heard of, Death Road for the PC. Looking it up, the game was released in 2012, and like many other titles like it, had a European-only physical release, and a worldwide (or US/EU at least) digital release. The game is on Origin and GamersGate, of the major online stores (that is, the ones I've checked and that are on the list).
As you will see if you look at the last entry in this changelog, I've also done some more improvements while looking at the list today -- I added categories for a bunch of missing digital-download platforms such as the PSP's PSN store (four of the five PSP futuristic racing games are on it, too, and one got its only US release there), and some that don't have any futuristic games that I know of yet but should be there anyway, such as DSiWare (does it have some I don't know of?), 3DS eShop (same question), 3DS Virtual Console (it's only a matter of time until it gets some...), the Wii U (physical category), Wii U eShop (digital), and Wii U Virtual Console (digital, has F-Zero).
Finally, on a Wii U note, what about Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing and Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed? Those games are pretty much fantasy stuff, from the land of Mario Kart, so they are not clearly futuristic like the Sonic Riders games, which are on this list, are... but they have some obvious futuristic elements, too. So yeah, not sure about what to do with those.
Here's the changelog since the last time the thread was bumped. The stuff up to 10/2012 had mostly been added (I didn't bump the thread, but did add most of that stuff), but the ones from past 10/2012 are new to this thread with this update today, as is the 5/2012 update. The dates below are for when I added those games to the list on my computer.
5/22/2012 - Added 360: Three Sixty (PS1, Europe only), Bugriders: The Race of Kings (PS1, US/EU only). Bugriders might not really fit here; the game is fantasy themed, on a strange alien world, but isn't really clearly futuristic, I think. I'm not sure if it should be here, but it's definitely not set on Earth anyway.
6/3/2012 - Added Cubix Robots for Everyone: Race 'N Robots (PS1 and GBC)
9/2/2012 - Added Rocket Coaster (LaserActive Sega PAC) - racing game with fantasy, adventure, and future settings. The cars look futuristic in all three sets of tracks though.
9/6/2012 - Added Future Racer, aka Defeat Lightning (PS1).
10/2/2012 - Added Mac Digital Downloads category with the Mac version of Laser Dolphin, Tasty Static, and Mars Explorer in it. Added Linux Digital Downloads category with Tasty Static and H-Craft in it.
11/5/2012 - Added the Cybiko/Cybiko Xtreme handhelds and the free game Galaxy Racers for it (it's a rail shooter/racing game cross)
11/17/2012 - Added Armada F/X Racers for Game Boy Color. It's a mediocre racing game spinoff of the good Dreamcast topdown spaceship action/strategy title.
12/13/2012 - Added Wipeout 2048 for Playstation Vita, and the console. Also added Crazy Chicken: Star Karts for the DS. It's a quite bad, low-budget game, as with all Crazy Chicken titles, but it exists. Expect bad space Mario Kart. Removed Jeff Gordon's XS Racing for PS1, because it doesn't exist -- the console ports of that game were never released, it's a PC-only game.
2/2/2013 - Added Speed King (JP title), aka Road Rage (EU title), for the Playstation and Arcades. It's a Konami game in the style of Wipeout. No US release.
3/19/2013 - Added Death Road (PC and PC DD) - Another European futuristic racing game. The game released in 2012, but I didn't hear about it until just now. It's on Origin and GamersGate, online; physical was Europe-only.
3/20/2013 - Removed X-Car (PC), because really it's not futuristic. I also added PSP PSN (digital), Vita PSN (digital), DSiWare (digital), 3DS eShop (digital), 3DS Virtual Console (digital), and Wii U, Wii U eShop (digital), and Wii U Virtual Console (digital) categories. All the Wii U has so far is F-Zero for VC, but there'll be more sometime I'm sure. There are no games in most those categories, but four of the five PSP games here do have digital-download releases on the PSP PSN, so that's cool. One, StateShift, was only released in the US on PSN -- the physical release was Europe-only. Of the five though, only the Japan-exclusive one (Shinseki GPX Cyber Formula) doesn't have a download release. Note that I slightly changed the formatting -- I removed the (disc) labels that had been on the Wii and X360, and instead mark digital-only categories with a (digital) marker. For the purposes of the + or * notes -- that is, for purposes of exclusivity -- I do not consider the digital and physical categories for each platform to be different platforms, so games still get a * if they available on both physical and digital for a system, but aren't on any other systems. Midway Arcade Treasures 3, Jet X2O, and Downforce were also added to the "extreme" but modern-day list. I know that list is missing a lot of stuff that could be there, but those do belong, and now have been added. Finally, I updated the PC Digital Downloads category. Origin and Amazon have been added, and GameFly has replaced Direct2Drive since they bought the service. I checked most of those games on most of those services, to see that the listings are correct, and added ones that were missing, such as all of Amazon's listings, the one on Origin, a few new ones for other services, etc. I also removed one or two D2D games that GameFly doesn't have anymore.