The pics above are meant to show the cars that were at launch and hopefully replicate your possible first moments with the latest graphics.

I downloaded this game on my 3rd Gen iPad back in March 2013 when the game was in version 1.0.x, I believe, which was before Chevrolet was even introduced! There were about 46 cars, 4 of which had a gold price, with the KOENIGSEGG AGERA R being the most expensive with a price of 800 gold. With that price in mind, earning gold by leveling up was going to be a very tiring feat because every level up would earn you 3 gold, with every 5 levels giving you 5 gold, and with a total cost of the four gold cars being 1,415 gold, considering the fact that you started with 20 gold back then, you would have had to reach Player Level 411 by racing so frequently and almost nonstop to get 1,397 gold to leave you with 2 gold left over (assuming no showcase discounts). Knowing this, I decided that acquiring all of the cars would be way too ambitious, but what I didn’t know was how much easier it became to earn more gold to buy cars or upgrades as future updates arrived in the later years.

Unfortunately, I was not playing when this happened, as I completely forgot about the game in early 2015 and returned in 2019 with version 8.0 after hearing that F1 was coming to the game, and now I have all 4 of the original gold cars because they started giving us more gold for leveling up based on our Player Level, and the game also had other methods of earning gold.

Anyway, the repair and service system back then was nothing like I’ve seen before in the Real Racing series, having us actually tap individual parts on the repair section to repair our cars after a race, with individual service bars for oil, engine, brakes, suspension, and tires, which really seemed to immerse me more and made me drive much more carefully to avoid unnecessary spending for repairs.

When did **you** start playing?

Looks like we say goodbye next Friday; what were your first memories of the game, and what version did you first join?