The spirit of 80s racing games lives on in Lego 2K Drive

Classic video games never really die. While they're still remembered by designers and producers, their influence lives on and they can crop up in the most unexpected places. It combines the explorable world and discoverable challenges of Forza Horizon with the fun handling, weapons and power-ups of Mario Kart – but its origins lie in a completely different set of car games. Executive producer Mark Pierce started his games career at Atari in the late 1980s, working on the company's classic racers RoadBlasters, Road Riot and San Francisco Rush, and was around while another team was crafting the legendary 3D racing sim Hard Drivin'. "I was so fortunate because a lot of the original Atari guys were still there," he recalls.