Your birth year
2006
Gran Turismo
1997Racing
Gran Turismo is 9 years older than you
It's from 1997, before you were born.
- Developer
- Polyphony Digital
- Genre
- Racing simulator
- Debut platform
- PlayStation (1997)
- Creator
- Kazunori Yamauchi
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About
As of 2026, it's 29 years old.
Gran Turismo arrived in 1997 calling itself 'The Real Driving Simulator,' and it meant it — to the point of being less a racing game than a car-collecting obsession with physics homework attached. It modeled hundreds of real cars so faithfully that actual automakers paid attention.
It demanded you earn licenses before the good races, essentially making you take a driving test inside a video game, and somehow people loved it.
Meticulous, beautiful, and borderline educational, Gran Turismo is the game that turned 'I just want to drive fast' into a deeply respectable engineering hobby.
