AeroGauge from 1997 is a futuristic racing game for the Nintendo 64, developed by Locomotive Games and published by ASCII Corporation. It belongs to the wave of anti-gravity racers that rode the late-nineties appetite for fast sci-fi aesthetics: wheel-less machines skimming just above the track, neon tunnels and speed as the main attraction.

The Nintendo 64 had its own king of the genre from the console's launch, and every subsequent futuristic racer was inevitably measured against it. AeroGauge attempted its own answer through flight freedom — its craft are not glued to the track but work with altitude as well, adding a further dimension to the circuits. The period reception was lukewarm, yet the game remains an interesting sample of how third parties tried to establish themselves on a console whose catalogue was dominated by Nintendo's own titles.

ASCII Corporation, in the publisher's chair here, was primarily a Japanese computing and publishing company whose games division ranged from peripherals to original titles. The multiplayer support in the record was standard equipment on the Nintendo 64 — split-screen play was one of the main reasons people bought the machine.

A metadata note: the listed top-down perspective does not fit racers of this type, played from behind the craft or from the cockpit; treat it as a record inaccuracy.

The anti-gravity machines stay in the hangar here, with no browser play available; the OldGame.cz card does log the release year, both companies and screenshots of those neon circuits.