''EA Sports NASCAR'', alternately known as ''NASCAR Thunder'', is a series of NASCAR video games published by EA Sports. The series began with ''

NASCAR 98 ''NASCAR '98'' is a racing simulator video game developed by Stormfront Studios, published by EA Sports, and released in 1997 for Sony PlayStation and Sega Saturn. This was the first game in the EA Sports NASCAR series. Gameplay The original ...

'' and ''

NASCAR 99 ''NASCAR '99'' is a racing simulator video game developed and published by EA Sports and co-developed by Stormfront Studios. It was released for Nintendo 64 on September 10, 1998, and for the PlayStation on September 29. NASCAR '99 was the seco ...

'' in 1997 and 1998. EA Sports released '' NASCAR Thunder 2002'' in 2001, and ever since then, Jeff Gordon (2002), Dale Earnhardt Jr. (2003), and Tony Stewart (2004) were on the cover. In 2004, they changed the name of the game to '' NASCAR 2005: Chase for the Cup'' and added the new features to make the game more up-to-date with the recent changes to NASCAR. Kevin Harvick was on the cover. The next year, they changed the name yet again to '' NASCAR 06: Total Team Control''. Jeff Gordon and

Hendrick Motorsports Hendrick Motorsports (HMS) is an American professional auto racing organization that competes in the NASCAR Cup Series. The team was founded in 1984 as All Star Racing by Rick Hendrick. Hendrick Motorsports has won a NASCAR-record 291 Cup Seri ...

teammate Jimmie Johnson were on the cover. The new features were swapping cars with teammates and voice-recognition support for use with the crew chief. The following year, the game was titled ''

NASCAR 07 ''NASCAR 07'' is the tenth installment of the EA Sports' NASCAR video game series. It was developed by EA Tiburon and released on September 29, 2006, for the PlayStation 2 and PlayStation Portable and on November 14, 2006, for the Xbox. This wa ...

'' and features Elliott Sadler on the cover. The new features include a new speed blur effect and an all-new momentum system, used to describe drivers' strong and weak racetrack types. In 2004, the feature was a "Grudges and Alliances" feature in which if the player hits a car, they could retaliate. The feature received a mixed reaction. After ''

NASCAR Kart Racing ''NASCAR Kart Racing'' is a kart racing video game that was released for the Wii console on February 10, 2009. The game features fourteen real NASCAR drivers and ten fictional drivers. The cover drivers are, from left to right, Carl Edwards, Kyl ...

'' was released in 2009, EA discontinued the series due to budget cuts and the expiration of EA Sports' contract with NASCAR. Polyphony Digital has since bought the rights to develop official NASCAR cars and tracks in their simulation video game '' Gran Turismo 5'', marking the end of the series under the EA Sports label. Eutechnyx later acquired the license, starting the ''

NASCAR The Game ''NASCAR The Game'', occasionally abbreviated as ''NTG'', is a discontinued series of NASCAR video games developed by Eutechnyx, which held the NASCAR license from 2011 to the end of 2014. The first installment, '' NASCAR The Game: 2011'', is the ...

'' series with '' NASCAR The Game: 2011''.

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