8 Video Games You Bought Just For A Mini-game

8. Pocket Circuit Racing - Yakuza

Something stirred deep within me when I stumbled across the Pocket Circuit racing mini-game in Yakuza 0. As soon as the concept was explained as being a contest of speed based on a small race track using electric cars, I was suddenly transported back to my youth playing with Scalextric. The speed, the noise, the smell of burning electricals that was clearly a fire hazard, it was absolute bliss.

And thanks to Yakuza 0 I could relive this experience all over again! However before you write this off as a mere distraction, as with many things in the Yakuza series, things aren't always what they seem, as this is an incredibly deep and rewarding game that you can lose hours to. Being able to customise your car means that you are encouraged to explore the game world looking for rare parts and fishing for them in vending machines around town.

Then with your custom beast, you can annihilate the competition for some brilliant prizes and a surprisingly emotional sub-story featuring a Pocket Circuit champion who's not all he appears to be.

Plus the tracks are utterly insane and often contain enough loops that would make even Sonic The Hedgehog sick.