The fact that so many posters are shocked at the inclusion of Top Gear 2 shows how far removed modern "retro gaming" has become from the reality of the time period in question and how tastes have narrowed down to a couple of select genres.

Here is from an SNES top 10 of a magazine from back in the day. Micro Machines was in 5th position, above some of your "classics" like Star Fox.

If you're seriously shocked that people played something that isn't a sidescroller or an RPG you don't know shit about video games