TOCA (also known as Race Driver) is the racing video game series developed and published by Codemasters. The series originally focused specifically on touring car racing but after World Touring Cars the series expanded to cover a wide variety of motorsport. The TOCA series was eventually succeeded by the Grid series of games with Race Driver: Grid released in 2008. The first game of the series was released for Windows and PlayStation platforms in late 1997 in Europe and in summer 1998 in the United States (as TOCA Championship Racing). Featuring all the licensed cars (not including privateers) and tracks from the 1997 British Touring Car Championship the game was critically acclaimed by the European games press especially on console where it was widely considered the best in its genre until the release of Gran Turismo several months later.