7.8 /10 1 Votes
Sound Unamplified stereo Designer Atari | 3.9/5 My Abandonware Initial release date August 1990 Genre Sim racing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Mode(s) 1 player, 2 players (alternating) Cabinet Environmental/Cockpit or Standard/Upright CPU 68010, TMS34010, DSP32C Display Horizontal Raster, 512 x 384 for cockpit & 336 x 240 for upright Platforms Arcade game, Super Nintendo Entertainment System Developers Atari Games, Argonaut Games, Time Warner Interactive, Polygames, Walking Circles Publishers Atari, Atari Games, Tengen, THQ, Domark Software Similar Atari games, Sim racing games, Other games | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hard drivin race drivin arcade by atari high score 212 000 points
Race Drivin' is a driving arcade game that invites players to test drive several high-powered sports cars on stunt and speed courses. The game is the sequel of 1989's Hard Drivin' and was part of a new generation of games that featured 3D polygon environments. Unlike most racing games of its time, it attempted to model real world car physics in the simulation of the movement of the players car. Like Hard Drivin', the game was unique among video games in that it included a true force feedback steering wheel, an ignition key, a 4-speed shifter, and 3 foot pedals (an accelerator, a brake, and a clutch (the clutch being a control seldom seen in any video game, then or now)). Released in August 1990, approximately 1200 units were produced at the time of its release for roughly $9000 each. It was ported to a number of home systems in the mid-1990s, and in 2005 it was ported to the PlayStation 2, GameCube and Xbox as part of the Midway Arcade Treasures 3 collection.
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- Hard drivin race drivin arcade by atari high score 212 000 points
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- Gameplay
- Enhancements
- Development
- Reception
- References
Race drivin saturn by atari games super stunt track hd 1080p
Gameplay
The gameplay resembles a driving game, featuring 4 different cars (3 with manual transmissions (speedster, roadster, and original), and 1 automatic (original)) and 3 different tracks to choose from (the regular stunt track which is very similar to the one in Hard Drivin', the Autocross track, and the Super Stunt track). The screen shows a first person perspective from inside the car, through the windshield. The cars dashboard is visible and displays the cars instruments, like the speedometer, tachometer and fuel level, as well as a few other non-gameplay important ones, such as the oil, temp, and amp dummy lights. Each car has its own unique dashboard.
The game generally consists of racing 1 or 2 laps around the player's chosen track within the allotted time. The gameplay and vehicle operation in Race Drivin' are very similar to Hard Drivin' and gameplay elements such as the Instant Replay and the off road timer are still there. A noticeable difference between the two games though is that although the car traffic in Race Drivin's stunt track is still there like in the original Hard Drivin' track, the two new tracks included in Race Drivin' (Autocross and Super Stunt track) are absent of any additional car traffic. Also, unlike Hard Drivin's original track that offers the driver two different driving paths, the two new tracks in Race Drivin' only offer one driving path per track. The finish times of the new tracks are very different as well. The original track shared by Race Drivin' and Hard Drivin' takes roughly 1:30 to complete. By comparison, the Autocross track is very short requiring roughly only 30 seconds to complete and the Super Stunt track is considerably longer (taking roughly 3 minutes to complete).
Like its predecessor Hard Drivin', the game features an ignition key, a realistic manual transmission mode (which includes a 4-speed shifter (with neutral), a clutch pedal, and the possibility of stalling the car should one mis-shift) and a force feedback steering wheel, in which the driver has to all properly operate as they would in a car in real life. The cockpit version of the game also includes an adjustable bucket seat and, if it is a 'Panorama' version (of which only 100 were made), it sports 3 to 5 monitors for a full 180° peripheral view.
Enhancements
Race Drivin' improved upon its predecessor in several ways.
Development
Doug Milliken, who also worked on Hard Drivin', is credited as a "test driver", but actually worked as a consultant for developing the car model. This model was used to lay out the physics of the game's car.
Reception
Electronic Gaming Monthly gave the Genesis version a 4.6 out of 10, calling it "another so-so entry in the driving scene" due to its "very choppy" scrolling.