Designer(s) Larry Rosenthal Cabinet Vertical CPU CCPU Developer Vectorbeam Genre Racing video game | Mode(s) Single-player Arcade system Vectorbeam hardware Initial release date March 1979 Publisher Vectorbeam Platform Arcade game | |
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Sound Amplified mono (one channel) Displays Vector graphics, Monochrome Racing video games Night Driver, Speed Race, Gran Trak 10, GTI Club, Sprint 2 | ||
Speed freak on mame arcade emulator gameplay commentary
Speed Freak is a monochrome vector arcade game created by Vectorbeam in 1979. Along with Atari's Night Driver, it is one of the earliest first-person driving games and the first such game known to use vector graphics.
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Speed freak arcade vectorbeam 1977
Gameplay
The game is a behind-the-wheel driving simulation where the driver speeds down a winding computer generated road past other cars, hitchikers, trees, cows and cacti. Occasionally a plane will fly overhead towards the screen. One must avoid crashing into these objects and complete the race in the allotted time. The player can crash as many times as he wants before the time runs out and players were treated to two different crash animations. The first was a simple cracked windshield effect, the second was a crash where the car explodes into car parts that fly through the air.