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Game » consists of 6 releases. Released 1968
A landmark release in the racing simulation genre, it was responsible for differentiating racing sims from arcade racers.
Yu Suzuki's classic 1986 Sega arcade "driving game" puts players behind the wheel of a red convertible sports car on a trip through American- and European-inspired landscapes.
The first 16-bit video game, Pole Position was responsible for popularizing third-person psuedo-3D graphics and racing games as a whole.
Turbo is an early racer released by Sega in 1981, using a third-person rear-view racer format nearly a year before Pole Position. The ColecoVision port featured a racing wheel and gas pedal peripheral to simulate the arcade experience of the original.
An early motorbike racing game developed by Sega and published by Sega-Gremlin in 1976, based on the character Fonz from the TV show Happy Days. Versions of the game are also known as Man TT and Moto-Cross. It uses a pseudo-3D, third-person perspective.
The arcade version is arguably the first successful first-person racing game, and the home version is also considered by many to be a true classic.
One of the first racing games released.
A racing game designed by Tomohiro Nishikado and released by Taito in 1974, also known as Racer or Wheels. It was one of the first driving video games, and was groundbreaking for innovations such as vertical scrolling, sprites with collision detection, and driving wheel controls.
Playtron was an arcade game developed by Kasco (Kansei Seiki Seisakusho Co.) in 1973. It was the first video game with color, sprites, animations, and a modular arcade system. Only two prototype units were produced.
The first 3D flight simulator game, released by Sega in 1970. It was an electro-mechanical arcade game, using video projection to display a 3D game world on screen. It features free-roaming, first-person flight shooting gameplay. It was the first flight simulator game, the earliest first-person shooter, the first open-world game, and the first action-adventure game.
An early first-person shooting arcade game released by Sega in 1969. It resembles a first-person light-gun shooter video game, but is in fact an electro-mechanical arcade game that uses rear image projection to produce moving animations on a screen.
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