Night Driver (video game)
| Night Driver | |
|---|---|
North American arcade flyer | |
| Developer | Atari, Inc. |
| Publishers | |
| Designers | Dave Shepperd s/w Ron Milner Steve Mayer Terry Fowler (hardware) |
| Platforms | Arcade, Atari 2600, Commodore 64 |
| Release | Arcade 2600
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| Genre | Racing |
| Mode | Single-player |
| Arcade system | 6502 @ 1.008 MHz |
Night Driver is a 1976 racing video game developed and published by Atari, Inc. for arcades. It is one of the earliest first-person racing video games and is commonly believed to be one of the first published video games to feature real-time first-person graphics. Night Driver has a black and white display with the hood of the player's car painted on a plastic overlay. The road is rendered as scaled rectangles representing "pylons" that line the edges.
Two arcade cabinet styles were manufactured: upright and sit-down. The upright version has a blacklight installed inside the cabinet which illuminated the bezel.
Atari published a color version for the Atari Video Computer System in 1980.