The Need for Speed

This article is about the first Need for Speed video game from 1994. For the series, see Need for Speed. For the 2015 video game, see Need for Speed (2015 video game). For the 2014 film, see Need for Speed (film). For other uses, see Need for Speed (disambiguation).

Road & Track Presents: The Need for Speed
3DO box art featuring a Ferrari 512TR and a Porsche 911 (993)
DevelopersEA Canada
EA Seattle (PC)
PublishersElectronic Arts
Electronic Arts Studios (PC)
ProducerHanno Lemke
ProgrammerBrad Gour
ArtistMarkus Tessmann
ComposersJeff van Dyck
Saki Kaskas
SeriesNeed for Speed
Platforms3DO, MS-DOS, PlayStation, Saturn, Windows
Release
December 2, 1994
  • 3DO
    • EU: December 2, 1994
    • NA: December 13, 1994
    MS-DOS
    • NA: September 1995
    PlayStation
    • NA: March 20, 1996
    • EU: March 29, 1996
    Saturn
    • NA: June 26, 1996
    • EU: July 5, 1996
    Windows
    • NA: December 30, 1996
    • EU: January 2, 1997
GenreRacing
ModesSingle-player, multiplayer

Road & Track Presents: The Need for Speed is a 1994 racing game developed by EA Canada, originally known as Pioneer Productions, and published by Electronic Arts for 3DO. Versions with additional tracks were released for MS-DOS (1995), PlayStation (1996), and Saturn (1996). The 1996 Windows release is subtitled SE (Special Edition).

The Need for Speed allows driving eight licensed sports cars in three point-to-point tracks either with or without a computer controlled opponent. Checkpoints, traffic vehicles, and police pursuits appear in the races. Electronic Arts collaborated with automotive magazine Road & Track to match vehicle behaviour, including the mimicking of the sounds made by the vehicles' gear control levers. The game contains precise vehicle data with spoken commentary, several "magazine-style" images of each car's interior and exterior and short video clips highlighting the vehicles set to music.

The game was a commercial success. Video game publications praised the incorporation of realism into the gameplay and graphics, as well as the inclusion of full-motion videos.

It is the first game in the Need for Speed franchise, a sequel Need for Speed II was released in 1997.


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