Night Driver (video game)

Night Driver
Arcade flyer
Developer(s)Atari, Inc.
Publisher(s)
Designer(s)Dave Shepperd s/w
Ron Milner
Steve Mayer
Terry Fowler (hardware)
Platform(s)Arcade, Atari 2600, Commodore 64
ReleaseArcade
Atari 2600
Commodore 64
Genre(s)Racing
Mode(s)Single-player
Arcade system6502 @ 1.008 MHz

Night Driver is an arcade video game developed by Atari, Inc. and released in the United States in October 1976. It's 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.[5][6]

Atari published a color version for the Atari Video Computer System in 1980.

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