Hard Drivin' - Videogame by Atari Games

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Hard Drivin'

Name: Hard Drivin'
Developer: Atari Games

Year: 1989
Type: Videogame

Class: Wide Release
Genre: Racing
Monitor:

Orientation: Horizontal
Type: Raster: Medium Resolution
CRT: Color
25-inch monitor
Cockpit - EGA
Upright - CGA

Conversion Class: unique

Number of Simultaneous Players: 1
Maximum number of Players: 2
Gameplay: Alternating
Control Panel Layout: Single Player
Controls:

Steering: Wheel with Force Feedback
Shifter: 5-position (1/2/3/4/R)
Pedals: 3

Sound: Amplified Stereo (two channel)

Cabinet Styles:

Upright/Standard
Environmental/Cockpit

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Hard Drivin' Control Panel Image

Hard Drivin' Description

This game invites players to test drive a high-powered sports car on a stunt course. Players select either an automatic or manual transmission and turn the ignition key to start the game. By taking different off ramps, players can select the track they prefer.

Hard Drivin' was produced by Atari Games in 1989.

Atari Games released 88 different machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1984.

Other machines made by Atari Games during the time period Hard Drivin' was produced include Escape From The Planet Of The Robot Monsters, Cyberball 2072, S.T.U.N. Runner, Badlands, KLAX, Tetris, Vindicators, Assault, Pot Shot, and Toobin'.

Hard Drivin' - KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 3.54 (5 votes)

Personal Impressions Score: 3.68

     Overall 'Like': 4.20
     Fun (Social): 3.40
     Fun (Solo): 3.40
     Collector Desire: 3.20

Technical Impressions Score: 3.40

     Gameplay: 3.60
     Graphics: 3.20
     Originality: 3.60
     Sound/Music: 3.20

Personal Impressions and Technical Impressions each account for half of the total score. Within the Personal Impressions category, "Like" carries a little more weight than the other factors.

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Cabinet Information

The game was first released in a deluxe cockpit version followed by a compact sitdown that looks more like an upright.

Cabinet Style Weights and Measures

Type
Upright/Standard
Environmental/Cockpit

Cheats, Tricks, Bugs, and Easter Eggs

When moving downhill, shift the car into neutral. You will notice that the time will pause giving you more time to finish the lap.

If you make a real hard left turn as soon as time starts, you will drive onto a skidpad.

Game Introduction

Players select either an automatic or manual transmission and turn the ignition key to start the game. By taking different off-ramps, players can select the track they prefer. While on the stunt track, players can jump a drawbridge, negotiate a high-speed banked turn, and drive a 360-degree vertical loop.

Operator-selectable features include the time allowed from checkpoint to finish line and bonus driving time for a race well-run. The player's view is from the windshield of the car. Fully animated gauges are on the dash graphics on the 25-inch medium resolution monitor are true multi-sided, three-dimensional objects.

Miscellaneous

The cockpit style uses a Medium-Resolution monitor, while the upright-style uses a Standard-Resolution monitor.

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Hard Drivin' Census

There are 12,127 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,620 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 163,035 machines (6,847 unique titles).

Very Common - There are approximately 92 known instances of this machine presumably owned by our current and past members. More are likely owned by non-members. 35 of these machines are owned by our active Hard Drivin' collectors. And of these, 29 are original dedicated machines, and 6 are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

For Sale - There are 4 active VAPS members with Hard Drivin' machines for sale. There is one active VAPS member with an extra Hard Drivin' circuit board for sale.

Wanted - There are 2 active VAPS members currently looking for Hard Drivin'.

At any given time, our active members are listing on VAPS on average of 4,400 games they are looking for, and 3,600 games for sale.

This game ranks a 27 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.

This game ranks a 15 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often wanted, 1=least common) in popularity based on census want list records.

Rarity and Popularity independently are NOT necessarily indications of value. [More Information]

Technical

Shortly after its realease, games like S.T.U.N. Runner and Race Drivin' were developed, both using similar hardware to this game.

Trivia

This was the first driving simulator to use 3-D polygon graphics.

Legacy

Hard Drivin' (1989)
Race Drivin' (1990)
Hard Drivin's Airborne (1993)

Manuals

Schematic 20 Pages, 969 kB File.

Video Clips

Hard Drivin' Race Drivin' Arcade by Atari; high score: 212,000 points!!!

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Additional References
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The Arcade Flyer Archive (TAFA): Hard Drivin' Flyer #457
The Arcade Flyer Archive (TAFA): Hard Drivin' Flyer #2848

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