Race Drivin' Description

Race Drivin' was produced by Atari Games in 1990.

Atari Games released 86 different machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1984.

Other machines made by Atari Games during the time period Race Drivin' was produced include Gumball Rally, Hydra, Shuuz, Rampart, ThunderJaws, KLAX, Cyberball 2072, Badlands, Hard Drivin', and Escape From The Planet Of The Robot Monsters.

A racing game with three seperate tracks: stunt, autocross, and super stunt track. You can choose from four different cars using either an automatic or manual transmission. Race around each track earning points for distance travelled, passing checkpoints to earn more time.

Race Drivin' - KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 2.82 (3 votes)

Cabinet Information

• Compact - A large upright game with a padded bench on the front. This version has a big lighted marquee. It also uses a Standard-Resolution monitor.
• Cockpit - A partially enclosed cockpit with a contoured, moveable seat. The likeness of a car with red racing stripes on a yellow background appears on the outside of the cabinet. It also uses a Medium-Resolution monitor.

Cabinet Style Weights and Measures

Cheats, Tricks, Bugs, and Easter Eggs

The game does not end until your car comes to a complete stop, so if you run out of time near a gate, put the car into neutral -- you may be able to coast through and get the bonus time.

On the Super Stunt Track, there is a tunnel that goes underneath the mountain road as you near the finish line. Inside the tunnel are two vehicles that appear to have gotten into a wreck of some sort. They are unfortunatly blocking the road. In order to get around the cars, you need to perform a "corkscrew" type of stunt by driving over the two vehicles around the inside of the tunnel. This is the same kind of technique used on the barrel roll on the Super Stunt Track.

Game Introduction

The Autocross track is a small track with a pace car. This course requires more precision manuevers, less speed and more skill.

The Super Stunt track has banked curves, mountains, winding roads, large jumps, a loop/inverted jump, a barrel roll, a giant ramp, and a tunnel. This is a very large track, the biggest of the three.

The player can choose from four different cars three with manual transmissions and one with automatic. All vehicles have different handling characteristics. Force Feedback in the steering wheel gives a real driving feel to the game. There is also an option to play against another player. The first player races -- his drive is recorded -- and the second player races against recording of the first. Two game cabinets can even be linked through a cable and players can race against each other simultaneously.

Game Play

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Race Drivin' Census

Very Common - There are 111 known instances of this machine owned by Race Drivin' collectors who are active members. Of these, 100 of them are original dedicated machines, 7 of them are conversions in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet, and 4 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

For Sale - There are 9 active VAPS members with Race Drivin' machines for sale.

Wanted - There are 10 active VAPS members currently looking for Race Drivin'.

This game ranks a 34 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.

This game ranks a 16 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often wanted, 1=least common) in popularity based on census want list records.

Technical

Trivia

Atari had multiple patents on this game. The patent for a "Rear entry booth and seat for a sit-down video game" can be viewed at "http://www.patents.ibm.com/details?pnUS04960117__s_clms1".

There is also a Commercial Panorama version of this game with three screens that show the center left and right views from the car.

Legacy

1. Hard Drivin'
2. Race Drivin'
3. Hard Drivin's Airborne

Manuals

1. Operator's Manual  84 Pages, 9 MB File.

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