Nürburgring 1
Description
Nürburgring 1 is a first person racing game. The arcade cabinet has a black and white monitor, a steering wheel and two foot pedals for gas and brake. The screen is completely black with white rectangles representing roadside poles. A monitor overlay sticker displays the car hood and boxes at the bottom of the screen for the distance, speed and misses. The player gets 90 seconds to drive across the finish line; crashing the car results in a time penalty. The game plays the sound of the engine and screaming tires.
The game was intended to be a driving simulator and it was built using the discrete logic technology found inside a Pong arcade cabinet. The game consisted of 28 circuit boards and did not use a CPU. Nürburgring 2 was released in 1979 and replaced the steering wheel with motor bike handles.
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Night Driver
When engineer Dave Shepperd was given the assignment to program Night Driver, he was given piece of paper with a picture of the Nürburgring 1 cabinet with a small portion of the screen visible. Without seeing or playing the game, Shepperd was inspired by the little white squares and basically created a more economical version of the driving game.
Driving simulator
Reiner Foerst created the very first driving game not out of any interest in games, but rather an interest in Simulation theory and engineering. He would go on to start Foerst Fahrsimulatoren, a driving simulator company, which is still in business today.
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Game added April 22, 2018. Last modified February 18, 2024.