Race Drivin' (SNES)

Race Drivin'

Platform: SNES Year: 1992 Developer: Imagineering, Inc.

Race Drivin' is a driving arcade game that invites players to test drive several high-powered sports cars on stunt and speed courses. The game is the sequel to 1989's Hard Drivin' and was part of a new generation of games that featured 3D polygon environments. Unlike most racing games of its time, it attempted to model real world car physics in the simulation of the movement of the player's car. Like Hard Drivin', the game is unique among video games in that it includes a true force feedback steering wheel, an ignition key, a four-speed shifter, and three foot pedals: an accelerator, a brake, and a clutch (the clutch being a control seldom seen in any video game, then or now). Released in August 1990, approximately 1200 units were produced at the time of its release for roughly $9000 each.

Race Drivin' was ported to a number of home systems in the mid-1990s, including the SNES, Amiga, Game Boy, Genesis and Saturn. In 2005 it was included in the Midway Arcade Treasures 3 collection for the PlayStation 2, GameCube, and Xbox.

The game's "sister" title, Steel Talons (SNES) was also made by the same team.

Screenshots

The title screen. 256px Selecting a car. 256px Selecting a track. 256px The first track, the Autocross Track. 256px You have been qualified for the championship lap. 256px Entering a name on the high score screen entry for the track.

Music

For 1992, Mark Van Hecke, who was successful in the video game industry expected to be a very good soundtrack. He was implementing Don Diekneite's score from the arcade version, and added in new original tracks, that it appeared to be very original.

This game used the sound software developed by David O'Riva for his video game company Bitmasters.

To be noted that Van Hecke arranged the music in Dr. T's KCS for the Macintosh, which was converted to David O'Riva's sound driver.

Recording

#	Title	Composer	Arranger	Length	Listen	Download
01	Title Screen	Don Diekneite	Mark Van Hecke	0:32		Download
02	Title Screen (Short)	Don Diekneite	Mark Van Hecke	0:10		Download
03	Select Car	Don Diekneite	Mark Van Hecke	0:08		Download
04	Select Car (Variation)	Don Diekneite	Mark Van Hecke	0:08		Download
05	Select Course	Don Diekneite	Mark Van Hecke	0:08		Download
06	Course Info	Don Diekneite	Mark Van Hecke	0:30		Download
07	Instant Replay	Don Diekneite	Mark Van Hecke	0:30		Download
08	Checkpoint	Don Diekneite	Mark Van Hecke	0:02		Download
09	Crossed the Finish Line	Don Diekneite	Mark Van Hecke	0:01		Download
10	Begin Championship	Don Diekneite	Mark Van Hecke	0:01		Download
11	Game Over	Don Diekneite	Mark Van Hecke	0:01		Download
12	High Score	Don Diekneite	Mark Van Hecke	0:12		Download
13	Unused Song	Don Diekneite	Mark Van Hecke	0:06		Download
14	Unused Jingle	Don Diekneite	Mark Van Hecke	0:05		Download
15	Unused Ambience 1	Don Diekneite	Mark Van Hecke	0:10		Download
16	Unused Ambience 2	Don Diekneite	Mark Van Hecke	0:09		Download

Credits

• Ripper:
• Recorder: Duc4Wikmedia
• Game Credits
  • Audio Director: Mark Van Hecke
  • Audio Drivers: David O'Riva credited as Bitmasters
  • Uncredited Composer: Don Diekneite

(Source)

The game credits appears during the attract demo of the game.

Game Rip

Format	Download

Audio Devices

The game uses the S-SMP of the SNES. It uses David O'Riva sound driver.

Releases

USA Title: Race Drivin' Platform: SNES Released: 1992-10-?? Publisher: THQ Software     EU Title: Race Drivin' Platform: SNES Released: 1992-??-?? Publisher: THQ International Ltd.

Links

• gamefaqs.gamespot.com/snes/588594-race-drivin - GameFAQs.
• mobygames.com/game/snes/race-drivin - MobyGames.