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Speed Freak

Speed Freak is a monochrome vector arcade game created by Vectorbeam in 1979. It is a behind-the-wheel driving simulation where the driver speeds down the computer generated road past other cars, hitchikers…

1 March 1979

Speed Freak is an arcade developed by Vectorbeam, released 1 March 1979 on Arcade.

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What Speed Freak is

Speed Freak is an arcade game developed by Vectorbeam and released in 1979. It is available on Arcade only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Speed Freak is a monochrome vector arcade game created by Vectorbeam in 1979. It is a behind-the-wheel driving simulation where the driver speeds down the computer generated road past other cars, hitchikers, trees, cows and cacti. Occasionally a plane will fly overhead towards the screen. One must avoid crashing into these objects and complete the race in the alloted time. The player can crash as many times as he wants before the time runs out and players were treated to two different crash animations. The first was a simple cracked windshield effect, the second was a crash where the car explodes into car parts that fly through the air.
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How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

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When did Speed Freak come out?
Speed Freak was released on 1 March 1979 for Arcade.

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