Driver's Eyes (Japan) (1992/01/10, Main Ver 2.1, Sub Ver 1.1)

Arcade Video game published 34 years ago:

Driver's Eyes (c) 1991 Namco.

Driver's Eyes was a state of the art Formula One Simulator, a follow up to "Winning Run" (1988). one of its most advanced features for 1991 was the 3-D solid polygons and the major sound clean up (music composed by Hiroyuki Kawada, who also composed music for Air Combat, Winning Run etc.). The player would select his/her level of racing, Novice or Grand Prix, then transmission select (Easy Drive or Technical Drive). When the selections were made, the game would then show a short animation of the engine going into the engine bay and the body work gliding down (changing view to the cockpit) revealing a sign saying BRAKES ON. Once the sign lifts the race starts (in novice mode Grand Prix was on the starting grid). Also the game featured a panoramic view thanks to a 3 monitor setup (controlled by 3 system 21's!). The game also had an LCD display in the player's cockpit in sync with the speed on the screen.

- TECHNICAL -

Namco System 21 hardware
Game ID : DE

Main CPU : (2x) Motorola 68000 (@ 12.288 Mhz), M6809 (@ 3.072 Mhz), HD63705 (@ 2.048 Mhz), (2x) TMS32025 (@ 24 Mhz)
Sound Chips : C140 (@ 21.39 Khz), YM2151 (@ 3.57958 Mhz)

Players : 1
Control : stick
Buttons : 4

- TRIVIA -

Even if the title screen says 1990, Driver's Eyes was released in January 1991 in Japan.

In Japan, 'Game Machine' listed Driver's Eyes on their May 1, 1991 issue as being the second most-successful upright arcade game of the year.

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