Philips Magnavox Videogames and the Entertainment Revolution Trigger Happy - Manual (Page 51)

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series of games continued to evolve until 1999’s Ridge
Racer Type 4, which ran on the same hardware but
looked many times slicker (see fig. 2).
Fig. 2. Ridge Racer Type 4: prettier, faster, better (‰ 1999
Namco Ltd; all rights reserved)
Early two-dimensional racing games, with a flat
road scrolling up the screen, were little more than
simple dodge games or, with gun-equipped cars,
variations on the shoot-’em-up (Spy Hunter). The first,
crude attempt at driver’s-eye-view perspective was
Atari’s Night Driver, but the genre truly blossomed