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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
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