Hard Drivin'

Information

Genre

Racing - Cars

Language

Machine Language

Controls

Joystick, Mouse

Players

1, Demo

Resolution

Low

Programmer(s)

Friedrich, Jürgen

Graphic Artist(s)

Brown, Richard, Friedrich, Jürgen

Game design

Atari Games [company]

Musician(s)

Furniss, Matt

Sound FX

[unknown]

Year

1991

Publisher

Respray

Distributor

Domark

Developer

[n/a]

Licensed from

Atari Games / Tengen

Country

United Kingdom

Software

English

License

Commercial

ST Type

ST, STe, 0.5MB

Version

[Re-release]

Number of Disks

1, Double Sided

Votes / Statistics

Rating: 7.8/10 · Votes: 55 · Downloads: 1,676 · Hits: 4,528

Screenshots (17)

Article (2)

News

Tips (2)

Trivia (8)

Origins

Based on Atari Games 1989 coin-op.

Sound

This game features digital sound effects

Awards:

Golden Joystick Awards: Best 16-bit coin-op conversion 1990

Conversion - Atari Lynx

Competition

Hard Drivin' was featured in ST Format's competition where four winners got a 1/18 scale radio controlled model of Ferrari F40.

Charts

Top UK ST charts position: 4 (3/1990)
Months on charts: 6 between 2/1990 - 12/1990

Development

Game was developed on the Atari ST and took about 6 months to write. It was developed mainly using Turbo C for code and Art Director for graphics. Final source code size was between 350 and 400 kilobytes. 70% of the source code is C and 30% assembler.

ST version runs between 8 to 10 frames per second with over 150 objects on screen at the same time.

Source: ACE issue 28 January 1990

Releases

The Atari ST version was released first on the 16 bit market in Europe. Published later for other 16 bit systems.
Source: Research of over 16700 software reviews from UK computer magazines between 1985 and 1996.

Book / Magazine Reviews (4)

The One · September, 1989

The One · December, 1989 · Rating: 88 %

ST Action · January, 1990 · Rating: 72 %

ST Format · January, 1990 · Rating: 84%