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Driving Force

Description

A simple car racing game that uses a joystick for steering and push buttons for acceleration and braking.

Driving Force was produced by Shinkai Inc. in 1984.

Shinkai Inc. released only 1 machine in our database under this trade name. Shinkai Inc. was based in United States.

Specs

Name	Driving Force
Developer	Shinkai Inc. (United States)
Year	1984
Type	Videogame
KLOV/MOG #	7658
Class	Wide Release
Genre	Racing
Monitor	Orientation: Vertical Type: Raster: Standard Resolution Color: Color
Conversion Class	Namco Galaxian
# Simultaneous Players	1
# Maximum Players	1
Game Play	Single
Control Panel Layout	Single Player Ambidextrous
Controls	Joystick: 2-way (left, right) Buttons: 2 - Accelerate\|Brake
Sound	Amplified Mono (one channel)
Cabinet Styles	Upright/Standard
Bezel	Driving Force Bezel Image
Control Panel	Driving Force Control Panel Image
PCB	Driving Force PCB Image

Game Introduction

You are challenged by four different driving conditions that alternate along the route; normal daytime, snow(?), fog (very difficult), and nighttime. The game is timed. You can earn extended time by reaching the checkpoints. Your score is apparently considered your mileage. You earn bonus points for passing cars. These points are added to your score at the end of the game. A score of 10000 is required to get your initials in the high score table.

Game Play

Instructions from the control panel overlay:

DRIVING FORCE PLAYER INSTRUCTIONS

-INSERT 25c. -GAME STARTS IMMEDIATELY. -DRIVE CAR USING JOYSTICK. -DEPRESS GREEN BUTTON TO ACCELERATE. -DEPRESS RED BUTTON TO BRAKE. -PASS CARS EARN BONUS POINTS. -EXTENDED PLAY AWARDED AT 3,500 MILES. -PUSH JOYSTICK LEFT TO SEE ALL PLAYERS INSTRUCTIONS ON SCREEN.

Driving Force KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 0.00 (0 votes)

Cheats, Tricks, Bugs, and Easter Eggs

You earn bonus points for each and every car you pass, even if you pass the same car more than once! So you can rack up extra bonus points if you allow a group of cars to pass you so that you can pass them again.

Images

Cabinet Information

The conversion kit includes a marquee and an ambidextrous control panel overlay. The kit was often installed in converted Galaxian or Pac-Man cabinets.

Conversion

This is a conversion on a Galaxian board that includes a new ROM daughtercard (labelled "=LIGHTNIN' VIDEO=, MEM B'd") that has four 2532 EPROMs on it, a pair of piggybacked 2532's for each of the graphics ROM sockets at 1H(J) and 1K(L), a pair of piggybacked 82S123's for the color PROM socket at 6L, and an epoxy pack (labelled "EX-PAK, CVS technology, copyright 1984") that plugs into the Z-80 socket. A 74LS175 is placed on top of the chip at 6R. Several jumper wires along with some lifted chip legs (or cut traces) are required to complete the conversion. The Galaxian background stars are disabled by clipping pin 15 of the chip at 2B.

Miscellaneous

The control panel overlay says "COPYRIGHTED BY TAICO", but the screen says "COPYRIGHT SHINKAI INC". They both indicate that the game is licensed to Magic Electronics USA. There may also exist a Driving Force conversion for Pac-Man boards.

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Driving Force Census

There are 15,264 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,669 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 166,973 machines (7,000 unique titles).

Scarce - There are 4 known instances of this machine owned by Driving Force collectors who are active members. Of these, 4 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

Wanted - No active members have added this machine to their wish list.

This game ranks a 3 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.

Rarity and Popularity independently are not necessarily indications of value. [More Information]

Flyers

Technical

The game uses the Galaxian 1P Start as Accelerate and 2P Start as Brake. The original Test and Service switches have no effect.

Manuals

Pinout - Driving Force Manual — **Pinout**
(1 page, 259 kB File)

Driving Force - Manual - Driving Force Manual — **Driving Force - Manual**
(6 pages, 651 kB File)

Series 2 Expansion Board Expansion - Driving Force Manual — **Series 2 Expansion Board Expansion**
(5 pages, 0.15 MB File)

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