Things you may of not known about hard drivin'
(updated with a couple more facts at the end)
1) Hard Drivins Force Feedback at Max level, can be used to winch an 18 wheeler out of the ditch.
3) HDs wheel is made of solid gold.
4) HDs wheel is huge. They are using one for a ferris wheel in london now.
5) HDs Pedals are again, a revolution in the industry. Before this no arcade game had pedals. Neither did actual
cars.
5a) The Brake, has a rubber.
5b) The entire pedal assy was forged from the same fires of Moloch wince the wheel came.
6) The Sitdown Shifter, uses a massive hand fitted diamond balltop. It took hundreds of ethoiopians decades to
create this master piece.
Additionally the shifter assembly was made by combining 4 "golden gate bridge" class I-beams together. People in
the future have carbon dated these back millions of years.
7) It was the only game I know of, that used an electro magnet that would normally be in a junk yard for the
seat lock. Also the seat featured an ejection seat like one you would see in a fighter jet. I know of many ops
that had to replace their roofs daily.
HD also features a full enclosure, Atari actually contracted with GM to make real cars for them, then they
ripped out most of the guts and replaced them with HD's superior mechanicals.
9) HD is the first racer to use a brake. All arcade games before it just had a pedal there for looks, they
didn't actually do anything, and since no one ever used it, no one was the wiser.
10) HD's physics were created by NASA. This was the whole reason behind the moon landing hoax. The whole apollo
program was a front to funnel funds into the Hard Drivin' program. Atari then disabled all this because it's a
coin game after all. That's why your car can, in addition to flying backwards at 60mph after hitting the barn at
5, randomly fall through the road and explode, can do backflips over other cars like the Blue's Mobile, and last
but not least, the reason that a dump truck is going around the f***ing stunt loop.
I also think daytona USA was an awesome simulator.
11) HD was also one of the only arcade games that required a trip to the DMV to get your license and
registration before playing.
12) HD was also one of the only arcade games you could (had?) to get car insurance for. I think the other one
was wacky wheels.
13) The game has ability to have (I believe), a hook up to every screen on the planet simultaneously through a
proprietary wireless network (thanks to NASA again).
14) All of this wasn't cheap, many ops had to refinance their businesses and thus the roots of the housing market crash can be traced all the way back to HD.
------update------
15) Don't taunt Hard Drivin'
16) Xiaou2 is the only person so far to be legally married to a Hard Drivin' cab.
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