Arcade Game: Turbo (1981 Sega)

A driving race game with chasing 3-D view. The player must pass a set number of rival racers (usually 30) before the time limit expires. Success would see the player progress to the next stage. Turbo's gameplay was unique in that centered ENTIRELY on the passing of cars; while the tracks the player raced on had all of the usual bends and turns of the racing genre, they existed purely for effect and at no point did the player actually have to STEER through them.

Turbo was the world's first full-colour, sprite scaling racing game and not, as many assume, Namco's "Pole Position". Turbo was released a full year before the Namco legend and is a further example of how Sega have dominated and innovated within the arcade racing genre.

Top scores were kept on a LED panel to the left of the screen (unfortunately these scores reset every-time you turn the game off).

This was the first game ever to feature the now common third-person perspective (action is viewed above and behind the player's car), that virtually all subsequent racing games would come to utilize.

The sprites are amazing for 1981.

Note: The game is endless. After all of the backgrounds were shown, I killed myself aftewards. Invincibility cheat was used in this game.