A strange little side quest
The fun part of looking behind Drive Mad is seeing how many older ideas are still alive in modern play. Atari's Gran Trak 10 from 1974 is recognized as the first arcade racing video game, decades before modern 3D racers. And then there is this: Spacewar! appeared on MIT's PDP-1 in 1962 and became one of the earliest influential computer games shared among programmers. So a round of Drive Mad is not just a quick distraction; it is a tiny stop on a much longer racing timeline.
