[1] It is recognized as the world's earliest first-person racing video game and inspired the development of Atari, Inc.'s Night Driver.

[2][3] The game's arcade cabinet contains a steering wheel, shifter, pedals, and other controls in the form of buttons.

[2] Unable to find a way to cheaply scale down the earliest driving simulators by Volkswagen and BP, he decided to build one based on the technology he found inside a Pong video game machine.

[2] Dave Shepperd, a programmer at Atari, Inc., saw a picture of the arcade cabinet in a flyer that had a small portion of the screen visible, which inspired him to create Night Driver.

[2] The second installment in the series has motorcycle handlebars, while the third is in full color with selectable backgrounds.