Free Driving Games

Statistics have shown that there is a rapidly growingwith the likes of Out Run, a game that put you in
trend towards the demand of free online drivingthe seat of some of the worlds best sports cars
games to play today. Driving games are nothing newwhilst combing great graphics with realistic, albeit
and they have indeed been around for many years,arcade style, adrenalin fueled game play.
the first of which was widely regarded as Gran TrakFree online driving games were, however, were a
10, originally released by Atari way back 1974. Granmuch later addition to the gaming family tree. Early
Track 10 was based around an overhead driving viewonline racing games were playable but cumbersome,
of the race track and due to the computingnot pleasing to eye and slow to load, a real step
limitations of the time it ran on very low resolution,backwards. It was not until the creation of a
chunky with white on black graphics. The object ofcomplete new web application, namely Flash,
this pioneering driving game was simple andintroduced by Macromedia in 1996 that things really
straightforward, you had to beat the clock. The nextstarted to get interesting again. Flash was a ground
driving game to become a hit was Night Racer, whichbreaking tool which allowed for much higher end
was developed by Micronectics a few years later.graphics, animation and interactivity to be added to
Night Racer pushed the gaming envelope of the timeweb pages, elements that lend themselves
by offering a 3 dimensional driving style, though asparticularly well to online driving games.
the technology was still very limited the actual courseThe rest we should say at this time is history and
was marked out by simple small columns alone andfree online driving games rapidly became what they
the graphics again were provided in basic black andare today, faster loading, quick playing with visual
white format. As with Gran Track the object of thegraphics becoming in some instances inseparable from
driving game was to improve your lap times and beatthe more expensive PC or console based games. A
the clock.great number of driving game styles can now be
Five or six years later driving games began to enterfound and be played on the internet, with common
a more competitive dimension and this was thanks intitles that include car racing, truck driving games, 4x4
part to Namco with the launch of the well knownrallying, parking test games, boat skippering, on and
driving game, Pole Position. Pole Position allowedoff road motorbike racing and monster truck games
players to race against other track cars for the firstand due to the advent and recent development of
time and it took driving games to a new level byonline advertising it looks like free driving games will
improving the graphics, scrolling and the ability tobe hear in many shapes and forms for many years
drive real circuit layouts, in color! A few years later,to come.
around 1986, driving games really starting to hot up