Original upload date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT
Archive date: Tue, 30 Nov 2021 21:14:41 GMT
In 2007 I met up with former Atari graphics artist Alan Murphy and archived a VHS tape of his that contained footage of this prototype arcade game that was in development in 1985!
Air Race was a futu
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ristic racing game where you piloted a ship around a race course. The game used the same hardware as another unreleased game, "The Last Starfighter" (1984). If released, this would have been the first racing game to use flat-shaded 3-D polygons. The technology developed was later used for Atari's "Hard Drivin'" and "S.T.U.N. Runner" games (both released in 1989). Atari created the world's first 3-D polygon video game in 1983, with "I, Robot".
