Road & Track Presents: The Need for Speed (1996) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Road & Track Presents: The Need for Speed

Road & Track Presents: The Need for Speed, later released in Japan as Over Drivin’, is a 1994 racing video game first released on the 3DO and then ported to MS-DOS, PlayStation and Sega Saturn. It is the first…

28 July 1996

What Road & Track Presents: The Need for Speed is

Road & Track Presents: The Need for Speed is a racing game developed by EA and released in 1996. It is available on Sega Saturn only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Road & Track Presents: The Need for Speed, later released in Japan as Over Drivin’, is a 1994 racing video game first released on the 3DO and then ported to MS-DOS, PlayStation and Sega Saturn. It is the first installment released in the Need for Speed series. The premise of the game involves racing in sport cars, including several exotic models and Japanese imports. The Saturn version expanded the content with three additional closed-circuit track courses, for a total of six tracks available at launch, and also allows users to select the time of day which is not seen in older versions.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Need for Speed series

Road & Track Presents: The Need for Speed is the second of 84 entries we hold in the Need for Speed series. It arrived 2 years after The Need for Speed. The next entry was Road & Track Presents: The Need for Speed - Special Edition in 1996.

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