Driver’s Eyes

Driver’s Eyes was developed by Namco., Released in January 1991

Driver’s Eyes was a state of the art Formula One Simulator, a follow up to “Winning Run” (1988), one of its most advanced features for 1990 was the 3-D solid polygons and the major system 21 sound clean up (music composed by Hiroyuki Kawada who also composed music for Air Combat,Winning Run etc.) the player would select his/her level of racing, Novice or Grand Prix, then, transmission select, (Easy Drive or Technical Drive). when the selections were made, the game would then show a short animation of the engine going into the engine bay and the body work gliding down (changing view to the cockpit) revealing a sign saying BRAKES ON when the sign lifts the race started (in novice mode Grand Prix was on the starting grid). Also the game featured panoramic view thanks to a 3 monitor setup (controlled by 3 system 21’s!) and finally to add the game also had an LCD display in the player’s cockpit in sync with the speedo on the screen.

Other Informations:

Namco System 21 hardware
Game ID : DE

Main CPU : (2x) Motorola 68000 (@ 12.288 Mhz), M6809 (@ 3.072 Mhz), HD63705 (@ 2.048 Mhz), (2x) TMS32025 (@ 24 Mhz)
Sound Chips : C140 (@ 21.39 Khz), YM2151 (@ 3.57958 Mhz)

Players : 1
Control : stick
Buttons : 4

Even if titlescreen says 1990, Driver’s Eyes was released in January 1991 in Japan.