Better known today as the developer of Skyrim and Fallout, Bethesda once had a well-respected racing game franchise and were deep into development of a licensed Skip Barber Racing title that never released.
Asobo, known today as the Microsoft Flight Simulator developer, created groundbreaking technology for large scale maps that was intended to be used in a high quality rally raid title. It was never released and ended up as FUEL, a post-apocalyptic open-world racing game. What happened?
N1 is first example of a first person racing game and included basic simulation features such as gear changes.
Released only on an Arcade platform in selected parts of Europe, sightings were rare, but the title was seen by Atari’s Dave Shepperd after the German IMA show in Spring 1976 and was then cloned as Atari’s Night Driver for Arcade and Atari 2600 systems.