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Need For Speed - History

Arcade Games: Driving simulators on the PC have been in our house for many years and NFS was a favorite. My daughters were racing high-performance sports cars through the Alps and Pyrenees long before they were old enough to have a drivers license. After seeing a press release for the next edition I decided to take a brief look back at the NFS heritage.

The Need For Speed (08/31/95)
Need For Speed II (04/30/97)
Need For Speed II SE (1997)
Need For Speed III: Hot Pursuit (09/30/98)
Need For Speed: High Stakes (09/29/99)
Need For Speed: Porsche Unleashed (03/28/00)
Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit 2 (09/30/02)
Need For Speed Underground (11/17/03)
Need For Speed Underground 2 (05/10/04)
and coming this November...
Need For Speed Most Wanted (Q4 2005)

NFS creators, Electronic Arts used the amazingly successful format pioneered by Id software (Doom, Quake, etc) of releasing a free demo and eventually offering online play, updates, and user mods. One can still download the free NFS demos from gamespot.com.

Posted by dancoy at April 11, 2005 09:27 PM