Neo Drift Out: New Technology

Neo Drift Out: New Technology[lower-alpha 1] is a 1996 rallying video game developed by Visco Corporation for the Neo Geo and Neo Geo CD.[1] It is the fourth title in the Drift Out series. Though it follows Super Drift Out: World Rally Championships, it is closer to the earlier Drift Out '94: The Hard Order.

Neo Drift Out: New Technology
Japanese Arcade flyer
Developer(s)Visco Corporation
Publisher(s)Arcade
Neo Geo CD
  • JP: Visco Corporation
Producer(s)Tetsuo Akiyama
Programmer(s)C. Ohmori
Hagi Saito
Masahiro Honma
Artist(s)M. Hasegawa
M. Shimura
T. Nakahata
SeriesDrift Out
Platform(s)Arcade, Neo Geo CD
ReleaseArcade
  • WW: 28 March 1996
Neo Geo CD
  • JP: 26 July 1996
Genre(s)Racing
Mode(s)
CabinetUpright
Arcade systemNeo Geo MVS

Gameplay
Gameplay screenshot.

This is an arcade-style rallying game with a particular isometric view. To start things off, the player chooses between three Japanese rally-spec vehicles—the Mitsubishi Lancer, the Subaru Impreza, and the Toyota Celica—which vary with their Speed, Control, and Body stats.

In each racing stage, the player needs to get to the finish line in the shortest time possible. If the clock hits zero, the player loses and the game is over unless they can continue. While driving, the player's time is hindered by barrels, puddles, slippery ice, cones and other obstacles that are in the player's path. Even other cars driving can be an obstacle. Also the player has to keep their rally car straight when driving up slopes, or the car will swerve and crash. The player can gain more time if they make it through checkpoints in between the starting and finishing points. The player can also take shortcuts. Before making a turn, the player will always get an immediate warning on the screen with a voice saying which direction the player ought to turn along with certain other warnings.

Aside from the starting Practice stage, there are six other stages to be conquered: European, African, Snow Land, Southern Hemisphere, Scandinavian, and Great Britain.

Development and release

Reception
Reception
Review scores
PublicationScore
AllGame(Arcade) [2]
MAN!AC(Neo Geo CD) 59%[3]
Neo Geo Freak(Arcade) 12/20[4]
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See also
  • Super Drift Out: World Rally Championships

Notes
  1. Also known as Neo Drift Out (Japanese: NEO ドリフト アウト, Hepburn: Neo Dorifuto Auto) in Japan.

References
  1. McFerran, Damien (September 2015). "Arcade Perfect: A Neo-Geo Retrospective". Retro Gamer. No. 146. Imagine Publishing. pp. 16–27.
  2. Biondich, Paul (1998). "Neo Drift Out: New Technology (Arcade) - Review". AllGame. All Media Network. Archived from the original on 2014-11-16. Retrieved 2020-04-12.
  3. Knauf, Andreas (June 1996). "Spiele-Tests – NG: Drift Out - New Technology". MAN!AC (in German). No. 32. Cybermedia. p. 61.
  4. "NF編集部にまる - ネオジオゲームㇱインレビュー: NEOドリフトアウト". Neo Geo Freak (in Japanese). No. 25. Geibunsha. June 1997. pp. 124–128.
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