First racing videogame

The first racing game to emerge from gaming’s primordial soup was Atari’s Gran Trak 10, released in 1974. Looking at it now, the gameplay and visuals appear primitive, but back then controlling this boxy-looking car around as ingle, oval track was state-of the art. As the first arcade game to use mask ROM chip, Gran Trak 10 was hugely expensive to develop and distribute. Nevertheless, the game spawned a handful of spin-offs