# What was this 1970's arcade racing game? **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** video-games-e-games\ **Created:** [January 12, 2024, 10:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-this-1970s-arcade-racing-game/995999 "2024-01-12T10:20:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2024, 10:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-this-1970s-arcade-racing-game/995999/1 "2024-01-12T10:20:29Z")
I remember seeing this game in the Aladins Castle in the early-mid 70’s. I never played it because I didn’t know what it was about. My memory may be a tad foggy about it. It had a plastic model race car under domed plastic on a partial drag strip with drag lights. I don’t believe the car moved at all, which is why I thought the game was weird. There was a gear shifter. I always guessed the object had something to do with shifting or something. But like I said, I never played it. ---
**Author:** ![Palooka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/palooka/32/2902_2.png) [@Palooka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Palooka)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2024, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-this-1970s-arcade-racing-game/995999/2 "2024-01-12T14:52:52Z")
When you say the car doesn’t move, do you mean in the gameplay rather than the cabinet being motorized? The car is fixed in position on the screen (or maybe it’s just horizontal movement) and the track and other cars scroll by? ---
**Author:** ![Dorjan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dorjan/32/12440_2.png) [@Dorjan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dorjan)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2024, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-this-1970s-arcade-racing-game/995999/3 "2024-01-12T14:59:59Z")
Sounds like Allied’s “Super Shifter” game. it had a clutch, shifter, and tach. You had to keep the car straight. I think it gave the sensation of speed using strobe lights. ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2024, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-this-1970s-arcade-racing-game/995999/4 "2024-01-12T15:00:12Z")
Supershifter? > **[Super Shifter - Videogame by Allied Leisure Industries](https://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=10653)** > > The Super Shifter coin-operated Videogame by Allied Leisure Industries (circa 0, and it's history and background, photos, repair help, manuals, for sale and wanted lists, and census survey), and it's history and background, photos, repair help,... ---
**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2024, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-this-1970s-arcade-racing-game/995999/5 "2024-01-12T15:00:29Z")
Speed Shift maybe? [Speed Shift (1974) - another awesome electromechanical arcade game! (youtube.com)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRDoJu3xdSg) My favorite electromechanical game in the 70s was [Sea Wolf](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_Wolf_(video_game)) ---
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2024, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-this-1970s-arcade-racing-game/995999/6 "2024-01-15T07:22:37Z")
> [@Dorjan](#): > > Sounds like Allied’s “Super Shifter” game. it had a clutch, shifter, and tach. You had to keep the car straight. I think it gave the sensation of speed using strobe lights. > [@Hampshire](#): > > Supershifter? > [Super Shifter - Videogame by Allied Leisure Industries](https://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=10653) That’s it!!! Never played it but I remember seeing it. Pretty good. Now let’s try identifying [This](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-what-was-this-1970s-arcade-game/996106) one.