Speed Freak [SEP] publisher
Speed Freak
Speed Freak is a monochrome vector arcade game created by Vectorbeam in 1979. Along with Atari's "Night Driver", it is one of the earliest first-person driving games and the first such game known to use vector graphics.
Gameplay.
The game is a behind-the-wheel driving simulation where the driver speeds down a winding computer generated road past other cars, hitchikers, trees, cows and cacti. Occasionally a plane will fly overhead towards the screen. One must avoid crashing into
is explored and the stories of how Burroughs got from being a teenage speed-freak to getting arrested and tried for forging a prescription is touched upon. "Speed" was almost rejected by its publisher due to its crude themes, such as the in-depth sex scene between Burroughs and his child love, Maria.
Impact.
Burroughs' second work, "Kentucky Ham", is similar in some aspects to "Speed" and elucidates on the other adventures had by him after "Speed" was written.