The company started with some very good but fairly conventional games: shooting games, strategy games, adventure games, and so on.

Injured Engine was published by Imagic, a company that was the second third-party video game developer ever: Activision was the first, founded by disgruntled Atari employees, and s oon after that other Atari programmers left, emboldened by Activision’s success, and founded Imagic, which released its first Atari 2600 games in 1982.

It was a program called Injured Engine, from 1984. I’m not certain I’d call it successful, but it was fascinating, and was a precursor to modern engine diagnostic training simulations today. There was one strange and notable exception from nearly 40 years ago, an attempt to bring auto repair into the realm of video games. Aside from actually driving cars in games, other aspects of the automotive world haven’t been as well represented. Racing and driving games were some of the earliest video games around, and have been a staple for years. Cars and video games have been linked for a long, long time.

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