Wipeout

Wipeout is one of six Odyssey add-on games released in 1972, and the first home videogame with a car racing theme. It works with game card #5 originally supplied with the system.

The race takes place on the included physical game board, on which players move their plastic car pieces. How many spaces they can move is not decided by throwing dice though, but by an on-screen race using the Odyssey console.

While one player tries to maneuver a spot representing a car along the race track pictured on the screen overlay, the other one represents the timer and tries to hit the car with a ball spot that traverses horizontally across the center of the screen, deducting a point from the racer every time it does so. Colliding with the ball spot or leaving the race track costs points too, further reducing the number of spaces the racer can move his or her token on the game board after he or she finishes the track.