Neo Drift Out: New Technology from 1996 is a racing game by Visco Corporation for the Neo Geo — SNK's platform famous above all for fighting games, which made any racing title on it a rarity. It continues the Drift Out line devoted to rally driving seen from above.

The principle is classic arcade rally: the stage streams beneath a car viewed top down, and everything hinges on time, clean lines and above all the art of the slide that the series carries in its very name. Short, tense stages follow arcade logic — every run either lets you through or sends you back for another coin.

The Neo Geo gave mid nineties games an exceptional audiovisual budget. Large, detailed sprites of real world rally machines and brisk animation made Neo Drift Out one of the best looking top down racers of its day — and at a moment when racing games were stampeding into 3D, it played like a showcase of everything 2D craft had learned.

Visco was one of the smaller but industrious suppliers of Neo Geo software, and collectors now trade its titles as insider recommendations. Racing games on this platform can be counted on one hand, which guarantees Neo Drift Out a permanent line in any survey of the system.

The release year, both company names and screenshots of mid slide action are gathered on the game's OldGame.cz card — a small monument to the era when a top down view and good hands were all a rally needed.