Overdrive
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Overdrive may refer to:
[edit] Technology
- Overdrive (mechanics), a part of automobile transmissions aimed at increasing fuel efficiency
- Overdrive (music), the practice of forcing output of a guitar amplifier past maximum, resulting in distortion
- manufactured by Dumble Amplifiers, 'Overdrive Special' and 'Overdrive Reverb' are two models of guitar amplifiers
[edit] Computers
- Intel 80486 OverDrive, a CPU specifically designed for personal computer upgrades
- Pentium OverDrive, a CPU specifically designed for personal computer upgrades
[edit] Culture
- Overdrive (magazine), a magazine aimed at truck drivers
- Maximum Overdrive, a 1986 horror film based on a novel by Stephen King
- Sci-fi Overdrive, a radio show on BTRN
- MTV Overdrive, an MTV broadband video channel
- Mona Lisa Overdrive, a 1988 science fiction novel by William Gibson
- Power Rangers: Operation Overdrive, a Jetix children's television program on Toon Disney
[edit] Games and toys
- Overdrive (Transformers), a part of the Transformers toy line
- Over Drive (arcade game), an arcade racing game by Konami
- Top Gear OverDrive, a racing game for Nintendo 64 by KEMCO
- in the RPG Final Fantasy X, 'Overdrive' is a powerful attack form and forms the game's Limit Break system
- in the console RPG Riviera: The Promised Land, the 'Overdrive Bar' tracks combatants' use of 'Over-skills', a type of attack
- in the rail-shooter Rez, 'Overdrive' is the name of the screen-clearing bomb
[edit] Music
- Overdrive (album). second full-length album from Surrey based Rock band Fastlane (band) released October 2006.
- Bachman-Turner Overdrive, a Canadian rock group
- "Interstellar Overdrive", a track from The Piper at the Gates of Dawn album by Pink Floyd
- on the album Because I Can by Katy Rose, "Overdrive" is the first track
- according to the Complete Vocal Technique (developed by Danish singer and teacher Cathrine Sadolin), 'Overdrive' is one of the four vocal modes
- "Overdrive," a song by the Pinoy rock band, the Eraserheads
- a Swedish Heavy Metal band from the 80s: Overdrive
[edit] Other
- Operation Overdrive, a scheme to improve public transportation