"The Need for Speed" (Full title: Road & Track Presents: The Need for Speed) is a racing video game developed by Electronic Arts Canada and published by Electronic Arts. It was the first official game in the long-running Need for Speed series.

It was released in 1994 for the Panasonic 3DO and for MS-DOS, in 1995 for Microsoft Windows with its final release in 1996 for the Sony PlayStation and Sega Saturn.

In Japan it was known as "Over Drivin." The premise of the game involves the player racing in sport cars as well as several exotic models, American Muscle Cars and Japanese imports.