Overdrive

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Overdrive may refer to:

• 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
  • Overdrive Special and Overdrive Reverb, two models of guitar amplifiers by Dumble 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] Games and toys

• Over Drive (arcade game), an arcade racing game by Konami
• Top Gear OverDrive, a racing game for Nintendo 64 by KEMCO
• Overdrive, a powerful attack in the game Final Fantasy X, and a form of Limit Break established by the series
• Overdrive, the name of the screen-clearing bomb in the rail-shooter Rez
• Overdrive (Alternators/Binaltech), a part of the Transformers Alternators/Binaltech toy line

[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 show on Toon Disney

[edit] Music

• Bachman-Turner Overdrive, a Canadian rock group
• Interstellar Overdrive, a track from The Piper at the Gates of Dawn album by Pink Floyd
• Overdrive, a track from Because I Can album by Katy Rose
• Overdrive, one of the four vocal modes according to Complete Vocal Technique, by Danish singer and teacher Cathrine Sadolin

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