Overdrive
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Overdrive may refer to:
- Operation Overdrive (transportation), a scheme to improve public transportation in and around the Medway Towns in north Kent, England
[edit] In technology
- Overdrive (mechanics), a part of automobile transmissions aimed at increasing fuel efficiency
- OverDrive, Inc., a digital distributor of eBooks, audiobooks, music, and video
- FIRST Overdrive, the 2008 game for the FIRST Robotics Competition
- Overdrive (music), the practice of forcing output of a guitar amplifier past maximum, resulting in distortion
- Intel 80486 OverDrive, a CPU specifically designed for personal computer upgrades
- Pentium OverDrive, a CPU specifically designed for personal computer upgrades
[edit] In entertainment
- 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
- Over Drive (manga), a 2005 manga, adapted into an anime in 2007
[edit] Games and toys
- Overdrive (Transformers), a part of the Transformers toy line
- Over Drive (arcade game), an arcade racing game by Konami
- Overdrive (video game), a 1984 computer racing game for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron
- Top Gear Overdrive, a racing game for Nintendo 64 by KEMCO
- 'Overdrive', a powerful attack form in the role playing game Final Fantasy X
- 'Overdrive Bar', which tracks combatants' use of 'over-skills', a type of attack in the console role playing game Riviera: The Promised Land
- 'Overdrive', the name of the screen-clearing bomb in the rail-shooter Rez
- 'OVERDRIVE', the name of a 70's-esque cop thriller in the video game Stuntman: Ignition.
[edit] Music
- Overdrive (album), second full-length album from Surrey-based Rock band Fastlane, 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
- "Overdrive" (song), the first track on the album Because I Can by Katy Rose
- 'Overdrive', one of the four vocal modes according to the Complete Vocal Technique
- "Overdrive", a song by the Foo Fighters on their 2002 release One By One
- "Overdrive", a song by the Pinoy rock band The Eraserheads
- Overdrive (band), a Swedish heavy metal band from the 1980s

