I always liked the classic driving game "Night Driver" - it was as simple as could be - just a black screen with two lines of dots showing the path ahead - like white picket fences reflecting the car's headlights.

There was an Apple II clone of this game I really liked, back when I was an Apple II user.

I'm thinking of making a clone of this game, just for the exercise... perhaps using C#/.NET runtime, perhaps in C/C++ for Win32, I dunno... whatever gets me there with the least hassle.