You don’t just play Pole Position — you FEEL it!
Thus ran the back-of-box blurb for the official Atari 8-bit conversion of Namco’s classic “vanishing point” racer — one of the most important, influential video games of all time. Said conversion was extremely solid, and a big hit for my whole family back in the day.
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I used to have the 2600 version of Pole Position, which seems like a heavily toned down version of this. It was still fun for the time, mind you.
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The 2600 version wasn’t too bad considering the limited hardware it had to work with! But yeah, it wasn’t quite up to the job π
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I think that’s a good thing to consider with it; the consle itself was indeed very limited, but what they produced was perfectly playable π
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For a long time this version of Pole Position was all I knew of as far as racing games were concerned and I loved it! Back then I did think the car graphics and billboards were a little too chunky when compared to similar games like Pitstop but thanks to YouTube where you can see it in motion against other 8bit computer versions the tradeoff was a good call because the track and movement seem far better.
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