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.
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 🙂
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 🙂
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.