ClassicTVMan1981X You'll like if, the analog control is very nice plus you get gas and brake buttons rather than the just all the time gas and button for brake the 800 version has.
Woohoo!! The one thousandth view!! I know nobody cares but hey it's the first time it happened to me if so I might aswell be annoying and share it with ye
Why hasn't this game been updated for modern times? Seriously, its a great title and could be a GT/Forza rival. Won't be though....but like always with Atari, the potential is there.
Wouldn't the title be more accurate if instead of "computer" you actually have the model? There were several Atari computers some of which way more powerful than the 65. That's like saying a game is on the Sony console.
Toonses Several do it due a combination of how simple the games were and the fact you had to redraw the whole screen manually, inputting the bg/sprite values on a per scanline basis as well, atari video only had data to work on a single scanline. Only if the game have characters with really complex movements that need two or more frames to compute or was trying to do horizontal scrolling on that 32x224 playfield layer.
Toonses Sometimes you don't have much of a choice. Except on anything as powerful or more powerful than the sega dreamcast. Then you totally can choose, both in 2D and in 3D.
Mygingerguy Heck, Nintendo has made a racing game better than Pole Position, maybe even on-par with Outrun, but it was only released in Japan on the Famicom Disk System, it was 3D Hot Rally, it's pretty good and very well made! You're better off playing that over Pole Position on any Atari computer...
Yeah, 3D Hot Rally was pretty Innovative for the time, but sadly never got a release here at all, glad most of us can import games from almost any country, so we know this game's existence. I still think that Rad Mobile is very superior than all the games you mentioned, also did you know that Rad Mobile's creator was actually Yu Suzuki! yeah the same guy who did OutRun before.
![Pole Position II (MAME) Fuji Course [93,440]](/img/n.gif)
I used to play this on Commodore 64! Loved it.
oh man, this was one of my favorite arcade games, and one of the first games i remember playing
Man i used to play the heck out of this game in the arcades back in the days. Good time baby.
I remember this game. I had it for the Atari like two decades ago, and I had a PC port in the mid 1990s.
It is pretty awesome how the cartridge fits in there.
I had this on the XE and spent way too much time on it. Good memories! :)
i love how the sign are adverts form more nameco games and are different depending on the version you are playing
the human kind needs more Marks to save internet. I love this guy xD
Pole Position II on the 7800 is worth playing. It was the pack in cart.
My 2600 came with its own version of Pole Position. This is certainly a step up from that version.
I remember this from the movie Darryl.
I Like the Pole Position 80's cartoon! :)
yes! such a good cartoon :D
Had this game on our Windows 95 computer, was so damn fun!!!
Born in 1984. This was the first racing game I ever played. Rad Racer 2 was the second.
The commercial for this game was pretty rad.
I had a game like this for my N64 on my Namco Musuem game :)
I loved this game as a kid
I have the Datasoft disk version. So good.
Yo lo jugué en un ATARI 600XL... 👍🏻
Oh man! I've been wanting to play pole position so badly recently too.
If i remember correctly.. this game was featured in the movie D.A.R.Y.L.
this game really was ahead of it's time
keep up the good work Mark #CGR4LIFE
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mark is quite good at games. not common for these game review types
You've apparently never seen Mark play platformers
Imagining Jar Jar playing the GameCom is funny
The moron would probably like it.
+LemonSlice ur a moron
This is one of the only racing games I really like: this, its sequel, and "Rad Racer".
You look a lot like Valterri Bottas. (The main driver of Williams f1)
Anyone remember that scene from D.A.R.Y.L.?? He played this very game! I wanted to be DARYL so bad lol
Being attacked by a giant octopus is better than pretty much anything.
The C=64 version has a steering wheel.
Steven chuknick should cameo in magnum skywolf comic
First time I saw this was in the movie D.A.R.Y.L.!!!
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5200 controller isn't that bad for Pole Position really...
But what about if you fix it with the Rev. 9 flex cable?
ClassicTVMan1981X Then it's even more not that bad?
Hopefully it won't be!
ClassicTVMan1981X You'll like if, the analog control is very nice plus you get gas and brake buttons rather than the just all the time gas and button for brake the 800 version has.
But what about the 80s cartoon?
Awesome 😈
Woohoo!! The one thousandth view!! I know nobody cares but hey it's the first time it happened to me if so I might aswell be annoying and share it with ye
Why hasn't this game been updated for modern times? Seriously, its a great title and could be a GT/Forza rival. Won't be though....but like always with Atari, the potential is there.
my god jar jar and gamecom, I think I just got nam flashbacks... and i wasnt even in nam.
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Loved this game on the C= 64, which is unquestionably the best version.
You know what goes really well with Pole Position? Judas Priest.
FREEWHEEL BURNING!!!!
Assume the Position...
Sure do say POLE POSITION a lot
So you're sponsors really get off hearing their names on TH-cam. Oh my .... Praise the Lord.
Wouldn't the title be more accurate if instead of "computer" you actually have the model? There were several Atari computers some of which way more powerful than the 65. That's like saying a game is on the Sony console.
Huhuhuh, he said Pole.
wow such shet graphics and frame rate.
+Toonses The game runs at 60 fps, but as it use tile based graphics with no scroll, you get that choppy movement.
Dr_Kachu san Is there any Atari 2600 game that has smooth 60fps? I don't think so.
Toonses Several do it due a combination of how simple the games were and the fact you had to redraw the whole screen manually, inputting the bg/sprite values on a per scanline basis as well, atari video only had data to work on a single scanline.
Only if the game have characters with really complex movements that need two or more frames to compute or was trying to do horizontal scrolling on that 32x224 playfield layer.
Dr_Kachu san I prefer smooth frame rate over graphics. I actually dont mind blocky graphics.
Toonses Sometimes you don't have much of a choice.
Except on anything as powerful or more powerful than the sega dreamcast.
Then you totally can choose, both in 2D and in 3D.
Back in 1982, these fake 3D graphics were like ps4 graphics of it's time, you || cutn't ask for more.
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Give it a few years and you'd be playing Sega's FAR superior racing games, be it Outrun or Super Hang-on, they're all better than this...
Rad mobile? Very Superior, I've played the Sega Saturn version, better than OutRun in some stuff.
Mygingerguy Heck, Nintendo has made a racing game better than Pole Position, maybe even on-par with Outrun, but it was only released in Japan on the Famicom Disk System, it was 3D Hot Rally, it's pretty good and very well made! You're better off playing that over Pole Position on any Atari computer...
Yeah, 3D Hot Rally was pretty Innovative for the time, but sadly never got a release here at all, glad most of us can import games from almost any country, so we know this game's existence.
I still think that Rad Mobile is very superior than all the games you mentioned, also did you know that Rad Mobile's creator was actually Yu Suzuki! yeah the same guy who did OutRun before.
Mygingerguy That I didn't know...
I would Consider trying the game, it's fun, not like OutRun however.
also, The More You Know.
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