Inspired by something I said in my review of Driver San Francisco, I thought I’d take a look back through video game history – all the way back to the days of the Atari 2600 – to bring you my Top 10 favourite driving games of all time. From Pole Position to the aforementioned latest entry in the Driver franchise – if it’s not on this list then I’m not playing it!
Oh, and by the way, these are in release date order, Not in order of preference…
Pole Position (Atari 2600)
Released in 1982, Pole Position was published by Namco in Japan and by Atari, Inc. in the United States. The game popularized the use of sprite-based, pseudo-3D graphics with its “rear-view racer format”—where the player’s view is behind and above the vehicle, looking forward along the road with the horizon in sight—which would remain in use even after...
Oh, and by the way, these are in release date order, Not in order of preference…
Pole Position (Atari 2600)
Released in 1982, Pole Position was published by Namco in Japan and by Atari, Inc. in the United States. The game popularized the use of sprite-based, pseudo-3D graphics with its “rear-view racer format”—where the player’s view is behind and above the vehicle, looking forward along the road with the horizon in sight—which would remain in use even after...
- 9/6/2011
- by Phil
- Nerdly
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