old skool racing

[8bit]

What racing games, PC, arcade or console, would you say were the great games prior to Gran Turismo? Pole Position and Bump N' Jump are pretty legendary.

http://www.atariage.com/7800/screens...Position_2.png

http://www.atariage.com/2600/boxes/b...ames_front.jpg

Bump N' Jump Firebird: http://www.er3.com/firebird/67firebirdT.htm

[Force Flow]

Please use links to the images instead...we try to keep things bandwidth friendly. You were reminded of this the last time you made a post with images.

Burnout action - cars

[Iamjosh]

Originally Posted by Force Flow Please use links to the images instead...we try to keep things bandwidth friendly. You were reminded of this the last time you made a post with images. Burnout action - cars

FL, you are assuming the member is familiar with image hosting sites. If I may interject and offer 8bit an advice; Go to any image hosting site (there are many on the web) and upload the image to their server. Once you have the image stored, copy/paste the link and add that to your post. This way you will have the actual image displayed in the thread.

BTW, for most of my image uploads, I tend to use tinypic.com. Hope that helps.

[Force Flow]

No image hosting necessary...it's already online somewhere. All he has to do is paste the link to the image, rather than inserting it as an image when he posts.

[tigstah]

compared to forza and gran tourismo....that game looks primitive....
i think outrun was on xbox live at some point.

[8bit]

Namco's Rally-X (1981) was a top down follow up to Pac Man. I liked letting two chasing cars crash into each other. The cloud smoke and oil slick buttons were fun too.

Rally-X 1

Rally-X 2

[brizey]

Night Driver?

Unfortunately, I am old enough to have played that new when it first came out. Paddle controllers FTW!

Edit: Wikipedia (I know...) says it might be the first real-time first-person game.

[8bit]

Super Sprint started out as the 1974 black & white Atari arcade game Gran Trak 10, and eventually got more sophisticated in color and ended up as one of the most popular games on NES. They were simpler times, they were better times.

Super Sprint NES

[8bit]

Here's a nice one for X'mas, the legendary arcade game Death Race. Based on the Roger Corman classic 1975 movie Death Race 2000 (David Carradine, Sylvester Stallone) you race around and fatally knock over pedestrians for points. Parents got the game banned in 1976.

Death Race by Exidy

[rwest]

Originally Posted by brizey Night Driver?

That was a great game! Loved it.

Does anybody remember playing it in the arcade? Where you got in and you sat down? It was one of the first type you actually got into?

The standup version took two quarters but the one to get in it, took 3!

[8bit]

Originally Posted by rwest That was a great game! Loved it. Does anybody remember playing it in the arcade? Where you got in and you sat down? It was one of the first type you actually got into? The standup version took two quarters but the one to get in it, took 3!

I loved Sega's attempt to cash in on the popularity of Happy Days with their arcade game The Fonz.

Also, Namco's F1, distributed by Atari in America. This projector style game was very loud. Someone aptly described it as like having a UFO land on your head, true say! Both 1976 games.

Sega Fonz

Eeeee, Cunningham, sit on it!

Namco/Atari F1