I even think the use of colour on the player car made the game really appealing to me. The 3D effect was very fast and smooth and the car blew up and exploded when you stacked it into a billboard. MidwayвЂ™s вЂњ Wizard of WorвЂќ was one of them and вЂњGorf!вЂќ was the other. Only a small handful of games had speech. And that was a big deal back in the early 1980вЂ™s. That was usually enough to make two ten pence coins start to warm up in my pocket. The iconic attract mode (the sequence that plays to attract you towards it) featured a loud beeping countdown sequence. The coin-op version of вЂњ Pole PositionвЂќ from Atari always stood out. It was the closest thing you could get to actually sitting inside a racing car. You could climb inside and sit down on the seat. Wooden enclosures that surrounded the screen. They had big steering wheels on the front of them rather than just an assortment of buttons. I think I was drawn to driving games because the cabinets always stood out clearly. Pole Position вЂ“ Atari/Namco вЂ“ (1983) вЂ“ Arcade Version In The DriverвЂ™s Seat So letвЂ™s insert the first coin and put the pedal to the metal with our first game. There may well be some chronological inconsistencies where I suddenly return to a really old game, but I will try my best. IвЂ™ve written this series, my own personal history of arcade racing games, in the order that I remember discovering and playing each machine. And I continue to read about them, think about them and play them to this day. They remain my biggest inspiration professionally. And I have done so many times throughout my career. I can literally talk about arcade machines for hours and hours. Every year I went to the seaside with my Mum and Dad to play all the racing games I could find. IвЂ™ve been captivated by arcade racing games since I was about 11 years old.

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