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legacy style racing - 8bit - 16-09-2005
What racing games, arcade & console, would you say were the great games prior to Gran Turismo? Pole Position and Bump N' Jump are pretty legendary.
![[Image: s_PolePosition_1.png]](http://www.atariage.com/7800/screenshots/s_PolePosition_1.png)
![[Image: s_PolePosition_2.png]](http://www.atariage.com/7800/screenshots/s_PolePosition_2.png)
Bump N' Jump
![[Image: 444_3_fs_sc.jpg]](http://www.quarterarcade.com/img/ggdb/vol0/444_3_fs_sc.jpg)
![[Image: 444_2_fs_sc.jpg]](http://www.quarterarcade.com/img/ggdb/vol0/444_2_fs_sc.jpg)
legacy style racing - Ria - 17-09-2005
ARG! What was that retro game called?!?!?! *smacks head*
outrun? Waah I can't rememer..
Basically you raced around a dirt track with obsticals. Around the edges of the course was red and white borders.
legacy style racing - 8bit - 17-09-2005
Quote:Basically you raced around a dirt track with obsticals. Around the edges of the course was red and white borders.
I think it was Ivan Stewart's Super Off-Road for NES?
![[Image: Ivan_Ironman_Stewarts_Super_Off_Road_NES...nShot2.jpg]](http://www.consoleclassix.com/info_img/Ivan_Ironman_Stewarts_Super_Off_Road_NES_ScreenShot2.jpg)
legacy style racing - Emrys - 17-09-2005
Well, if you belive me, Square did a racing game before Final Fantasy that, i believe, was the precursor to the basic physicis engine. You'd actually skid off the road if you took a turn too fast!
Anyway, the game was called Rad Racer, but I can't seem to find a screen shot of it.
legacy style racing - 8bit - 20-09-2005
The game Road Blasters showed how powerful the 1989 Atari Lynx handheld was, not far off the graphics of the NES screenshot below.
![[Image: road.jpg]](http://members.tcq.net/video61/images/lynx/gamepics/road.jpg)
![[Image: wRoad_Blasters.png]](http://images.webmagic.com/klov.com/screens/R/wRoad_Blasters.png)
legacy style racing - Lee-yoshi - 20-09-2005
Wow 8bit, you really know your old style games!
My favourite was this really lame amiga game that basically involved little race cars going around a circuit and you could just drive like a maniac and smash into them, just for fun. Don't even think of asking me for a name on that one though, really testing my memory now! :S
legacy style racing - Robo Jay - 20-09-2005
lol, them pictures look like damn gd graphics, but they may just be cause i decided to get out my Atari 2600....
legacy style racing - 8bit - 22-09-2005
The car racing genre was probably popular early on with programers because it was easy to make the simple shape of a car go around a top down viewed track, lol.
I liked the buggies in Rock N' Roll Racing for Genesis & SNES.
Rock N' Roll Racing