Funny News: A History of Racing Video Games
June 12, 2006:
A History of Racing Video Games
It all begins with Pole Position. It was 1982 and, along with Mr. And Mrs. Pac Man and the Space Invaders, this seminal arcade racer was a major player in the early days of the video arcade. There were other racing games before it, but Pole Position looked and played like nothing else. The graphics were the clincher. There wasn't much to work with back then, but the Indy cars resembled actual automobiles, and the Fuji racetrack featured billboards, grass fields and majestic mountains rising up from the horizon...oh, and other cars, which weren't a given in early racing games. It was this attempt at realism that made Pole Position one of the biggest cash cows, or should we say "coin cows" (HAR!) of the early video arcades.
Namco, the game's creators released Pole Position in Japan first and distributed it throughout arcades across the globe, but Atari had the rights to the phenom in the States. The biggest difference between the International version of the game and the U.S. counterpart is the "Prepare to qualify" computer...
Read full story at:
www.ugo.com
More Funny Game News
Mario Super Sluggers Revie...
September 12, 2008
Cricket Captain 2008 Revie...
September 12, 2008
Summer Athletics Review
September 12, 2008
Beijing 2008 - Olympic Gam...
August 4, 2008
QuakeCon 2008: The Story o...
August 4, 2008
Wolfenstein Preview
August 4, 2008
Space Invaders DS Review
July 14, 2008
C&C: Red Alert 3 Preview
July 14, 2008
Alone in the Dark Review
July 14, 2008
Guitar Hero On Tour Review
July 4, 2008
FaceBreaker (XboX)
July 4, 2008
Diablo 3 Is Coming
July 4, 2008
1,
2,
3,
4,
5,
6,
7,
8,
9,
10,
11,
12Next Funny page »
More Funny Games News
Call of Duty 3 game reviewed FunnyGames, November 27, 2006...Call of Duty 3 is a World War II first person shooter game (played on Xbox 360) that takes place just about entirely in France shortly after D-Day. As you finish various battles in this game you'll swap around between the perspectives of four soldiers in the American, Canadian, Polish, and British armies. You'll come in contact with the French resistance, drive jeeps and tanks, and play...
...While CoD2 was one of the best-looking games during the Xbox 360's launch, it was obvious that the game wasn't really taking advantage of the power of Microsoft's powerhouse console. This time around we're getting new special effects and even more detailed physics, characters, and environments and even...
Read full Call of Duty 3 review at:
www.atomicgamer.com
Tekken: Dark Resurrection review FunnyGames, August 7, 2006...While most fighters are primarily multiplayer centric, Tekken Dark Resurrection for the PSP offers up a healthy single player game component that should keep you playing when there are no friends online to be found. Story mode remains, as you're able to play as every character in a series of nine Tekken battles to learn everyone's backstory. Even cooler, each of these ends with a high quality FMV to close out the game story. Some of these are pretty standard, cool poses, lots of explosions and so forth. The best, though are the ones that don't take themselves too seriously. Seeing Panda in this game as the leader of a multinational corporation getting proposed to by Kuma the bear may be worth the price of admission on its own...
Read full review at:
www.ugo.com
Random FunnyGames list
|
Panda Adventure
Go on your first Panda Adventure with these furry little guys!
|
|
Super Mario Bros
Again a Super Mario Bros game. The aim in Mario Star Catcher 2 is to help Super Mario Bros reach the yellow star to ent...
|
|
Bush VS Kerry
Play as either Bush or Kerry and knock the living daylights out of each other in Bush VS Kerry online game.
|
|
Most Popular FunnyGames list
|
Dress Up Bad Guy II (7 plays)
It's time for something different. Instead of dressing up beatifull dolls and girls you know must dress up this not so g...
|
|
Super Mario (4 plays)
This is a Super Mario flash remake of the original Super Mario Bros game. Play online as Super Mario or Super Luigi. Mak...
|
|
Hacker (4 plays)
Think you can hack?
Try hacking your way into this system....if you can!
|
|